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Jay Temple:
I'll just throw my 2 cents' worth in.

I don't disagree that the knowledge that the winner will be named on Wednesday makes the Monday and Tuesday games less important.  However, the knowledge that they might send all four players home with less than $100,000 even including their prior winnings makes all three games seem not very important.  I think it's more important to address that.

My proposal can accommodate as many as seven qualifiers, and it's similar to the Clark/Davidson tournament.*  Start by seeding the players somehow.  My preference would be the shortest time for the two WC wins goes first, with ties broken by some other means.

Game 1:  #1- and #2-seeded players.  Whoever wins goes for the $100,000.  If they don't get it, they face the #3 player and so on.  If all the players have played a main game and no one has won, they bring back the losers in order.  If there is no winner after six games, the person who (take your pick) won the most money in the WC or won the most games is declared the winner, and his total gets bumped up to $100,000.  (I wouldn't mind if a "declared" winner got $75,000 to make his total $100,000, while a person who actually won the bonus got $100,000 in addition to everything else he had accumulated.)

If the $100,000 is given away in the first game of one day, the next two players scheduled play a game whose winner goes to the WC for either $10,000, like the Clark/Davidson era, or $25,000.  (I'm partial to $25,000 only because that's what you have to win to get into the current Tournament.)

* IMHO, this is better than their system.  I always thought their system would be better if they had the third player sit out one game at a time instead of one day.

bandit_bobby:
I would do the tourney like the first tourney they did before they changed it. Once again, winning the full $25K automatically qualifies you for the tourney. Any leftover spots not filled by the tourney are filled by the ones who won WC's in the faster times.

Again, the first WC win in a day is worth $25K, and two in the same show wins the tourney and $100,000. If no one accompolishes that, the one that won a WC faster wins the $100,000. In the event it is won before the final day, the remaining days will have WC's each worth $25,000.

scully24:
I wonder if they'll change the format before this season is over?  If they went back to a guaranteed $100,000 winner this season, I'd feel bad for Mary Scott who missed out.

I think the current format was an accommodation for the fact that they only had four winners, and they wanted a three-day tournament with those four.

I think a good idea would be as follows:

Assuming there are four more winners for the end of season tournament, do another three-day tournament with the same rules as this last one.  Then have the winner of that tournament face off against Mary Scott for a guaranteed $100,000 payout--a grand champion for the whole season!  This could be a one-day finale or a multi-day, first-to-the-top-of-the-Pyramid finish.

In this way they would save face by not throwing away the new format entirely, but they would re-instate a guaranteed winner in a dramatic fashion, plus, by bringing back Mary Scott,  it would be fair to the players who participated in the recently concluded, non-guaranteed tournament.

PyramidStephen:
Scully has a good idea. At this point there will probably only be 4 champions for a second tournament. I'm sure Mary Scott would love to return. The problem with a tournament that has no end is just that- impossible to program,especially within a sweeps period.

SplitSecond:
Well, in the hopes that you make it to a third season, it might be worth changing your qualifying mechanism so that you can guarantee exactly four players (or however many make your ideal tournament format work).  Be it the people who scale one Pyramid in the shortest time or the people who win the $25K in the shortest combined time or something along those lines, guaranteeing a consistent number of players in each tournament will allow you to devise one good tournament format and stick with it, rather than changing the rules every sweeps period.

The downside of airing shows out of order is that Donny can't hype any sort of time to beat, but that can be resolved with some sort of post-produced full-screen leaderboard flashed briefly while Donny mentions that only the four fastest whateverers can make it to the tournament.

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