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cyberjoek:
Has anyone else heard about this show?

--- Quote ---The Ultimate Challenge From TVS:
The Television Syndication Company (TVS), which has approximately 6,000 hours of international programming in its library, has secured U.S. production and distribution rights to the hit European game show that has been referred to as Intervilles, Intercities and It's a Knockout. TVS will recreate the new version of the series under the title The Ultimate Challenge, which features two teams of eight men and women who compete against each other in a series of seven challenges.
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Anyone know the rules to this game?
-Joe Kavanagh

Jimmy Owen:
It's a revival of "Almost Anything Goes" which ran in the summer of '75 and winter '76 on ABC.  It's more of an outdoor stunt show played on a football field.  Regis Philbin was one of the field reporters and Soupy Sales did a kid's version in the fall of '76.

Fedya:
I remember "All-Star Anything Goes" (gosh that makes me feel old!), and when I was in Germany in 1989, saw the German version, "Spiel ohne Grenzen", which was set in the Roman amphiteater at Xanten and had stunts involving things gladiators would be expected to do.  The Roman ruins were an interesting location for a game show!

Thanks for bringing up some nice memories.  :-)

dickoon:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 08:08 PM\'] It's a revival of "Almost Anything Goes" which ran in the summer of '75 and winter '76 on ABC.  It's more of an outdoor stunt show played on a football field. [/quote]
 While both AAG and the forthcoming TUC were based on the same European original, I feel it is probably a stretch to refer to TUC as a revival - it seems most unlikely that AAG will be used as source material, that the venue will necessarily be a football field this time or that any other similarities will be more than incidental.

The rules are almost incidental to the games. I would negatively criticise the decision to have only two teams per show; the British version routinely featured three per show and the international Jeux Sans Frontieres edition was an eight-header. This is definitely a show where the chaos is part of the fun and it would be much more fun to swap between various parts of the action than to concentrate on a single game, unless it's a very good game indeed.

With two teams, the rules could be as simple as "whoever wins four events wins", though this would seem unlikely due to the possibility of a result half-way through. More likely seems a (probably not overtly) Gladiators-style system where the number of points available in each game will vary and/or there's a chance to catch up a big deficit in the final game of the show. (Balanced, as ever, by the necessity for the final game not to be excessively all-important.)

The British scoring system was simple: 3 for first, 2 for second, 1 for third. The ongoing game in which the three teams compete separately counts double. Each team gets one joker, played in advance of a game to double its score. JSF was otherwise similar except for starting at 8 for first and going down to 1 for last.

reason1024:

--- Quote ---More likely seems a (probably not overtly) Gladiators-style system where the number of points available in each game will vary and/or there's a chance to catch up a big deficit in the final game of the show. (Balanced, as ever, by the necessity for the final game not to be excessively all-important.)

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Do you all think Nick's GUTS had it right with their point structure for the 'Crag?  I got the (perhaps wrong) impression that it was a little off because the scoring went something like 725-550-375.  Meaning you could really only expect to make up 100 points in a close race because the lower places, for some reason, got higher "tiebreaker digits".

Mike

Tom Hanks: "There's no crying in Jeux Sans Frontieres !!!"

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