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Grand Slam possibly coming to the US....

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Jay Temple:
I second your nomination of Leszek.  I also nominate:

From Trebek Jeopardy!--Chuck Forrest and Bob Blake
From Fleming Jeopardy!--Burns Cameron
From WWTBAM--John Carpenter, the first $1M winner
From TTD--Thom McKee
From TJW--the winner of their first ToC  (It wasn't sportscaster Frank Gifford, but his name was similar.  He was also in the Jeopardy!'s first Senior Tournament.  If anyone has this info, I'd like to hear it.)
From $100,000 Pyramid--Keif Farrendini (sp)

Fedya:
If they're still alive, Leland Yung and/or John Hatten from Blockbusters.

Kandi Doyle might be a better choice, since she also won $40K+ on Trivia Trap.

Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 01:02 PM\'] Snarkily, I'd like to see John Carpenter, the dude who won the Pepsi show, Rich Hatch, Kelly Clarkson and Charles Van Doren. [/quote]
 Your snarkiness noted, my impression is that Grand Slam is designed specifically for Q&A contestants to match wits.  (Oddly, there doesn't appear to be a listing for it on the UK Game Shows site.)   If this thing comes together, John Carpenter is virtually guaranteed a spot.  Naturally, Charles Van Doren would pass, but Herb Stempel would do it in a heartbeat.  The others you name wouldn't even be considered.

It does sound like money winnings is just one of the considerations, so somebody who did well on a low-payout quiz game (Win Ben Stein's Money being the obvious example) might be invited.  Heck, why not invite the mighty Mr. Stein himself?

tommycharles:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 02:03 PM\'] Your snarkiness noted, my impression is that Grand Slam is designed specifically for Q&A contestants to match wits.  (Oddly, there doesn't appear to be a listing for it on the UK Game Shows site.)   If this thing comes together, John Carpenter is virtually guaranteed a spot.  Naturally, Charles Van Doren would pass, but Herb Stempel would do it in a heartbeat.  The others you name wouldn't even be considered.

It does sound like money winnings is just one of the considerations, so somebody who did well on a low-payout quiz game (Win Ben Stein's Money being the obvious example) might be invited.  Heck, why not invite the mighty Mr. Stein himself? [/quote]
 That's basically the idea. Former quiz champs put up 1000 pounds each to compete in the tournament, knowing that only one of them will ever see their cash again (I don't remember how many players there are).

The format is basically \"Playing for Time\" - but instead of using excess seconds to play the bonus round, they are added to each player's final round clock. Low payouts really aren't a problem (to the U.K. version, anyway) as shown by the large population of 15-to-1 and UC champs that entered.

The only problem with bringing the show stateside, that I can see, is the number of hard quizzes that we have. WWTBAM, WBSM, J! are the only ones currently (well, almost) in production. I could see a producer haveing a hard time attracting viewers to see champs from a game show that they haven't heard of.

uncamark:
[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 12:11 PM\']From TJW--the winner of their first ToC  (It wasn't sportscaster Frank Gifford, but his name was similar.  He was also in the Jeopardy!'s first Senior Tournament.  If anyone has this info, I'd like to hear it.)[/quote]
Frank Dillon.  He was one of the first champions to go the $25,000 limit and he announced that he was going to put the cash portion of his winnings into a scholarship fund at the high school he taught at in Cleveland called the \"Jack Barry/Joker's Wild Fund.\"  In his tournament appearances, where he was not required to give half of his money to charity like the $1,000,000 tournament (which he didn't participate in), he voluntarily donated all of his winnings to the American Heart Association.

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