1992-2001 / Saturdays, midday to one:30 pm, 1:30-3:00 pm, 2:00-3:30 pm / RPN 9 / 1992-99 / PTV-4 / 1999–2001 / Produced by way of Focal Media Arts Inc and Uniwide Gross sales Team, then AMA Laptop Faculty, with the Division of Schooling, Tradition, and Sports activities / Host: David Celdran / Alternates: Chiqui Roa-Puno, Cathy Santillan, Anthony Suntay

Fight of the Brains used to be a quiz display for fundamental, highschool, and college scholars from private and non-private faculties known by way of the Division of Schooling, Tradition, and Sports activities. It has experts from the College of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila College who function judges. Downside units quilt science, arithmetic, arts and tradition, historical past, present occasions, and basic data in simple, reasonable, and hard rounds with a corresponding building up in prizes.

Each and every fundamental and highschool is represented by way of two scholars. A school is represented by way of one pupil. Weekly winners compete within the per 30 days finals, the winners of which compete within the quarterfinals, after which struggle with the most productive within the grand finals. Prizes within the grand finals are 300,000 pesos for the fundamental stage winner, 400,000 pesos for the highschool stage winner, and 500,000 pesos for the varsity stage winner. 100,000 pesos every is given to the college and trainer of the winners within the fundamental and highschool ranges. There are not any identical prizes for the varsity winner. Grand finals are held in giant meeting spaces such because the Philippine Global Conference Middle (PICC) and the College Theater of the College of the Philippines in Diliman.

The blended rewards of attaining non-public reputation and institutional status, honoring one’s oldsters, and getting giant prizes made it one of the vital fashionable tv systems within the Nineties. It commanded an enormous following, particularly a number of the nation’s adolescence, together with their circle of relatives elders. 1000’s of scholars in loads of colleges from other portions of the rustic would touch Focal Media Arts to sign up for the weekly finals. It used to be mentioned that pupil audience at house additionally attempted fixing the issues and competing with friends for their very own model of prizes. Folks are reported to have written and thanked the manufacturers for encouraging their youngsters to review. Bereft of showbiz gimmicks and using a collection and not using a glamorous design, Fight of the Brains has confirmed that the Filipino target market additionally calls for substance in leisure.

Colleges that experience despatched scholars to the grand finals boast in their alumni’s inclusion within the display on their web sites and in promotional fabrics. This system even had an invitational match for the 3 pupil ranges within the Southeast Asian area which used to be hung on 4 Jul 1997 on the PICC. All of the ranges had been gained by way of the Filipino contestants.

When the Uniwide Gross sales Team may now not maintain this system, AMA Laptop Faculty stepped in, moved the display to PTV 4 in 1999, and subsidized it till its remaining run in 2001.

David Celdran used to be acclaimed best possible sport display host by way of the PMPC Celebrity Awards for 3 consecutive years in 1994-96. The Catholic Mass Media Awards conferred at the program the Lorenzo Ruiz Award for Tv Leisure in 1996 for “inspiring its younger target market to try for excellence in class and in the whole lot they do.”