1/18/16 Today's Contestant's page has 2 returning champs

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1/18/16 Today's Contestant's page has 2 returning champs

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Why are there 2 returning champions on today's show?

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Because Claudia's return four weeks ago was postponed by Alex's recovery from knee replacement surgery. She had a conflict with the rescheduled tape date. That's why there was no returning champion on 12/21. J! slotted her into the game when she could make it back to LA.
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patkav wrote:Because Claudia's return four weeks ago was postponed by Alex's recovery from knee replacement surgery. She had a conflict with the rescheduled tape date. That's why there was no returning champion on 12/21. J! slotted her into the game when she could make it back to LA.
Won't spoil (was in the audience), but this one will be FAR from a bore!
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I didn't think to go to the Tuesday's contestant page, but I did after the completion of today's game, and I saw:
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A question mark instead of a returning champion. Perhaps it will be changed by tomorrow.
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clprez wrote:I didn't think to go to the Tuesday's contestant page, but I did after the completion of today's game, and I saw:
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A question mark instead of a returning champion. Perhaps it will be changed by tomorrow.
If you stay on the main page long enough to let the contestants cycle through, right after Randi, you'll see
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Hans Kamm, from Fayetteville, Arkansas, who I expect will occupy the leftmost podium tomorrow.
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mfc248 wrote:
clprez wrote:I didn't think to go to the Tuesday's contestant page, but I did after the completion of today's game, and I saw:
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A question mark instead of a returning champion. Perhaps it will be changed by tomorrow.
If you stay on the main page long enough to let the contestants cycle through, right after Randi, you'll see
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Hans Kamm, from Fayetteville, Arkansas, who I expect will occupy the leftmost podium tomorrow.
Or perhaps
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the center or rightmost podium.
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TreeOfHeaven wrote:
patkav wrote:Because Claudia's return four weeks ago was postponed by Alex's recovery from knee replacement surgery. She had a conflict with the rescheduled tape date. That's why there was no returning champion on 12/21. J! slotted her into the game when she could make it back to LA.
Won't spoil (was in the audience), but this one will be FAR from a bore!
I read your teaser before watching today's episode, and when the DJ round was over and Mike and Claudia were tied, I thought THAT was what you were referring to. Little did I know I'd be seeing a very rare occurrence when all was said and done. Were you one of the audience members who clapped at the end of DJ and laughed at the end of FJ?
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SBurrus wrote:
TreeOfHeaven wrote:
patkav wrote:Because Claudia's return four weeks ago was postponed by Alex's recovery from knee replacement surgery. She had a conflict with the rescheduled tape date. That's why there was no returning champion on 12/21. J! slotted her into the game when she could make it back to LA.
Won't spoil (was in the audience), but this one will be FAR from a bore!
I read your teaser before watching today's episode, and when the DJ round was over and Mike and Claudia were tied, I thought THAT was what you were referring to. Little did I know I'd be seeing a very rare occurrence when all was said and done. Were you one of the audience members who clapped at the end of DJ and laughed at the end of FJ?
No, I'd gotten my inappropriate noise issues out of the way earlier in the taping. Watch me this Friday, BTW.
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TreeOfHeaven wrote:
SBurrus wrote:
TreeOfHeaven wrote:
patkav wrote:Because Claudia's return four weeks ago was postponed by Alex's recovery from knee replacement surgery. She had a conflict with the rescheduled tape date. That's why there was no returning champion on 12/21. J! slotted her into the game when she could make it back to LA.
Won't spoil (was in the audience), but this one will be FAR from a bore!
I read your teaser before watching today's episode, and when the DJ round was over and Mike and Claudia were tied, I thought THAT was what you were referring to. Little did I know I'd be seeing a very rare occurrence when all was said and done. Were you one of the audience members who clapped at the end of DJ and laughed at the end of FJ?
No, I'd gotten my inappropriate noise issues out of the way earlier in the taping. Watch me this Friday, BTW.
Since you were there, let me ask you a question.
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How many players did they have in the green room? With the results of today's game, they needed an extra player so the alternate was needed. Do they have just one alternate for each taping day?
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Bamaman wrote:
TreeOfHeaven wrote:
SBurrus wrote:
TreeOfHeaven wrote:
patkav wrote:Because Claudia's return four weeks ago was postponed by Alex's recovery from knee replacement surgery. She had a conflict with the rescheduled tape date. That's why there was no returning champion on 12/21. J! slotted her into the game when she could make it back to LA.
Won't spoil (was in the audience), but this one will be FAR from a bore!
I read your teaser before watching today's episode, and when the DJ round was over and Mike and Claudia were tied, I thought THAT was what you were referring to. Little did I know I'd be seeing a very rare occurrence when all was said and done. Were you one of the audience members who clapped at the end of DJ and laughed at the end of FJ?
No, I'd gotten my inappropriate noise issues out of the way earlier in the taping. Watch me this Friday, BTW.
Since you were there, let me ask you a question.
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How many players did they have in the green room? With the results of today's game, they needed an extra player so the alternate was needed. Do they have just one alternate for each taping day?
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They have two alternates for each taping day. For a Tuesday taping, everyone is simply instructed to be available for both Tuesday and Wednesday, and they bring in twelve new contestants; for a Wednesday, there are two SoCal-based alternates who will usually return to tape for real a few weeks later. This was a Tuesday taping, so it just means they only had one holdover to Wednesday. I don't know if that means they quickly found a third SoCal alternate for Wednesday.
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ThreeIfByAir wrote:
Since you were there, let me ask you a question.
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How many players did they have in the green room? With the results of today's game, they needed an extra player so the alternate was needed. Do they have just one alternate for each taping day?
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Only one local alternate on that day, who did get on (possibly due to availability on the unusual Monday-Tuesday taping schedule due to the closeness to the holiday season. NOTE: Also partly rescheduled by A.T.'s knee surgery.
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TreeOfHeaven wrote:
ThreeIfByAir wrote:
Since you were there, let me ask you a question.
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How many players did they have in the green room? With the results of today's game, they needed an extra player so the alternate was needed. Do they have just one alternate for each taping day?
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Only one local alternate on that day, who did get on (possibly due to availability on the unusual Monday-Tuesday taping schedule due to the closeness to the holiday season. NOTE: Also partly rescheduled by A.T.'s knee surgery. Two more locals were originally called in for the next day, but the LA Unified School District bomb threat that morning resulted in an additional alternate - a special-education teacher in the district who actually walked to the studio from his home really close by.
To tag one more question on (if you don't mind):
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Do you know if Claudia's placement on the Monday show was planned in some way or the result of the random draw?
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