{"id":14229,"date":"2022-10-28T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14229"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:08:42","slug":"the-bote-sunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14229","title":{"rendered":"The bote sunk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a really interesting chat on the Discord right now (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Setsunael\">thanks to @setsunael<\/a>) about how <strong>Les 12 Coups de Midi<\/strong>, France&#8217;s premiere lunchtime quiz, has irked the internet with the idea that the current champion is getting easier questions in elimination duels than his competitors, because long running-champions encourage long-time viewers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voici.fr\/news-people\/les-12-coups-de-midi-stephane-avantage-cette-question-au-maitre-de-midi-qui-a-scandalise-les-internautes-741720\">Here is an article on the matter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Le_Neversois\/status\/1585948103446003712?t=j6kH5u4eHUz5q8h46JSv0g&amp;s=19\">here is a fun Twitter thread<\/a> looking at it, draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he bought up something else interesting I had no idea about &#8211; the Spanish show <strong>Boom!<\/strong> which you may remember for a team called Los Lobos winning over \u20ac6.5m after a two year winning streak, a combination of daily prizes and a \u20ac4.1m &#8220;bote&#8221; (jackpot) win which had been accumulating for more than two years previously, was axed last week by Antena 3 after a timeslot move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-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\/vDKNV5TEdJg?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><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Setsunael explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Axed in favor of a talk in its timeslot (rival channel Telecinco has their trash-tv talk Salvame airing between 4 and 8PM &#8211; they&#39;re trying to weaken their opponent further since they lost the Pasapalabra format and their ratings went down the hill)<\/p>&mdash; Joachim (@Setsunael) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Setsunael\/status\/1586004126756147205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/tiramillas\/television\/2022\/10\/23\/63551934e2704e9b938b4570.html\">Los Lobos aren&#8217;t happy<\/a>. There was also \u20ac4m currently in the bote. The show ran for eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a really interesting chat on the Discord right now (thanks to @setsunael) about how Les 12 Coups de Midi, France&#8217;s premiere lunchtime quiz, has irked the internet with the idea that the current champion is getting easier questions in elimination duels than his competitors, because long running-champions encourage long-time viewers. Here is an article\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14229\">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-14229","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-3Hv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","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=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}