I got the call from Million Second Quiz.

[DoorNumberFour]

Heading into the city tomorrow at 9am to be a contestant on the premiere! Also gotta re-rent all that farm equipment so I can take this beard off again.


Whoop whoop! Wish me luck!

[JepMasta]

GO GET EM!

[J.R.]

Congratulations! Best of luck!

[TLEberle]

Know who isn\'t surprised? This fella.

Go get \'em.

[pacdude]

KICK SOME ASS!

[Matt Ottinger]

Has anybody been watching yet?  Anything interesting to see?

[TLEberle]

Nothing to see yet, it starts tomorrow.

[Matt Ottinger]

I thought I understood that the online component would start first so that they\'d have some defending champs to start with before the TV show debuted.  There doesn\'t appear to be anything to watch on the website, so either I\'m wrong or even that part doesn\'t start until later.

[chad1m]

It actually started today at about 7AM. A few matches were seen online, but they encountered difficulties and the stream is currently down as they deal with some more. Matches still continue even though we can\'t see them.

 

It appears pretty straightforward. 500 seconds on the clock, as many four-choice questions as can fit in that time, the person with the most correct answers after time is up gets or keeps the Money Chair. If a person is defeated, as soon as their opponent sits in the chair they begin earning 10 dollars a second. So they could have a bit of money accrued before they even face  their first opponent. With the rules as I understand them, the four highest money-earners plus the last person to sit in the chair at the end of time keep what they\'ve earned and battle for an escalated prize.

[TLEberle]

I didn\'t know that the game started today, but I did know about the Money Chair setup and the Duel-ish tournament final. I thought it was ten questions per duel, and not as many as possible in the time.

So as I understand it by defeating a champion you win nothing for that, but will scoop $5,000.00 for each opponent you can fend off, plus whatever time it takes to swap out players, do interviews and stuff?

Also didn\'t think that in order to keep your money you had to make it to the medal podium. That manages to be simultaneously interesting and cruel.

[chad1m]

So as I understand it by defeating a champion you win nothing for that, but will scoop $5,000.00 for each opponent you can fend off, plus whatever time it takes to swap out players, do interviews and stuff?

Correct. The only time money is ever accrued is when a heinie is in the big leather chair. Congratulations on knocking someone out of it, but until you\'re in it, you don\'t have a dime.

[TLEberle]

and that also means the money isn\'t yours, just credited to you and held in escrow until the end of the tournament?

[clemon79]

That\'s gonna be kinda lame once they have four 20K+ winners and that money clock counting up doesn\'t mean jack over shiat until that champion defends for three or four games.

[chad1m]

and that also means the money isn\'t yours, just credited to you and held in escrow until the end of the tournament?

That is my assumption, but I don\'t know that for a fact.

[TLEberle]

That\'s gonna be kinda lame once they have four 20K+ winners and that money clock counting up doesn\'t mean jack over shiat until that champion defends for three or four games.

It also means they aren\'t cutting hundreds of checks for $5,000 each.