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« Reply #60 on: April 07, 2008, 05:51:02 PM »
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'183504\' date=\'Apr 7 2008, 05:34 PM\']
Unless, you know nothing about sports.  Then you would be screwed.
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No, using obscure logos doesn't screw someone who knows nothing about sports; it only takes away an advantage from someone that does know them.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2008, 06:16:48 PM by Matt Ottinger »
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« Reply #61 on: April 07, 2008, 06:27:59 PM »
[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' post=\'183506\' date=\'Apr 7 2008, 05:51 PM\']
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'183504\' date=\'Apr 7 2008, 05:34 PM\']
Unless, you know nothing about sports.  Then you would be screwed.
[/quote]No, using obscure logos doesn't screw someone who knows nothing about sports; it only takes away an advantage from someone that does know them.[/quote]
More specifically (since I had to go back and re-read the thread myself to understand), mmb5 was originally saying that the whole point of using obscure logos rather than well-known ones would be that the Cram contestants would have to study, learn and memorize them, which was originally (in Season One anyway) the idea behind the game.  That's why they called it 'Cram'.  

As mmb5 further pointed out, Season Two featured a lot of pretty standard trivia instead of the obscure stuff they made the players learn in Season One.  It made the game easier to play at home, but it undercut the whole idea of staying up all night studying the material you were going to be quizzed on the next day.
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