I’m going to put up a follow-up press release from Andrew Wood, but if he feels like advertising some more he can use the comments like everybody else:
The two contestants through to through end game on Bullseye now have the choice of 3 options.
The 1st option is that they can take all the money and prizes they have won on the show and leave the show if they so chose. If this happens, and it has happen many times, the host invites the highest scoring runners up the same option. If they too decide not to gamble and keep all the money they won the host invites the lowest scoring team of contestants that were dead and buried 20 minutes earlier having not won much money, if they would like gamble their winnings and try and win Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. We never had a refusal and some won Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. A new car or a luxury holiday for 4 people. I always loved that when it happened.
Option 2 is Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. To win this the contestants had to score 101 or more with 6 darts, 3 darts for each contestant. If they scored 101 or more the won the lot. They kept all of the cash and prizes they won on the show and Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. If they failed to score 101 or more they lost the lot and all they was their (BFH) Bus Fair Home.
Option 3 is Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot.
The contestants have the option of trying to win, Bully’s Million Dollar
Jackpot. To win Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot they risk losing all that they have won on the show, all the money and all the prizes. The team must score 401 or more with 9 darts. The enormity of the challenge is matched by the enormity of the prize. The maximum that can be scored with 9 darts is 540.To Win‘Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot’, the team must score 401 or more with nine darts. The dart-playing contestant throws the first three darts, the ‘brains’ throws the second three darts and then the dart-playing contestant throws the final three darts. The first contestants that win Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot will win the most money ever won in a darts challenge.OR
The team have the choice of having the guest professional dart player on the show throwing the first three darts for their team, followed by the ‘brains’ throwing the second three darts and then the dart playing contestant throws the final three darts. If the team fail to score 401 or more they do not win ‘Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot’ and they lose all the money and all prizes they won on the show. All is not lost however. Whatever the team’s final total score is the host multiplies it by 10 and the contestants get the cash equivalent of their team’s score. For example, if the team scores a total of 340 they win $3,400 dollars. Although the contestants are disappointed at not winning Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot they are happy with their cash winnings and the show closes on a high note. Every one’s a winner.
The contestants through to the end game may not risk going for Option 3 as they may not feel confident that they can beat the challenge (being on the set of a TV show can be very intimidating and the contestants may feel the pressure) and go for Option 2 Bully’s Mystery Star Prize. This is a major prize, for example a new Mustang car and worth much more than what they would have won had they tried to win Bully’s Million Dollar Jackpot and failed.
It would be great if a UK broadcaster commissioned a new series of Bullseye and we had, Bully’s Million Pound Jackpot.
Remember, You can’t beat a bit of Bully.
So there we go – just let me know if I’m reading this wrong – they can do the nine dart thing by themselves, lose and leave with nothing or they can get help from a pro player, lose, and leave with probably more money than they would have won in the maingame. Have I got this wrong? I understand having the choice of the mystery star prize (although it can’t be the star prize. The star prize is a million dollars.) or million in local currency.
I think the x10 thing applys to both option 3’s however there is an argument that the pro option is likely to score more
How I’d do it is offer the following
1-300 x10 score
301-400 x100 score
401 Jackpot
That way there is a minor payout so the gamble doesn’t turn into the quiz show equivalent of Supercoin
That does make sense, but I’d suggest the pro is going to score more 90% of the time in fact. So why offer it as an option, and just have the pro help?
“We never had a refusal”
I’m pretty sure that in one episode, all three couples didn’t take the gamble, leaving Jim to reveal the star prize and end the show.
And, of course, the BFH only came about in 1991 – and when Jim announced it the first time, the audience were quite surprised!
I suppose they were so used to the winning couple gambling only their prizes and not the money they’d won earlier… 😉
Surely you are honour-bound to promote up to another six press releases in the same way, but then have the privilege of ripping him a Special new one if a ninth is required?
(Also, it does seem odd for a show to have a special prize, a star prize and a jackpot. Makes sense, but it’s a bit clunky.)