June 23, 20179 yr Beat Shazam hosted by Jamie Foxx - airs on Fox on Thursday nights @ 8:00 and premiered on May 25th. Just caught this game show tonight for the first time (4th episode), and being the music junkie that I am it held my interest throughout. It's a good guess that just about anyone who digs popular music will dig this program. Seems that lately there's been a slew of new prime time game shows popping up, and for the most part I'm too turned off by their hyped up sheen to take a few minutes with them to get the gist of what they're about. Although hyped up as well, Beat Shazam is downright simple: Hear the song, guess the correct song title. Very easy for the home audience to play right along. Three teams of two players each compete through five rounds to identify a series of songs, winning money for each correct answer. After the fifth round, the highest-scoring team plays head-to-head against the Shazam app, attempting to increase their winnings by naming up to six songs within up to 5 seconds per song. Any team that beats Sahzam on all six songs wins a grand prize of $1 Million dollars. The main game consists of five rounds. In each round, a category is given and four songs are played, one at a time. Four choices are displayed for the title of each song; the first team to buzz-in with the correct answer wins money. If more than one team rings in with the correct answer, the money is awarded to the team that locked in their answer in the fastest time. The final song of each category is called the "Fast Track" and is played for double the round value. There is no penalty for incorrect answers. 1st Round - each song is worth $1000 with the forth and "Fast Track" song being worth $2000 2nd Round - each song is worth $2000 with the forth and "Fast Track" song being worth $4000 3rd Round - each song is worth $3000 with the forth and "Fast Track" song being worth $6000 4th Round - each song is worth $5000 with the forth and "Fast Track" song being worth $10,000 5th Round - each song is worth 10,000 with the forth and "Fast Track" song being worth $20,000 After the third round, the team in last place is eliminated and leaves with nothing. After the fifth round, the trailing team is eliminated and keeps half their money. A team can accumulate up to $126,000 during the main game. In the event of a tie after rounds three or five, one additional song, with no category given, is played as a tiebreaker, using the same rules as the main game. No money is awarded for the Tiebreaker song, and the team that answers it correctly in the fastest time moves on to the final round. Bonus round: Beat Shazam The winning team attempts to identify five more songs, one at a time, before Shazam can do so. Each correct answer awards the team $25,000. No multiple-choice answers are offered in this round, and each song is in a different category. The team must answer with the EXACT wording of the title. A yellow ring on the gameboard steadily disappears to act as a timer; the contestants must buzz in before it is completely gone. If the team fails to beat the timer on one or more songs they will lose the opportunity to play for $1 million. After all five songs have been played, the team is given a category for a sixth and final song. They may either end the game and keep their winnings, or attempt to identify this song. If they choose to continue, only one team member may play. If the contestant correctly names the song before Shazam, the team's entire winnings are doubled; if the team beats Shazam on all six songs, the team's winnings are increased to the grand prize of $1 million. Giving a wrong answer or no answer on the final song cuts the team's winnings in half. Without winning the grand prize, a team can win up to $452,000 over the course of the entire game, by identifying every song in the main game, beating Shazam on four of the first five songs in the bonus round, then beating it again on the sixth. This 4th episode was the first time since premiering that the winning couple won the Million dollars.
June 23, 20179 yr Author The categories from Episode 4 were: Power Ballads 2010's Hip Hop TV Songs U2 songs Bonus round Mowtown Alternative One Hit Wonders Taylor Swift Oldies 80's
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