Bon Jovi Circle Tour Fantasy Setlist Game

Ok This is my idea for a fun, involved, Bon Jovi game, based loosely on fantasy sports league games. In this case The Circle Tour is the season and the setlist each night is a new game in the season. Lots of folk talk about the setlists on this board, and the play by plays are always popular as well, so this is a chance to match wits with fellow jovi obsessed fans and maybe even use your psychic powers to read Jon's mind. Who knows maybe you can even raise your score by influencing the setlist with a sign at a show.

First some general rules, before we get to scoring.

1.) You can guess as few or as many shows as you like, the point total is cumulative for the tour, starting early or late may not make much difference depending on the variety of setlists.

2.) You can guess as many songs in each setlist as you would like (see scoring).

3.) Only shows with tickets sold to the public count, no corporate gigs or fanclub only shows. Promo shows count only if tickets are available for sale to the public. Festivals count under the same rules.

4.) Concerts cancelled for any reason are a push, no score for anyone, positive or negative.

5.) Concerts stopped early do count.

6.) Participants should score themselves for each concert and maintain a running score in the thread on thier first guess post, with each show totaled in it's own post.

7.) Setlist guesses must be posted at least 4 hours before the start of a concert, late guesses do not count.

8.) The second post in this thread will be updated after each show with the top score for the show and top ten overall scores for the tour.

9.) If anyone has questions about the rules post them here so we can have answers before the tour starts.

10.) Any wierd situations that come up during the tour that aren't covered in the rules, will be decided by poll vote limited to only those people who have posted a guess for any show(s) before the show that causes the issue.

11.) Seb's hoax setlists do not count

SCORING:
Correct song on the setlist in any order +1
Correct song in right order +2
Song not on setlist -1
correct number of songs +5
correct song in medley* +1
incorrect song in medley* -1
complete correct setlist +15
correct onstage guest** +5
incorrect onstage guest** -1
correct bon jovi song live for the first time +10***
correct cover song live for the first time +20***

* There is no points penalty for not having songs in a medley. ie: if they play bad medicine/shout and you guess bad medicine you get normal points (+1), if you guess bed medicine/shout you get normal points (+2), if you guess bad medicine/gloria you get the penalty (+1 for bad medicine and -1 for gloria = total 0).
Additionally a medley counts as one song (see example below).

**Onstage guest can be anyone, musician or not who does not regularly play with Bon Jovi live on tour. Jon Elway, Bono, Alec John Such, Margaret Thatcher, Elton John or Lady Gaga all would qualify whether they sing or not, if they are brought onstage they qualify for the bonus.

***To get these bonus points the song must never have been played live in public ever before. So U2's "One" doesn't count nor does Bon Jovi's "Fear". Either one of those would be great but not worth the bonus points.
Also guessing a Jovi song that you are sure will be a tour regular but hasn't been played yet before the first show is a possible way to grab an early lead.


EXAMPLE SETLIST (1st show of tour):
1. We Weren't Born To Follow
2. Born To Be My Baby
3. You Give Love A Bad Name
4. Wild In The Streets
5. Superman Tonight
6. We Got It Going On
7. Raise Your Hands
8. Undivided
9. Love's The Only Rule
10. Blood On Blood
11. In These Arms
12. In And Out Of Love
13. Happy Now
14. I'll Be There For You
15. These Days
16. Wanted Dead Or Alive
17. Have A Nice Day
18. Bad Medicine/shout
19. Keep The Faith
20. Livin' On A Prayer
21. It's My Life
22. I'd Die For You
23. Runaway
24. Who Says You Can't Go Home
25. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night

Billy's Guessed Setlist:
1. This Aint A Love Song -1
2. Something to Believe In -1
3. I'd Die For You +1
4. Blood on Blood +1
5. Lay Your Hands on Me -1
6. Sleep When I'm Dead -1
7. Bad Name +1
8. Bad Medicine +1
9. Who Says You Can't Go Home +1
10. Whole Lot of Leavin -1
11. We Got it Goin On +1
12. Work for the Working Man -1
13. When We Were Beautiful -1
14. Superman Tonight +1
15. Brokenpromiseland -1
16. Loves The Only Rule +11 (1st live playing)
17. stick to your guns -1
18. never say goodbye -1
19. i believe -1
total score : 7

Jimmy's Guessed Setlist:
1. Brokenpromiseland -1
2. Born to be my Baby +2
3. Bad Name +2
4. Superman Tonight +1
5. something to believe in -1
6. prayer +1
7. happy now +11 (1st live playing)
8. stranger in this town -1
9. blood money -1
10. it's my life +1
11. sleep when i'm dead/jumpin jack flash/hippy hippy shake/gloria -1
12. bad medicine/shout +2
13. aqualung -1
14. I'll Be There For You +2
15. We weren't born to follow +1
16. one -1
17. runaway +1
18. i'd die for you +1
19. ktf +2
20. blood on blood +1
21. in these arms +1
22. fear -1
23. borderline -1
24. Halleluia -1
25. wanted +1
correct number of songs bonus +5
total score: 25


I would love to see a sticky post in the Tour Discussion forum where the high scorers could be updated and with a pointer to the main posts in the Fun and Games section. That could keep folks updated and interested while keeping the Tours forum less cluttered and actually using the Games forum a bit.
Dave

reserved for high scores

reserved 2

This game is brilliant, we should start one for what's left of this tour. Bonus Points should be given if the song is a tour debut.