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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
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extravagant showcases would be good TV and good for promotion.Yeah but not going overbudget >>> good TV and good promotion.
My suggestion would be to play two shortened complete games. Three contestants play the first game. The high scoring player stays on stage while three new players play another full game - maybe just three questions per round, as the free spins on the board can make up for earning fewer spins to start. The challenge in the second game is to have one of the players top the winner of the first one.
I think it was Steve G. who told me that at least for a long time, the Showcases would have the biggest prizes, but not necessarily that the showcase winner wound up as top winner overall.
Now You See It; one of the better "play-along" ones.
Maybe he was penny wise to be generous to his employees and winners, and that he was not cheap in a derogatory sense.Better to be a Bob Stewart, and actually be able to pay out your winners, than to overpromise and underdeliver like a Catalena.
Someone who rewarded players out of their own pocket was Bob Stewart. There are a few examples on Pyramid (especially the NY era where one loss and you're gone) where Bob would give extra money to contestants who lost but played EXCELLENTLY. Bob shelled out $200 to a losing contestant in the longest tiebreaker ever. Bob also shelled out $1,000 to contestants who played NINETEEN perfect rounds in a row. Hell, Bob shelled out $10,000 to the charity of the contestant's choice when a gray area reared during a Winner's Circle win that was taken away due to a ruling by S&P. Bob knew S&P can't do anything after the game is completed with no lingering issues, and he got to reward the people who deserved it.
Without revealing too much...
I worked on a show that involved a timed round. The host made a mistake that required a stopdown and broke the momentum a little bit. The game ended up being close, and the feeling was that it played out fairly. The host, however, personally felt that their mistake had caused the game to swing in a certain direction. The host walked up to the S&P person and asked, "Can I take the losers to a restaurant and treat them to dinner? I feel really bad about this."
The S&P person replied, "Once the game has been played to completion, we can't tell you to do anything." So the losers got a free dinner that night.