{"id":10995,"date":"2018-07-18T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10995"},"modified":"2018-07-18T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:31:38","slug":"just-a-little-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10995","title":{"rendered":"Just a little Crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were alerted to a new Spanish format yesterday, <strong>Crush<\/strong>. In it, two teams made up four civillians and a celebrity captain answer questions by standing underneath safes. People under the wrong safes get crushed.<\/p>\n<p>Not literally of course, they&#8217;re very obviously just hollow boxes and thus it&#8217;s not especially shocking, and without any sort of reaction not especially comic either. Here&#8217;s the pitch tape:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcYRKwroSCQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>A run down of the rules: in the first round each team faces three questions, the first one with five choices, then four then three and two answers are wrong each time. They must decide how to arrange themselves to have as many people standing under correct answers as possible &#8211; losing players hurts so they need to spread if they&#8217;re not sure. Every surviving player earns the team \u20ac200 after question one, a further \u20ac300 for Q2 and a further \u20ac400 on question three, with (as I can work out) a \u20ac1,000 bonus if the celeb captain is still alive. Crushed losers are shown in &#8220;Limbo&#8221;, where they wear angel wings and communicate from a green screened heavenly backdrop. No real idea what happens if everyone on a team gets crushed at the end of this first phase, but it probably won&#8217;t make the second phase very exciting. This round is <em>Million Pound Drop A Safe On Your Head<\/em>, basically.<\/p>\n<p>Before round two it looks like both teams are allowed to resurrect one of their angels. This round features duels, one person on each team will stand under a safe, in turn they&#8217;ll be fired anagrams with clues which have to solved within 15 seconds. Doing so correctly hands control to your opponent, not managing it means getting crushed and replaced by someone else on your team. The last team with anyone standing is the winner and presumably get to keep the earned money and go through to the end game. This bit is basically <em>Still Standing Under A Safe<\/em>, which seems brave given that <strong>Still Standing (Ahora Caigo)<\/strong> is still a going concern in Spain, I believe.<\/p>\n<p>The final round has any remaining contestants from the winning team attempt to answer five questions in 90 seconds for \u20ac30,000. These questions fall into the numerical (how many minutes in a day?) and the host offers &#8220;higher&#8221; and &#8220;lower&#8221; as clues, or reeling off answers to a factual question in the hope you find the right one (who won the Golden Boot in the 2014 World Cup?). This struggles to be especially tense.<\/p>\n<p>As a format it doesn&#8217;t do a great deal massively wrong but it is veeeery derivative, and as I&#8217;ve suggested the central set-piece to the entire thing isn&#8217;t especially great. So there we are. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtve.es\/alacarta\/videos\/crush\/crush-pasta-aplasta-programa-1\/4663859\/\">With the dark arts you can watch the first episode here, if you want.<\/a> It&#8217;s very much got the next <strong>Money Pump<\/strong> written all over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were alerted to a new Spanish format yesterday, Crush. In it, two teams made up four civillians and a celebrity captain answer questions by standing underneath safes. People under the wrong safes get crushed. 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