{"id":14369,"date":"2023-03-06T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14369"},"modified":"2023-03-06T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:06:38","slug":"ten-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14369","title":{"rendered":"Ten to the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week&#8217;s BIG NEWS is the new 10:30 music quiz replacing <strong>Popmaster<\/strong> on Radio 2 with Ken Bruce off to Greatest Hits Radio, Gary Davies trialling it today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/2023\/radio-2-piano-room-u2-bono-the-edge-depeche-mode-cat-burns\">From the press release:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On Monday 6 March at 10.30am, Gary Davies launches Radio 2\u2019s brand new weekday pop quiz \u2013 Ten to the Top, an accumulator quiz where it pays to answer the questions correctly in order. Ten to the Top will test our listeners\u2019 music knowledge as they battle for pop supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Each player will be asked 10 questions about pop music.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Question 1 is worth 1 point if answered correctly, question 2 is worth 2 points, question 3 is worth 3 points, all the way up to 10.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>However, if a question is answered incorrectly the value of the following question goes back to 1 point again, then the next question is 2 points if answered correctly, and so on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each contestant has a Joker to play, and for that question they\u2019ll get double points if it\u2019s answered correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The player with the most points wins a smart speaker, and if it\u2019s a draw there will be a tie-breaker question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard it yet and can&#8217;t listen until this evening, but here are my main thoughts going by that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I get why they&#8217;ve done it &#8211; feels a bit like <em>Champions League Popmaster<\/em>, adds a bit of jeopardy, but that feels like a lot of numbers to have to keep track of &#8211; question number, value of question, total score. On TV there are visual means to do so, on radio that&#8217;s going to sound quite complex.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The joker gives a distinct disadvantage to playing first if the second caller can hear how the first player got on. You don&#8217;t have to make a decision, the first player has effectively set a target for when you need to play it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you&#8217;re playing along at home and want to compare scores with others, are you meant to use the points the radio contestant is playing for or are you meant to keep your own accurate reading as if you were playing for real? How many are going to do that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect nobody is going to like it today, but it&#8217;s got a month to bed in before Ken starts up again and perhaps people will warm to it. What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s BIG NEWS is the new 10:30 music quiz replacing Popmaster on Radio 2 with Ken Bruce off to Greatest Hits Radio, Gary Davies trialling it today. From the press release: I haven&#8217;t heard it yet and can&#8217;t listen until this evening, but here are my main thoughts going by that: I suspect nobody\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14369\">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-14369","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-3JL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14369","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=14369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}