ITV - Divided

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Who watches this? For the benefit of people who haven't seen it I'll just sum it up.

A team of 3 complete strangers are tasked to answer up to 15 general knowledge questions to amass as much money for a communal pot as possible. After each round of questions (sometimes 2 Q's, sometimes 3) is completed, the team is given 15 seconds to come to a unanimous decision about whether to play on, or stop and get promoted to dividing what money has currently been earned by. If the team does not come to a unanimous decision after 15 seconds or the team elects to play, then the next round will start automatically.

If the team elects to stop and get promoted to cash dividing round at any time, then they are made aware of how much has been won, and that is what will be divided between them. However, the shares are unequal: the players are shown 3 shares marked A, B and C. Share A is the largest (60-70% of the total amount), Share B is a middling amount (20-30% of the total amount), and Share C is the smallest (generally 10% of the total amount).

Each player is given 15 seconds to state their case for which share they feel they deserve, generally based on how well they have performed in the game. If the team reaches a decision of each player receiving one share each, then that is what they will win. However, if a decision is not reached, such as 2 or all 3 players wanting the same share, then a timer of 100 seconds starts and the money will start counting down, and the players argue among themselves, trying to change a player's mind about which share they should take. After 50 seconds have elapsed, there is a short pause. The host will remind the players that half of the money has gone and that they have 50 seconds left to reach a decision or they will all get relegated with no money at all.

The problem I have with this program is that often you get some stupid, lazy, moron who doesn't know the answer to any of the questions saying they deserve the biggest stake and then purposely not moving until someone else backs down or until all of the money has run out resulting in everyone leaving with absolutely zilch.

I've just watched 2 blokes and some dippy tart play the game. The woman was absolutely rubbish all the way through, she didn't contribute to any questions and then when the guys wanted to stop playing and divide the money, she elected to play on, despite the fact they had lost 2 of their 3 "lives" and had they answered a question incorrectly at that point they would've automatically left with nothing. Luckily, they scraped through that round of questions and then she finally decided that she would go with the groups interests and divide the money up.

What then happened was one of the most enraging things I've seen in a long time. This woman who was clearly thick as **** decided that she wanted the biggest share (20,000 or so) and that the two guys that had carried her throughout the entire game deserved less, so she actually ended up losing half of the teams money with her stubborness in her share choice, eventually the two fellas ended up taking the lower amounts because she wouldn't budge.

She then proceeded to gloat to them telling the pair of guys that she was off to Barbados and that she could easily live with herself taking the most money despite being by far the worst player.

This made me probably the most angry that I've ever been at a game show, I mean, it's almost as bad as Goldenballs ffs.

 

[SiriusB]

Oooh ITV. They probably told her to ask for the largest share.

/cynic

 

[Stumble Bum]

Yeah I saw that biatch on divided. I hope they keyed her car after the show, she didn't even understand any of the questions let alone know the answers... how can someone actually be that thick?

 

[Belmit]

Good grief, looking at those rules, all I could think of was this: