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Monday, July 14, marked a historic night for The Quiz With Balls when two families delivered unprecedented perfect performances. The NBC game show, hosted by Jay Pharoah, features families competing in trivia challenges with a unique elimination twist. Contestants face questions with six possible answers, but only five are correct. Wrong answers result in players being pushed into a pool by a giant ball and eliminated from the game.
The Quiz With Balls format creates escalating pressure as each elimination reduces the number of correct answers available. Families must maintain at least one player to stay in competition. The surviving family with the most earnings advances to a bonus round worth $100,000.
The Cring family and Burgos family entered uncharted territory by maintaining perfect scores through multiple rounds. Both teams answered every question correctly in the opening stages, creating the show's first-ever tie. Their flawless performances continued through several categories, defying the game's elimination-based design.
The historic evening required The Quiz With Balls producers to implement a never before used tiebreaker format. Host Jay Pharoah repeatedly acknowledged the unprecedented nature of the competition as both families shattered previous performance records and forced rule adaptations.
What happened with the Crings and the Burgos on The Quiz With Balls?
Both families dominated the opening rounds on The Quiz With Balls with flawless execution. The Crings and Burgos each kept all five team members active while accumulating $10,000. This perfect start had never occurred in the show's history, prompting Pharoah's excited declaration:
"It is tied, baby."
The momentum continued into round three when families selected their categories. The Burgos chose "Animal Science" while the Crings picked "Musical Artists." Pharoah wondered aloud whether the unprecedented night would continue, and both teams delivered again with perfect scores.
Their combined success pushed both families to $20,000 with full rosters intact.
"This is a Quiz With Balls first," Pharoah announced.
Elaborating:
"We've never seen two families perfect through six questions."
The historic achievement set expectations for an extraordinary evening on The Quiz With Balls. Question seven finally claimed the first casualties from both teams. The Burgos family lost their mother, Alicia, when she answered incorrectly and tumbled into the water. The Cring family's mother also fell victim to a wrong answer on the "Tennis" question.
Despite losing players, both families maintained their ties with $28,000 each. The eliminations marked the end of their perfect performance streaks but didn't break the deadlock. The competition remained remarkably balanced even after the first setbacks. The parallel elimination pattern demonstrated how evenly matched the families were throughout the contest. Their similar performance levels created the conditions necessary for television history.
The "All or Nothing Round" presented both families with their biggest challenge yet. This segment required contestants to answer every question correctly to earn any money from the round. Failure meant losing all potential earnings from those questions. Both teams successfully navigated this high-pressure segment, maintaining their tie at $38,000. Their continued success through the most difficult round emphasized the exceptional nature of their performances. The pressure-packed format couldn't separate the evenly matched competitors.
Questions three and four in this round saw both families answer correctly again, pushing their totals to $48,000. The sustained excellence forced producers to implement contingency plans that had never been needed before.
What was the final verdict?
The unprecedented tie necessitated the show's first-ever "Ball Breaker Round." This tiebreaker format required one representative from each family to answer the same question. The contestant with the most accurate response would win the entire game for their team.
The category was "Sports" with a question about NHL regular-season victories. Six hockey teams were listed as options: Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, and Detroit Red Wings. The Burgos family selected the New York Rangers while the Crings chose the Chicago Blackhawks. The Rangers proved to be the more successful franchise, giving the Burgos family victory and advancement to the bonus round.
Valentina from the Burgos family volunteered for the $100,000 bonus challenge. She chose "Children's Authors" as her category and needed to answer five of six questions correctly to win the grand prize.
Unfortunately, she answered the first question incorrectly, ending their chances at the maximum payout. The family still departed with nearly $50,000 and the distinction of participating in the show's most historic episode.
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