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ladeni: 1.0 Pathways To The Hot Seat:

If you are playing for the hot seat, you basically have two options. It is either you play using your phone by calling or texting 132 and getting a question to answer with each call or text setting you back N200 each time. Of course, you need to have an MTN line for any business you want to do here.

Or you go to the online site (millionairenigeria.com) and contest with others to place 1st, 2nd or 3rd on a weekly or monthly basis. You qualify to play a game round by texting PIN to 345 and you get deducted N100 for 3pins to play the game for each round. Each round basically imitates the normal real-life game except without the money winnings.

Now, let's focus on which of these two paths gets you faster and cheaper to the hot seat shall we?

1.1 Online Game Option:

For the online game option of getting to the hot seat, for each game you play online, you get the score that corresponds to the level you reached which is dependent on the virtual money you won in the online game. No doubt, this is a beautiful way to practice doing well on the hot seat along with the added benefit of, if you score high enough, you get a call to the studios to come play for fastest fingers in order to get to the hot seat.

The problem here however lies in the intense competition this mode of getting to the hot seat involves. Because of the greater certainty this option involves as there is the guaranty that if you score highest in a week or month, you will get called to the studio, a lot of people focus on this as their only way to the hot seat leading to an intensely competitive process.

And like anything truly competitive, it ends up much more than a focus on achieving an objective, but rather a money-guzzling race to place highest in the weekly or monthly rankings leading to people committing enormous sums of money, and of course time, into coming highest on the scoreboard.

While, I was still exploring how to get to the hot seat in 2010, I remember committing N1,000 to have a feel of the online platform. No doubt, the graphics on the website are enticingly beautiful and even the experience of playing the online game makes you feel good.

But never forget your ultimate objective is to get to the hot seat. So, after spending my N1,000 at the rate of 3 pins per N100 equating to 30 pins, I could play the online game 30times.

And inspite of putting in pretty decent performances each of the 30 times I played the online game, after I had exhausted my pins, I was in no way close to breaking into the top-30 for the month and not even a third of the month had gone yet then.

I was left wondering just how much one needed to pour into this online thing to place highest and get a call to the hot seat. The answer would come soon enough. It came when I got my first studio invitation, via the call or text 132 mode, to come play for the hot seat.

As you likely already know, a studio invitation does not guarantee you get to the hot seat. What it means is you are getting invited to come play for the fastest fingers stage with 7 other contestants. You get to sit on the hot seat only if you are the one with the fastest fingers to unscramble a popular phrase or action sequence after you guys get to wave at the guys at home during the introductions

So, before you enter the studio proper, the 8 of you for a particular episode get some time to get to know each other and socialize. It was during this period I then met Charles who had travelled all the way from Port-Harcourt to fulfil his hot seat dreams.

Our paths there had being different though. Charles had gotten there by placing first in one month on the online gaming website. Soon enough we got talking about how challenging it was to get a studio invitation to play for the hot seat. Inevitably, we came to how much was required to top the online game rankings.

And you might want to look away here. It is not for the faint-hearted. Nope, it is not. Charles told me that cumulatively he had spent an eye-popping sum of N150,000 to be the monthly champion and get the invitation to come play for the fastest fingers in the studio.

You can do the math, if 3 pins go for N100, how many pins will go for N150,000? That amounts to 4,500 pins translating into Charles playing the online game 4,500 times to get to the stage with some of us who had not spent close to 10% of what he had spent. You see where an ultra-competitive situation can drive us to?

Let's not even talk about the time he must have had to dedicate to doing this-sleepless nights and all. Because the reality of coming in via the online mode is you are not the only one with money to spend and what gives you the winning edge would have to be doing reasonably well on each of the game rounds you play online.

No doubt this massive practice would have given Charles plenty of experience to count on if he got to the hot seat. Except he did not get to sit on the hot seat. Which not only meant N20,000 was down the drain but also he, unlike me, would not be so eager to play for the hot seat again after expending so much already without success.

By the way, if you are still yet to wrap your head around how much Charles spent online, let me shock you even further. Charles came with a friend, whose name I cannot exactly remember.

But the interesting thing about this friend of Charles was, just like Charles, he was reliant on the online game option to get to the hot seat, and while I was still trying to come to terms with the experience of Charles, he told me that he had cumulatively spent N450,000 in months to try to get to the hot seat but had not yet topped any of the rankings to qualify.

I really do not want to bother you with the mathematics of how many pins he must have bought with the N450,000 or how many times he must have played the online game. If you find your brain wondering though, that is triple that of Charles meaning he had used 13,500 pins to play 13,500 rounds of the online game.

Keep in mind that this was in 2010 when access to internet was a bit more expensive than it is now so the competition would probably have gotten a lot more intense on the online platform.

And even if one manages to get to the hot seat, having spent such huge amounts of money getting there, what is the guaranty your hot seat winnings would actually be a profit on the amount you spent to get there. All it takes is one indiscretion on the hot seat and it might be a goodnight with your tail between your legs as you walk home with a meagre cash of N20,000 having helped fuel the organisers accounts while gaining so little.

I know you do not want all this for you

Neither do I!

So, next time, we will explore a faster and much cheaper option...

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