Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/USA Gonzo Games


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 18:02, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

USA Gonzo Games

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Couldn't find any sourcing beyond what's already here. Both are from the same paper, and one is a human interest story about a casting call. Prod and redirect both contested Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:15, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:15, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep sourcing in article is enough for WP:GNG Donald D23   talk to me  01:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I still don't see how "local person to appear on X" is the kind of source sufficient for notability. Especially given that both sources are from the same paper, indicating a lack of notability outside one city. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:42, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete the provided references are stretching the definition of significant, but beyond that they're both from the same source, so they don't meet the multiple criterion of GNG. signed,Rosguill talk 04:04, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The review notes: "Yet another area where the United States lags behind Japan is in game shows based on physical pain and humiliation. Look at "Gonzo Games" - if you can bear to look at all - as a dubious contribution to the balance of payments. ... In the premiere episode, men get sprayed in the crotch and chest with high-powered fire hoses. ... The participants - ostensibly regular people - make the folks on "Family Feud" look like Alistair Cooke. After all that, the contestants who have endured the most get trophies instead of cash. Maybe they also get any medical bills covered."  The article note: "Debuting at 6:30 tonight on the USA cable network, "Gonzo Games" is a messy game show for adults. Contestants view for prizes through goofy competitions involving stunts and tests of endurance while host Mark Walberg cheers them on. ... In the American version, the stunts include events such as standing on a log while being hosed down, seeing how many clothespins can be fastened to the human body in five minutes, slithering through mud with hands and feet bound and other oddball competitions."  The article provides 150 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "Producers for USA Network will shoot nine episodes of its new series USA Gonzo Games around the park on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Producers for USA Network will shoot nine episodes of its new series USA Gonzo Games around the park on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. ... Four episodes produced last weekend at Universal, for example, tested participants' skill at staying lodged in a chimney while being repeatedly doused in soot and water and in finishing a bed race in which they had to pick up 50-pound pillows at stations along the course - not to mention withstanding the pies that were thrown in their faces."  The article discusses the endurance challenges in the show including: "Crocodile Crawl", "Hungry Mermaids", "Trained Seals", "Flopping Flamingos", "Face Juicer", and "Leap Frog".  The article provides 102 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "USA Network is beginning production on a weekly series called "USA's Gonzo Games," which will feature "comedic physical and mental competition." On one segment, contestants in New York City's Battery Park — 50 men and 50 women, each wearing a mock Styrofoam crown — will hold up heavy torches as long as they can, in tribute to the Statue of Liberty in the background. New Yorker will love this one: In another contest, competitors with wrists and ankles loosely bound will inchworm through applesauce, grab an apple in their teeth and inch to a "Big Apple" goal. The one with the most apples wins."  The article notes: "As part of Gonzo Games, a new half-hour game show scheduled for cable's USA Network, Johnson joined 65 participants as they auditioned for one of 26 spots in next week's elimination series. Johnson's event, "Trained Seals," was one of seven in which volunteers challenged their skill, strength and ability while competing for cash and prizes. ... Events included whimsical competitions such as the Crocodile Crawl and the Flamingo Flap, which were designed for Florida's atmosphere."</li> <li> The article notes: "Cable TV's USA Network has begun production on a weekly series called "USA's Gonzo Games," which will feature "comedic physical and mental competition." ... New Yorkers will love this one: ..."</li> <li>Less significant coverage:<ol> <li> The article notes: "And then there's USA's "Gonzo Games," which airs on Saturdays and Sundays at 6:30 p.m. This is a kinder, gentler version of a Japanese game show known as "Endurance," in which contestants are literally tortured. One of the Japanese stunts, for example, involves dragging contestants across gravel until they are too injured to continue. "Gonzo" does not go quite this far — although one stunt has the contestants stand on a barbecue grill until the pain forces them off."</li> <li> This article is in the "Preview" section of the newspaper. The article notes: "How many clothes pins can a person fasten on his body in five minutes? Why would anyone want to attach clothes pins to their body for five minutes. The answer lies in this new USA show. Each week, participants will face off against each other as they compete for the championship of silliness. Contestants will do most anything silly — such as scaling a pole and holding on as long as possible while being pelted with toy coconuts and squirted with water. Gonzo Games is filmed in Orlando at Universal Studios Florida."</li> <li> The book note: "Gonzo Games (U.S.). A precursor to Fear Factor, this game show from the early 1990s was hosted by Mark A. Walberg (Antiques Roadshow). In one event, each contestant had to see how many clothespins they could stick on their face. In another, they were forced to stand on a hot barbecue grill until the pain was too unbearable to continue."</li> </ol></li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Gonzo Games to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 12:07, 27 May 2022 (UTC) </li></ul> Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 14:02, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. I did a newspapers.com search, and came up with pretty much the same stuff Cunard posted above. IMO, that is sufficient SIGCOV in INDEPENDENT RS (I found the Tampa Tribune articles especially significant) to pass WP:GNG. Jacona (talk) 14:15, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep as enough coverage in multiple reliable sources have been identified in this discussion for a pass of WP:GNG so that deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 22:40, 6 June 2022 (UTC)


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