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# Officially, Officially, Officially Amazing! #

Hello and welcome to Officially Amazing, The Best Of The Bunker.

Coming up - an equine extreme horse board slalom record.

But first, a little bit of marble-lous magic in...

Today's record is...

Ray is rubbish with chopsticks and marbles.

Here are the rules.

The marbles must be moved between two containers, one metre apart.

Only one marble may be moved at a time

and only the chopsticks can touch the marbles. No hands.

If they move 43 or more, it is a world record.

-Three, two, one. Go!

-KLAXON BLARES

Go on. That's it. Strong start.

I like this.

Two out of two marbles on the landing zone.

Who is this marble-moving master and what has he done with Ray?

Oh, no, there he is.

This is confident chopstick work from Ray.

He's moving those marbles almost like a man who can

-use chopsticks.

-And look at that precision placement.

Precise but also ponderous and this is a time-based record.

I might start a chant to speed him up a bit.

US Ray, US Ray, US Ray! CLAPPING

CHANTING

-Five, four, three, two, one.

-One more, Ray! Come on!

Ray denied one last marble by the clock.

And by the fact he dropped it.

But could there be 43 marbles in that bowl?

Who knows? We don't have time to count them now, Al.

Steve is in sizzle mode.

And he is, once again, using his special dish,

last seen in the rice moving challenge that he failed to win.

-Three, two, one. Go!

-KLAXON BLARES

And he's sizzling.

Oh, he did not need to start like that. Whee!

But that is a beauty.

That's not. Atrocious chopstick-ing.

This is not the sizzler we know and, well, that we know. Come on, Steve!

Boom!

This is much better now.

Steve is nearing the coveted chopstick zone

and the audience can clearly sense it.

This is so much better, Steve, well done.

Absolutely nailing it.

Spoke too soon.

Five, four, three, two, one. Stop!

Well done, Steve. Really well done. APPLAUSE

A frenetic finish, but Steve was not at full sizzle.

Will those mistakes cost him

or could the weighty weight of expectation crush Cherry too?

-Mr Cherry, are you ready?

-No! Chopstick! Bah!

ENGINE REVS

What is going on here?

It's a mystical Japanese motorbike mime, Al. Probably.

As well as his special chopsticks,

Cherry has brought a state-of-the-art

wooden box from Japan, he wants this and he is leaving nothing to chance.

-Is he holding his chopsticks the wrong way around?

-He is!

Surely he hasn't taken inspiration from Ray in the rice challenge.

I would assume not.

Three, two, one, go!

He's off.

And those supersonic upside-down chopsticks are ferociously fast.

Oh, no! In off the rim.

That was close, but Cherry hasn't put a marble wrong.

Each one devastatingly dispatched into his special box.

Notice too how Cherry is working from the opposite end of the table

to Ray and Steve.

This is definitely the faster round.

Slow-mo Cherry looks quicker than Ray in normal mode.

The audience can't believe it.

Are they witnessing a world record?

Cherry's first mistake, could that cost him?

This is an incredible performance!

Five, four, three, two, one. Stop!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Wow! Wow!

That was an unbelievable display of marble-man-ship.

But did Cherry or anyone move the 43 marbles needed?

Only the official adjudicator knows.

Do we have a record?

-Yes, we do.

-CHEERING AND LAUGHTER

Please reveal who got that record today.

So in third place with six...

Just 37 short of the record.

..is Ray.

Yeah, all right.

And in first place with a total of 43...

Equalling the current world record.

..is Mr Cherry.

HE EXCLAIMS

Jubilation as Cherry scores his second individual

world record of the series.

HE SHOUTS IN OWN LANGUAGE

Just look what it means to him.

HE SHOUTS

And that result sees Cherry extend his lead with only four

rounds left in the competition.

Now, from one record-breaking thoroughbred to another.

Meet rider Charlie and boarder Ross.

Together they are four-time

horse boarding UK champions.

And along with racehorse Nabu,

they are attempting the record for...

Here are the rules.

The racetrack must comprise of ten cones spaced ten metres apart.

The horse and boarder must slalom around alternating

sides of the cones and should any being - human or horse - touch

a cone, the attempt is invalid.

For a world record, they must complete the course

in 25 seconds or under.

This is an incredibly dangerous sport with a highly-trained horse.

Do you think they will get the record?

81% of our bunker guests think they will.

Let's see if they are right.

Here he comes. Nabu takes a runner.

The attempt begins when the front wheels of Ross'

board cross the start line.

And they are whizzing around the cones.

Look how Ross adjusts the rope to maintain the tension and keep

himself boarding at maximum speed.

-And Charlie is riding Nabu at an incredible pace.

-So intricate.

This is a real test of Charlie's riding skills.

Watch how Nabu has to adjust his footwork to go around every cone

and how they lean together into the corners.

-Oh!

-Oh!

-Oh! No!

-No!

Let's watch that last cone again.

Ross should have gone round the left-hand side,

but he took the right-hand side, that is an automatic fail.

Hi, guys.

-So close!

-It was. I got a bit cone

dizzy and thought I'd done it.

-I was like, "Yeah!"

-No!

Can they complete a valid run on attempt number two?

Ross makes it look easy but it takes strength,

balance and nerve to go at this pace.

And look at Nabu's magnificent muscles in action.

But he needs to stay focused on the course.

Charlie needs skill and strength to keep him on track,

guiding a 17st horse with such precision is not easy.

Here comes the tricky final cone.

Yeah!

And that is a valid run.

Yes! No mistakes this time. But was it fast enough?

Over to official adjudicator Mark.

So, Mark, was it a world record, yay or n-a-a-a-y?

LAUGHTER

Well, Charlie, Ross and Nabu needed a time of 25 seconds or less.

You achieved a time...

of...13.005 seconds!

Incredible from the human-horse-human combo.

They almost halved the target time.

Hyper-bullet horse boarding.

And congratulations to the 81% of our bunker crew

who correctly predicted they would do it.

Speaking of which, meet Ruby.

One of our best predictors in the bunker today.

Our final record attempt is...

But which two competitive legends will attempt it

and who is going into the Gunge Tank of Doom?

Over to Ruby and the velveteen bag of fate.

It's Sizzlin' Steve. CHEERING

-Ruby, do you have any final words for Steve?

-Good luck.

With Steve in the tank, Cherry and Ray unite to sort and hang socks

like they have never sorted and hung socks before.

The target for socks is 19 pairs hung in that minute.

And they manage...

-14.

-GROANING

Five pairs short, which is no good for them, but great for us,

as it means Steve goes cruising for another oozing.

Huzzah for gunge!

See you next time.