Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Grand Final: Game 3, Part 1

 A new game cometh.

Welcome, to the 2025 Grand Final for Content Survey Live.

This year's grand final, is a best of five game series, where the first city to win three games will be crowned the Australian champion of this game for 2025, and will go on in 2026 to face the winner of Content Survey Live U.S.A. (happening next year) in the first ever world championship in content survey.

Game 2, on Wednesday night, literally came down to the wire with Brisbane just eeking out a win. Tonight, is must win for Brisbane, as a victory tonight, means that it takes out the competition in straight sets and without dropping a fixture this season: and a must win for Melbourne... that potentially forces us to a Game 4 next Tuesday.

Now, let's go over the ground rules.

Our focus, in Content Survey Live will be monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.

-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.

-(NEW in 2025) Local overnight news: Handled via a system we call collectively, the “Ray Robinson Number”: 1pt for V/O’d overnight news, 2pts for a full story, the total is reported at each survey’s end.

-Weather is not counted.

-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.

The Hometown Rule for the Grand Final, is as follows.

Brisbane: Game 1, Game 3, Game 5 (if required)
Melbourne: Game 2, Game 4 (if required)

We open tonight, with a unit fire in Townsville (two points for the Ray Robinson Number), a live cross concerning a M1 late night joyride (one point for the Ray Robinson Number), a live cross for a Helensvale brawl yesterday, full stories on a jailing of a child predator, Tweed Heads fire ant issues, QLD-developed reef mesh for regrowing coral and the upcoming opening of the Milano bakehouse by Merlo coffee (no word yet on the Merlo avocado farm to go with all that toast), voiced over pieces concerning a Cairns break in (one point for the Ray Robinson Number), a separate M1 accident to the late night joyride (one point for the Ray Robinson Number), and the grand return overnight of the big golf ball to Mermaid Beach Putt Putt (one point for the Ray Robinson Number)

Two other live crosses: Morwell for "that trial", and to Queens Wharf as workers go on strike.

Sport tonight for Brisbane is heavy on Origin: but has significant balance, with previews for tomorrow's Storm/Cowboys match, NRLW and AFL, where the Lions blasted rumors of a Joe Daniher retirement reversal.

Tonight's pre-6pm weather doesn't make it to air, due to technical troubles concerning the opener for 10 News+.

Brisbane tonight, has sent a significant message to people doubting it's merit in light of Wednesday's nailbiter.

The scores:
Five local stories.
Four live crosses (five if you count the sole weather cross tonight)
Three voiced over pieces.
Sport segment that could rightfully challenge Melbourne.
A Ray Robinson Number... of six.

The only number that matters tonight though.

Brisbane scored: 7/10.

Brisbane finally gets that 7 that it's been clawing for all season on a night where it matters.

Coming up shortly, is the Melbourne survey that will likely decide whether we go on to a game four next week.

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