Alright Gang it’s the Christmas Day rollover Bank Holiday today, so it’s still technically Christmas.

Tonight we’re holding our Annual (I think we’ve done this once before) Bother’s Bar Mario Kart Tournament – open to anyone who wants to play, 8:30pm – 10pm UK. All the deets are in the screenshot, the important thing is the code which is 2205-7284-2539:

As ever I ought to explain instancing – I don’t know how many of us there will be, but it will be a maximum 12 in an ‘instance’, so if you join and there’s fewer than 12 and you find yourself on your own, it might be an idea to quit out and rejoin and hopefully it will add you to the room with everyone else when their race has finished.

Tomorrow night from 9pm we’ll be playing Jackbox – all of 9, maybe some others – in the Discord. Players will be first come first served, you’re not obliged to join in with the voice chat (feel free to mute yourself), I don’t know how well turned out this will be so you may well be playing some games from the audience. This isn’t being streamed to Youtube.

We will have a Show Discussion post for Loaded in Paradise tomorrow.

I don’t think there’s going to be a great deal to discuss over the next week or so (except perhaps the The Traitors final, which you can do in the Discord or for a more permanent presence in the The Traitors Show Discussion post) or The Wheel US which I’m sure will be “unofficially available” in due course. I’ve got some events being lined up in the Discord over the next week-and-a-half or so, why don’t we take a look at them why don’t we?

• Alice in Borderland Series 2 “drops” on Netflix on Thursday 22nd December for all you mystery deathgame fans. We enjoyed series one.
• Christmas Gaz Top Can’t Stop Tournament on BGA – this starts on Thursday night (22nd) for all you fans of the push-your-luck board game Can’t Stop. If you’ve got a Board Game Arena account, there’s a direct link in #boardgames in the Discord to get you in. It’s turn-based rather than live and should keep you going over Christmas.
• Christmas Mario Kart Tournament – Tuesday 27th 8:30-10pm UK. New tracks! BIKES BANNED. Joining details to arrive in due course.
• Christmas Jackbox – Wednesday 28th – 9pm until I’m bored – live in the Discord. This is not, I repeat NOT a rebranding of Bother’s Bar’s Game Night, which is dead.
• Loaded in Paradise – this goes up on ITVX on 28th December before an ITV2 showing next year. This sounds like quite a fun idea at least – couples go on the run, one of them has a Golden Credit Card so they can live it up, everybody else has to try and catch them and steal it.
• The UKGameshows.com/Bother’s Bar Poll Of The Year 2022 from Jan 2nd – where we wrestle with what Loaded in Paradise ought to be eligible for. Incidentally, here’s this year’s list of new formats they’ve collated – is there anything missing?

Happy Christmas!

If you’re bored on Saturday do join us on the BB Discord 7:15pm UK for the last Schlag den Star of the year where Eurovision legend DJ Bobo will be competing (and performing) against German Strictly judge and professional stockbroker Joachim Llambi for Elton’s €100,000 suitcase.

Needless to say we’re already looking forward to the bit where it suddenly pauses during the live broadcast and zooms out to Joachim’s front room where he’ll do an ad for a brokerage, before returning to live TV. Jochimception.

Wink Martindale’s Youtube Congolomerate released an unseen pilot yesterday called Safecrackers with Geoff Edwards, whom I’ve always quite liked. The game itself, is *sort of* clever but also *sort of* a bit tedious, but blimey the set is gorge. The safe! The use of a ratchet handle to build revelatory suspense! The completely unnecessary moving bits surounding the board! The big gate that comes down! Love it.