The sounds of television theme songs, lip-synched tunes and the loud cheering of teammates could be heard from the Holmes Student Center’s Carl Sandburg Auditorium on Monday night.

The “Outcast” game show appeared before members of the NIU community, and 12 members from the audience were chosen to compete for the grand prize – a cruise to the Bahamas.

The competition’s challenges consisted of trivia and games. It started with all 12 people, but 11 were voted off through challenges. Eventually, the winner was Chloe McLean, a junior elementary education major and Alpha Phi member.

The tennis ball smack challenge required the two main teams of the six – the Blue Balls and the Red Balls – to get in a line and swing a string with the appropriately colored ball at the end in order to hit the people in front of them. The first team to finish the event won.

Players were then presented with bags of unlabeled food cups, having to either guess the food item in order to avoid eating it, or tasting the food until the cup was empty.

In another challenge, players guessed the names of television shows from only hearing the first 15 to 20 seconds of the theme song.

Audience participation was required for the Spam immunity challenge. In a scavenger-hunt style, players ventured into the audience looking for odd items of clothing or accessories for points.

After a short round of true-and-false trivia questions, players competed in relay race involving two people dressing in oversized shorts and sweaters at the same time.

Keeping in style with the “Survivor” theme, team members dressed in the craziest outfits they could put together with grass skirts, bikini tops and other Bahamas wear within a minute-and-a-half.

The lip-sync challenge required the remaining players to give their best show of talent, performing songs such as “Pretty Woman,” “YMCA” and “It’s Raining Men.”

Physical strength was tested in the leg-lift challenge, and the final “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” challenge ended the competition, with a final vote from the original team members to determine the grand-prize winner.

Overall, students thought the game show was entertaining.

“It was a lot of fun, funny too,” said Lori Yoel, a freshman early childhood education major.

McLean was surprised about winning, in addition to being entertained.

“I thought this was fun,” she said. “I didn’t even know what I was going to do, and I definitely didn’t think I would win ‘cause I never win anything!”