[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 08:08 PM\'] It's a revival of "Almost Anything Goes" which ran in the summer of '75 and winter '76 on ABC. It's more of an outdoor stunt show played on a football field. [/quote]
While both AAG and the forthcoming TUC were based on the same European original, I feel it is probably a stretch to refer to TUC as a revival - it seems most unlikely that AAG will be used as source material, that the venue will necessarily be a football field this time or that any other similarities will be more than incidental.
The rules are almost incidental to the games. I would negatively criticise the decision to have only two teams per show; the British version routinely featured three per show and the international Jeux Sans Frontieres edition was an eight-header. This is definitely a show where the chaos is part of the fun and it would be much more fun to swap between various parts of the action than to concentrate on a single game, unless it's a very good game indeed.
With two teams, the rules could be as simple as "whoever wins four events wins", though this would seem unlikely due to the possibility of a result half-way through. More likely seems a (probably not overtly) Gladiators-style system where the number of points available in each game will vary and/or there's a chance to catch up a big deficit in the final game of the show. (Balanced, as ever, by the necessity for the final game not to be excessively all-important.)
The British scoring system was simple: 3 for first, 2 for second, 1 for third. The ongoing game in which the three teams compete separately counts double. Each team gets one joker, played in advance of a game to double its score. JSF was otherwise similar except for starting at 8 for first and going down to 1 for last.
