Wipeout (season 6)

This is a comprehensive list of all of the episodes from the sixth season of American game-show Wipeout.

Summer Episode 1: Welcome Back, Jill

*Branden was the only contestant to cross the Barsy Bot 3000, the Failboxes, and the Wipeout Pizza Kitchen.

**Greg crossed the Failboxes, although it wasn't shown.

***Johnny is the first contestant to come in 3rd in all the events.

Title Reference: Jill's return to Wipeout after one year of absence.

Summer Episode 2: Night Of The Living Big Balls

*Hugo is the first contestant this season to collect 500 dollars for tagging Smallsy.

**Ottis Pittman is the second contestant on Wipeout to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. He is number one in a zombie shooter game. ( Anastasia Desantis is the first. )

***Hugo crossed Tropic Blunder. Although it wasn't seen, Andrew and Matt both crossed Tropic Blunder as well.

****Ottis and Lee both crossed the Pork Choppers.

*****John became the first finalist to cross both the Dark Side of the Moon & Twisted Falls on his first try.

Wipeout Québec

Wipeout Quebec (known as Wipeout in Quebec) is a Canadian reality game show in which multiple contestants compete in numerous obstacle-based challenges. It aired on V. The series premiered on August 31, 2009. The show doesn't currently air new episodes. The series is an adaptation of the American original Wipeout. Unlike the original version which is a one-hour episode, the Quebec version is divided into three 30-minute episodes, issued during the week to "increase the suspense".

Concept

Two hundred participants were chosen by Quebec production among the 18,500 entries received to participate in the course of Wipeout and only 200 people were chosen to play the game. In each episode, 24 Quebecois candidates participating in Wipeout and through several tests. There is only one winner per episode, who would.

Course

Each episode, 24 participants from French-speaking Canada undergo a series of obstacle courses, and those who manage to make it past the round.

The Scanner

The twelve remaining candidates are perched on poles in a circle about four feet in height. A horizontal motorized bar starts rotating, passing over the poles. The candidates must jump to avoid it, and test continues, the more the bar rotates faster and it rises.

Wipeout (album)

Wipeout: The Music is a soundtrack album of various British electronica artists and other European producers from the video game of the same name, released in 1995.

The album

Wipeout, released for Sony PlayStation in 1995, was one of the first video games to incorporate electronic music by non-mainstream, alternative artists into the game. The artwork for the album was made by The Designers Republic in their typical futuristic style, in line with the artwork of the game and its future setting. The cover features the katakana デザイナーズ・リパブリック.

The soundtrack album had a different track list than the game itself, making use of only a few songs that were present in-game. Aside from tracks 1, 2 and 5, no other tracks from the album appear in the game, instead tracks by artist Cold Storage were used. "Wipeout (P.E.T.R.O.L.)" was written and recorded specifically for the game, while "Afro Ride" and "Chemical Beats" are remixes of songs the artists had already recorded.

Track listing

References

American English

American English, or United States (U.S.) English, is the set of dialects of the English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and is the common language used by the federal government, considered the de facto language of the country because of its widespread use. English has been given official status by 30 of the 50 state governments. As an example, while both Spanish and English have equivalent status in the local courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, under federal law, English is the official language for any matters being referred to the United States District Court for the territory.

The use of English in the United States is a result of British colonization. The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the 17th century, followed by further migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Since then, American English has been influenced by the languages of West Africa, the Native American population, German, Dutch, Irish, Spanish, and other languages of successive waves of immigrants to the United States.

Pakistani English

Pakistani English or Paklish is the group of English language varieties spoken and written in Pakistan. It was first so recognised and designated in the 1970s and 1980s. Pakistani English (PE) is slightly different in respect to vocabulary, syntax, accent, spellings of some words and other features. Approximately 49% of the Pakistani population is able to communicate to an intermediate level of English.

History

Although British rule in India lasted for almost two hundred years, the areas which lie in what is now Pakistan were amongst the last to be annexed: Sindh in 1843, Punjab (which initially included the North-West Frontier Province) in 1849, and parts of Baluchistan, including Quetta and the outer regions in 1879, while the rest of the Baluchistan region became a princely state within the British Indian Empire. As a result English had less time to become part of local culture though it did become part of elitist culture as it was used in elite schools and in higher education, as in the rest of British India. The colonial policies which made English a marker of elite status and the language of power—being used in such domains of power as the civil service, the officer corps of the armed forces, the higher judiciary, universities, prestigious newspapers, radio and entertainment—was due to British policies and the continuation of these policies by Pakistani governments. In 1947 upon Pakistan's establishment, English became the de facto official language, a position which was formalised in the Constitution of Pakistan of 1973. Together with Urdu, the two languages are concurrently the official languages of the country. English language continues as the language of power and is also the language with the maximum cultural capital of any language used in Pakistan. It remains much in demand in higher education in Pakistan.

Microdata Corporation

Microdata Corporation was an Irvine, California-based computer company, developing hardware and operating systems to run its Reality environment. It later was taken over by its international distributor CMC Leasings, which in turn was taken over in 1983 by McDonnell Douglas Corporation, and is now part of Northgate Information Solutions.

History

The Reality name was given to Microdata's computer system and the operating system — the first version of what was later called the Pick operating system. At the time, Microdata owned rights to the Pick operating system in parallel with Dick Pick who developed it with Microdata in the early 1970s. As at 2009, Reality was still owned by the same lineage of companies — from Microdata, McDonnell Douglas Information Systems, MDIS to the current Northgate Information Solutions.

The original machine was a Microdata 800 microcomputer first made in 1969. This computer was licensed to the French company Intertechnique who sold it in Europe under the name Multi-8. It was particularly in use in nuclear power stations, research applications (such as crystallography and biology) and process control. Later this evolved into the Microdata 1600, an updated version of the 800 processor (commercialized under the name Multi-4 by Intertechnique). The original development of Reality was done on Microdata 800. The first Reality system was based on the 1600 and was sold commercially in 1973. The unique feature of the early Microdata processors was that the microcode was accessible to the user and allowed the creation of custom assembler level instructions. The Reality system design made extensive use of this capability.