{"id":13996,"date":"2022-03-22T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13996"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:26:35","slug":"big-break-prize-legalities-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13996","title":{"rendered":"Big Break Prize Legalities Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Got a cracking DM from @metaboatchris<\/a> last night, which I shall repost here. Perhaps you know something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was talking to my fianc\u00e9’s mum recently, who mentioned a contestant she knew who took part on Big Break<\/strong> in the 90s. According to her, he made it through to the “Make or Break” final round, and won two prizes (not sure which, but presuming the red ball prize and a blue\/pink ball prize). On the show, you can only win two prizes, however because he claimed that it was not adequately explained to him at the time, he said that he should have won every prize between red and blue\/pink, not just the two prizes the contestant normally does, and took the producers to court. In the end, he was given all the prizes, and as a result later episodes of Big Break make it clear that it is only two prizes that are won in Make or Break. I’ve tried looking for information in relation to this on the internet and in news articles, but I can’t find any information relating to this, and I’m wondering if it was ever reported at the time. He may have settled at the time, so it may have never made it to court, but I wasn’t sure if it was ever made public. I know that the contestant was called Ian and he was from Northern Ireland, but don’t know any more information than that. Would you know if there is any information out there in relation to this? I know that Big Break had its transmission delayed for several years, but I think this was due to legal issues regarding the rights to the series, rather than this issue. I also read on a forum that there were several episodes of the series that were canned, but I don’t know if it a) that’s true, and b) if it was in relation to this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got a cracking DM from @metaboatchris last night, which I shall repost here. Perhaps you know something? I was talking to my fianc\u00e9’s mum recently, who mentioned a contestant she knew who took part on Big Break in the 90s. According to her, he made it through to the “Make or Break” final round, and\u2026 Read More »<\/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-13996","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-3DK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996","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=13996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}