ThisisBigBrother.com - UK TV Forums - Tibb Does The Apprentice 4. Vote Closed. Loukas wins! x

Before I start, I'd like to say that this has clearly been the most difficult decision so far, and that I'm pleased to see a major step up from the Elite team. Both games have strong selling points and I think, with tweaking, could easily succeed on TiBB. And both task entries were real team efforts. My decision in the poll came down to the most niggling of complaints so I'm happy that the decision of who wins didn't come down to just me, this time.

Entry A
One major problem before we start: I hated everything about BB10's designs. The eye, the diary room, the house... no thanks. Garish, tacky mess, the lot of it. This leads me onto some of my other complaints about your entry... I wasn't really keen on the fonts and designs anywhere on the board, or banner :laugh: And the forum award is way too big compared to the ones that already exist. I think your chance/community chest cards were simple and that's a good thing, otherwise it'd look too busy, but if I had to change one thing I'd drop the shadows from the text on the back of the cards. It works on the front because it makes it stand out, but on a pale green background it's unnecessary.
I'd have also skim-read the examples of cards you gave, some of the words you've given, or not given capital letters, are a little bizarre... (beginning of each sentence, "To The")
I know it wasn't your intention but I'm worried that some voters in the poll just saw "haha a Niamh being old joke" and voted for you straight away.
My biggest concern with your game idea though is that you didn't present an example of how the game would work. You vaguely alluded to some automatic, online dice but that really means nothing if you don't present an example of that; I wouldn't have the faintest idea where to find something like that. I think what sealed my voting decision was that the other team presented a clear example of how the rounds and questions would be posed.

In terms of your strengths... I liked the idea of using Big Brother Housemates as the game pieces, though, and the names you've given to the TiBB properties were nice nods to the forum. (However, in the game instructions you say 13 people could play at one time, but there're only 12 pieces?) I also liked the brief idea of using iconic Big Brother items (a rubber chicken, diary room chair) but I understand this would've been difficult to design. (Perhaps a defibrilator and a wine bottle too? :whistle:)
Obviously the actual concept itself is totally unique and will probably be more likely to attract interest from forum members; especially compared to the other team's entry, which could arguably be seen as a kind of mish-mash of several existing games.
I also quite like the idea of 13 people on a standard size Monopoly board at once... it would most likely be chaos. And given the bartering aspect of real-life Monopoly you could possibly factor in some gameplay and alliances (however shortlived) to the game: maybe, to tie it in closer with the Big Brother theme, give out a free property as part of a twist, or announce that the next person to land on a certain square is automatically eliminated from the game :laugh:

Aren't you glad you didn't go with the 'TiBB Cook-Off' idea? :whistle:

Entry B
I noticed a fair few strange errors when I went over your explanation:
- Your example question of an anagrammed wife... I assume it was Catherine of Aragon, who doesn't have an S in her name :whistle:
- You gave the teams the names 'The Red team' and 'the Blue team'... and yet the logo is red and green? Might as well make it the same to give it a sense of unity.
- The image question would be quite easily Googled.
- I also didn't like your solution to the possible imbalance of teams; giving the weakest players from the winning team would only create further imbalance, I feel.

I think that maybe the very text-heavy presentation you submitted (in contrast to Elite's many designs) might have put off a few readers and voters; perhaps some subheadings or team logos might have made it more eye-catching.

On the other hand, in the team room the team leader was working on a quite good presentation "to the boardroom" pitch and I'm a little disappointed that wasn't used, because someone else came along and took charge, since it was written in a very easy-to-follow style.

Also...

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15-03-2014 10:27 PM

We need something that's different from an eviction/elimination format. There's loads of games on tibb that are like that :idc:

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In terms of your team's strengths, obviously you've pulled it out of the bag again and designed a very lovely logo that slots very nicely into the sleek designs we usually see from Josy, Matt or Tom. I'd have maybe capitalised the "off" though just to make it stand-out a little more (as you did in the write-ups).
I can sort of see where there may be some complaints that the game's quite similar to existing games (the pub quiz's game, the Apprentice's elimination format :laugh:) but if anything that's a firm example of why the game would work on a forum straight away; FaceOff doesn't need much explaining.

If I were to pick a member of Enterprise that I was most impressed by, it'd be quite difficult but I think Jordan's wariness and persistence with keeping the game unique (as well as coming up with the idea in the first place) just edges out the others' contributions. As for Elite, it'd probably be Jake for suggesting the most ideas in the early stages of the task, and getting really behind the group's decision. Also for writing up the explanation.

Ultimately, if I had to decide which of the two games was best, I'd ask myself two questions. Which seems the most fun and the most unique game TiBB has yet to see? Monopoly. Which is more likely to succeed, and is ready to go? Face/Off.