Just read the results? Then join Lewis Murphy, David Bodycombe and myself for the UKGameshows.com/Bother’s Bar Poll of 2013 results discussion Fifty50 Special!
The percentage stats will appear under the cut.
Schlag den Brig, Sat 25th, 8pm, LIVE
Daniel Peake vs me, TV’s Brig Bother. TV’s David Bodycombe hosting and game devising (some of which with actual physical props). Lewis Murphy commentating. LIVE on Youtube this Saturday from 8pm.
15 games, one winner. And you can come and join us.
Literally anything could happen. What could possibly go wrong?
Gotta get down on Friday
Hello, not much happening. I’m still adding up all the responses for the Poll of 2013, look out for the write-up on Tuesday evening. However if you can’t wait until then, we’re recording a Fifty50 Show Results Special on Sunday (I say special, it would go out at the time anyway) probably for going out on Monday and Lewis and David Bodycombe won’t be briefed to the results until recording, so listen out for exciting AS LIVE reaction.
In the meantime not much is happening but if you haven’t been following Wie is De Mol or The Genius then you really should, both are fiercesomely interesting and the latter has provided some amazing television this last week.
Amused to see that I think some people have got the wrong end of the stick regarding Celebrity Squares going to series – certainly nothing public yet, and the Applause Store advert for it hasn’t changed since the pilot was filmed. Take it with a pinch of salt for now. They’ve also got a reserve list for Stepping Out if you’d like to try your luck. Audience companies will often leave old adverts up, presumably to look busy.
VOTING OVER
Thanks very much everyone – we smashed our vote total. Look out for the results within the next week!
Just two days left to vote
We’ve had a record breaking amount of voting forms in for this year’s Poll of 2013 – very pleasing to see, and there’s still two days left to cast your votes if you haven’t done so already.
If you want to go old-skool and e-mail your choices in, there are instructions for you on the UKGameshows.com page.
Alternatively if you’d prefer to fill in a form and get a nice automatic e-mail thanking you for your time, you can do that here.
Lines close Wednesday 11pm.
Postcode Loterij Beat the Crowd
OK, so another show debuted this week in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Beat the Crowd. It’s a Talpa production, and very much the sort of thing I could see being tried out in a lottery slot here.
You will need to use the dark arts to watch it as RTL geoblocks some of its stuff, but if you can get round it the RTL catch-up page is here and the official site is here. It stars Linda de Mol’s number two Winston Gerschtanowitz with Pointless Friend Nicolette van Dam.
It would be easiest to describe it as 1 vs 100 with estimated guess questions but that would be a bit erroneous. It basically asks if there’s anything in the wisdom of crowds. Here’s how it works:
- A crowd of 200 play against a contestant.
- They’ll all face ten estimated guess questions. Each one introduced with a film clip.
- When the question is asked the crowd get 10 seconds to give their answer. This is averaged and hidden.
- The contestant then locks in their answer, after discussing it. They can ask for extra information from Nicolette a few times over the course of the show (I’ve read three times, but I only remember seeing it happen once).
- The correct answer is revealed, as is the audience answer. Occasional ribbing of audience members who were quite far out with their guesses (probably should be more crowd interaction in truth). The percentage distance from the correct answer for both crowd and contestant is given, and when taken away from 50 is their score for the question (i.e. 21% away = 29 points). The minimum score for a question is zero.
- Both crowd and contestant are playing for €500 a point, so the maximum prize for each is €250,000.
- After ten questions it’s time for the final. The best ten of the crowd come down – if they win the ten of them will split the crowd pot between them. If the contestant wins, he gets to take home his own pot.
- One more question is asked and the ten averaged. The contestant must decide whether the actual answer is higher or lower, and money dished out accordingly.
Solid but not really exciting. It also seems a bit odd to me that there are running totals for crowd and contestant but I’m told there’s no actual penalty if the crowd beat the contestant over the first ten questions, to me this seems a bit off, off the top of my head I’d have the best of the crowd playing off against the next ten best for the crowd pot in the final (with the requirement to chat to people doing well in the audience throughout the show) but that’s just me (Edit: or even just reduce the money). The final reveal is a bit disappointing, I think they should have borrowed from The Power of Ten and had it moving up and down before coming to rest. We’ll see how it gets on.