[Kate!]

Please vote in this poll for whichever one of the two games, detailed below, that you would most like to see/play on the forum. Team Prospect? Team Pioneer? This is to decide which of the teams wins this task.

Contestants may not vote. Judges and ex contestants may vote. This poll will close at 5pm tomorrow evening. Please wait till both game outlines are posted in here before you vote. Thank you.


Team Pioneer:

FINAL PRODUCT:

Spoiler:

TiBB's Amazing Race is a forum game (based on the reality show) in which ten teams of two people, compete against each other in a race 'around the world'. Teams strive to arrive first at the end of each round of a race by completing tasks to avoid coming in the bottom two. Being in the bottom two carries the possibility of elimination or a significant disadvantage in the following leg, as the safe teams have to decide who to send home.

The tasks will be related directly or loosely to the country or continent of location or its culture. Teams are progressively eliminated until three are left; at that point, the team that arrives first in the final leg is awarded the crown.


Below are the tasks that we have planned for the game, each will take place within one main thread so as the whole race, from the very start to the bitter end, is all nice and neatly in one place. Teams that finish first in a round will have an advantage in the following round by getting a half an hour head start with the task. Those that finish in the bottom two will then be put against the remaining teams who will cast one vote to eliminate between each team (both team members must agree on their choice).

If at any point more than two teams fail to complete a race the two teams who were furthest behind will be the teams who face the bottom two. And if votes between bottom two are tied the slower of the teams will be sent home.




Round 1: Eritrea - Eritreating me right?

40 questions about Eritrea will be posted, the teams must find all correct answers and return them to us. If any answers are incorrect/missing the team will be told and they must try again. The last two teams to get the correct answers will face the first elimination.


Round 2: Japan - This is so Japaneasy!

Photos of 50 Japanese characters will be posted. The teams must name 35 of them in the quickest time possible to avoid being in the bottom two. The first team to reach 20 will be able to put a 'U-turn' onto one team which will see the chosen team lose five of their answers which they cannot use at all and have to in turn get another five answers.


Round 3: Fiji - Island Hopping

Being an island nation like Fiji is great as they were some of the last places to be discovered. So for this round you will be discovering the islands yourselves. Flags of all island nations will be hidden some where across the forum on members wall as a wall message. The aim is to find 10 of these flags and to avoid being the last two to do so.


Round 4: Antarctica - My balls are a tad chilly

The teams will have a snowball each and must throw it to each other over the course of 24 hours. The teams need to achieve catching the snowball 100 times between them, however they must be holding the snowball for at least 5 minutes before throwing it and they must not hold it for longer than 15 minutes or the snowball will melt and they must start again from 0.
To throw the snowball to their team mate they must post a photo of their snowball.


Round 5: Chile - Sacar la mugre

1. Cazuela de Vacuno
2. Pastel de Choclo
3. Palta Reina
4. Cola de Mono
5. Chancho en Piedra
6. Empanadas Fritas de Queso
7. Cazuela de Vaca
8. Pisco Sour II
9. Pebre
10. Arrollado de Chancho

The teams have to search for the ingredients for these meals (we will provide the exact recipe), with the team spending the least money in the quickest time winning. The team which finds the ingredients the quickest will have £8.50 deducted from the figure they spent, thus putting them at an advantage. Ingredients bought for one recipe cannot be used a subsidiary for another, ingredients can only be bought from somewhere once and all links to where they found these ingredients and the cost.

During this round the first team to find all ingredients for Cola de Mono will be given a detour card. They may choose at the time to detour one team by giving them ten new meals to find ingredients for (meaning that team will have to start all over again).


Round 6: Mexico - Tequila Mockingbird

The players are to make a lethal tequila cocktail (tequila mockingbird), but to do so need to know how many bottles of each tequila to place in the pot. They will be presented with six soduku puzzles which they must complete for each type of tequila. Each puzzle will have one square highlighted yellow, the correct number that goes there will be the answer for the amount of that tequila.


Round 7: Denmark - Catching The Bacon

Over the course of the next 24 hours teams will be required to catch the bacon. Each hour 10 pigs will be released into the 'wild' at ten points in time of that hour.

To catch their bacon the teams will post 'catching me some bacon' at the time they think a pig will be released (so if Team A thinks a pig will be released at 7.05am, they must post 'Catching me some bacon' when the time is 7.05am). If two teams go for the same time, the team who posted first will earn the pig.

The times that the pig will be released will be pre-determined, and the pigs will not be released in sight, so the players are having to pick their times carefully.

The aim is to get 30 pigs. The slowest two teams to achieve this will face the bottom two.


Round 8: Italy+Greece - Acta est fabula

The remaining three teams will compete in two legs of the final race. The first leg will see the teams given a document in Latin which they must translate to find five clues about five Italian works of art. They must then locate where these works of art are in Italy. The last team to do so will be automatically eliminated from the race. The final two teams will then be given a manuscript in Greek which they must translate and work out the 6 ancient gods that are described from the clues. The first team to get all six correct answers is the overall winners of the game!


An example of what the player results grid would look like:

Team Prospect:

Spoiler:

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The Game
The basis of our game is survival of the fitness. The theme of the game is survival against zombies; we decided to pick this theme as the
TV show The Walking Dead seems to be very popular with viewers and a number of forum members on TIBB. Even if not a fan of Zombie’s, we have designed a game that we hope anyone will like and be eager to participate in.

To add an extra dynamic to our game we decided to let our players decide just what player they want to be; they will be given free reign on their name, their age and their gender and perhaps even their back-story as we feel this will give an extra dimension to the game, allowing the players to feel more involved and invested with the game and feel like the character they are playing. We also added in this extra as it is something that will set this game apart from other games, as we are unaware of any other games on TiBB that have included this, and it would potentially be something that would draw in applicants to our games, instead of other, more standard and traditional games, that do not have this unique aspect.

Settings of the Game
The plot follows the survivors in four main locations where players will be spending most their time during the game, the locations we have chosen are a Mansion, Farm House, Shopping Mall and a Underground Army Bunker; these locations are a homage to George A Romero’s Dead series, e.g. the Farm House (Night of the Living Dead), Shopping Mall (Dawn of the Dead), Underground Army Bunker (Day of the Dead) and the Mansion (Diary of the Dead).

The starting point will be the shopping mall, because that is how all the players meet, and will head off to new locations when the zombies have taken over that place. We have come up with an idea of a bus to transport them from location to location, which gives the players more chance of survival. At the end of the game the armed forces will come to save the survivors, however will it all go to plan?

Tasks
At each location the players will be given various tasks to perform individually. When the task is over the two players who have accomplished the lowest score, or has done the worse throughout the task will be nominated. The remaining players will then each vote for the player they want to eliminate. However, this is not the end for the player; they will have a chance to return.

How Players are eliminated
The eliminated player will go to a place we are calling the Cemetery; a sort of Redemption Island, and the eliminated player will stay there until the next eliminated player comes to the Cemetery. Both eliminated players in the Cemetery will battle against each other for the golden opportunity of returning to the game. The winner of the Cemetery battle will remain at the Cemetery, and this phase will continue until the final 10 and final 6; the two times an eliminated player could return, but that’s not it. Any Returning players will have a special power, which gives them the power to change the outcome of the nominations and eliminations.

This player will be given the power to see the results of the task and could add 50 points to someone’s grand total or subtract 50 points. For example if the task was to name as many songs with dead in the title, and the player in first had a total score had 150, while the player in last had 101, the returning player could subtract the 50 from the player in first place and move them to last.

Tasks in the game will vary, they include naming as many items as they can; these will include songs, films and listening to a handful of songs and naming as many songs as they can. Other tasks will be more intellectual like cracking codes in the fastest time or endurance where the survivors have to stay up to get more information from the host, who will post at any time; could be 4 in the morning, or half five in the afternoon.

Again at the Cemetery where two eliminated players will face off, tasks will vary, for example one Cemetery Task will be endurance where the eliminated players will have to post every five minutes and whoever can outlast the longest will remain in the game; we believe this task in particular will show how much the players want to stay in the game.

Final Six will be the last time a player can return to the game, and from then on who ever scores the lowest on the task will be automatically eliminated until we have a three final survivors; here the forum will vote for the winner.

Here is an example of how the game may plan out, Using letters as the Players:

Spoiler:

Task One - 13 Players (A eliminated)
Task Two – 12 Players (B eliminated)
Cemetery Task 1 – A vs B = B Wins
Task Three – 11 Players (C eliminated)
Cemetery Task 2 – B vs C = B Wins
Task Four – 10 Players (D eliminated)
Cemetery Task 3 – B vs D = B Wins
Task Five – 9 Players (E eliminated)
Cemetery Task 4 – B vs E = B wins
B RETURNS TO THE GAME
Task Six – 9 Players (F eliminated)
Task Seven – 8 Players (G eliminated)
Cemetery Task 5 – F vs G= F Wins
Task Eight – 7 Players (H eliminated)
Cemetery Task 6 – F vs H = H wins
Task Nine – 6 Players (I eliminated)
Cemetery Task 7 – H vs I = I wins
I RETURNS TO GAME
Task Ten – Six Players
Task 11 – Five Players
Task 12 – Four Players
Final 3 – Forum votes for the winner

Reasoning behind the game
This makes it interesting as it makes the players fight to stay in the game, and as the tasks will vary, players who might be strong in one type of task and finish near the top could be rubbish at another task and find themselves in the bottom two and nominated in the next task. We believe this makes it more unpredictable.

The decision to make the players vote one another out came about because we believe that if it was the forums’ decision, players might beg forum members to keep them in, or we might have a player who is very popular against a player who might be not known on the forum that much. We believe this is a fair way of the voting system of our game. The decision to have the winner chosen by the public came about because we believe the forum should have some say in the outcome of the game. Another reason we decided to have players vote one another out was because it gives the chance for the players to vote out who they might think is their biggest competition in the game. Also we believe that with this special power we give to returning players will make players who are strong to purposely fail a task so they are eliminated to return to get the super power to change the outcome of nominations to eliminate who they think is a strong player.

We believe when it comes to forum games, players like a few twists thrown in keep them on their toes, we also want twists so the game does not become predictable or boring. Our main twist of the game is returning players; players who had been eliminated giving another chance to play. We decided to come up with this because the game might have a player that the other players dislike and they could return for revenge on the others. It also gives the chance of a player who might have had a bad day on a task and was eliminated to return because they are a strong player.

Our Homepage
This is what our home page will look like which includes the story and our logo for the game:

Spoiler:

On the 21st of December, 2012, a report of Cannibalism in South Wales had hit the headlines all around the World.
There were pictures too... Pictures of skeletons, their flesh ripped off completely and their bones mangled...
Pictures of bloody body parts, strewn along the streets. That's what caused the panic, the panic that lasted weeks on end, with reports of new towns,
new stories, new deaths every night and every day.

It was quite clear that this was no normal phenomena, it was obvious to everyone now that this was an attack of the paranormal.
The army were pulled out to protect the major cities, London was first to be protected, then Manchester, then Liverpool and Birmingham.

They became safe havens, and floods of people constantly went through their barriers, too the effect that London was quickly hit by the virus.
News broadcasts suddenly stopped, however Manchester was now used for important broadcasts.
It was quarantined, Birmingham and Liverpool abandoned. No evacuees were allowed.

It is unknown if the virus affected other countries, however it is widely rumoured not,
and that the UK was widely sacrificed for the interests of, well, everyone else.

Attempts at resistance were largely broken down, and any Havens outside of Manchester never lasted longer than a week,
however a bunch of 13 survivors banded together and formed perhaps the most successful attempt of surviving, in the whole of the epidemic...

The Rules

• 13 Players!
• Create your own character!
• Every few days a task will be posted!
• The two who do the worst in the task will be nominated!
• The other players will then vote one of the two out!
• The evicted player will then be dead.... but not out of the game!
• The Eliminated Player will have a chance to return to the game!
• In the End the winner will be chosen by the forum in the final 3!

The Application Form, Signature and Award

To apply to the game we came up with these questions for the application form: -

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Forum Name -
What is Your Characters name? -
What is your Characters Age? -
What are your Survival tactics? -
Why would you make a good zombie killer? -
Describe Zombies in 3 words! -

On top of that to promote the game we decided the host would have a promotional signature which will look like this: -

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One other idea we came up with was survival cards that keeps track of each survivors progress through the game, for example : -

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The Winner of the game will of course receive a award for winning (a Walking Zombie) =

We hope you enjoy our game idea, and thank you for taking the time to read through our pitch about the game.

[Munchkins]

Please vote for prospect who created an all new game
unlike Pioneer who just copied an already existing reality tv show. and format

[Benjamin]

How about selling your game to the forum without rubbishing ours Munchkin, or is your team unable to focus soley on their game?

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Promoting just the other teams game... disgusting

[Locke.]

Pioneers does seem to be a lot better

[Munchkins]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

How about selling your game to the forum without rubbishing ours Munchkin, or is your team unable to focus soley on their game?

I'm allowed to be bitter, and its a competition of course i'm going to rubbish the other team

[Apple202]

Wow, I really like that Prospect game! brilliant idea, and original too!

[Munchkins]

Shaun voting for the other team
Alan sugar hates us

[Shaun]

I'm not really sure you guys should be criticising them for originality when they've come up with new tasks and a vast portion of yours bears a strong resemblance to a format of my game.

[Munchkins]

Originally Posted by Shaun

I'm not really sure you guys should be criticising them for originality when they've come up with new tasks and a vast portion of yours bears a strong resemblance to a format of my game.

Alan sugar stay out of this and go to the boardroom

[Benjamin]

Cheers Shaun. And to the other team, you can criticise all you want, makes you lot look unprofessional.

We don't need to rubbish your game, yours is actually a good concept, but so is ours and ours would be really popular on the forum hence why we went with it.

[King Gizzard]

FFS I'd just like to make it clear nothing happened between Graeme and myself.

[Roy Mars III]

I am of two minds about this. Ours I like because I worked on it, but Pioneer actually have me winning a forum game.

[Benjamin]

[Kate!]

Can we show some sportsmanship, integrity etc teams. Thanks. .

I'm going to vote purely for the game I would like to play, and I will consider your individual efforts later when its time for the firings

[Munchkins]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

Cheers Shaun. And to the other team, you can criticise all you want, makes you lot look unprofessional.

We don't need to rubbish your game, yours is actually a good concept, but so is ours and ours would be really popular on the forum hence why we went with it.

Ok im unprofessional
i'm not saying yours is bad, just annoying to my team we should have picked a reality show that already existed, but wasnt on TIBB, would have saved us all that time wasting making concepts lol.

[Jamie585]

umm... i accidentally voted so take 1 vote away from Prospect, sorry to be a annoying

[Apple202]

Why can they use a pre made game yet we couldn't? That's what I don't get

[reece(:]

The team that did the Amazing Race, that sounds so good and I love the programme too

[Benjamin]

Thanks for the votes guys.

[Munchkins]

We're so screwed

[Brother Leon]

I'll vote tomoz when I am back from Uni. Both teams have until then to sway my mind.

[LemonJam]

Both great efforts!

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Apple202

Why can they use a pre made game yet we couldn't? That's what I don't get

It wasn't a pre made game. It's never been done on the forum. If it had I wouldn't have allowed it. No arguments please or I'll send you to Lord ShuGrr for a spanking.

Jamie...I'll deduct your vote at the end. No probs.

[King Gizzard]

I don't even know what the teams are