[quote name=\'weaklink75\' post=\'224328\' date=\'Aug 28 2009, 09:14 AM\']I'm torn about this- obviously they want to have a MDW this year, and this is a good way to do it (I'd think anyone who was at the $100K level would risk $75K for a shot at the million), but this smacks of DOND-type desperation....[/quote] If indeed that's how it will play.
[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' post=\'224331\' date=\'Aug 28 2009, 09:21 AM\']IMHO, this is a much better way for "Millionaire" to hold a Tournament of Champions (unlike the "Champions" edition that the ABC version held previously), of sorts.[/quote]Not it isn't.
This also adds the element of the MDQ from "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" and "Don't Forget the Lyrics!".
No it doesn't.
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'224332\' date=\'Aug 28 2009, 09:32 AM\']Disappointing, to say the least. Because it's now been over six years since we had a million-dollar winner, I can understand why they want one. However, if they really feel they have to alter the rules to try to get one, why not just dumb-down the questions for a while?[/quote] Because they can't afford to do that. For every person that wins $50,000, they probably need someone to win $1,000, or three to win $16,000, and so on. They probably can set aside a million dollar jackpot, but not have a bunch of people winning an extra level of money.
I'm not really in favor of it as I'd like to see the game keep its intergrity, but some big winners have won with easier stacks. That way you can finally break the long streak of the jackpot not being won but by having played the game the way the rules were originally written, putting it in November sweeps and then going back to the usual difficulty level of the stacks.
Which just rewards someone for showing up at the right time. Blech.
[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'224350\' date=\'Aug 28 2009, 12:30 PM\']Here's what I would suspect based on the murk from the article.
-The stunt is like the old 100K tournaments in that it ends when it ends, but it ends if they run out of people, too.
-Since this is opt-in, if you elect to play and actually do, you forfeit the ability to walk
-This will likely run at the last segment of the 2 weeks (or less) of shows[/quote] Why do you suspect these things? What in the article says "this is how it will be?"
-Whose MDQ? The one from your original stack or from elsewhere?
How does this make an iota of difference?