The grand finale of BTC Australia broadcast on Sunday night and its an interesting concept...
- The cashbuilder works the same (you're out if you get the first Q wrong/max of 5 Qs) but each question is worth $5,000 as opposed to $1,000
- Contestants are then asked to stake some of their winnings from the heats (eg. If they stake $3,000 and got 3 questions right they'd be playing for $18,000). They can choose to stake whatever proportion of their winnings.
- Contestants MUST face all 4 chasers, who give 3 offers of time and money as normal but the offers are pretty supersized ($100,000 to $250,000)
Would be good to see the format adopted over here, maybe broadcast on the Saturday after a week of heats.
It didn't really work with the contestant choosing how much to stake as all but one went low with just $1000 to $5000 dollars, and the highest best was just $7250 of $40k. Would be better if the Chasers linked how much they had to gamble with the higher offers so they had to stake more money to get the bigger offers.
Ultimately though I don't think it really worked and another regular episode would have been fine and had offers not much lower. The only justification IMO for a final considering the pedigree of most contestants would be if they biggest winner got the chance to be a Chaser.
Last edited by Brekkie on 1 December 2020 5:05pm
Be nicer and more tolerant to each other. Them's the rules.
