No wait, you're misunderstanding me, Travis. I'm saying you should get that guaranteed consolation prize only if you answered every question right coming into the bonus round. Like on DFTL, if you gave the lyrics right to all 4 songs, you had $10K, and you went for the encore for the full $50K, but fail and you still left with $1K. But if you had failed any of those 4 songs, screwing up the encore busted you completely.
I'm saying that LAA should take a similar approach to that. If you play a perfect game and get all 9 surveys right in the first three rounds, going all in for the bonus round and missing would still allow you to leave with the $1K as consolation because hey, you did everything right up until that point, it deserved some credit. But if you even missed one of those first 9, then an all in on the final question is all or nothing, no guarantee, you screw it up, you bust, too bad.