Your two favorite/two least favorite Family Feud formats?

[TimK2003]

I like the 300-point Dawson version.

My least favorite was the Bullseye/Bankroll especially on the John O'hurley version after the Bullseye and the prerecorded intro the game felt rushed

I never understood why the show started at the top of the show with Joey Fatone saying,...

"This is Joey Fatone...It's time to play the Feud." (Whoop-de-doo, so Joey is the announcer...
 yay?)

It's not like you're going to see him anytime during the show as a sidekick, host or co-host.  it was just a weird opening to the show.

[chargeradiocom]

I never understood why the show started at the top of the show with Joey Fatone saying,...

"This is Joey Fatone...It's time to play the Feud." (Whoop-de-doo, so Joey is the announcer...
 yay?)

It's not like you're going to see him anytime during the show as a sidekick, host or co-host.  it was just a weird opening to the show.

Why? Pop culture cache. Joey was still relatively fresh-ish from his run with N*SYNC, and it gave them an announcer that was known to younger audiences.

FWIW, I don’t disagree with you. I noticed it too, and looking back it gives off a bit of a “How do you do, fellow kids?” vibe. But I get why they wanted a name droppable announcer, even if we never saw him.

[PYLdude]

Favorite: the original 300 point format

Least fave 1: the original 1999 format

Least fave 2: the move to 400 points (sloooooooooog)

[Jeremy Nelson]

Combs S-S-D-T to 300 was my favorite. Dawson to 400 was the worst.

I rank Anderson S-S-S-T low, but the idea of only getting one strike in the triple round makes the play/pass such a strategic decision, and I love it for that.

I like the concept of Bullseye as a way to make the bonus round worth a different amount every day, but I also think that Bert's Family Feud did that well enough.

I would argue that it kinda made the final round anticlimactic and not great TV. A player who got 5 top answers in the first half is giving their partner a (relatively) easy clean up for $100,000. Conversely, a second player who produces an epic comeback may only be awarded $10,000.

[SuperSweeper]

I don't hate the Dawson 400 format as much as most, but it's still not my favorite.

I'm with Jeremy - the Combs to 300 is definitely up there, as is the original to 200.

[Nick]

If somebody's done the math on this to verify, please share, but the single, single, double, triple to 300 format truly works only if it is mathematically possible to win in a sweep of the first three rounds.  Otherwise, as in the case in the current version (now, anyway), the total points up for grabs never amounts to 300 over the first three rounds, and thus the first round has no bearing on the outcome of the game, meaning it's useless.  If it's useless to the game, why is it there?

The answer, as far as the current powers are concerned, is to play the question with the most innuendos for laughs, YouTube moments and nothing else.  If only Family Feud was still a family show...

[Robert Hutchinson]

You can't quite say it's useless, because A) in addition to adding the points to your score, you're keeping them from your opponents, and B) sometimes there are low-scoring rounds. So even if the score is 94-91 after two rounds, for instance, you want to win the Double round because what if the other team wins the Triple with 192 points?

Edit: that's not to say it's a great scoring system! Just that it never completely devalues any round.