FANTASTIC PRIZES!

By | January 20, 2010
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Okay everybody, the details of the BSOP 2010 go up in full tomorrow (as well as the Poll Results – Information Thursday I call it), so I thought you’d like a look at the f-a-a-abulous prizes on offer:

pokertrophy

Ignore the dust, the overall winner recieves £75, the EXCLUSIVE BSOP gold medal (worth AT LEAST 20P AT CASH4GOLD) and the fabulous engraved trophy. The runner-up will get the silver and £45, the third place finisher the bronze and £30.

To get the series off to a rousing start, I’m adding $25 to the prizepool for the first event, a $10+1 tournament happening on Sunday 7th February at 8pm. Future events will be fortnightly, with double-money-double-stack-double-points and the triple-money-super-stack-triple-point grand final special events occuring every fourth game. You will not need to participate in every event to win – only your best seven scoring standard games and highest-scoring special event will count. There will be twelve events in total.

You do not have to be a regular contributor to play – lurkers are very welcome, all I ask is that if you’re not at Full Tilt already please let us refer you for mutual benefit – please give us your details on the BSOP page.

In other news, yesterday night was the first time I felt The Krypton Factor could have done with something… extra.

VERY VERY GOOD NEWS INDEED

By | January 19, 2010
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I’ve just read Solitary 4.0 will begin 30th Jan on Fox Reality.

In other news, Poll of the Year results to be announced on Thursday evening. LITERALLY quite exciting. I can EXCLUSIVELY reveal that a new record has been set for percentage share of the “winner” of the Hall of Shame.

Round up 19th Jan ’10

By | January 18, 2010
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What’s going on, then?

I’d suggest that NBC have probably made Minute to Win It just different enough to The Cube avoid infringement. The genius of The Cube lies in the set and camera work in the main. People doing tasks for money is as old as the hills, it’s how you dress it up that matters.

From Hollywood Junket:

Some tasks that were given to game competitors on Friday’s show included the following: Pulling tissues out of a box with one hand; hitting three soda cans off of another one with a ball of yarn; sucking M&Ms candy up with a drinking straw and placing them atop other straws; riding a bath rug around an obstacle of bath instruments one of which was a toilette plunger; pulling-up M&Ms candy placed on top of a pencil with two strings; and one contestant’s feat was to move cookies into her mouth using only her face muscles.

Riding a bath rug? These tasks sound much more Double Dare-ish than Cube-ish, really. On first glance, at least. It also doesn’t sound like it’s going to be as good as The Cube, but that goes without saying. And I still can’t quite picture “move cookies into her mouth using only her face muscles” as a task.

Lock the ballot-box!

By | January 18, 2010
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Polling is closed, look out for the results later this week. It was our biggest vote yet, and it’s thrown up some quite surprising results.

And if you enjoyed that, there’s an all-time vote to “do” in the early Summer, around the time of the UK General Election.

Board of Excitement 17th-23rd Jan ’10

By | January 17, 2010
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Well look it’s:

  • Only Connect (BBC4, Monday, 8:30pm) – Choirboys vs Brasenose Postgrads.
  • The Krypton Factor (ITV, Tuesday 7:30pm)

This week joined by special guest publication:

  • Relic: Guardians of the Museum: (BBC1, Thursday 4:35pm) where some kids do some things at the British Museum. Official synopsis: “Three children from Newcastle are summoned to the British Museum in London to meet the spooky tour guide Agatha. Together they have just one night to uncover the secrets of a relic held inside the museum, but they are not alone – dark forces are out to get them. Defeat the Dark Lord and they become Guardians of the museum; fail and they shall never leave!”

Come on other things! Try and pique our interest just a little bit!

Also, nothing fascinatingly interesting being recorded right now, tomorrow is the last recording day for Pointless seemingly, and all SRO can offer is Ant and Dec’s Push the Button, being filmed at the audience unfriendly Pinewood Studios at the end of February. If you quite like the idea of dressing-up and audience researchers who use the wrong version of “to”, BBC through Applause Store  are recording a new panel show called The King is Dead in February where celebrities give arguments as to why they should hold hypothetical positions of power. Simon Bird off of The Inbetweeners is the big name for it.

BSOP 2010 Update

By | January 17, 2010
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Right, it’s looking increasingly likely to be on Sundays unless there is a flurry of votes for a different day in the next few days, in which case the first event will be on Feb 7th.

Full details of The BSOP will go up when the TREMENDOUSLY EXCITING trophy and medals arrive for people to get excited about.

In other voting news, this is your last day to vote in the Poll of 2009! Look out for Bothers Bar’s Poll Extra results post after the main write-up goes up on UKGameshows.com this week.