About this Project

What is Project C?

Project C is a major project I made for ITV's game show The Chase that aims to analyze each Chaser's performance and compare them against each other. It consists of three spreadsheets: one for the list of episodes and the rest for tables and graphs on how well each Chaser performs. One of the most popular questions about the show is who is the best Chaser. There are many ways to interpret this question, whether it'll be about personality or how often he/she gets questions right, so I came up with the answer to most of them here.

The Creator's History

Back in 2014, I saw the American version of The Chase for the first time. I accidentally stumbled upon this show as I was keeping up with GSN to find out when new episodes of Family Feud will air (Family Feud was my favourite game show before The Chase). Since I started watching at the middle of an episode, I didn't know how the format works, or who that giant guy with a black suit actually was. All I knew was that there were many trivia questions featured on that show, and that "giant guy" is very smart.

I then discovered that there's a British version of the show on YouTube, that the "guy" on the show is actually called "The Beast", and that The Chase has its own Twitter and Google+ profile. I started my Twitter profile after watching Inside the Mind of The Beast, a series of YouTube videos by The Chase USA where the producers of the show and The Beast have a conversation on various parts of the show such as what makes a great contestant. I learned about social media because of The Chase, and most importantly, I took advantage of my statistical and analytical skills because of The Chase.

It has been over five years since I watch the first episode of The Chase, and my interest in the show keeps increasing. Meeting one of the Chasers has been the biggest dream of mine, but since I am from the United States where the show has been discontinued, the chances of this ever happening are very slim.

The Project's History

It all started on 17 May 2016 with a simple table displaying each Chaser's win rate on The Chase Australia. It wasn't released to the public, though. The original intent of this project was to determine which Chaser performed the best on The Chase Australia based on the Final Chase win rate.

The next month, the episode list was created for The Chase Australia. The list shows the season and episode #, the Chaser that was featured in each episode, and the Final Chase results. However, almost half of the episodes from The Chase Australia were left out in this project as I relied on Final Chase clips posted on the show's official website (which went offline as of 2019), and there are some final chase clips that haven't been uploaded. There were also full episodes uploaded onto the website, but since I wasn't in Australia at the time, I wasn't able to watch them. Eventually, I started borrowing episode data from Kaela G. to fill in the missing gaps. Soon after, the "In-Depth" section was added, which shows how many questions the Chaser answered correctly and incorrectly in the Final Chase. The project also got its first official name: Project 1, marking the first major project I've ever done with Google Sheets.

Over time, the project expanded to include catch rates for each Chaser in the Individual Chase, episodes from other versions of The Chase, and even statistics on which Chaser is the most liked based on Facebook and Twitter posts from the official The Chase profile (this statistic was later removed). The goal of this project has expanded to finding the best Chaser based on other metrics such as the speed and accuracy of each Chaser in the Final Chase. This project was first mentioned in mid 2016 with my tweet that said that this project for for an IT class, but the whole project wasn't made available to the general public until three years later.

The original spreadsheet was going to be the International Episode List where guests can come and browse through a list of episodes from each version of The Chase. I moved all the statistical tables to a separate spreadsheet, called The Chase - International Statistics Project. Shortly after that, I created yet another spreadsheet titled The Chase - International Charts & Graphs where data from the International Statistics Project is visualized so that the viewers of the spreadsheet could easily compare multiple versions or multiple Chasers. The second edition of the spreadsheet was created in 2020, which features graphs that would be too complicated for the original statistics spreadsheet.

This entire project also inspired me to create similar projects for other game shows such as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Deal or No Deal.

I will keep updating this project until The Chase goes extinct... or I die of exhaustion... whichever comes first.

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