Hopefully, you managed to tune in to Beat the Chasers last night, which premiered on ITV. Going into the show I knew very little about the format of the show, other than that all five Chasers were involved.
A great deal of thought seems to have been put into the show to try and make it as different from the usual show as possible whilst retaining all the key elements that make it such a success. In all, the show was a very entertaining hour of television and is sure to be a major hit!
The Cash-builder element has changed entirely, the only similarity being the £1,000 per correct answer. The questions are multiple choice and there is not a time limit, rather the players keep going until they get one wrong. It is much more relaxed than the usual cash builder and the tougher questions start to come sooner. If you happened to fall foul of the very first question on "Beat The Chasers" then you are out of the game altogether. As Paul Sinha pointed out on the show last night, this is one brutal aspect of the show. The first question is very much do or die!
Once the players have amassed the cash, they move onto the Beat The Chasers main game. This involves the player having 60 seconds to answer questions correctly. With every correct answer your clock stops and the Chasers clock starts...and so on. If the players clock runs out before The Chasers.....they don't win. However, if the player still has time left when the Chasers clock runs to 0....they win the Cash Prize.
Speaking of the Prize, it varies from player to player, with 5 offers made. For example here is one of the contestant offers from last nights show. As you can see a new tactical element is introduced and the players can take on 2-5 chases, with different levels of time available. The groupings change every time so there are large tactical decisions to be made!
Then thats it.....the contestant either goes home with a cheque and the knowledge they have Beat The Chasers, or the Chasers win and the contestant leaves empty handed. The next contestant emerges and repeats....
The show was very fast paced, the live audience give the show a "big occasion feel", the questions were of course up to the usual high standards of the show and it works superbly well in prime time TV. This could easily have gone so wrong, but Beat The Chasers works and works well. I hope very much after this back-to-back run of shows, we see many more of these shows
If you missed the first episode you can find it here
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