How incompetent were the "winning" team?

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Si_Crewe

04-12-2014

Originally Posted by wonkeydonkey:
“And I always think in these treasure-hunt tasks that you MUST avoid wasting time in the morning, when the traffic is relatively clear. I appreciate that you can't get the task and run out of the door without a word, but EVERY TIME at least one team gets stuck miles away in solid tea-time traffic.”

I always wonder if they're constrained by the number of phones they have access to.

I mean, it seems like the obvious thing to do would be for one person to stay behind with the map and yellow-pages, phone around sourcing stuff and then direct 2 sub-teams to collect the items in the most efficient manner.

Sherlock_Holmes

04-12-2014

Originally Posted by george.millman:
“Is it not £260? In previous years, the fine has been guide price plus £50.”

Yes, you are probably correct (the skeleton from team Summit also had that starting price I believe; the guy initially gave them 10% off which made it 234).

Shappy

05-12-2014

Originally Posted by Si_Crewe:
“I always wonder if they're constrained by the number of phones they have access to.

I mean, it seems like the obvious thing to do would be for one person to stay behind with the map and yellow-pages, phone around sourcing stuff and then direct 2 sub-teams to collect the items in the most efficient manner.”

The rules are that they must split into two subteams only. This is because there are only 4 camera crews (2 for each team, then split one per subteam) and all contestants must have a camera crew with them at all times.

slouchingthatch

05-12-2014

Originally Posted by george.millman:
“Is it not £260? In previous years, the fine has been guide price plus £50.”

Yes. There's some confusion in the way the episode is shown (probably an edit). Sugar refers to charging the guide price, then mentions adding £310. This is probably the RRP of £260 plus a £50 fine. I got the amount right in my review but the breakdown of it slightly wrong. (I took £310 as guide price and forgot about the fine.)

I also broke down all the other costs, because I'm sad like that. Looking at Summit's fines, I'm assuming £100 for being late back to the boardroom, £50 fine for not getting the chicken and therefore £11 guide price for said chicken.

Similarly, given Tenacity's £52 fine, I guess the rope had a nominal guide price of £2.

slouchingthatch

05-12-2014

Originally Posted by Sherlock_Holmes:
“Yes, you are probably correct (the skeleton from team Summit also had that starting price I believe; the guy initially gave them 10% off which made it 234).”

Yes, the guy in the shop (John Bell and Croydon, I'm told,m which is one of London's biggest pharmacies) did mention the RRP was £260, I believe.

allafix

06-12-2014

Originally Posted by Artemis1:
“Yes I think lord sugar has possibly picked his top three or maybe even the winner and they are all on last nights "winning team" and he didn't want to run the risk of having to fire someone he didn't want to.
So that's why he unfairly Imo fined the loosing team so much to make them loose.”

Firstly Sugar can fire who he chooses. He can simply avoid sacking his "chosen one" if that team loses. If you think he didn't want to sack anyone on Sanjay's team that would rank all of them above Mark and Katie. Surely not.

Anyway, he picks the teams so can make sure there's someone he doesn't want to keep on each side. No need to fix the result.

The fines were fair, as others have pointed out.

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