Do you think RTE phone in’s are fixed

CinemaGuy45 · 08-12-2018 11:53PM #1

No working class Dublin ever seem to win the old man has spent a small fortune over the years.

CinemaGuy45 · 08-12-2018 11:55PM

Ray Darcy show phone call about to happen bet you it is some bog trotter or a posh person.

Kermit.de.frog · 08-12-2018 11:56PM

Not phone in but "Winning Streak" always struck me as an odd one.

Always seems to be mostly people from down the country on it. Given Dublin's population you would imagine the likelihood would be that most contestants would be Dubs most weeks.

Just thought i'd throw that in here.

Badly Drunk Boy · 08-12-2018 11:57PM

I doubt they are fixed, just a rip-off. It's usually a minimum of €2 to enter (depending on method of entry and your phone company) so once they get a certain amount of entries, they're in profit.

CinemaGuy45 · 08-12-2018 11:57PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Not phone in but "Winning Streak" always struck me as an odd one.

Always seems to be mostly people from down the country on it. Given Dublin's population you would imagine the likelihood would be that most contestants would be Dubs most weeks.

Just thought i'd throw that in here.

Yes stands out a mile.

Kevin Finnerty · 08-12-2018 11:58PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Not phone in but "Winning Streak" always struck me as an odd one.

Always seems to be mostly people from down the country on it. Given Dublin's population you would imagine the likelihood would be that most contestants would be Dubs most weeks.

Just thought i'd throw that in here.

The fullstops in the username?

08-12-2018 11:58PM

Tubridy and D'Arcy have been phoning it in for years.

stevek93 · 09-12-2018 12:00AM

What is the general audience of these shows?

CinemaGuy45 · 09-12-2018 12:01AM

stevek93 wrote: »

What is the general audience of these shows?

The nearly walking dead.

antodeco · 09-12-2018 12:01AM

Winning streak apply percentages per county of winning tickets.

Is: There's "100" tickets in the final to be called out. Each county has the same percentage. On one hand, it seems fair, but based on population it's not in the slightest!

Badly Drunk Boy · 09-12-2018 12:04AM

Waterford!!

I turned it on just to see that...

CinemaGuy45 · 09-12-2018 12:04AM

Dungarvan Waterford I was right.

Badly Drunk Boy · 09-12-2018 12:10AM

antodeco wrote: »

Winning streak apply percentages per county of winning tickets.

Is: There's "100" tickets in the final to be called out. Each county has the same percentage. On one hand, it seems fair, but based on population it's not in the slightest!

I presume a significant percentage of the studio audience is for friends and family of the contestants. At that stage, the they've already played and got their 3 stars (or whatever). It's the percentage of the players by location that you should be looking at.

Laois_Man · 09-12-2018 12:23AM

Back in the 1990's when Mike Murphy was presenting winning streak, they brought the show outside Dublin and one episode was recorded (many people seem to think it's live, it isn't) in the place where my mother was working. She was hoping to get a go at the big wheel on set for the craic. But it was taken in at the last second and disappeared just as quick afterwards, all guarded and everything. Definitely something fishy about it!

Poor Uncle Tom · 09-12-2018 12:24AM

Yis are just jellous......

PTH2009 · 09-12-2018 12:25AM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Waterford!!

I turned it on just to see that...

hon the deise

Aska · 09-12-2018 12:26AM

antodeco wrote:

Is: There's "100" tickets in the final to be called out. Each county has the same percentage. On one hand, it seems fair, but based on population it's not in the slightest!

I dislike the winning streak format, if you purchase a ticket and hand your 3euro to the NL and receive 3 stars then in my opinion you SHOULD be in the draw, the OH sent in 2 of the cruise stubs last wed and the post lady told her that another lady earlier in the week sent off 16, well if she paid for the postage then all 16 of them should be in it to win, this 100 only is a joke

Atlantic Dawn · 09-12-2018 12:29AM

Is there a KPMGite supervising?

whisky_galore · 09-12-2018 12:31AM

Winning streak can be played by untrained chimps. No challenge whatsoever. That and the usual 'mad' audience make it unwatchable.

topmanamillion · 09-12-2018 12:39AM

Aska wrote: »

I dislike the winning streak format, if you purchase a ticket and hand your 3euro to the NL and receive 3 stars then in my opinion you SHOULD be in the draw, the OH sent in 2 of the cruise stubs last wed and the post lady told her that another lady earlier in the week sent off 16, well if she paid for the postage then all 16 of them should be in it to win, this 100 only is a joke

I have no problem with this. Once you send in the ticket you are in the draw the same as everyone else, albeit a pre draw. It's not practical to have 1000s of tickets in a drum and I'd imagine the odds of your wife having her name pulled out of that drum would be similar anyway.

twowheelsonly · 09-12-2018 12:42AM

Aska wrote: »

I dislike the winning streak format, if you purchase a ticket and hand your 3euro to the NL and receive 3 stars then in my opinion you SHOULD be in the draw, the OH sent in 2 of the cruise stubs last wed and the post lady told her that another lady earlier in the week sent off 16, well if she paid for the postage then all 16 of them should be in it to win, this 100 only is a joke

AFAIK all tickets are entered in the original draw earlier on to whittle it down to the last 100 for the '''''live'''' draw.
I remember at one stage they had a massive box (more like a huge trolley) with all the tickets for some big draw or other and people were complaining that their ticket could be on the bottom and they'd have no chance of being drawn out !! They'll never keep everyone happy.

RabbleRouser2k · 09-12-2018 12:44AM

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Ray Darcy show phone call about to happen bet you it is some bog trotter or a posh person.

'Bog Trotter'? 'Posh Person'?

Ya seem to have a chip on your shoulder, there. It's a wide berth to generalise so many.

NSAman · 09-12-2018 12:44AM

twowheelsonly wrote: »

AFAIK all tickets are entered in the original draw earlier on to whittle it down to the last 100 for the '''''live'''' draw.
I remember at one stage they had a massive box (more like a huge trolley) with all the tickets for some big draw or other and people were complaining that their ticket could be on the bottom and they'd have no chance of being drawn out !! They'll never keep everyone happy.

Optics my dear person.. it doesn't look good.

tuxy · 09-12-2018 12:47AM

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

'Bog Trotter'? 'Posh Person'?

By bog trotter he just means someone from a small community that has made the effort and gone out and seen the world.

And by posh person he just means polite and well spoken.

MrMusician18 · 09-12-2018 12:49AM

There are a lot of myths out there on how the winning streak draw operates. You think lottery world have published the methods they use, in the interest of fairness.

I somehow doubt they apply a county quota like suggested above, as that wouldn't be fair.

dxhound2005 · 09-12-2018 12:53AM

Say there were 10,000 tickets this week, and 40% of them were sent from Dublin. Then out of the 100 it would be reasonable to expect somewhere between 30 and 50 being from Dublin. But if you then select only 5 from the 100, it would be very possible that no Dublin ticket would come out.

RabbleRouser2k · 09-12-2018 12:58AM

You could argue that Dublin people are less likely to enter-I know there was discussion about that before, that on shows like Strictly (Or the Voice, or the All-Ireland Talent s**t-I mean show) anyone from Dublin were guaranteed not to win because folks from Dublin don't call in.

I doubt it tho-even if only ten percent bought tickets, from all counties, that would still put Dublin ahead.

CinemaGuy45 · 09-12-2018 01:14AM

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

'Bog Trotter'? 'Posh Person'?

Ya seem to have a chip on your shoulder, there. It's a wide berth to generalise so many.

That is called a sense of humour;).

09-12-2018 01:21AM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Winning streak can be played by untrained chimps. No challenge whatsoever. That and the usual 'mad' audience make it unwatchable.

That's what the law requires - it has to be a game of chance, not of skill.

09-12-2018 01:22AM

Laois_Man wrote: »

Back in the 1990's when Mike Murphy was presenting winning streak, they brought the show outside Dublin and one episode was recorded (many people seem to think it's live, it isn't) in the place where my mother was working. She was hoping to get a go at the big wheel on set for the craic. But it was taken in at the last second and disappeared just as quick afterwards, all guarded and everything. Definitely something fishy about it!

Sounds like they were protecting it from interference and tampering - the very opposite of fishy

whisky_galore · 09-12-2018 01:26AM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

That's what the law requires - it has to be a game of chance, not of skill.

If the law supposes that, the law is an ass.

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