Awantura o kasę
| Awantura o kasę | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Krzysztof Ibisz |
| Theme music composer | Jan Cyrka |
| Country of origin | Poland |
| Original language(s) | Polish |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 208 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes (without adverts) |
| Distributor | ATM Grupa |
| Release | |
| Original network | Polsat |
| Original release | 4 November 2002 |
Awantura o kasę (Brawl about money) was a Polish game show hosted by Krzysztof Ibisz. It aired from November 4, 2002 to February 25, 2005 on the Polish station Polsat. In 2005 ATM Grupa sold a license of the format to New Zealand using the title Cash Battle.
Three teams compete: blue, green and yellow. Each team started the game with 5,000 zł. They bid on questions coming from categories chosen by a wheel spun by the host. The team that gave the highest amount of money to the pool answered the question. If their answer was correct – they took money from the pool; if they were wrong – the pool carried over to the next question. After six questions, the richest team moved to the second round. (If the last question was answered incorrectly, the team with the highest total automatically won the pool.) Each auction always began with 200 zloty being deducted from the team bank account to start with, and the teams began bidding from there.
A team automatically answered the question if they bet their entire bank account ("va banque"), or if their bid was higher than another team's total in their bank account.
A team who bid everything and answered a question wrong was automatically eliminated from the game. In the event this only left one team, the winning team automatically took all the money in the pool.
The New Zealand version used orange instead of yellow to mark the third team.
Some questions include audio and video clips to accompany the question.
All teams go home with any money in their bank account if they have any money.
The team that won the first round and the team that won the prior episode (Champions) played using similar rules. The Champions team began the round with the score that won first round on their first episode.
The team with the highest score won the game and would play in next episode as Champions. They remained on the show until they were defeated.
The Champions team always wore traditional graduation cap and gown outfits. When a challenging team won a match, the departing Champions traditionally took off their hats and placed them on the heads of the new Champions.
It includes 4 possible variants of answers of which 1 is correct. After choosing category "Hint", hint can be bought on auction (but unlike other auctions money bid by teams was removed from play instead of adding to the pool). A hint could also be bought after reading the question for price told by the host (bargaining was allowed).
This phase involves one player from each team. They choose the category by taking turns eliminating categories from the list. After reading a question the first to press the button answers the question. If they answer correctly, the team win takes 1,000 (500 from each team), while opponent is eliminated (goes to the "dugout") and team plays outnumbered. In case of wrong answer, answering player goes to the dugout and pool carries over to the next question. If neither player presses button within a minute, both of them are eliminated. A player in dugout can be bought out in any moment by their team (in a way similar to hint).
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