{"id":12395,"date":"2019-07-08T14:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12395"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T13:03:30","slug":"no-limit-no-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12395","title":{"rendered":"No-Limit No-Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So today a new international record is going to be set (it&#8217;s been spoilt pretty much everywhere so it&#8217;s not like this is news), Los Lobos are about to win a \u20ac4m+ progressive jackpot, on top of the \u20ac2m+ they&#8217;ve earned as returning champions on daily Spanish quiz <strong>Boom!<\/strong>, one of the shows from about five years ago everyone reckoned was going to be the next big thing, and then wasn&#8217;t. This is getting a primetime special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkfXe5nVBAc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Los Lobos in action last November. SPOILER: They win.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Italian correspondent CeletheRef tells us &#8220;Nicol\u00f2 Scalfi, 87-times champion of the Italian \u201c<strong>Who\u2019s Still Standing?<\/strong>\u201d couldn\u2019t defend his title and went home with all of \u20ac651,000 the highest sum won on the show.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not uncommon for champions on <strong>Tout le Monde Veut Prende Sa Place<\/strong> to rack up 100+ victories (and even then if they lose they can offer previous winnings to the winning challenger to walk away and keep the seat). <strong>Les Douze Coups de Midi<\/strong> also has champions occasionally rack up 50+ wins, the record holder having 193 appearances. People talked about those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People talked about <strong>Jeopardy<\/strong> when Ken Jennings was winning. They talked about it with James Holzenhauer on his run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They probably didn&#8217;t talk about it when Ian Lygo was forced to retire at 75 victories on <strong>100%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In making shows self-contained because they&#8217;re apparently easier to broadcast, is someone missing a trick? <strong>Pasaparabra<\/strong> allows its champions to return indefinitely. <strong>Alphabetical<\/strong>, as well has having an endgame which was to all intents and purposes impossible (sidenote: audiences will accept very-hard-but-doable, they won&#8217;t accept having to get 26 out of 20) kicked its champions out after 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one UK exception is <strong>Who Dares Wins<\/strong>, but the record for that is only 12 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today a new international record is going to be set (it&#8217;s been spoilt pretty much everywhere so it&#8217;s not like this is news), Los Lobos are about to win a \u20ac4m+ progressive jackpot, on top of the \u20ac2m+ they&#8217;ve earned as returning champions on daily Spanish quiz Boom!, one of the shows from about\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12395\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3dV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}