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Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Jul 1 2003, 06:28 PM\'] They could just make inside clues illegal, worthy of a cuckoo.  

The bigger point is, they'd be far better off figuring out some way to ditch celebrities if they can't attract entertaining, well-known ones. [/quote]
 To your first point:  How could a judge be sure a clue was illegally \"inside\"?

To your second, no.  They gain nothing by ditching celebrities in favor of an all-civilian format.  The 1970s Pyramid had \"stars\", but the better Pyramid in terms of game play was in the 80s, when being a star was less inportant to Bob Stewart than whether you could play his little game well.

What the current Pyramid did in the first season was find itself, both in how they were going to judge and what sort of celebrities they were going to be able to get.  I think what you'll see next season are a lot more returning \"good players\", regardless of how far up they go on the celeb-o-meter.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Jul 1 2003, 11:28 AM\'] They could just make inside clues illegal, worthy of a cuckoo.  
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 That would be so gray-area as to be completely unenforcable. I suppose the rest of the clue rules have some gray areas as well, but at least you can gauge when someone has stepped too far over the line. I just don't see how you'd do that with something like this.

Neumms:
I was thinking of the clues noted earlier, such as \"Shirley is your ________.\" If it was just a matter of mentioning specific people, it might not be that hard to judge, but I suppose other things could come up, too. So I'll grant that partners who know each other isn't the way to go.

I still think that lousy, no-talent celebrities bring down the show, though. It makes the Pyramid seem bush league, and the game is so good it shouldn't be that way.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Jul 1 2003, 07:12 PM\'] I still think that lousy, no-talent celebrities bring down the show, though. It makes the Pyramid seem bush league, and the game is so good it shouldn't be that way. [/quote]
 I don't agree that it reflects poorly on the show, but it certainly isn't as entertaining. I was watching Scott Hamilton on the $100K show today. I love Scott Hamilton. I've had the honor of seeing him skate live once. And damn, does he suck at Pyramid. (In the WC, anyhow.) I don't think it made the show bad, it just meant that Scott Hamilton sucked at Pyramid. C'est la vie.

zachhoran:
Scott didn't do too much better on the current season of Donny Pyramid either IIRC. But he's better than Krayzelburg.

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