[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'180622\' date=\'Mar 9 2008, 09:58 AM\']I prefer always having a final spin, because it at least serves as a warning to the players that the game's about to be over. I never liked "you just won a lot in that round to get back in the game . . . but time is up, and Joe is our big winner."[/quote]And if they just did the Final Spin as the end of a round, I'd be fine with that.
The producers's adding of $1,000 to the Final Spin tells me that they want to make the last round more relevant, as opposed to just finishing off the last round of the day. And the problem with having the last full round as a Final Spin round is that it fails either way: Spin $5,000 and a runaway leader just might get lubed. Spin, well, anything else and the leader can't be caught. Damned if you do and all that.
(You could also fix that balance issue by not having the TDV of the wheel as a sore-thumb-outlier. But let's fix one problem at a time.)