GO GET EM!
Congratulations! Best of luck!
KICK SOME ASS!
Has anybody been watching yet? Anything interesting to see?
I thought I understood that the online component would start first so that they\'d have some defending champs to start with before the TV show debuted. There doesn\'t appear to be anything to watch on the website, so either I\'m wrong or even that part doesn\'t start until later.
It actually started today at about 7AM. A few matches were seen online, but they encountered difficulties and the stream is currently down as they deal with some more. Matches still continue even though we can\'t see them.
It appears pretty straightforward. 500 seconds on the clock, as many four-choice questions as can fit in that time, the person with the most correct answers after time is up gets or keeps the Money Chair. If a person is defeated, as soon as their opponent sits in the chair they begin earning 10 dollars a second. So they could have a bit of money accrued before they even face their first opponent. With the rules as I understand them, the four highest money-earners plus the last person to sit in the chair at the end of time keep what they\'ve earned and battle for an escalated prize.
So as I understand it by defeating a champion you win nothing for that, but will scoop $5,000.00 for each opponent you can fend off, plus whatever time it takes to swap out players, do interviews and stuff?
Correct. The only time money is ever accrued is when a heinie is in the big leather chair. Congratulations on knocking someone out of it, but until you\'re in it, you don\'t have a dime.
That\'s gonna be kinda lame once they have four 20K+ winners and that money clock counting up doesn\'t mean jack over shiat until that champion defends for three or four games.
and that also means the money isn\'t yours, just credited to you and held in escrow until the end of the tournament?
That is my assumption, but I don\'t know that for a fact.
It also means they aren\'t cutting hundreds of checks for $5,000 each.That\'s gonna be kinda lame once they have four 20K+ winners and that money clock counting up doesn\'t mean jack over shiat until that champion defends for three or four games.
Very true. I\'m just pointing out that this might be a flaw in the format, since neither option seems really preferable.
A timer on the show\'s webpage says we\'ve missed about 33,000 seconds already.
Based on what\'s been said, that sounds about right.
One thing that has been confusing about MSQ, as Matt O. noted, is when the show actually \"launches.\" I have the show app and, for a few weeks, it had a countdown clock that timed the premiere to this morning around 8am ET or so. This past Saturday, the clock changed to 8pm ET on Monday, when MSQ premieres on TV.
I was also under the impression that online players could compete 24/7 with the live show to compete for a slot, but now that doesn\'t seem to be the case -- it appears the only shot is during the nightly NBC telecast. The lack of an online broadcast (I clicked on the live link both on the phone and the laptop today, and all I got were ads for Subway and \"The Michael J. Fox Show\") isn\'t helping matters -- for a show promising \"24/7 access\" to the games, having it conk out a few minutes after launch is terrible PR.
I\'ve also heard some complaints from the online community regarding contestant selection. Obviously, MSQ needs a lot of contestants (I\'ve heard anything from 800-3000 people could play), but some are complaining that the show is depending too heavily on local \"walk-ins\" who reached the magic number on the online game and did a brief phone interview and ignoring those who went through several levels of a traditional auditioning process (open calls, Skype interviews, numerous applications, etc.). I have no clue if this is true or not (it could just be \"grumbling for the point of grumbling\"), but it\'s out there.
JD
(To be open and honest with you all, I did a Skype audition with the show back in July. Knew it was a longshot, but I wanted to see how auditioning via Skype worked.)
Congrats Christian...go get \'em!
I\'ve talked to a few friends who have actually played the app, and we all agree it\'s quite fun and addictive. For anyone who\'s been able to watch online, is the question difficulty comparable to the online game? I\'ve probably averaged about a 100-120, and the app says I have a 70% accuracy rate, but the questions aren\'t necessarily 3rd-tier Millionaire level.
/Not bragging or anything
//19-5 record
The lack of an online broadcast (I clicked on the live link both on the phone and the laptop today, and all I got were ads for Subway and \"The Michael J. Fox Show\") isn\'t helping matters -- for a show promising \"24/7 access\" to the games, having it conk out a few minutes after launch is terrible PR.
I still can\'t find anything official from the show about why we can\'t watch the bouts take place. The people handling their Twitter feed are trying to get us excited about the games we can\'t watch (apparently \"Wayne\" and \"Andrew\" are doing well), but as far as I can tell there isn\'t even an online scoreboard to tell us how the live players are doing. Plus the Twitter feed is clogged with a bunch of silly celebrity plugs. There are some still pictures that don\'t really tell us anything, and at least one pretty significant name in trivia is getting annoyed. I really hope a lot of this is explained tonight.
(No, not Trebek.)
I\'m sitting in a holding room with MacBooks and Subway sandwiches everywhere, and I have no idea what the hell is going on.
This is sounding more and more like a train wreck by the second- I suspect they didn\'t want to start the livestream until after the first episode aired (which isn\'t new- people have been complaining for years that Big Brother actually puts the contestants in the house about a week before the livestream starts so they have footage for the first TV episode, and as a result as we miss a lot of early strategy). They really didn\'t nail down how the bouts were going to work until close to airtime, and the way they apparently will work means the four people in Winner\'s Row at the end probably will only end up in the low six-figures at best (unless someone goes on a very big run)- thus they\'ve supposedly added a $2 million bonus at the end of the series. I\'ve just got a bad feeling about this...especially if the ratings don\'t start off well.
To win $100,000 someone would have to hold onto the money chair for three hours or so. That is a lot of concentrating. To become a millionaire would take about 30 hours. I don\'t know who was advertising six-figure payouts or that if players didn\'t win big jackpots that the whole effort would be a fiasco, but I can imagine that there are ways to bungle what\'s a huge operation.and the way they apparently will work means the four people in Winner\'s Row at the end probably will only end up in the low six-figures at best (unless someone goes on a very big run)
I was wrong about one thing. There is a board that appears to list the four current high scores for the live game here:
http://www.nbc.com/million-second-quiz#/winners_row
Sure enough, as was inferred from the Twitter feed, \"Andrew\" and \"Wayne\" are our leaders so far.
Still nothing about why we\'re not able to watch.
Good luck to the OP. I\'m Tivoing this so I can watch when I get home later tonight. Who knows, this could be the next sensation like \"Millionaire\" was back in \'99.
At the rate they\'re going, that seems unlikely. Have you actually read this thread?
Watching this now...
Really not thrilled that the \"TV\" contestant can make money just twiddling his/her thumbs between all the \"extra\" stuff (commercial breaks, challenger intros, etc).
Really not thrilled that the \"TV\" contestant can make money just twiddling his/her thumbs between all the \"extra\" stuff (commercial breaks, challenger intros, etc).
Really not thrilled that the \"TV\" contestant can make money just twiddling his/her thumbs between all the \"extra\" stuff (commercial breaks, challenger intros, etc).
They had to win a match to get there. Think of it as a bonus.
They had to win a match to get there. Think of it as a bonus.
Fair point. Didn\'t consider that.
This show is so confusing...
The show isn\'t that confusing. They just didn\'t bother to hand-hold you through the rules. They\'re pretty straightforward though:
EDIT: -- side note, I\'m leaving the stream on overnight to see if it stays up. Going to throw it on the 42\" and dream of dreams.
Thanks for that!
Dumb question. At the end of the show it says it was edited for broadcast. How do you edit a live show? LOL
Okay, I\'ll admit: The last couple minutes of that bout were legit intense. Even if it was way overstretched on the last question.
Million Second Quiz is a spectacle for sure. But if viewership doesn\'t stick around, they truly only have themselves to blame. You can\'t jump headfirst into a new show with apparently more curves than Kim Kardashian and explain none of them.
Also the live feed is back, Seacrest is hosting it for now, and they\'re at 500 seconds per quiz with no strange lifelines and one point per question always. I assume. I don\'t know for sure. I thought I knew what was going on with the show before it started but that was thrown out the window.
Watching the first on-line bout. Values aren\'t increased, no doublers, and yeah, the beautiful people were booked for the prime time spots.
Well, let\'s add one to the technical screwups count. During the first online match the contestant hit his screen several times during the bout and it didn\'t register and now we\'re treated to a bunch of time watching the silent green room (full of Subway ads).
Did no one think to have paper cards with A/B/C/D on them ready to go if something happened with the screens?
Why the hell would you rescind the doubler and increasing point values in the non-televised shows? After the bout immeadiately following the show, the livestream has shown some holding room. At least 15 minutes with no bouts.
Well, let\'s add one to the technical screwups count. During the first online match the contestant hit his screen several times during the bout and it didn\'t register and now we\'re treated to a bunch of time watching the silent green room (full of Subway ads).
Did no one think to have paper cards with A/B/C/D on them ready to go if something happened with the screens?
Lots of speculation coming:
My narrow-minded thoughts on that:
5 years ago, I took some plywood, some LED lights, some poker chips, and custom software and made a playable version of Duel. These guys have how many people working on this stuff?
Where\'s the stream?
EDIT: Never mind, found it, and it says its not avalible in my area.
5 years ago, I took some plywood, some LED lights, some poker chips, and custom software and made a playable version of Duel.
Well, now the show has been off-air (no new duels shown) for over an hour and now we\'re hearing them fine tune a quote from the last contestant defeated on television.
Live television is working without a safety net but it looks like Million Seconds seems to be intentionally using a fire pit to fall into.
That\'s the best mixed metaphor I\'ve heard since the two people who got along like oil and matches.
And now I\'m sure Subway will be happy that we\'re watching winner\'s row order from Five Guys.... cut to Subway ad.
Best Live Feed EVAR!
Now they\'re replaying tonight\'s only online bout, presumably for the west coast (which does and doesn\'t make sense.)
Game shows are no fun in a broom closet and they\'re certainly no longer game shows. Sorry to hear your experience was less than pleasant. Do you have any idea what\'s going on with the online games/stream?
Do you have any idea what\'s going on with the online games/stream?
According to Ryan on tonight\'s episode, there were so many viewers or downloads (I missed that part) that the system crashed, so that explains the glitches from last night.
According to Ryan on tonight\'s episode, there were so many viewers or downloads (I missed that part) that the system crashed, so that explains the glitches from last night.
One error I caught on Monday was that the question read by Blake Shelton had one answer choice that was different on the on-screen graphic from what he read. It was the one about \"If your mother is a cougar, what are you?\" One option was \"calf\" on screen, but Blake said \"kitten.\"
I caught that. I think that\'s the only error of that kind so far. This show is okay, but I thought Regis\' Millionaire was more exciting.
The only question that I haven\'t liked so far was one that asked about the most common street names in the US, according to the US Postal Service. As written, the question is absolutely correct. However, overwhelmingly, if you\'ve read anything at all on this subject, the answer you\'d know would almost certainly be different than the one they gave. And, unfortunately, that answer was one of their \"wrong\" choices.
Try it yourself. Google \"most common street name in us\" and see what answer you come up with.
Next, find their answer on the relevant USPS page. For fun, see how long it takes you to find it without resorting to a computer search of the page.
Again, they sourced it correctly, so their answer is right. Still, when there is some question over which answer is \"right\" depending on who you ask, you\'re drifting into Greed territory of favorite Jell-O flavors and most interesting smells.
Our patron saint got name-checked a couple of minutes ago, so that\'s nice.
I\'m such a dullard; I looked at that and the first thought was \"Since when is Kitty Carlisle our patron saint?\"
I got the reference, but my first thought was \"Since when is Kitty Carlisle a Broadway legend?\"
Kitty certainly has a long list of theater credits to her, well, credit.
And being married to noted playwright Moss Hart didn\'t hurt her Broadway cred.
As I said elsewhere, she was married to a Broadway legend. Not exactly the same thing. I\'m not really losing sleep over it, but Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury were Broadway legends. Kitty Carlisle was a socialite who acted.
