El rival más débil (Chile)

Chile
Name	El rival más débil
Host	Catalina Pulido
TV station	Canal 13
Top prize	$40,000,000
First air date	March 31, 2004
Final air date	c. August 2004
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	approx. 13
Episode duration	approx. 80 minutes
Broadcast format	4:3 SDTV
Air schedule	Wednesdays at 10:00 PM CST
Catchphrase	Tú eres el rival más débil. ¡Adiós! (You are the weakest rival. Goodbye!)
Language	Spanish

El rival más débil (translated: The Weakest Rival) was the Chilean version of The Weakest Link based on the original British format. It was presented by Catalina Pulido and aired for one series on Canal 13 from March 31 until c. August 2004. The top prize was 40,000,000 Chilean pesos.

Money chain

Question	Price (CLP)
	Series 1
8	5 000 000
7	3 000 000
6	2 000 000
5	1 000 000
4	500 000
3	250 000
2	100 000
1	50 000

Rules of the format

The rules did not differ from the original British format.

Each game begins with eight players who just met; they must answer enough questions correctly to reach each round's target of 5,000,000 Chilean pesos within the time limit.

The fastest method was to create a chain of eight correct answers. If a player fails to answer a question by giving a wrong answer, passing, etc., the chain will start over. If a player says "banco/banca" before their question is asked, the prize money, which increases with each correct answer, is added to the round's bank, and the chain begins again. The final round's prize will be equal to the total amount of money banked in each round.

The first round lasted for 3 minutes; the following rounds were shortened by ten seconds until two players remained. The penultimate round before the final gave the two players one minute and thirty seconds for double the stakes of 10,000,000 Chilean pesos.

The first question is directed to the player whose name appears first in the Spanish alphabet. In the following rounds, the first question is directed to the player who statistically performed the best in the previous round as "the strongest rival."

At the end of each round, the team votes to determine who to remove as "the weakest rival," which is then revealed by flipping their boards in the following order. The player who holds the majority of votes will be subsequently voted off; if there is a tie, the player who was statistically "the strongest rival" that round will cast the final vote in the tiebreaker.

In the final round, the strongest rival from the previous round will determine the direction of the first question, and each player will be asked five questions until a winner is determined. If there is a tie, the game moves to a sudden death round, in which contestants are given questions in pairs, and the first to correctly answer a question over their opponent's incorrect answer wins.

On-screen graphics

• The production company for the Chilean version used the on-screen graphics provided by JUMP in partnership with BBC Studios Entertainment Productions.

• Chile is one of three international versions, along with Romania and Turkey, that had the digits on their money chains shortened to fit on the graphics.

Opening titles

Money chain

Total prize

Closing segment (1)

Final round

Sudden death

Closing segment (2)

Closing credits

Closing titles

Soundtrack

The soundtrack did not differ much from the original British format.

• The majority of the original soundtrack's tempo was slowed by 0.91700x, except for the question bed, which was kept at the same speed for most rounds.

Catchphrases

• ¡Bienvenido sa, el rival más débil! (Welcome to The Weakest Rival!)
• ¡Juguemos a el rival más débil! (Let's play the weakest rival!)
• ¡Llegó el momento que voten para eliminar a el rival más débil! (The time has come for you to vote to eliminate the weakest rival!)
• Tú eres el rival más débil. ¡Adiós! (You are the weakest rival. Goodbye!)
• Nos vemos el próximo miércoles en el rival más débil. ¡Adiós! (See you next Wednesday on the Weakest Rival. Goodbye!)

Trivia

• The Chilean version is the only format distributed and the second format announced from the South American continent.