[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'240781\' date=\'May 12 2010, 10:06 PM\'][quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'240767\' date=\'May 12 2010, 09:31 PM\']Best case scenario: 8 contestants qualified (5 winners and 3 high scorers), and the other 7 finished with $0. Of those 7, the player with the highest score at the end of Double Jeopardy! round advanced to the semi finals.[/quote]
That's what happened, iirc, but I would love to know what would happen if there were a tie at pre-FJ score.
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I can think of a couple other numbers they might use, but I assume that it eventually comes down to a tiebreaker question or random chance (e.g., coin flip.) I can think of arguments for both, so I'm curious what they went with, too.