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29 Oct 2009 20:25
29th October 2009
Matchroom Men and Matchroom Cats and Dogs
So we caught some of Five's Partypoker World Open V last night, except we hilariously missed the first half hour and fell asleep towards the end. And we noticed a few things very different to Matchroom TV tournaments in the past: namely eight player tables, deep triple stacks (i.e. 300,000 to begin as opposed to 100,000, but with apparently the same blind levels as before) and its set in an actual casino, so presuambly they can put the money they save in hiring a studio into recording a longer tournament.
So I'm just wondering: did anyone else watch it, and what else has changed regarding the structure? Is it still 21 hands to a level? How many heats is it? Enquiring minds want to know.
Note: If you intend on following the tournament on the telly, don't look for answers because you'll probably get the ultimate result spoiled for you as it would have been recording a little while ago.
And yes, sorry, The Clipton Factor completely slipped my mind this week. I'll make it up to you by putting a FULL EPISODE of something very weird and possibly wonderful, possibly not up next week. Also because we're going to be at the Countdown filming Sunday/Monday, this week's Fantasy X Factor results will not go out until Tuesday.
28th October 2009
Britain's Best Brain, then.
Have a new comment box.
- Immediate thought - it tooks hours and hours and hours to film, and yet it's been so badly edited! Whatsallthatabout? Some people get a chat at the beginning, some don't (but we're then reminded of all of them, including the ones we've not really met yet), then one person gets a countdown for their first maths round whilst everyone else apparently goes straight into it, which is a bit of a shock for the viewer.
- To be honest, what we wrote about the show when we went and saw it live (28th August 2009) absolutely stands for the actual broadcast show (laziness or efficiency? You decide). The challenges are genuinely fairly tough and I think there needs to be more obvious transparency in the scoring which you'd think would be fairly easy to edit in, although it might push the editing time from 20 minutes to 22 or possibly 23 minutes, it's been a long time since my media studies A-Level.
At a glance: Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, Amazing Race, The Apprentice US on BBC, The X Factor voting, death of Cambridge University Challenge contestant, Election nominated for a BAFTA, QI moves to Thursdays, things on a Box.
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