Draft:Beat the Pack

• Comment: Fails WP:NTELEVISION, requires significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources. BBTV is not an independent source. Dan arndt (talk) 05:59, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

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Beat the Pack is a short-lived UK BBC quiz show airing for one series of 20 episodes in 2013. Presented by Jake Humphrey, it ran on weekdays for four consecutive weeks from the 4th to the 29th of March, occupying the 3pm - 3:45pm timeslot. The show saw eight contestants answering questions to be the one player to win a jackpot of up to £12,000.

Format

Main Game

At the start of the game, one of eight players is selected to play as the "control player", with the remaining seven players designated as members of the pack. The control player will select one of six categories to play throughout the show, with all six being played before the final round. Questions start worth £2,000, contain four possible answers, and the control player giving a wrong answer eliminates them from the show. The pack also answer the questions, with no penalty for a wrong answer. The control player is given one "double up", allowing them to give two of the four possible answers to a question. This can be used once per control player.

The control player is allowed to pass on any and as many questions as they like, but the subsequent question of the category has half the value of the passed question. If a question is passed on, any member of the pack that gives the correct answer is safe from elimination, and does not have to continue answering questions for that category. If every member of the pack is safe from elimination, the control player is eliminated. If the control player gives a correct answer, they may choose to eliminate one pack member that has not made themself safe from elimination, whether or not they gave the correct answer to that question. The result of this cycle is that, regardless of the outcome of the category, the size of the pack reduces by one at the conclusion of every category.

If the control player is eliminated, their bank is cleared and the best performing pack member becomes the control player. This can result in the final round being played for no cash prize if the control player is eliminated in the final category.

The Final

The final is played by the control player and the sole remaining member of the pack. The winner of this round takes home the bank built up by the current control player. Should there be no prize fund, due to the control player being eliminated on the final category, contestants instead play to return on the next show as the control player, with the control player for purposes of the final being the best performing of the remaining members of the pack.

The control player is asked a series of general knowledge questions with a 75 second time limit. If a wrong answer is given, the pack member is given an opportunity to answer. If three correct answers are given by the pack member, they win the prize on offer. Should time run out, the question is completed and the contestant must still give an answer, with a wrong answer still passing the question to the pack member. Should the control player survive 75 seconds without the pack member giving three correct answers, they win the prize available.