Schlag den Star managing to be extremely exciting on live TV at 1:30am local time after almost six hours of live competition. A special doubles edition to mark the 75th episode, on the red side Özcan and Bastien, a famous German comic podcasting duo, on the blue side Sascha and Alec aka electronic western band The Bosshoss. The game is Ballball – chuck tennis balls at a basketball to propel it over your opponent’s line – it’s the old boardgame Crossfire, basically. It is best of three, if the red team win they’ve won the night and the €100,000 that goes with it, if the blue team win they keep their hopes alive and take the show to the final event.
You can skip the first three minutes if you want, it’s a live show and they have to set everything up. The poor stagehands.
For all three people that care, Sitting on a Fortune S2 premieres tonight
Very nice organic (effective) catch-up mechanic – the closer you are to scoring, the more accurate you have to be with your throws, and the closer you are to conceding, the easier it is to get a defensive hit in and stop the progress against you. It’s also rather entertaining how the other balls stay on the field and act as blockers, to the point where that epic second round had to have the field cleared.
Boss will eventually evolve into Treguard.
This really was so much fun to watch in live chat, so much ‘oh!’-ing, it’s always been a fun game when it turns up, this is the first time they’ve had to stop it because they couldn’t refill the trolleys quick enough, an inordinate amount of both sides hitting the ball at the same time.