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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: mmb5 on January 11, 2012, 12:13:53 PM
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It's actually quasi-celebrity, as it will be team staffers playing:
http://mlb.mlb.com/network/promotions/BBIQ.jsp (http://"http://mlb.mlb.com/network/promotions/BBIQ.jsp")
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Yeah, that's pretty quasi.
But it could at least be as entertaining as Stump the Schwab.
(And I think it might be more fun to have baseball people vs. fans - I bet I could find 30 fans who would outdo the selected experts.)
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I actually think the format is pretty interesting. At the minimum it's a decently thematic scoring system. (And they don't mention it directly, but based on the other rules I am assuming that after the toss-up in the first inning, they take turns picking categories and going first, which is why the ninth is a bidding war.
(And now I have to wonder if they will be savvy enough to realize that the bidding in the ninth inning has to start with a number of answers sufficient to produce enough runs to tie the game. (So, for example, if a player needs four runs to tie, and the "sliding scale" is one run per two answers, the bidding HAS to start at at least seven for the round to have any relevance at all.) Since they explicitly mention a Mercy Rule, I am hoping they are.)
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Sounds like some unfinished business to me.
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Sounds like some unfinished business to me.
Well, yeah, the high concept isn't a new one in the least, but I was at least heartened to see that the presentation was something a wee bit more strategic than "best two out of three", which is what every predecessor since Pass The Buck did.
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I'm sure Dan McShane is disappointed that he decided to win all that money on Jeopardy instead of possibly going on this.
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First episode airs tonight at 9 ET.
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The basic concept is good. Even the execution is good. Then they had to spoil it by making the deciding round be about the Home Run Derby.