I’m actually putting this up here as a reminder for me to watch it after it was suggested to me last week, it looks like a Japanese brainpower quiz played by universities – this episode seems to be Oxford vs Tokyo and looks quite interesting and entertaining.
Youtube can translate auto-detected subtitles on the fly which may well be a feature worth turning on.
The translated subtitles are pretty useless to be honest.
OK, it’s called Brain World Cup.
Representatives from 16 universities worldwide play, non-Japanese participants get translations through an earpiece, although none of the questions seem to require Japanese knowledge.
In the first round the field is cut from 16 teams to eight. Intelligence-based questions come up, teams write answers on their screens and buzz in, fastest five correct answers scoring 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point. 10 points gets you through. You are considered to have earnt the points as soon as you’ve buzzed, so fighting for the last place goes to whoever gets in first on the final question rather than how much over 10 points you go.
Round two is like an eight-way University Challenge, visual question (worth no points) leads to three related bonus questions worth a point each.
First four to five points to go through.
Team captain from each qualifying team draws a ball with number 1-4 on it, this determines what order you select which semi-final match up you want. There are tactics in selecting your opponents.
The semi-final is a practical teamwork round, they’ve got to work something out with Stuff. Extreme Krypton Factor intelligence tests, basically. It looks like in the first one they have to cover a square exactly by cutting a long piece of card into correctly shaped and proportioned pieces. Second is to fill in a giant map of the African continent.
Winning two of these tasks puts you through to the final.
Final round is one-on-one, lots of what connects these things questions, team decides what order they’ll play in and each person gets two lives. Getting an answer right knocks a life off the opponent, when they’ve lost both of them the next team member comes in to play. Last team left standing wins. Wrong answers gift all clues to opponent.
Anyway, the ending is a nailbiter and no mistake.
Quite fun show, not too difficult to follow outside the native language.
Use of the word ‘iconic’ in a press release alert (don’t click on this until the 16th August, by the way):
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week34/spotless
Up against the last full night of the Olympics means it’ll probably be Viewerless too (though this is the first one-off aired pilot we’ve had in a while)…
A bit of news- USBB has been picked up for two more seasons (summer 2017 and 2018- they’re calling this Seasons 19 and 20, as the online-only season is apparently going to be a different entity)
Also, I’m guessing the big new endgame in GS will be the Modified Prisoner’s Dilemma:
Basically, the players have three options: Share, Steal, or Play it Safe. Playing it safe guarantees you something in case the other person plays Steal, but less than if you Shared:
Share/Share- both get 50% each
Steal/Steal- both get nothing
Share/Steal- Share gets nothing, Steal gets 100%
Safe/Steal- Safe gets 25%, Steal gets 75%
Safe/Share- Safe gets 25%, Share gets 75%
Safe/Safe- Both get 25% each
Here’s a good representation of it (and if they ever brought The Genius back, would be a good game to use- it not only has this, it has a pretty interesting voting elimination system)
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/184522/dead-last
I think the issue you’d have with that is having to explain all six outcomes to the viewers.
Anyway here’s what Shut Up and Sit Down thinks, sounds fun:
https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/review-dead-last/
Have you been fortunate enough to stumble across the staggering number of clean gameshow themes TheWestonator89 has on file on YouTube?
Behold, all 20 possible outcomes from the Winning Lines Wonderwall, starting with Spaghetti Junction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03u6ohS6OYI&list=PLDGV7bH-OJLDjoeZWwOddYckE6IwJzW-r&index=12
I never even noticed the holidays had different celebratory music. The fact they wrote separate cues for outcomes that never happened is mindblowing.
Also, the entire The People Versus soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5JIc2Qreuw&list=PLDGV7bH-OJLBEaD6OIJXklmTz_UlotIq7
God damn, those were the days. I love my Farrer and my Sylvan, but honestly nothing beats the good old Strachan boys.
*Like*
It’s interesting that the French version (the only other one to play for holidays) didn’t have a booby prize for 1 right, they had a city break in Paris instead, effectively moving all the brackets down one. Their top prize was only to Tahiti instead of a round-the-world though.
This is amazing; thank you. I choose to believe that Travis has the biggest beam on his face at this point, wherever he is.
This is a very decent stab at a genuinely international quiz: the questions are given through pictures revealed to all the players from around the world at the same time, though the instructions as to what to do with the pictures are presumably given to each team in their own language beforehand. Very good way of dealing with it. Good stab at coming up with interesting, challenging, genuinely global question material as well; more English-language (both UK and US) influence than you might expect. I’m tempted to look for more episodes at this point.
It looks like an annual thing, most of the Youtube titles tell you who make final two though.