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JasonA1:

--- Quote from: Otm Shank on May 02, 2025, 12:44:12 PM ---Maybe I misunderstood how the tiebreaker is calculated. If neither team reaches a 7, then it's a tie, because everyone took 90 seconds. I thought the way around that was to count from the last correct answer in each round.
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It's the total amount of time you worked on correct answers -- at least by the time I saw a show bible, which was season 4 or 5. That means time for answers you didn't score on doesn't count against you. Illustrated (without tenths of a second, so it's easy to see):

Answer 1 -- 3 seconds
Answer 2 -- 3 seconds
Answer 3 -- 4 seconds
Answer 4 -- 5 seconds
Answer 5 -- passed
Answer 6 -- 3 seconds
Answer 7 -- time runs out

The total time for this player so far would be 18 seconds.

-Jason

BillCullen1:
So that's how the time is calculated. Thanks for filling us in.

Joe Mello:

--- Quote from: JasonA1 on May 02, 2025, 02:07:22 PM ---It's the total amount of time you worked on correct answers -- at least by the time I saw a show bible, which was season 4 or 5. That means time for answers you didn't score on doesn't count against you.
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That's more granular than I expected. I'm genuinely surprised (positive?) at that choice.

steveleb:
Jason, that's actually an evolution from what I was privy to, which was between seasons 1 and 2.  Whoever developed that should be commended.  That's far fairer than the original concept and also eliminates any possibility of a true tie if no one got 7 in any category.  Which, as we saw in 2012, was absolutely a possibility, especially if a Turturro was involved.

Mucho thanks for that insight, sir.

Neumms:

--- Quote from: steveleb on May 03, 2025, 09:42:05 AM ---Which, as we saw in 2012, was absolutely a possibility, especially if a Turturro was involved.

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Thanks, Jason. I’ve wondered that since the start. Steve, what would they have done in a tie?

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