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Sodboy13:

--- Quote from: JasonA1 on February 14, 2025, 10:00:30 PM ---Before I get into the rest, can I ask why it's a detriment to you as a viewer to have one segment disproportionately short? Maybe I'm missing something.

-Jason

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I compare it to a common gripe in sports: Those moments in football where it's an ad break, kickoff, touchback, and then right to another ad break. I just like a little more meat in that particular sandwich. Honestly, the weight of the scoring is more important to me than the timing of the segments, but I just thought of a way that could have addressed both in one move without really messing with everything I feel worked just fine.

Joe Mello:

--- Quote from: Sodboy13 on February 14, 2025, 09:29:11 PM ---Make the first go-round for :45 at $50, and make the second for :30 at $100. Doing that, you balance out the blocks a little better, and you still have the last round of the game worth the most money, but it's no longer weighted so heavily that it feels like it outweighs everything before it.
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I would argue that you actually do want a fairly robust catch-up mechanic, especially when each person is effectively playing their own game with little way to affect the other. While modern game shows seem to visibly overbalance for their final round, I don't think MG '90 has that problem.

JasonA1:
You don't want the last round to be just 30 seconds (ask Temptation: The All-New $ale of the Century). You want the perception of a comeback possibility. Even if they flipped the timing to 45/30 instead of 30/45, Match-Up would still be more important to the score than the longer, main rounds of Match Game, where all the real entertainment of the show is supposed to come from. If we end up in the weeds of scoring on what's supposed to be a comedy show, we have a problem of a different kind.

-Jason

MSTieScott:
I haven't been watching much of the Buzzr run, but revisiting just a couple of episodes, I don't like that there are two sets of Match-Up. There's no comedy, and each prompt goes by too quickly for the viewer to think about whether the contestant or celebrity are picking the "better" of each pair.

One set wouldn't bother me, but when they keep interrupting the fun with Match-Up, and when Match-Up often pays better than the fun questions, it feels like the focus is on the wrong part of the show.

jage:
Totally agree. It's a cute round once per show. If you want something that will help determine a winner better than the 2nd question, could do some form of the tiebreaker match as a 4th round. Or just drop the 2nd matchup and have more time for banter.

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