With reserves set more than $2 million above the Daylesford median house price, there was a desperate scramble behind the scenes of The Block to ensure contestants didn’t walk away empty-handed.

While winners Britt and Taz’ house sold for $420,000 above the $2.99 million reserve, the remaining teams faced an uphill battle to draw bids with a three at the front.

Realising the seriousness of the situation, executive producer Julian Cress and host Scott Cam urged the teams to get their auctioneers to open with a vendor bid that would safeguard their houses from going under the hammer too soon.

“Today’s conversations were a little more difficult because they were about strategy, because we could see the wheels were coming off, and so I was trying to reassure them that they weren’t about to

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