The Chase

The Chase is a TOF Studios game show (based on the UK version of the same name), that premiered on May 8, 2020. It is is a fast-paced quiz show, where 4 contestants form part of a team to defeat a quiz master - The Chaser. In this series, players face a member of the "Sinister Six". Beginning on TOF Studio's 6th anniversary, the show has gone through 2 series, with a 3rd planned to air in Spring 2022.

History
The Chase began on May 8, 2020 (TOF Studios' 6th anniversary!) and has produced 28 episodes so far (only 25 have aired, though).

The first season contains 13 episodes (− 1 unaired episode); it began on May 8, 2020 and ended on September 5, 2020 with a special episode where 3 of the chasers played as contestants.

The second season will contain 15 episodes (− 2 unaired episodes); it began on January 2, 2021 with the 10th episode—a Voiced Special—airing on May 9, 2021. The show went on a temporary hiatus after that episode, but returned on August 8, 2021. The season finale aired on October 10, 2021 with IMxcky as guest host and EmmaLantern (the S2 host) as guest chaser.

Hosts
LuckyCGT hosted the show for the first 6 episodes before he was fired for using a racial slur in a community Discord server. The show has had different hosts for the second half of the season (mainly TypicallyChris, who hosted Episodes 10–13). EmmaLantern is the main host for the second season, with CrazySuperBoy3000 serving as backup host (he took over hosting duties for the Voiced Special, Episode 10). The Season 2 finale featured IMxcky guest hosting and EmmaLantern guest chasing.

Current

 * qadu “The Governess” (S1–present)
 * UncharteDimensions “The Greedy Gambler” (S1–present)
 * ShadeLightRun “The Fallen Angel” (S1–present)
 * thorklein “The Shadow King” (S1–present)
 * Hirsh96 “The Alpha Male” (S2–present)
 * Jsach “The Quiz Volcano” (S2–present)

Former / Guests

 * Nope420XD “The Sinnerman” (S1)
 * monokuu8 “The Dark Destroyer” (S1)
 * earthyelevatorfan “The Beast” (S1)
 * Wise1Out “The Insomniac” (S1)
 * Serious_Interactive “The Game Madam” (S1)
 * BeastyBlake101 “The Beast” (S2) (Guest Chaser)
 * chlorrxne “The Nuclear Atom” (S2) (Guest Chaser; Unseen)
 * EmmaLantern (S2) (Guest Chaser)

(Note: Stats table correct as of 10/10/2021)

Beat The Chasers spin-off
A Beat The Chasers spin-off was proposed in August 2020 (with producer & former chaser Wise1Out as host), but as of late nothing else is known / has been announced about it.

Gameplay
4 contestants play each episode. One by one, they will come up and play. The game starts with the cash builder round, which is a quickfire round. The contestant has to answer as many questions as they can in 60 seconds, and they get £1,000 for each question answered correctly. Then the contestant faces the chaser and the money they earn is put on the main gameboard.

The contestant is given three amounts of money to play for. One of them is the amount they made in the cash builder round (requiring 5 correct answers to get home with a 3-step headstart on the chaser), one of them is a lower amount (requiring only 4 correct answers to get home with a 4-step headstart on the chaser), and one of them is a higher amount (requiring 6 correct answers to get home with only a 2-step headstart on the chaser). The contestant will then pick which offer they want to go for — usually contestants want the offer that they know they can get through with, while maximising their money where possible. Consolidations with the team are allowed before the offer selection occurs.

The contestant then faces off against the chaser in the head-to-head round, featuring multiple choice questions. The contestant and the chaser both lock in their answers secretly on a keypad. Once either side locks in their answer, the other is put under a 5-second time pressure to do the same, or they'll be “timed-out” and the answer will be treated as incorrect regardless of what they put. Both parties move one step down the board with every correct answer, and stay where they are for every wrong answer. If the contestant gets home before the chaser catches them, their money is deposited into the team bank, and they advance to the final chase. If the chaser catches them, they are eliminated and their money is wiped from the gameboard. This same process continues with all 4 contestants.

It is possible for all 4 contestants to be eliminated at the head-to-head round. If that happens, the whole team returns and nominate one player to represent them in the final for a potential split of £4,000 (£1,000 per contestant). This is known as a Lazarus final (named after the biblical figure Lazarus who rose from the dead), and has not happened yet in this version of the show.

Once all 4 contestants have gone, the remaining contestants compete in the final chase. They have to build as much of a lead as they can in 2 minutes. Based on how many contestants are left, the team will get a headstart on the chaser, which can be anywhere between 1–4 steps. The rest of the steps come from answering rapid-fire questions. Then, the chaser comes out and is asked a different set of questions to try and catch the team within the same allotted time. If the chaser gets a question incorrect, the team has a chance to push them back one step by answering the same question correctly. (If this happens while the chaser is on 0 steps, the contestants get “pushed forward” and an extra step is added to their lead.) If the chaser successfully catches up to the team, the money is wiped away and the team leave with nothing. However, if the chaser fails to catch the team, the contestants win and get to split their money equally (or, in the case of solo players, they win the entire bank. Lazarus players split £4,000 between them all if the representative wins, as mentioned above).

Trivia

 * All winnings on TOF Studios game shows (including The Chase) have a 30% tax applied to them. So for example, a win of 20 Robux would only pay out 14.
 * As of 6 October 2021, episodes of The Chase no longer pay out any Robux for winning due to Roblox's updated Terms of Service (though it may resume in the future if Roblox decides to amend their ToS). This currently only affects the team of S2 E14, as—despite their episode airing about half a month before the change—they have not received their Robux winnings yet and are currently unable to.
 * As of 10 October 2021, contestants have played in final chases for a total of £1,011,601, and £691,300 has been won. (Only documented episodes counted)
 * The largest amount of money offered in the head-to-head round is £180,000. This was offered to Mono [monokuu8] in S1 E5 by UncharteDimensions. He rejected the offer, instead opting for the £2,000 middle offer, but was ultimately caught 4 from home.
 * The largest amount of money accepted in the head-to-head round is £151,000. Snow [Snowgie91507] accepted this offer made by ShadeLightRun in S2 E4, but was ultimately caught 6 from home.
 * The largest amount of money accepted and banked in the head-to-head round is £125,000. Torin [TimeBombTakeover] accepted this offer made by UncharteDimensions in S2 E14, and won by a margin of 4!
 * The smallest amount of money offered in the head-to-head round is -£38,000. This was offered to Pac [pacdude1985] in S1 E9 by Serious_Interactive. He chose his original offer of £1,000 instead, and made it back to the team comfortably. (Side note: The prize fund at the time was indeed £38,000 so that offer would've taken away everything in the bank!)
 * The smallest amount of money accepted (and banked) in the head-to-head round is £1. As an attempt to troll, Butter [ButterSoil] accepted this offer made by UncharteDimensions in S2 E7, and escaped comfortably, banking that money. Since he was the only player left standing, he also set an international record for the lowest prize fund ever played for in the final chase!
 * 3 contestants have scored £8,000 in the cash builder round — the record high on this version! 2 of those contestants subsequently went on to win their final chase.
 * 1 contestant has scored £7,000 (second best performance) in this round, and also went on to win their final.
 * 8 other contestants have scored £6,000 in this round—which was a previous record high in S1 and S2 before both were taken over by an £8k cashbuilder—but only 4 of those contestants went away with any money on the same episode.
 * The largest prize fund ever played for (and won) by a single player is £75,000. Quiz [quizplease] played for this amount against qadu in S2 E12, and scored 12 (later 13) steps (the largest base target set by a solo player), winning by 9 to claim all 150 Robux for himself!
 * With that haul, Quiz also claims the record for the largest individual winnings on the show! The previous record was set just before his episode, with Tristan [TL48Productions] and Lana [lanavxrse] each winning £50,000 / 100 Robux in S2 E11.
 * Many contestants have appeared on the show multiple times! The current record is Torin [abc12torinlong; TimeBombTakeover] with 7 total appearances (− 1 unaired). Of those, he has won 4 times and lost 3 times (all at the HTH round!).
 * Currently, the contestant with the most number of correct answers across all (aired) appearances is Tristan [TL48Productions], answering an astonishing 68 questions correctly across his 4 shows! This is followed by Torin (56), Johnny (47), mQwsfiC (42), and Chrisfamily17 (30).
 * Tristan also claims the record for the most number of correct answers in a single episode, answering a gallant 26 questions correctly over the course of his episode as contestant in S2 E11! The second-best number of 23 was jointly achieved by Maria [qadu] in S1 E13 and Quiz [quizplease] in S2 E12.
 * Of the 27 episodes, 3 have been filmed but left unaired; Season 1 Episode 11, Season 2 Episode 8, and Season 2 Episode 9.
 * Season 1 Episode 11 saw Thorklein in the chaser's chair, and not only was he the first chaser to time-out on a HTH round, he was also the first chaser to finish a final on 0 steps! As a result, the producers decided to axe that episode completely, presumably to spare any further embarrassment…
 * After the taping of Season 2 Episode 8, the producers ruled that an imbalance in the difficulty of the question sets in the final chase meant that nobody took home any winnings in the end, and the episode was axed for that reason.
 * Season 2 Episode 9 was the first time since S2 E4 that a live studio audience could be present (from S2 E5 to S2 E11, The Chase became exclusively pre-recorded, with no studio audience present and only participants & producers allowed in the studio). The episode got axed in the end due to supposed audience harassment.
 * Of the remaining 23 episodes, 9 can be found on the TOF Studios official YouTube channel — a Season 1 episode as well as eight Season 2 episodes. Other full episodes—mainly from Season 1—can be found on other channels, usually filmed by the contestants of said episodes themselves. For full information, please check the “Full Episode Link” and “Final Chase Only” columns in the Episodes table.

Info for Leaked Episodes
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Below are all leaked stats for the three unaired episodes — S1 E11, S2 E8, and S2 E9. Please note that these stats are incomplete, and they may be inaccurate. Thus they do not contribute to the final statistics listed above, and should not just be taken at face value.