Sorry, since Sunday morning The Bar has been getting a lot of CGI errors for no discernable reason. I'm hoping it will resolve itself at some point, but in the meantime I suggest you copy any comment you want to write before posting so you can paste it back in if it all goes wrong.
He’s out, but they’re not revealing the location yet so you can keep playing. Apparently he’s not been made aware of the location yet either and will make a decision about the immediate future of the competition when he’s a bit more mentally together. Which seems reasonable.
So so long, Man in Box. Interesting idea, something not quite right in the execution.
Just before I start, I’m disappointed that last night’s Minute to Win It is currently nowhere to be “found”. Sort it out, America!
Also I can’t read the lyrics to our Eurovision entry (“You bring the sunshine, I’ll bring the good times!”) without adding “…and I’ll get to Scotland befoooorrre you!” in my mind. I largely suspect this is just me now but you’ll all be doing it by May.
Also also, it’s the last night of Man in Boxthis evening, the thing that literally nobody’s talking about. I am interested in what happens tomorrow with the reveal, though.
Anyway, you might remember me doing a post before this year’s Krypton Factor attempting to lay to rest the idea that the general knowledge round is rather unfairly weighted and came to the conclusion that although it might look like that sometimes, generally speaking the numbers suggested otherwise – it gives the impression that anyone can win (and that is, in fact, the point), but the person leading going into it still usually wins.
That was based on KF 2009 numbers, where the show was five rounds and the GK round was 70 seconds. This year there were only four rounds and the length of the GK round had increased to 90 seconds. Now is it properly game changing?
Here are the numbers, numbers in brackets are the scores at the end of the round. The first heat ended in a tie, I’m not including the result of that for statistical purposes.
Averaging (mean) scores on a like-for-like basis (all the best scores, all the second best scores and so on) reveal the averages for the round to be 9.3, 6, 2.9 and (hilariously) -0.6. Rather closer to the traditional round scores than last time. Total of averages is 17.6, so still below the amount given in other rounds. On three occasions a player scores more than the 10 points on offer in other rounds.
More interestingly, the leader going into the round only wins five out of the ten shows. The average lead going into the round is 5.2. The lead of the five players who go into the round as the leader averages at 7.2 (this includes two rather large outliers of 10 and 16), but leads of people who don’t go on to win is only 3.2 which seems an entirely reasonable turnover.
The most interesting result is the one for the final in which loads of points are scored, but if you were to convert the performances into 10, 6, 4 and 2 would still give broadly the same result (in fact Pete and James would tie on 24 points each).
What does this all prove? Beats me, only that the current system used is more ‘alright’ than ‘not alright,’ and this year’s series had me feeling rather bored which definitely wasn’t the case last year. So let’s instead look at the New Zealand 1990 KF final and possibly the dullest Mental Agility round I can recall seeing. Your ten seconds of concentration starts… now!
Man In Box (All week, The Internet): I’m sort of not-quite addicted to this, but I am intrigued to see how it will all play out. Will it be break free… or breakdown?
The Amazing Race (CBS, Sunday): The Cowboys are one of my favourite teams ever, I think. Although it was quite lucky that the tasks last week basically involved being a cowboy.
We Are The Champions (CBBC, 4:30pm, Monday to Friday): Back for Sport Relief and repeated on BBC1 next week. Paddy MacGuiness hosts, swapping ‘Take Me Out’ for “away you go!” and celebrity coaches are promised.
Pointless (BBC2, 4:30pm. Weekdays): The return of last year’s surprise sleeper hit with Alexander Armstrong and geek hero Richard Osman (presumably). It’s still 45 minutes, but there is one less couple so I don’t know how it’s going to work.
Only Connect (BBC4, Monday, 8:30pm): Second quarter-final with the Brasenose Grads versus Tommy Scott And The Hitchikers.
The Krypton Factor Grand Final (ITV1, 7:30pm, Tuesday) – Strange things are afoot – not only are there now proper adverts during the ad break, but it was actually advertised before Push the Button last night, despite not actually having been advertisied before now and the fact the ratings have consistently dropped over the series. I’m idly wondering if ITV are considering making a third series off their own back this year if Sage drop out. Anyway I was at the final so I know who wins, it’s a very exciting finish.
Survivor (CBS, Thursday): This really has been tremendous so far. Although this weeks looks like another brawling-based challenge which seem to be getting more and more violent, which is increasingly uncomfortable viewing.
Your Country Needs You (BBC1, 8:30pm, Friday): Yes, it’s time to vote for whoever is going to sing Pete Waterman’s Eurovision winning song this year. After last year’s successful series, this appears to be a one off vote.
Solitary 4.0 (Fox Reality, Saturday): After a rather lacklustre previous episode, last week’s was once again tremendous featuring a bust-out of prison challenge (and OF COURSE the final key was hidden in the officer’s trousers that were hanging up – very Mole-like, which is interesting since US Mole had a similar task of its own a long time ago) and the return of the spin-lots-of-times-on-a-chair-until-you-can-take-no-more Challenge, this season with added mini-golf element. What’s not to like? I confidently predict this episode will be similar to the previous one, but with one less contestant.
Do you remember that thing that was briefly discussed a little while ago about DJ Tim Shaw being put inside a box for thirty days or until someone finds him and wins some cash?
It’s actually been going on for a few weeks, and seems to have had little-to-no publicity. So here is a link.
March 16, 2010
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Posted by Brig Bother
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