But if the format is SSDTT, if one family sweeps the first three questions, they should be well over 300, yes?
He's saying that if one family scoops 200 points in the first two, that question three will have at most 98 points on the board.
Right, but are the dollar values not doubled for the third question?
That would make a max of 49 points on the board for that question. Highly unlikely, I'd say.
From what I've seen, a sweep of the first two rounds usually would put the leading team somewhere between 140 and 180, meaning that the third question could still be worth a lot, but in the end nowadays, never a win.
I would love to see the double Fast Money, but how long is that Triple round segment? I'd imagine it's not as long as the actual Fast Money segment, but then again, Steve wouldn't have to explain the rules or do that dopey cutaway twice. The second one, I imagine, would jump right into the proceedings as Dawson's version did after the first couple of years.
/Still wonder why they explain the rules before EVERY Fast Money
According to Golden-Road user Axl, who attended a taping last week, the rules of the game actually forbid a team from reaching Sudden Death with zero points, to the point that a Triple question had to be thrown out since the trailing family didn't put enough points on the board for the leading family to win outright on a steal.
Seeing things like this happen just irk me....it's like the format is built on an industrial line- either it's constructed exactly like the rest, or it gets pulled. It's like when they re-added the podium scoreboards after O Hurley took over. Someone in the back doesn't want to adapt to a small change, so the show has to fit into the mold of what's been done and what's "safe".