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    Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
    Bladestorm would be a good applicant.
    Hahahaha.... NO.
    My knowledge of Prime is not thorough enough for a Mastermind-esque quiz show (not that I've seen this show but I'm assuming it is along the same lines) particularly as I have very few of the comics other than recent releases and I am a truck not monkey gal. I suspect if you chose Optimus you would need to cover all forms of the name rather than a specific character unless you could get away with G1 Optimus Prime as the chosen topic.
    I had a friend go on Mastermind back in the day and he was stomped into the floor because most of the questions they asked for his topic were so obscure. His shellacking experience put me off the idea of being on game shows for life.
    If I can offer one bit of advice for those who are seriously going to apply, make sure to get another expert in your chosen field to coach you with a range of stupidly easy and ridiculously obscure questions (including facts broader than your chosen topic that may be considered by association) with a tighter timeframe than those set by the show to hone your skills.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bladestorm View Post
    Hahahaha.... NO.
    My knowledge of Prime is not thorough enough for a Mastermind-esque quiz show (not that I've seen this show but I'm assuming it is along the same lines) particularly as I have very few of the comics other than recent releases and I am a truck not monkey gal. I suspect if you chose Optimus you would need to cover all forms of the name rather than a specific character unless you could get away with G1 Optimus Prime as the chosen topic.
    I had a friend go on Mastermind back in the day and he was stomped into the floor because most of the questions they asked for his topic were so obscure. His shellacking experience put me off the idea of being on game shows for life.
    If I can offer one bit of advice for those who are seriously going to apply, make sure to get another expert in your chosen field to coach you with a range of stupidly easy and ridiculously obscure questions (including facts broader than your chosen topic that may be considered by association) with a tighter timeframe than those set by the show to hone your skills.
    Don't worry, it's not like Mastermind, as the first round of specialist subject questions have to be easy enough for other contestants to have a chance at answering them. It's only the final round that has the hard questions, but only if you are one of the last two people left. And I'd imagine that if you read through a few times the various TFwiki pages on Optimus Prime (cartoon, comics, movie, toys), you'd have a pretty good chance at the final round too... but I'd be wanting people to apply for the experience and fun of being on there to talk about your obsession with Optimus, and to enlighten the rest of Australia on the Transformers Brand. It's worth having a go at the application, and seeing how far you get... if they think your worthy, then it doesn't matter how much you think you don't know, as they want people with vibrant personalities more than they want know-it-alls (it just helps if you are both, and I think your Optimus obsession would count).

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    I chucked in an application, told them they could narrow it down to G1 if Transformers itself was too broad.

    Totally f'ed up the test though. Accidentally pressed 'next' at the bottom of the screen instead of under the test questions, which in turn loaded the next page. By the time I got the test page to reload I'd lost about a minute of the 5 minutes allotted and as such missed a lot of Q's

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    Was there any mention of when the cut-off is for the current batch, to see if there is any time left to round up some others to apply (for specific areas of Transformers)?

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    Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
    Was there any mention of when the cut-off is for the current batch, to see if there is any time left to round up some others to apply (for specific areas of Transformers)?
    Not that I saw. Just a big list of stuff already covered

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    Got an email back finally, saying that Transformers have now already been done. So guessing someone else here or else out in the wider TF community must have gone for it in either the same round I just did or else the same round you did Griffin and was successful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev View Post
    Got an email back finally, saying that Transformers have now already been done. So guessing someone else here or else out in the wider TF community must have gone for it in either the same round I just did or else the same round you did Griffin and was successful.
    I've been meaning to ask you for a while how you went in the application process, to see if you were invited to the next round of group interviews, but you've had more important things going on in the last few months, so it didn't seem appropriate to ask.

    I find that surprising to hear... and disappointing that they didn't let you know when applying that the topic was already taken. Your energetic personality would have been perfect for that show.

    I applied for series 5 (which I don't think has aired yet), so maybe there was indeed someone else who applied at the same time as me, which made it harder for me to go through if I was competing against another potential candidate at the same time. (you were applying for series 6, so the topic must have been taken up on series 5)

    I think it could still be worth having people applying for specific things in Transformers, like the Movies or certain iconic characters, as there is too much in the Brand to be covered in just 5 questions (in the first round - and only 5 more questions if the contestant gets to the final round)... but we'll have to see first if they ask for people to apply for a seventh series, before seeing what they might allow as a new "Transformers" topic.

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    Is this a proper contest or one of those everyone gets a participation award type ones ? Are the questions brain benders or just your generic what colour is Bumblebee thing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinnertwin View Post
    Is this a proper contest or one of those everyone gets a participation award type ones ? Are the questions brain benders or just your generic what colour is Bumblebee thing?
    Being the ABC, there aren't any cash prizes, and only the winner gets a prize, which is a big brass mug that says "Hard Quiz". It's one of those shows, that the reward is being on the show, as it is one of the ABC's highest rating shows when it screens new episodes. (which is why they are repeating it every day at 3.30pm, which is starting to get a little boring, as I seen all of the episodes now... some 2 or 3 times)

    Since the host is a comedian, the show can be a bit of an acquired taste, so it won't appeal to everyone... but check it out if (on TV or on the ABC streaming site).

    As for the questions, there are four rounds - questions for the contestants' subject matters are only in round one and four. The 5 first round questions are open to everyone to answer, mostly of a general knowledge level (relating the subject matter with something common, like asking what a previous movie that Michael Bay directed that featured Alcatraz island), with some being a little more obscure.
    Round two is a multiple choice subject that everyone responds to, while round three is a general knowledge round.
    Round four is between the two remaining contestants, with 5 harder questions on each of their topics.

    The point is to have fun, not to be the quiz champion of the world, as the host will try to make fun of each of the contestants and their hobbies.

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    The series I applied for starts tonight on the ABC at 8pm... which is now, for those in QLD. So sometime in the next few weeks on a Wednesday, we could see the Transformers episode.

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