Today's show wast just horrible. Trevor was robbed. Being offered just 9.9k and losing the 250k when opening the last box. The worst ever show IMO.
And also one of the best as a result!
Anyone though playing the last round with just the £250,000 on the red side knows the risks though!
The Banker has been mean though with his offers lately - on Saturday with the £250,000 and £1 remaining he said he'd have offered £91,000 - when in the past it would have been over £100,000.
In many ways it also depends on the boxes you lose in the round. As he lost the £50,000 (I think) in that round he couldn't really go up - but if he'd got to that stage having lost the bigger numbers earlier he'd have certainly got a bigger offer.
Well that was just painful in the end. I can hardly beleive how close to £250K he was, and he left with just a penny. Poor guy.
Literally.
Best show yet, by a country mile. Just finished watching it on More 4 for the first time tonight, and I have to say that I do enjoy it better at the later time- looking forward to primetime Deal!
Well that was just painful in the end. I can hardly beleive how close to £250K he was, and he left with just a penny. Poor guy.
Literally.
Best show yet, by a country mile. Just finished watching it on More 4 for the first time tonight, and I have to say that I do enjoy it better at the later time- looking forward to primetime Deal!
The More4 show is the only one I can catch because of work hours, and although it would be nice for the outcome not to be published here before I see it, I can't complain because I chose to read this thread before watching. That said, knowing his fate didn't take the sting out of seeing it.
I'm not convinced about a primetime showing, simply because I wouldn't want it to reach Weakest Link saturation point (ironic, as I chose to appear in that show).
The More4 showing is terrific. If only I didn't have to choose between it and Judge Judy!
Today's show wast just horrible. Trevor was robbed. Being offered just 9.9k and losing the 250k when opening the last box. The worst ever show IMO.
And also one of the best as a result!
Absolutely brilliant game today.
It was horribly painful to watch the guy's hopes and ambititions literally disappear down the drain along with the £250k. Damn, I really wanted him to win.
You could feel the tension coming through your TV.
Quote:
Anyone though playing the last round with just the £250,000 on the red side knows the risks though!
If only there were more reds on the board and they hadn't all disappeared as quickly as they did, it could have been a nice little earner.
Quote:
The Banker has been mean though with his offers lately - on Saturday with the £250,000 and £1 remaining he said he'd have offered £91,000 - when in the past it would have been over £100,000.
I've noticed most of the offers this week have been horribly mean. Such as offering just £9,900 at the risk of the player cleaning him out at £250k. Endermol have probably realised that the show is costing them too much money to make decent banker offers.
Quote:
In many ways it also depends on the boxes you lose in the round. As he lost the £50,000 (I think) in that round he couldn't really go up - but if he'd got to that stage having lost the bigger numbers earlier he'd have certainly got a bigger offer.
Have a look at this:
http://www.bothersbar.co.uk/dornd.htm and see what it throws up on a mathematical basis purely. Apparently with 1p and £250k, a fair offer would be £62k. But of course somebody who rubs the banker up the wrong way or a tight-fisted banker doesn't have to pay anywhere near £62k - as we've seen.
Oh well, it's all come out now on Bother's Bar as to why the offers have been crap recently. Somebody screwed up the spreadsheet used to determine which numbers go in which boxes and it was all predictive.
Glenn Hugill on Bother's Bar posted:
The problem affects the beginning of series two only and was spotted after three weeks of recording. It ends on screen next Wednesday. ... The adjudicators began using a new random number generator for series two ( based on Excel I believe). ... We can all see now that this software was flawed. The fifth and eighth show of series two ( Tx5 and Tx8 Ann and Andrew respectively) were completely identical. Same amounts in the same boxes. ... we didn't spot it when the show was recorded but it was spotted by viewers when when the show went out on air. By then we had recorded another fourty shows.
...
This was a genuine error over which the production had no control because it really was absolutely independent of us.
Glenn's put his phone number on Bother's Bar for anybody who wants to shout at him: http://www.bothersbar.co.uk/
THe real problem was if the producers had worked out the sequences. I'm fairly satisfied that they didn't given his reply and a basic character assassination. It's easy to forget they've also offered really high amounts for people with really low boxes, the timing this all came out with was unfortunate.
> Endermol have probably realised that the show is costing them too much money to make decent banker offers.
Dude... you can rest assured Endemol aren't going bankrupt any time soon. The tactic used is a fairly common one in use in many European versions - the force-them-to-play-on offer. If they win or lose it's a piece of really exciting television.
THe real problem was if the producers had worked out the sequences. I'm fairly satisfied that they didn't given his reply and a basic character assassination. It's easy to forget they've also offered really high amounts for people with really low boxes, the timing this all came out with was unfortunate.
If only they didn't have a history of outright lying. They claimed (and continue to claim, as per the Radio Times clipping on the front page of your site) that the contestant selection is random. Blatantly untrue. They claimed that different people played the Banker on different days. All the evidence says: that's bollocks. Even if the sequences weren't deliberate, offers have been getting insulting low recently, and it all makes me feel that they can't be trusted to run a fair game.
Surely the way to prevent such a problem occurring is for there to be NO numbers on the boxes, but to put the numbers on the contestant positions. That way when the contestants randomly pick boxes before the show no one will know who has which box.
I'm willing to concede that the idea that a computer comes up with a range of offers looks as if it has been "quietly dropped" since series two began. I'll ask him about this actually and see what response comes up.
I notice that tonight's show is billed between 7.10 and 8.10pm.
The following two Saturdays are also billed as one-hour shows.
So what is going to happen in the extra 15-minutes I wonder?