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Different Tournament of Champions
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Dec 18 2003, 07:58 PM\'] Speaking of TJW's tournament: If it was called the MILLION DOLLAR tournament, why did they give out a HALF-Million to the champ, instead of ONE Million? [/quote]
THe payouts for all the participants totalled $1 Million, and half of the monies went to the contestants, and half to a charity of the player's choosing(the $200K second place prize and the $500K first place prize were paid in annuities IIRC)
ChuckNet:
--- Quote ---In the second and third tournaments, the ones where Frank Dillon was the previous year's defending champion, he was excluded from all levels of play and faced the last person remaining for the title. When he lost, they made his successor start from the bottom with everyone else.
--- End quote ---
No doubt Frank was helped more than a bit by the guaranteed spot in the finals for the $100K and $250K tourneys...as it was, Eileen Jason (who defeated him in the latter tourney) wound up being eliminated in the preliminaries of the $1M tourney the following year.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
gameshowguy2000:
And since I watched it like some of you did, I'll give the rules of the ABC version of Jeopardy! called SUPER JEOPARDY!
This was like the original Jeopardy, but with a few changes:
Quarterfinals: 4 players. As usual, whoever had the highest score moved on, and the losers got $5,000.
Semi-finals: 4 players (I think, please correct me if I am wrong), like the semi-finals. The losers got $10,000.
Finals: 3 players. First place got $250,000; Second place got $50,000; Third place got $25,000. The winner was Bruce Seymour.
Values were in points, not cash (And I don't know why they chose to use points. Anyone want to help me out?) J! round values ranged from 200-1000 (Current J! format, former DJ! format); DJ! round values ranged from 500-2500 (in 500-point increments).
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Dec 18 2003, 10:11 PM\']
Semi-finals: 4 players (I think, please correct me if I am wrong), like the semi-finals. The losers got $10,000.
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The semi final games had the usual three players. Three QF games were followed by an SF game. THis process was repeated three times, with the three SF game winners returning for the finals airing on 9/8/90.
TheInquisitiveOne:
Let me throw in a game show's tournament format: some of the various tournaments of $ale of the Century.
If anyone knows how the 1983 tournament worked, please let us know. I appreciate it. I don't exactly know how the 1985 tournament worked either, but I do know that the finals had only TWO contestants, with the grand prize winner gaining over $50,000 in cash and prizes ($25,000 cash and a $27,000 car).
Thanks to Bob Staub, I have some knowledge of the $ale International Invitational Tournament. There were two theaters to this tourney.
The first theater had nine of the best contestants on U.S. $ale (including some from the syndicated version, such as Alice Conkwright). The finals was a two-day event, with the scores accumulating over a two day period (a la Jeopardy!). The Winner's Board was still played everyday.
The winner of the U.S. finals entered into the second theater, the actual International Invitational. This time, the best of Australia and Canada were the other participants. The first to win three games was declared the champion and won a $35,000 Corvette Convertible. Again, the winner of each individual game played the Winner's Board (with the exception of the clincher). Cary from Australia (who already had won over $343,000 - in Australian money - on Tony Barber's $ale) won the tournament.
In my opinion, this was one of the best moments of NBC's run of $ale (and probably the last exhibition of the Winner's Board, as well).
The Inquisitive One
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