New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
I'm fine with it in the vast majority of cases because I think it will disincentivize wagering for the tie. I just wish it didn't apply to cases in which players are tied for the lead pre-FJ. But players should count themselves lucky that for the past 30 years an absurdly generous rule has been in place. This new rule could easily have been put in place from the beginning.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
I think the co-champion rule stems from the first time there was a tie on the Fleming version, and TPTB of the time didn't have a way to handle ties in place so they decided to declare the tied players both winners to play again (or so I was told). There were no major issues with that rule when the Trebek-era started (like there was when all the players kept their winnings with some distant trailers reluctant to bet enough for the win) so it was kept in place. Now that we have Keith Williams's site that recommended betting for the tie, and Arthur Chu who put the idea to practice on a large scale, TPTB probably decided that there may be issues with frequent ties (including the logistics of "bumped" contestants-to-be) and so decided to use the tiebreaker rule devised for tournament games for regular ones as well.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
i like it. three players, one winner. repeat ad infinitum.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
Big fat NO!
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
If it weren't just a binary yes/no, I think my answer would be "No, at least not with a sudden-death tiebreaker." Maybe dividing winnings in half between co-winners would have been a way to go.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
in the case of a tie-breaker question, if one player answers wrong will the other be declared champion right away? or will they need to actually get a question right?
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
Alex has said in some of the tournament tiebreakers that you can't win by default and that you must give a correct response. If none of the tied players responds correctly they do another tiebreaker question (the DS/TS ones may be edited out like they were in May 1992 when the first tournament tie occurred).grindcore wrote:in the case of a tie-breaker question, if one player answers wrong will the other be declared champion right away? or will they need to actually get a question right?
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
My answer for this is not exactly yes or no; like many others I'd prefer the leaders split the winnings, or similar, but I do think the ties were getting to be a bit much. Honestly, though, I think tiebreakers are exciting, especially in tournaments, but they would be more exciting than having a constant stream of co-champions.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
Nay for me. I like the fact that you can find a YouTube video of a game from 1987 and it still feels like the same game. They've accomplished this by making minimal changes. Doubling the dollar values and removing the 5 day limit were certainly significant, but those didn't change the flow of an individual game.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
IMO probably the rule change that changed the flow of the game itself was when they implemented the buzz-in-only-when-the-clue-is-read rule at the start of Season 2.evanakm wrote:Nay for me. I like the fact that you can find a YouTube video of a game from 1987 and it still feels like the same game. They've accomplished this by making minimal changes. Doubling the dollar values and removing the 5 day limit were certainly significant, but those didn't change the flow of an individual game.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
I don't like ties at all. One of the reasons I can't get into soccer despite being a huge football, baseball, and basketball fan is too many freaking ties. I don't like it when contestants play for the tie. I don't fault the second place player for going all in with a big wager on an FJ if the category they know really, really well, but I don't like it when there is a tie because the 1st place player could have bet $1 more, but didn't. However, on occasion ties do happen. The only thing worse than a tie is an arbitrary tiebreaker. (Another reason I don't like soccer- PK's are arbitrary.) From what it seems, this tiebreaker is pretty arbitrary.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
At least we managed a three way tie before this rule went in effect.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
If they use difficult clues for the tie-breaker, then won't they risk having multiple double stumpers in a row which would take too much time? If they use easy clues, then is it not essentially same as a coin toss? To help determine the truly better contestant they could, say, make one player win by two clues in different categories instead of just one clue, except there isn't time for that. So how do they make it not take too long and also not be the same as a coin toss? One solution is to use a lengthier tie-breaker method, only show a quick recap on the show, and put the full tie-breaker on YouTube. I don't expect that to happen.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
Yeah, they'd probably put it on Crackle.cosmos wrote:...One solution is to use a lengthier tie-breaker method, only show a quick recap on the show, and put the full tie-breaker on YouTube. I don't expect that to happen.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
I voted no. I can understand why they want to change the rule, but I'd prefer something like splitting the money and returning as co-champions. This would reduce the number of ties offered by players in a dominant position. Ties would mainly be attained by (1) co-leaders going into FJ and (2) people who randomly happen to end up with the same score (such as Ryan and Allison).
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
Except when there's two, http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=2452grindcore wrote:i like it. three players, one winner. repeat ad infinitum.
Or except when there's none http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=2874
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
I believe the process will be "Sudden Victory," requiring only a single correct answer. If any clues are unanswered/only answered incorrectly, they will be edited out of the show that airs.cosmos wrote:If they use difficult clues for the tie-breaker, then won't they risk having multiple double stumpers in a row which would take too much time? If they use easy clues, then is it not essentially same as a coin toss? To help determine the truly better contestant they could, say, make one player win by two clues in different categories instead of just one clue, except there isn't time for that. So how do they make it not take too long and also not be the same as a coin toss? One solution is to use a lengthier tie-breaker method, only show a quick recap on the show, and put the full tie-breaker on YouTube. I don't expect that to happen.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
I think the best way they could handle tiebreaks, if they really feel they're necessary, is the same way they break ties between second and third: whoever had the higher pre-FJ! score wins. For simplicity's sake, I'd say they should still declare co-champs if they're tied both at the beginning and end of FJ!, or if they really can't ever have co-champs again no matter what, go to a tie-breaker question in that case only.
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Re: New tie-breaker rule: Yea or nay
Works for me... adds a bit more excitement.