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What is Badly Translated Game Show?
Badly Translated Game Show is a question & answer style game show hosted by ToBeOrNotToBot (a.k.a. Tooby) and Etc Kid. Anyone can play the game in chat as a single player and win glory, infamy, and a menagerie of dynamically-generated, text-based, one-of-a-kind, priceless (a.k.a. worthless), virtual prizes. Even if you join late in the show, you still have a chance of winning it all.
All of the questions have been ‘badly translated’. Whether they are text, image, or audio based, their original meaning has been obscured in some way, so in order to get the answer, you need to figure out the question first.
Individual Play
1. We’re here to have fun!
2. Your username & messages must follow our chat rules (see below panel).
3. To keep the game moving, ToBeOrNotToBot is always right (even when it’s not) in terms of determining the winning answer(s), calculating points, bonuses, prizes, rankings, etc. There will inevitably be technical issues, but it isn’t practical to stop the game to try to resolve what might be a complicated bug. Kid will try to fix any issues for future shows, but a game’s stats and results are final. Remember rule #1: we’re here to have fun! That’s what’s most important.
4. ToBeOrNotToBot will open and close the answer window in chat, possibly before you see it on screen due to your latency. You must answer before ToBeOrNotToBot ends the Danger Zone countdown in chat.
5. Keep in mind, that you are taking a risk if you wait to answer until the last second(s). The end of the answer window is not precise and Tooby only counts answers if it receives them before it receives its own “Time’s Up” message back from Twitch. Twitch web chat does not always display messages in the same order for everyone, so it’s possible that your message will look like it was submitted in time, but Tooby actually received it too late.
6. You can change your answer once during the answer window.
7. All correct answers receive a random bonus* between 0.01 and 1. This is necessary to prevent too many ties when there are a lot of players.
*The bonus is determined by the unique ID Twitch assigns to each message. The ID is non-sequential, so there is no advantage to being the first or last correct answerer. We take the first two digits of the ID, convert them from Hex to Decimal, add 1, and then divide by 256, which gives us a value between 0.01 and 1.
8. Wrong answers get ¼ points (except on Impossible Round), so it’s always worth playing even if you’re guessing!
9. A streak is when a player answers at least 3 correct answers in a row. If they skip a question or get an incorrect answer, their streak is broken.
10. The winner of an individual round or an entire game will be the player with the highest number of points for the round or game.
11. Each round, the players in the top 5 for most points will each receive a dynamically-generated prize, provided they got at least 1 question right.
12. If after the final round, two or more players are tied, the winner will be the player with the most correct answers. If there is still a tie, there will be two final questions for only the tied players to answer.
Team Play
1. Each show will have three teams with their names submitted and chosen by chat. Each team will have an official color, either Red, Blue, or Green.
2. Playing on a team is optional and only available for subs in order to reduce the risk of vote manipulation.
3. Use !teams to get a list of the day’s teams and use !teamPlay to play for one of those teams. You can use the #teamName or the team color when joining (e.g. !teamPlay #teamSharksWithLaserBeams or !teamPlay blue). In order to keep rough parity between teams, teams that have more than 3 members than other team(s) will be closed to new enrollment until the other team(s) gain at least 1 new member.
4. Once you join a team, you remain on that team until it stops playing. Only winning team(s) advance to the next show. If your team loses, you can join a new team. A team is defined by it’s name, not it’s color.
5. Team points for each question is equal to the number of question points. multiplied by the ratio of team players who answered correctly to the total number of team players to attempted an answer, multiplied by 100.
6. If after the final round, two or more teams are tied, the team that won the most questions or had the most questions answered with at least 50% correct. If that’s still a tie, we do two final answers for only the tied teams to play