Vidiatehim

By | November 12, 2011

I know what you’re wondering this Saturday: whatever happened to Games World Videator and host of TIGS Big Boy Barry? Well wonder no more! He’s head of global PR for Mad Catz videogame accessories, and he’s on Twitter. Altogether now: Amazing.

Paul Ross jigsaw news: only two people got all five answers right, David Bodycombe and a last minute late surge by Andrew Sullivan. I’ve gone to www.random.org and flipped a coin – Heads, David wins, Tails, Andrew wins. It is LITERALLY that exciting. It came up tails! Well done Andrew, your jigsaw will be in the post next week.

Who Wants To Win A Paul Ross Jigsaw TWO!

By | November 11, 2011

Well after the massive success of the Twitter competition on Monday, it’s time at the Festival of Paul Ross draws to a close. But don’t cry! Because it’s going out with a bang, and a second Paul Ross jigsaw to be won, valued at (costing) £15!

The first competition was a test of your wit, this one is a test of your intellect. And your wit. Five ‘cryptic’ ‘clues’ and a prize draw stand between you and this marvellous jigsaw. Can you guess which five Paul Ross game-y formats these five things are hinting towards?

  1. The show that’s not averse to a bit of vice versa.
  2. Really.
  3. Apparently he earned £8,000 recording three series of this. Amazingly, it got three series.
  4. Absolutely everywhere!
  5. This time it’s us!

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.

Thanks to everyone who entered the answers are:

  1. Jeopardy (he actually uses this in his opener)
  2. You Don’t Say (good use of italics to represent sarcasm there, thanks.)
  3. No Win No Fee (only two wins in 70 shows, I believe)
  4. All Over The Shop
  5. Endurance UK (surprised more people didn’t get this, this was the phrase he used to close each episode, and sometimes throughout it too. It’s Anybody’s Guess came up a lot – can anyone explain the logic?).

I’m too tired to sift through the results this evening, so find out who the winner is… early-afternoon Saturday!

INCREDIBLE JEOPARDY!

By | November 10, 2011

Tonight’s foray into Paul Ross is a bit worthy, sorry. It’s a reprint of something I put up on Bother’s Bar v2.0 and hadn’t realised I hadn’t redone it for the new decade.

Basically it’s Paul Ross, David Young (then head of 12 Yard) and Kaye Adams chatting about jeopardy in gameshows from 1999 as part of a show called The Viewing Room. Difficult to believe this was done over 10 years ago.

The second Bother’s Bar Paul Ross jigsaw competition will be going up tomorrow. Don’t miss it!

Meanwhile Million Pound Drop playalong game won best media and entertainment at the BIMA Awards, so well done it. It returns next month.

Fantasy X Factor Frankie Redux

By | November 10, 2011

OK, so now the four acts eliminated in week one of the competition will be put to a public vote to decide who gets to rejoin the competition. For Fantasy X Factor it will basically work like this:

  • You will notice that in the selction boxes for elimination and winner is the term “WILDCARD”. You can pick this to represent the winning act from the public vote, and it will become that act from next week. Please be aware that there is no guarantee as yet that having already won a public vote, the Wildcard won’t be immune from elimination this Sunday, therefore the risk is yours to take.
  • You can also opt to transfer the Wildcard into your team blind of who it ends up being. They will become that person when we know who they are, and will score points as normal from this weekend’s shows.
  • You will get no credit for having Frankie in your team, it is just an unlucky event, similar to a player getting injured in Fantasy Football.
  • Similarly you will get no credit if you had one of the wildcard acts in your original team line-up and you had to transfer them out. Logically if that was the case I’d have to dock you all the points your replacement act has scored in the interim.
  • If you had one of the wildcard acts as your choice of winner in week one then I’m a bit more sympathetic. Because I advise people to change their winning act when someone gets eliminated you are being made a one-time offer: You can revert back to your original 40 point guess, but you must do it blind of knowing which act does get back in. If your original choice fails to get back in then you must repick at next week’s points level. If you want to do this then please state your intention in the Transfers box.
  • If each Wildcard act sings on Saturday night’s show, they and the judges will score accordingly. No live performance = no points.

Don’t forget to get your choices in by 8:15pm on Saturday. If you have already made some orders, feel free to resubmit with new ones in light of this week’s events. Don’t be scared to ask a question if you need to, but these decisions will stand.

I will e-mail all managers this message this evening to make sure everyone is clear.

Future Fortunes

By | November 9, 2011

Our odyssey through the ouevre of Paul Ross continues today with another fake gameshow, Future Fortunes, made by Clerical Medical and very much the sort of thing Channel 4 would have had questions on in the early 80s.

People who can’t wait for the second Paul Ross jigsaw competition won’t have long to wait, it will probably be on Friday. It will require hardcore knowledge of formats Paul Ross has hosted.