Board of Excitement 20th-26th June 2010

By | June 20, 2010
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Let us tentatively peer into the week ahead, with some bonus commentary from Rob Bighter:

  • The Bother Series of Poker 2010: (8pm UK, Sunday, Full Tilt) It’s Game 11! The last chance to jostle for position ahead of the big Grand Final next weekend. But you can still play even if you can’t win the title, details on the BotherSOP page, and the discussion page for Game 11 is here.
  • Wipeout (Tuesday AND Thursday night, ABC): “This week there are two in a row/you’ll be bored of sweeper arms by Thursday’s show.”
  • Downfall (Tuesday, ABC): “It’s not the board game, that would be too elegant/it’s people and things on a conveyor belt with a quiz element.”

Otherwise Wimbledon and the World Cup is on, so don’t expect an awful lot.

Tentatively back

By | June 19, 2010
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Look, I’ll tell you what happened.

On Friday, I was sent to market to sell some cows for money or something when a strange old man stopped me in the street, and wondered if I’d sell him a cow for some apparently magic beans that will help see the future. “Magic beans?” I cried, rather skeptically. But you know me, I like a bit of a gamble so I got back to the bar, penniless, but with some beans. So I planted them and then went to bed. Then the next day I did some washing and got drunk down a pub (obviously I didn’t have the money to pay the electricity bill) and when I got back – whoa, standing in a corner of the Bar was one of those Zoltan the Magnificent sort of machines, but it was apparently called “Rob Bighter”.

“Hmm,” I thought, “that’s an anagram of Brig Bother. Quite clever.” Anyway I won some money down the pub so I fed the meter, and suddenly Rob Bighter came to life and he left a message:

Rob Bighter’s eyes are shining bright,
If you’re not careful you’ll bugger up your website.

Well, to be honest I’m not massively impressed with him predicting something that’s already happened.

Anyway, the point is: if you’re about to write a long comment, I’d suggest copying it before you send it in case the server messes up. Flaws will be ironed out over the coming days, fingers crossed.

And what predictions for the future (or predictions of things that have already happened) will Rob Bighter have in store?

Fort Boyard 2010

By | June 18, 2010
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  • It starts on 10th July on France 2 at 8:35.
  • Three teams will compete in each episode. Two teams will face off in a number of duels and individual challenges to earn keys – the team with the fewer is kicked off the Fort immediately.
  • The winners will, as Lee suggested, face against the current champions in a battle for clues. When it gets to the treasure room, the teams will write what they think the codeword is on a bit of slate before collecting gold, but it sounds like the correct answer won’t be revealed until after the treasure run. The winners being the team who a) get the codeword right and b) collect the most gold (presumably if both get it wrong then it goes on gold). This is a bit more involved and interesting that I was expecting. The winning team collect €10,000 on top of their collected winnings and come back the next week, at the end of the series the three best teams come back to win the €40,000 top prize.

Interesting. And – and here’s some fan service – the people who are champions for episode one? Well if my interpretation is correct, they’re going to be part of a team from the show’s first season twenty years ago.

It’s BotherSOP Finals Fortnight!

By | June 17, 2010
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pokertrophy2That’s right! There’s only one more opportunity after this one for me to post a photo of the amazing Bother Series of Poker trophy (look it is engraved and everything), just two more games remain, one this Sunday night and the Super Stack Grand Final next Sunday night, where lots of money and medals and a trophy will be given away.

Needless to say, I’m hoping to win (cheap night), but you can stop my fun by playing along with the final two games. You probably can’t win the title, but you probably will have fun. Details on the BotherSOP page.