On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > We would have to expect the teen tournament to be more volatile in terms of > swings of scores and reckless betting. Most adults, when they finally get on > the show, have an idea of how to play Daily Doubles and make reasonable > wagers for Final Jeopardy.
I just discovered I was wrong: it was a *semifinal* game, which makes even less sense, since all you're playing for is the win, so trying to wager strategically for a wild card spot is irrelevant. I get it on Leonard's Game 2 Final Jeopardy wager (where he had a lock game but not a lock tournament), because that's a pretty complex calculation, and the adrenaline had to have been flowing after the Daily Double. But really, even if you're 14 years old, to have three players with *no* knowledge of even basic wagering strategy all (or to have everyone's brain freeze up at the same moment)? That's just beyond belief. I would've loved to be in the control room when they were watching the three of them answering wrong at the same and realizing what was about to happen. Heck: I'd have loved to see how hard the contestant coordinators had to hide their emotions when they saw the wagers. So this leads to another oddball situation. The contestants are sequestered for the quarters so they don't know what the non-winning scores were. But they're not sequestered for the semis. This meant that the contestants in the third semi (a) knew that they were playing with a wild-card spot in play and (b) knew what the score to beat was because they watched the first game. I wonder if that'll change for future tournaments. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
