Author Topic: one shot at the winners circle (Read 9110 times)

toetyper · « **on:** October 11, 2011, 05:18:12 PM »

im giving you 1 shot at the pyramid winners circle for 100k. you can go back in time to pick any celebrity to help you . who do you pick

TLEberle · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2011, 05:38:09 PM »

Quote from: toetyper on October 11, 2011, 05:19:20 PM

im giving you 1 shot at the pyramid winners circle for 100k. you can go back in time to pick any celebrity to help you . who do you pick

You don't think much of our main game ability, do you.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 11, 2011, 05:40:02 PM »

Quote from: toetyper on October 11, 2011, 05:19:20 PM

im giving you 1 shot at the pyramid winners circle for 100k. you can go back in time to pick any celebrity to help you . who do you pick

Dick Clark.

Casey · « **Reply #3 on:** October 11, 2011, 05:59:47 PM »

Henry Polic II.

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 11, 2011, 06:13:40 PM »

White Power!

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2011, 06:25:40 PM »

Shelley Smith. Great player and I get to hug her when we win!

J.R. · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2011, 06:28:21 PM »

Rolf Benirschke

pacdude · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2011, 06:32:31 PM »

Noah Webster.

Brian44 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 11, 2011, 07:55:23 PM »

Betty White! And I'm giving the clues!

sotcfan2004 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 11, 2011, 08:03:01 PM »

LeVar Burton. The man.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #10 on:** October 11, 2011, 08:10:21 PM »

Quote from: sotcfan2004 on October 11, 2011, 08:03:01 PM

LeVar Burton. The man.

Oh, I thought you meant LeVar Burton, the woman.

MikeK · « **Reply #11 on:** October 11, 2011, 08:21:49 PM »

The person who wrote the Winner's Circle categories used in my attempt.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #12 on:** October 11, 2011, 08:23:16 PM »

I'll go with Nipsey.

TLEberle · « **Reply #13 on:** October 11, 2011, 09:00:26 PM »

The bit that makes the hypothetical so silly is that GSN kicked off their $100k Pyramid just before a tournament period in which the eventual winner bogarted the winner's circle in much the same way as that butthead kid in kindergarten who would take all the good blocks, leaving nothing for you. She had been after the big prize seven times, shooing away those pesky interlopers, working on it until she won (and the pressure was off a little bit in the second half, because she was going to be back anyway.)

There's a stable of about twenty or so Pyramid regulars from that time that I would trust to help me get to the top of the Pyramid, so picking one is both (say it with me) silly and hypothetical. I'm not going to say "Der, William Shatner! Derp!", but I also think that I would have more than one chance at the money, because I'm decent at the main game.

Jeremy Nelson · « **Reply #14 on:** October 11, 2011, 09:39:46 PM »

Quote from: TLEberle on October 11, 2011, 09:00:26 PM

The bit that makes the hypothetical so silly is that GSN kicked off their $100k Pyramid just before a tournament period in which the eventual winner bogarted the winner's circle in much the same way as that butthead kid in kindergarten who would take all the good blocks, leaving nothing for you. She had been after the big prize seven times, shooing away those pesky interlopers, working on it until she won (and the pressure was off a little bit in the second half, because she was going to be back anyway.)

You say that like it's a bad thing. She still had to win the main game. Would I be annoyed at seeing the same person go to the Winner's Circle over and over and over again? Absolutely. But is that still a sign of how much better she was than the other two finalists? Probably.

I figure that the tournament was a bit flawed in that a person who got a good celebrity and a good set of WC categories could get in, even if that was their one and only time up there. Meanwhile, someone who may have been a 4 or 5 day champion with a few WC wins got left out. It's all about having the right person for the right stack. That being said, I'd take Nathan Cook.