[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'162461\' date=\'Aug 31 2007, 11:18 AM\']
To me, I much preferred "Showoffs"' original best-two-out-of-three. Since both teams were playing the same words in each round, I just didn't see the reasoning in going to a point goal.
And let it be said that I preferred the Sweepstakes end game to the second risk end game. Used all four celebs and made the civilian the receiver, which I think is the proper position in an end game for the civilian if you're not offering a choice.
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I also preferred the original versions. When I came back to the show (after watching The Magnificent Marble Machine hoping against hope it would get better), they'd already switched formats -- even at 12 years old, I knew that was a death knell. Still, one big strike against the show was the audience watching one pair of celebrities acting out a bunch of words -- and then another pair of celebrities acting out the exact same words. Couldn't they have had an A and B pack to choose from?
Best scoring system (non-G&T award): The Money Maze, with its Catchup Round. Trailing couple answers questions, worth one point for the first and increasing by one point apiece until they go ahead (one miss ends the game, leaders win), and then the other team gets one final question for the $10,000 Dash. If the teams are tied going into the Catchup Round, both couples run the $10,000 Dash.