Saturday Night Fever

By | March 20, 2010

The Board of Excitement will be going up at a slightly later time than usual tomorrow, so with exciting things happening on Saturday (Push the Button, Who Dares Wins), here’s a space for you to talk about it.

The highlight for me is tonight’s Solitary v4.0 final, which if it is half as entertaining as the rest of the series should be very entertaining indeed. Last week featured an extreme memory test (being required to memorise a 30-part sequence of colours, acting them out by dunking your face into four containers of differently coloured goo) followed by an awesome treatment involving holding a set of stocks and traversing an obstacle course whilst balancing a ball on the indented stock edge, with the people finishing last having to pay a penalty of squatting in a stress position for increasingly lengthy periods of time. It ended on a cliffhanger – who will crack first? And who will win? I can’t wait to find out!

What If? The Crystal Maze Game Room

By | March 19, 2010

Right, here’s something for you to ponder over the weekend. On Wednesday, on XBox Live (*) something new is being released called Game Room, basically your own little space you can deck out with things, most of those things being old arcade games (which you can play at 60 MSP for two goes, or 240 (about £2) to own them outright).

I can see myself spending a lot of money here. So the question is, if I was to deck my Game Room out in the style of The Crystal Maze, with four “zones” of Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval and Industrial, what would be the best old arcade games to go in and why? The best ideas may actually get used, depending on what’s on offer at any point.

(*) My Gamertag is Brig Bother, add me for leaderboard fun if you want. You might even get to come and visit the real virtual thing.

It’s Sport Relief this evening

By | March 19, 2010

It would be remiss of me not to point out that it’s Sport Relief this weekend, with a seven hour broadcast this evening, and will probably have some of the sorts of things that people who read here might find quite entertaining. So give them lots of money.

At the very least the Match of the Day hosts will be “do”ing Masterchef, and Frank Skinner, fresh from his Quiz Ball pilot, is hosting a special episode of A Question of Sport, so we won’t have to guess what mash up of A Question of Sport, Have I Got News For You, They Think It’s All Over, QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks they’ve come up for a title this year.

Alternatively there’s Stefan Raab’s Wok Racing in Germany this evening also.

More Push the Button

By | March 18, 2010

I can’t help but think if Ant and Dec are publicly defending Push the Button, there’s a real sense of panic going round.

I’m still happy to stick my neck out and suggest that the show is OK. I wondered if last week’s game that involved working out what things in boxes were by touch alone, those things including a snake and a spider was a bit ‘off’ (I’d have quite happily punched Dec in the face there and then if they tried that with me, ahem), but the rest of the games range from mildly entertaining (although I felt “put these seven waxworks in order of UK Number One singles” was a bit vague. Chronologically? No, by how many they had) to very good (another very good game four this week with the pipeworking).  If they’re trying to emulate The Generation Game, perhaps they should put something a bit more learning a skill based in to go along with the performance based game they have every week. The end game remains functional and doesn’t do much for me personally.

It will be interesting to see how it does this weekend without Let’s Dance to compete with it.

Starter’s Orders

By | March 18, 2010

Lots of new shows beginning or returning in April, a list of apparent dates follow:

  • The Door (April 2nd, ITV1) – Chris Tarrant and Amanda Holden – together at last – scare some celebs.
  • You Have Been Watching (April 15th, C4) – Charlie Brooker’s TV quiz returns for a second series.
  • The Whole 19 Yards (April 17th, ITV1) – it’s a quiz, it’s a race, a real wacky place.

Double stake double stack!

By | March 18, 2010

pokertrophy2It’s Thursday and that means I’m legally obliged BY LAW to remind people that this weekend is a Bother Series of Poker weekend, and to make it even more exciting it is a double stake double stack special! Double the points, double the winnings, that makes it (hang on) SIXTEEN times more fun than a regular event.

The game will begin at 8pm UK time, this week that’s 1600 Eastern Time as they’ve done their daylight savings. If you had previously registered already under the old time you have nothing to worry about.

You do not have to be a BotherSOP regular to play, so if you fancy a shot at lifechanging money (provided your life is a bit sad) and you’ve got $22 knocking around, please come and join us. Last time we were attacked by German bandits mirroring the recent EPT thing exactly, but with worse spelling and grammar. I think with the double stacks it should be over by about 22:15, and probably earlier than that.

The Game 4 results and discussion page is here. Good luck! It’s going to be three weeks until the next one.