Convince Babben that you deserve 5 points

Task types:

Solo

Live

Creative

Social

Objective

Multiple brief

Adapted

Mastertasks:

Convince the Taskmaster that you deserve 5 points

Mastertask notes:

In this version of the task, the instructions on how each appeal for points must be made are written on rectangular pieces of posterboard, rather than auction paddles. Also, the contestants are instructed to select all four of their appeal techniques at the start of the task, before they even learn how they are going to be used, which causes a mad scramble around the board. Once they’ve selected their appeal techniques, the contestants can use them in any order they wish.

Locations:

NEP Studios

Task briefs

The briefs for the task are as follows:

Choose four debate techniques.

You have 30 seconds to choose your debate techniques and bring them to your seats.

Your time starts on David’s signal.

Make your case to Babben why you in particular deserve 5 points.

Use a new technique per 10-second round.

The least convincing case per round is eliminated.

The last one remaining wins 5 points.

Task notes

This task takes place during the ‘Middle of the Show’ segment, as a game titled ‘Argumentera Mera’ (‘Argue More’, though it is translated in the fan subs as ‘The Great Debate’).
There is a large board set up behind the contestants’ seats on the stage, upon which there are 20 appeal techniques written on rectangular pieces of posterboard. The options include:
- As if you just thought of it
- Threatening and angry
- Asking politely
- Like Ronny and/or Ragge (a sitcom duo from the 1990s, one of whom was played by Fredde Granberg)
- Without vowels
- Self-deprecating
- Seductively
- Calm and pragmatic, in a Gotland accent (Babben’s accent)
- Speaking while inhaling
- In a language that isn't Swedish or English
- With a merry tune
- Passionately with multiple words starting with 'P'
- Begging
- Lying
- Making a promise that you have to keep
- In character as David
- Just a humble suggestion
- Demanding and insisting
- In falsetto
- Bribery
Once they’ve selected their appeal techniques, the contestants can use them in any order they wish.