7:15pm UK time
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Hurrah! Die Sommerpause ist kaput, Stefan Raab’s back for another thrilling night of skill games and quizzes and tonight it’s a quadruple rollover, so he’s defending €2.5m of his own money.
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN?
Well you can join us for a LIVE text commentary right here on the Bar, if we can get naughty streaming.
Viel glück!
A jammy shot by anyone’s standards for Manuela bringing the second set to a tie, 5-5. Sudden death!
INCREDIBLE SCENES.
And Stefan wins the second set on sudden death, 4-3.
Stefan falling apart in set 3, losing -3 to 0.
Oh wow! Stefan loses another point for striking the white with his cue, rather than the red!
Well Manuela not so much winning frame three as Raab losing it.
Taking out the middle pin and leaving the others alone is pretty impressive.
I want to play this, but imagine most commercial pool table operators being pretty unimpressed if you supply your own pins and, er, pocket covers to go on top of their tables.
Imagine playing it on the hexagonal pool table in that pub in Cambridge! (It might be octagonal; I’ve never been there, just seen photos.)
Mmm, hexagonal, but on a turntable. Can’t help but think the best move is ‘spin the table really fast’.
Nice pub, know it well. Used to play cards there.
What was Stefan trying to accomplish with that shot? I don’t get it.
This is a great game! Stefan could still take this third leg…
I’ve just let out an audible ‘ooh’ there.
So did I! It’s like we’re brothers.
All Manuela has to do is not stuff it up like a turkey at Christmas…
Manuela manages to win the third set entirely by Stefan losing points. Raab leads 2 sets to 1.
Well, to be fair, she was snookering him fairly well.
what’s next? a 3 million euro game of “cosmic encounter”? 😛
Does that play well with two? The calling for allies part might not work so well. Otherwise I fully support the spirit of your suggestion.
I wonder if they went “Manuela’s not doing great, so we might underrun, let’s chuck in a long game”.
This is such a good choice for a game, I’m loving it.
Agreed, surprisingly entertaining.
Tense stuff! A couple of centimeters was the difference between +3 and -3 for Raab.
Looks like it’s Italian five-pin billiards..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-pin_billiards
2-2!
and we’re tied at 2!
Manuela wins the fourth set as well. Proper excitement going into the final set!
It wouldn’t be particularly sporting, but couldn’t she just have barely tapped the white or yellow to win the round?
Presumably. Although maybe there’s a rule that a ball must touch a cushion?
Seems to be -1 point for a foul shot though
I was thinking that too
This is getting tense! Manuela needs to win this set to get some points on the scoreboard!
That opening shot of any given set looks particularly hard to me. A little unfair really.
why dont they have the color of the ball they have to hit on the scoring graphic?
I don’t think it matters whether they hit the white or yellow
It might be a free choice.
ouch minus 4
Stefan doesn’t look happy at that messed up -2 point shot there.
Oh Manuela!
annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd that just happened
What a shot!!!!!!!
5 points!!!
STRIKE! INCREDIBLE SCENES.
Surely it’s all over. Surely!
Manuela manages to win! Who could have predicted that after 2 sets!
And Menuela wins! Is this the start of a fightback? Raab leads 32: 13.
Well we were both a little early on that, but the chance of Raab striking was pretty low.
That was an awesome shot by Manuela!!!
That was a cracker of a game.
That guarantees a Game 12…
Great game!
Someone’s accidentally left a studio mic live on ProSieben Connect. Unfortunately, I don’t speak German, so I don’t know if terrible secrets are being unveiled.
Maybe I’m late to the party, but that is the worst call-and-lose question I’ve ever seen.
Oh they’re like that every episode.
That was definitely the best game of the evening so far. Manuela making that comeback was amazing.
DIE PRIESTER.
I spend the ad breaks fearing a K-Fee ad, you know…
Eureka in German, there.
It’s Gossip!
The ad break’s over, so on to .. another musical act. 3 in one night? That’s a fair few.
That’s average for an episode really.
Huh, I’ve only seen 2 at most before now.
I do like the big dot-matrix screens that display the lyrics, and everything else. They’re rather early You Bet!, or – if you’re as old as me – rather Razzamatazz.
I think this song is sponsored by epilepsy.
Right, now that’s over, it’s game 10 – ABC-quiz
Game 10 – ABC-Quiz.
Spiel 10 – ABC-Quiz
A new game, apparently!
oh, i see what you did there. the choices are labled A B and C and we call it the ABC quiz!