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No, this is not another racing/dictators crossover.
I was watching ITV’s gameshow The Chase yesterday and in the final round the team lost with just three seconds to go, costing the four of them £13k each.
One of their questions was ‘which Italian jockey…’ to which the answer was of course Frankie Dettori. The unfortunate contestant said Franco Dettori and this was taken as incorrect. Bit harsh I thought given that had he added ‘Lan’ on the front they’d have to have given it, even just ‘Dettori’ would probably be ok. For those unfamiliar with the format, a correct answer would have led to the Chaser having to answer one more question which takes more than three seconds. I’d certainly be demanding a stewards enquiry.
Thanks for reading my boring story, what say you? ‘Pay them out’ or ‘tough, nobody calls him Franco so you’re wrong’. I’m happy to spend £52k of ITV’s money paying out.
It was a similar story on previous shows when various contestants gave answers such as: “Leicester City Piggott,” “Pet Eddery,” “Stove Cauthen,” “Ruby Welsh” and “HP McCoy” – ITV have got some sauce (geddit?) being so harsh.
Feeble, entirely fictional, anecdotes aside, “Frankie” is a popular nickname, his actual name is “Lanfranco,” as Richard states, and “Franco” simply sounds to me like a more Italianicised nickname version of “Frankie.”
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Wasn’t his father Gianfranco Dettori? I know they did not mean him but it could be argued they did.
There have been other similar instances on “The Chase”, sometimes involving answers given by The Chaser instead.
I know someone who has been a contestant on the show and she said there is a lawyer present at every recording, so presumably Bradley Walsh was told he could not accept the answer.
You’re opening a whole can of worms with those jockey puns Ian!
In the same show Pete Sampras was the answer to a tennis question. They didn’t get it so when he told them the correct answer he said ‘Sampras’ which presumably means surname only is accepted.
Clearly the lawyer/adjudicator has the final say though, possibly why I am not one! As long as they are consistent there’s no real issue, I don’t watch it enough to know.
I saw an episode recently which had a question in the Final Chase which I thought could be disputed.
It was “What is the first month of the year to have 30 days?” The contestant answered “April” which was accepted as correct.
However, I would argue the real correct answer is January, which does have 30 days in it. The question did not ask “What is the first month of the year to ONLY contain 30 days and no more?”
If a contestant had answered January and protested after being told it was incorrect, the lawyers would have had to get involved.
A variation on the classic ‘how many months have 28 days?’
They must ask upwards of 100 questions per show so I suppose a few ambiguous ones will always slip through.
Good format though, I do like it. Quiz/game shows are definitely something we do very well in this country.
“The Chase” is very good, the format works very well building up to the final Chase.
I think some contestants play it far too safe. The Chaser sometimes makes very generous offers, far more than they accumulated in the cash builder. They only have to answer one more question correctly to bank the money but so many still accept the boring middle offer.
One of my work colleagues was a contestant, the last of the four to face The Chaser (Paul Sinha). Her three team mates were all defeated by him.
She got £4,000 in her cash builder. Sinha offered her £400 as a lower offer and £40,000 for the higher offer. She chose the £4,000 and got it in the bank but could have got the £40,000 home. She then scored something like 13 in the final and Sinha caught her with about 30 seconds to spare.
The following day, I politely suggested to her that she should have backed herself and gone for the £40,000, which would have been all for herself if she won. Even if she failed to bank it, when all four contestants lose they come back to play for a £1,000, so she would still have had a chance of winning something. But she would not hear of it.
She should definitely have gone for it in that situation. You’re almost certainly getting beaten on your own so may as well go down in a blaze of glory.
Some need to swallow their pride if the first three get through with a big pot. Go low, the full house is often the difference. A slightly smaller pot divided by four is a lot better than zero divided by three.
Some of the contestants understand the tactics better now. Weaker players or those in seat four who have already seen the first three get through do often take the low offer, even when it is a minus amount.The main issue is contestants playing it far too safe regarding the high offer.
As a broad rule of thumb, anyone who gets £6,000 or more in the cash builder is a better than average player with a good chance of getting the higher offer home. However, very few of them go for the higher offer. I have lost count of the number of contestants I have seen comfortably bank the middle offer when they could have banked thousands of pounds more.
Maybe they are each way punters, lacking in moral fibre. I suspect ID would go for the big money every time!
Yes and if you’re good in the cash builder without the answers in front of you, you should be good with the answer in front of you and a bit of time to think.
Perhaps not about the money for all? Some of them probably just want to say they won against the Chaser and will get through to the final at all costs.
Ian’s only issue is that he would have Bradley on mute!
A variation on the classic ‘how many months have 28 days?’
I guess they’ll never ask the old classic “How many seconds in a year” which we was once asked in a pub for a pair of All Ireland Final tickets. I started to try to work it out (in beer) until someone piped up 12 – second of Jan, second of Feb etc.
Brilliant Nathan, definitely one for Private Eye’s Dumb Britain.
I see what they did there Homer. The actual number of seconds in aa year is probably one for University Challenge.
I watched The Chase again yesterday and he did actually give the team an extra point after the time ran out for an answer that was initially accepted as incorrect so it does go in the team’s favour sometimes. I would have given the same answer as the contestant did.
“I was watching ITV’s gameshow The Chase yesterday and in the final round the team lost with just three seconds to go, costing the four of them £13k each.”
I saw this one too! Was gutted for them, feel like if they hadn’t been against the beast they probably would have won.
You have most chance of winning against Shaun Wallace. He has the least highest wins to appearances ratio.
Anne Heggerty is the chaser with the best winning record.
Anne has Asperger’s which whilst it may be a curse in some ways, may actually help in the world of quizzing, certainly when combined with the good brain that she obviously has.
Paul is very funny if you ever see him on other things. They all seem like they’d be good company I think. Never met any of them but they come across well enough.
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