Schlag den Raab – 7:15pm UK time, Pro Sieben (and hopefully naughty internet streaming)
And if The Cube wasn’t exciting enough tonight Stefan Raab defends €1.5m live on German television. Also: Rebecca Ferguson off of The X Factor is one of the super special guests.
I wonder if they’ll play viewer favourite Tischdecke again?
University Challenge, Australian style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8lDOY5o8E
It appears to be hosted by Tim Wonnacott.
http://http://kinofilm2020.ucoz.com/index/stream/0-9 is working fine yet again, so this will probably be the first port of call to watch this evening’s proceedings 🙂
Tonight’s candidates are Reint, Matthias, Sabine, Markus and Tobias. Going off first impressions, I’d most like to see either Reint or Tobias take on Stefan, but we’ll see how Germany voted later on…
I think I just heard the next SdR will be on the 5th of May.
And the results are in! Let’s see who’ll be taking on Stefan tonight…
It’s not Tobias
It’s not Matthias
It’s not Sabine
And it’s not Markus
So tonight’s contender is…REINT!
A reminder of the rules, meeting the doctor and commentator, a quick chat with Reint’s family and friends, and the battle for €1.5m begins with…
SPIEL 1 – Die Torwand (Goal Wall)
The game that was the 15th game last month and it’s the first game this time! Let’s hope Reint won’t fluff it like Alex did!
Reint goes first, takes his time and kicks it cleanly.
Stefan now, a couple of practice kicks and he kicks it squarely in the centre.
Reint’s second kick is a little higher than his first, but still makes it.
Stefan’s second kick, a little high, but still makes it himself.
Reint’s third kick, makes it perfectly.
Stefan’s third kick, no problems so the shooting marker is pulled back.
Reint’s fourth kick, perfect.
Stefan’s fourth kick, and he kicks it wide to the right!
Reint takes the first game
Reint 1 – 0 Stefan
And game one is… PENALTY SHOOT OUT. Using the exact same set up as the last game of the previous SdR. Brilliant!
AND REINT WINS – IT’S NOT A TOTAL WHITEWASH!
Spiel 2 – Bundelander (or something)
Name the German county that contains these German towns. First to six wins. This isn’t the most UK friendly game.
SPIEL 2 – Bundesländer (States)
By the looks of things, a list of towns or cities are read out and Stefan and Reint must buzz in when they think they know which German state they’re in. Usual rules apply, get it right to earn a point, get it wrong and the opponent gets a point. First to 6 wins. I’l post a picture if I can so you know how the game works.
Stefan takes the game 6-1
Reint 1 – 2 Stefan
As promised, a pic of the game in progress:
http://twitpic.com/99sals
Spiel 3 – The Javelin
We’ll be heading outside for this one. Probably wise.
Midway through the javelin, looks like Stefan has just twisted his knee, hopefully won’t affect too much.
It also looks like they’ve been taking the measurements from where the javelin stopped, rather than where it first hit the ground, which has played to Stefan’s advantage as all of his have slid a good few metres after landing.
We’re back from break, and as Daniel has said…
SPIEL 3 – Speerwerfen (Javelin), and we’re outside for this one.
The coin toss lands red, so Reint will go first after a quick commercial. The winner will be whoever throws the javelin the furthest single distance after 6 throws each.
Reint – Throw 1 – 26.10m
Stefan – Throw 1 – 30.13m
Reint – Throw 2 – 25.97m
Stefan – Throw 2 – 29.66m
Reint – Throw 3 – 24.97m
Stefan – Throw 3 – 31.71m
Reint – Throw 4 – 24.69m
Stefan – Throw 4 – 25.97m and he’s hurt his knee, a sprained or twisted muscle by the looks of things. Will he be able to continue?
While Stefan goes off for medical attention, Reint must now beat 31.71m to win in 2 throws
Reint – Throw 5 – 25.35m
Reint – Throw 6 – 30.49m
The way Stefan was throwing the javelins, they bounced instead of sticking in the ground, but it was still enough to give him the win.
Reint 1 – 5 Stefan
SPIEL 4 – Cross-Verfolgung (Cross tracking)
And it’s a no-contest due to Stefan’s injury, so the 4 points are automatically given to Reint.
Reint 5 – 5 Stefan
Huge clanger on In It To Win It just now. Question was:
“The Battle of Agincourt took place during which war?
– War of the Roses
– Napoleonic Wars
– Hundred Years’ War”
They said the correct answer was B. In fact, it was C.
Contestant chose A, so luckily not a game changer.
I wonder how the game’s going to go now, seeing as Stefan’s been injured. Do you think they’ll have to re-jig the games around so there’s no physical games, or will they just keep giving Reint the points like they did for Game 4?
SPIEL 5 – Marienkäfer (Ladybird)
A number of ladybirds appear on the screen, and Stefan and Reint must buzz in with the correct number of spots. Usual rules apply, first to 5.
Stefan wins the game 5-2 after Reint gave a number of wrong answers.
Reint 5 – 10 Stefan
SPIEL 6 – Die Kugel (The Ball)
2 stagehands bring on a wooden contraption similar to the keybox challenge from TORE! 2 metal rods that must be pulled apart to allow the ball to roll and drop into one of 6 scoring holes from 0-5 (0 furthest from them to 5 nearest to them). 0 points are scored if the ball falls off the contraption. The winner will be whoever has the highest score after 10 turns each.
Reint – 3 3 1 0 1 0 3 X X X = 11
Stefan – 4 5 5 4 5 4 0 X X X = 27
As you can see, Stefan managed to get to grips with the game better than Reint. Stefan had too much of a lead so Reint couldn’t come back even if he got all 5’s
Reint 5 – 16 Stefan
Did that game remind anyone else of good old Screwball Scramble?
…anyone?
Yeah, it did for me. I used to own one as a kid.
SPIEL 7 – Puzzle (Does that really need a translation? :D)
The clamshell doors open up to reveal 2 tables, one red, one blue. On each table is a jigsaw puzzle of a puppy and a kitten, and a bell. Whoever finishes the jigsaw and rings the bell first wins.
Reint finished well ahead of Stefan!
Reint 12 – 16 Stefan
SPIEL 8 – Diktat (Dictation)
Both Stefan and Reint wear headphones and 100 words are read rather quickly by alternating male and female voices. They must then write down as many words as they can on the clipboard. They then take it in turns to read words off their lists, 15 seconds per turn. First one to make a mistake loses.
Reint wins the game, and Stefan complains about a Brille! 😀
Reint 20 – 16 Stefan
Not many comments tonight. Lack of interest in this one after ‘Tischdecken-gate’?
I don’t know what’s going on tonight! Am I the only one watching here? Dan Peake was doing a bit of play-by-play with me, but he seems to have gone.
I’m watching, but I don’t have much to say really, being unable to translate. So I’m just watching along.
SPIEL 9 – Muttern (Nuts)
The stagehands bring out 2 contraptions that look like hangman gallows with a large bolt through the crossbar. On lecterns are 20 large metal nuts each. It’s a race to get all 20 nuts on their bolt first.
Stefan goes for a 2-handed technique with 2 nuts at a time while Reint goes for 2 at a time. Stefan has trouble threading his nuts onto the bolt, giving Reint an advantage.
Reint manages to get all his nuts on his bolt while Stefan had 6 nuts to go.
Reint 29 – 16 Stefan
Stefan wasted a lot of time getting the nuts too high up on the pole – it didn’t need that much space to fit all the nuts. I guess that was one of the traps.
SPIEL 10 – Wer Ist Das? (Who Is It?)
The usual game of recognising people. Usual rules apply, first to 7 wins.
Stefan wins the game 7-4
Reint 29 – 26 Stefan
Stefan’s visibly limping…Game 11 is bowling, so he should be OK…
SPIEL 11 – Kegeln (Bowl)
Going backstage for this one, and Stefan’s still having trouble with his knee.
We all know how this works, 3 frames of 9-pin bowling and you can place your score in one of the 3 scoring slots. Whoever has the highest 3-digit number wins the game. This will be a best of 5.
Both Stefan and Reint get gutter balls on their first bowls, and they both put them in slot 3.
Stefan’s 2nd bowl gets him an 8 and he places it in slot 1.
Reint’s 2nd bowl gets him a 6 and he places it in slot 2.
Stefan’s 3rd bowl gets him a 5, so Reint needs an 8 or 9 to win.
Reint’s 3rd bowl gets him a 2
Stefan – 850
Reint – 260
Stefan 1 – 0 Reint
Round 2
Reint’s 1st bowl is a gutter ball, so he puts it in slot 3.
Stefan’s 1st bowl gets him a 6 and he places it in slot 2.
Reint’s 2nd bowl is a gutter ball, so he puts it in slot 2.
Stefan’s 2nd bowl gets him an 8 and he places it in slot 1, so Reint MUST get a 9 to win this round.
eint’s 3rd ball is also a gutter ball.
Stefan – 86X
Reint – 000
Stefan 2 – 0 Reint
Round 3
Stefan’s 1st bowl gets him a 7 and he places it in slot 1.
Reint’s 1st bowl gets him a 4 and he places it in slot 3.
Stefan’s 2nd bowl is a gutter ball so he places it in slot 3.
Reint’s 2nd bowl gets him a 6 and he places it in slot 2.
Stefan’s 3rd bowl gets him a 7, so Reint needs an 8 or 9 to win this round.
Reint’s 3rd bowl is a 6
Stefan – 770
Reint – 664
Stefan wins 3-0
Reint 29 – 37 Stefan
Reint has to win one of these next 2 to extend the match…
The phone-and-lose contest is so easy even I could win it, and I hardly speak German at all!
(this is about the most constructive thing I have to say, now do you see why I haven’t been commenting?)
They always are easy! I don’t even get what the so-obviously-not-the-right-option even means!
Google Translate puts it as ‘Noble jeans ballerinas’, whatever those are!
Upper-class denim dancers. Now that’s a prize worth having.
SPIEL 12 – Blaieren oder Kassieren (Shame or Cash)
Heeeeeeeere’s ELTON!
*Blamireren
*BLAMIEREN!!!
Can you fill me in on the rules, I’ve never got this section.
To be honest, I don’t really know. I’ve never seen this played on TV Total. To me, it just comes across as a general knowledge quiz, so I don’t know where the ‘shame or cash’ part of the game’s name comes in.
Blamieren oder Kassieren is basically a straight quiz, first to seven, wrong answers give away a point and the opponent also gets the chance to answer for a bonus point (although if they do and get it wrong then the original person also getd a point).
It’s based on a regular feature on TV Total. Or at least I thought it was.
And Reint beats Stefan at BoK, so this will at least go to Game 14
Reint 41 – 37 Stefan
Might as well call it a night. If the Kandiate beat Stefan on Blamieren Oder Kassieren then they end up beating Raab outright. Reint has won €1.5 million
SPIEL 13 – Schnipski (You’re on your own for a translation, Google Translate has nothing!)
The stagehands bring out a horseshoe or magnet-shaped wooden structure with lines marked on the ‘arms’. Stefan and Reint have a draughtsman each, one white, one black. Stefan is using white, Reint is using black.
The game seems to involve flicking the draughtsman around this course without it falling off or you go back to the start.
Twitpic ahoy! http://twitpic.com/99txk4
It appears to be a race. Stefan and Reint take turns flicking their draughtsmen around the board, first OVER the finish line (as in, the counter has to have completely crossed the line) wins. Best of 3, if I heard correctly.
Stefan takes the first round of Schnipski, and it is indeed a best of 3 as Lewis has rightly stated 🙂
Reint is letting himself down here by flicking his draughtsman too hard and falling off the course.
I wonder whether flicking your counter to knock your opponent’s off would be allowed.
I think the instructions stated that you cannot flick backwards.
I think he’s more asking if someone from behind can flick their draughtsman at their opponent’s one to knock it off the course, but as no-one’s trying to do that, I’d say no.
Sorry, premature response, please ignore.
Just got in and catching up, thanks everyone.
No probs, Brigster 🙂 But compared to the 310 comments on last month’s SdR, I don’t know if many punters are watching.
Stefan takes the second round and wins the game
Reint 41 – 50 Stefan
MATCHBALL for Stefan!!!
That last game reminded me of the board game Carabande.
This seems like a bit of an early finish for Schlag den Raab!
SPIEL 14 – Wer Lügt (Who Lies?)
A statement is shown on screen, and numerous answers appear below it with a green bar going across until a new one is shown. If the answer doesn’t correspond to the statement, Stefan and Reint must buzz in. Usual rules apply, first to 6 wins.
Quizzes for matchball games are a bit of an anti-climax when we can’t answer most of the questions.
Reint can’t afford to give Stefan one more point or it’s over…
Surprised Stefan didn’t get numbers divided by four.
I think that was “square numbers”?
I think they were asking which numbers were square numbers (1,4,9,16,25,36 etc).
Oh really? Fair enough then, I thought that was a bit easy.
It’s something of a faux amis – Quadratzahl means ‘square number’, rather than something to do with fours.
Stefen wins even with a dodgy knee. Amazing.
And Stefan takes it 6-4, so the next show will be in 3 weeks’ time for €2m
So until next time…
Give me one moment in time
When I’m racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will feel
I will feel eternity
You’re a winner for a lifetime
If you seize that one moment in time
Make it shine
Give me one moment in time
When I’m more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me
Give me one moment in time
When I’m racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will be
I will be
I will be free
I will be
I will be free
Yep, next episode 5th May, probably last one before die Sommerpause.
That’s shut me up. I thought he was going to lose the whole match since he got defeated on Blamieren Oder Kassieren.
Even with a twisted knee he is unstoppable.
Thanks for posting the play-by-play. I hate having to work SdR days, but you guys more than make up for it.
Sorry that I left after the first few games – I got called away but was able to continue watching the game. I thought it was a bit of a damp squib, as SdR evenings go – some good but not epic games (I very much enjoyed Muttern though, brilliant idea).
The games tended to be one sided, one way or the other – and it looks like the producers had some less physical games on standby in case of Raab injuring himself on the mountain biking (would have been game 5). Raab does like to tear himself apart, doesn’t he.
Anyway, well up for the €2m SdR night.
As much as I’d like the jackpot to go to €4m (maybe a new record? I dunno.), I just want the jackpot to be won as brilliantly as the way the €3m one was.
I’m quiet surprised to see you all being that excited about Schlag den Raab. I have to admit that here in Germany it is quiet a big thing although the viewing figures aren’t the best, but that there are people in my favourite country loving one of my favourite German television programmes is really cool. I love this website!
Thanks!
SdR is interesting and unusual – we don’t tend to have live open-ended six hour gameshows over here! And I’m always interested to see what they come up with, even if it ends up being a fifty-minute tablecloth pulling competition.
I’ll second that, it’s the variety of games that are played that got me hooked on SdR, plus I somewhat understand German after studying it at school, so I sort of have an idea of what’s being said which helps me with my play-by-plays when I do them.
The variety is astounding, from questions, to mountain biking to the infamous Toaster Watching (my personal favourite).
I also like the fact that it’s live, and thus anything can happen (and usually does). It just oozes epicness that we can’t seem to capture.
As soon as I heard they weren’t going to do Beat the Star live, I knew it wasn’t going to do the job. The whole point of taking on a format from another broadcaster is that you keep the good bits, and here one of the good bits was the live and unexpected nature of it.
OK, maybe they couldn’t afford to start it at 7pm on a Saturday and let it run all evening, but it could easily have started at, what, 9 or even 10 and let it run for 2-3 hours.
Also, they ruined it by making it a weekly thing too soon, rather than as a special to be rolled out on a quiet Bank Holiday. It’s not like we’re going to miss You Only Live Twice repeated for the 17th time.
And don’t even get me started as to where all the money went on series 2. (I’m genuinely quite cross about this, as you can possibly tell.)
No go on, it’s interesting.
I always imagine the show airing live would work on a channel like Sky1. A channel that has got no restrictions (news bulletins) if it ever overruns.
I found the first series brilliant and didn’t mind having it weekly but I always question the decision to produce the second series in the UK. Surely it was dirt cheap to film it in Cologne since they got hundreds of games in the cupboard. No need to spend £500,000 (or whatever it cost) to create a dirt track showing a configure of eight.
David does have a point about that it should’ve been aired occasionally. Even the German version decided to have each series run for four shows. It would be easy to copy their formula but to have a couple of music interludes. Nine games within two hours with someone like JLS performing half way through the show.
I’m curious as to where most of the money went to in series 2. Pinewood Stage S or R and the backlot and 2 Arena OB scanners didn’t charge that much for tech facilities/studio rent did they?
A live Beat The Star would still work now.
Some of the games with a bit of product placement would help with the budget – and if ITV1 did allocate around 2 hours for the running time (obviously we wouldn’t go for the best of 99 game style endurance marathons that SdR goes in for) which sailed dangerously close to using up the allocation of airtime, they have the luxury of switching the show to across to ITV2 or ITV4.
Are Channel 4 still looking for a regular live event programme – or is that now The Million Quid Drop (and to a very lesser extent The Bank Job) domain. If they are – Beat The Star could fill that remit..