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Catch the tennis balls

Task types:
Team
Filmed
Physical
Objective
Single brief
Original

Task brief

The brief for the task is as follows:

Catch all the red balls in things from the shed.

Catch all the yellow balls in clothing.

Don’t let the green balls touch anything other than the grass.

Catch the blue ball in something from the kitchen.

Red balls are worth one point, yellow balls two points, the blue ball five points, but you lose two points for every green ball that touches anything other than the grass.

You may not touch the ball machines.

Any non-green ball which touches the ground at any point will not count.

Highest score wins.

The balls will start firing in two minutes from now.

Task notes

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Task stats

Points
15
Disquals
2

Attempts

Here's a brief description of the contestants' attempts. Someone's probably working on writing up some additional detail, though!

  • Iain, Lou and Paul used a washing up bowl, a cooking pot, and Paul's dressing gown. Paul was in charge of the red balls, Lou was in charge of the yellows, and Iain was in charge of the blue ball. Lou caught 6 yellows, but touched 4 greens, making her total +4 points. Iain caught the blue ball and 4 yellows, but touched 9 greens, making his total -5 points. Paul did catch at least 4 red balls but was struck 19 times by the green balls, making his total -26 points. Their total was -27 points.
  • Joe and Sian used a bucket, a net, a cooking pot, and a hat. Sian was in charge of blue and green balls, and Joe was in charge of red and yellow balls. Sian caught 3 yellows but was struck by several greens, making her total -12 points. Joe caught 8 reds and 9 yellow but was struck by green balls 15 times, making his total +4 points. Their total was -8 points. However, it was revealed that after the final ball was shot, Sian sneakily added some extra balls that were on the ground into her net, disqualifying the team from the task.

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