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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Jay Temple on June 24, 2010, 02:50:48 AM
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I'm among those who doubted that a 60-minute daily Pyramid could work, but I've come up with a format that combines what I would think are the desired features.
Four main games an hour comes out to 20 per week. I think we've already heard that every attempt is for $25,000. That works with my idea.
1. A player wins a match against his opponent by winning either two main games or one $25,000 attempt. When you lose a match, you're gone. When you win five matches, you're gone.
2. Regulation play is interrupted after game 2 on Friday. The two players who won the most money in those first 18 games come back for a two-game championship match.
3. If you win one Winner's Circle in the championship match, you double your winnings (or add $25,000, if the bar was set that low for the week). If you win both games and both Winner's Circles, you win $1,000,000.
Actual $1,000,000 wins would be rare enough to preserve the budget, but it would at least be possible every week, and $100,000 wins would not be unusual (two WC's in regulation plus one in the championship match).
The intro could even be like the one in the B&W clip we've seen: "Watch this space. This week, someone will sit here with a chance to win life-changing money. This ... is the One-Million-Dollar Pyramid! Today's special guests are Betty White ... and, from How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris!"
I left out some minutiae. I'll mention these two, because they relate to breaking or preventing ties as far as qualifying for the tournament match:
1. Include a merchandise prize at least in Game 1. (Jim and Cheryl each won $26,500, but Jim also won a piano, so he's in.)
2. ISTR that the fall pilot had $100, $200, $300, $400, $500, $750, which is fine. The important thing is that having a different value for each space makes ties less likely. (Compare to 50-50-50-100-100-200 or 100-100-100-200-200-300.)
What do you think?
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[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'242939\' date=\'Jun 24 2010, 01:50 AM\']What do you think?[/quote]
Complicated.
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[quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'242947\' date=\'Jun 24 2010, 12:41 AM\']Complicated.[/quote]
Understatement.
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I always preferred the three-tier approach when talking about adding a $1M tournament to Pyramid. Basically, you hold three $100K tournaments over the course of the season, and the winners of each one face off in the same manner for the $1M prize.
Granted, I don't necessarily think Pyramid needs a seven-digit payoff, but if someone was hell-bent on doing one, that would probably be the best way to do it.
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[quote name=\'Loogaroo\' post=\'242949\' date=\'Jun 24 2010, 04:57 AM\']I always preferred the three-tier approach when talking about adding a $1M tournament to Pyramid. Basically, you hold three $100K tournaments over the course of the season, and the winners of each one face off in the same manner for the $1M prize.[/quote]
No way! I came up with that same idea years ago, but substitute $500k for $1M.
/Great minds think alike?
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[quote name=\'Loogaroo\' post=\'242949\' date=\'Jun 24 2010, 03:57 AM\']Granted, I don't necessarily think Pyramid needs a seven-digit payoff, but if someone was hell-bent on doing one, that would probably be the best way to do it.[/quote]
Neither do I, frankly, but since the set from last year's pilot showed the figure, I figured they were going to call it that. (It may have been reported that way, not sure.) In fact, I too wished that the Clark/Davidson version had done a super-tournament the way you described.
Since the show apparently is once again titled just "Pyramid," the question is now moot.
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The format as described in the pilot sets itself nicely for a week-long tournament of 16. I'm not that enamored with a top prize that's guaranteed to be won, so I could easily live with 10/25 for the first four days and 25/50 for the fifth.
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How about the $250,000 Pyramid if they wanted a tournament? It fits with big money without serious breaking the bank and it's a nice increase from the $100,000 Pyramid.