[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 03:14 PM\'] [quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 12:58 PM\'] [quote name=\'PartingGift\' date=\'Jan 12 2004, 12:55 PM\'] On Match Game PM, the player who was ahead at the beginning of round two (and later, round three) went first. Did Match Game '7x ever have this rule, or did the challenger always go first in round two? [/quote]
Match Game '7x ALWAYS had the challenger go first. [/quote]
While that is indeed the case that the challenger always went first on MG7x, why was that? Maybe I'm wrong, but I've always thought that getting to go first if you were ahead was an advantage (having to match fewer celebrities in the next round). Statistics may not bear that out, but I'd be curious what you folks think (not to mention the official rationale, if there is one, for why the difference in that particular rule between the two versions).
As for PartingGift's thought that there would be enough questions to fill the time, it's very noticeable that MGPM had to do a lot of editing to pare the show down to a half hour (especially after they added the third round), so I don't think that having enough questions was a factor in determining who went first.
Doug -- soon to celebrate 300 posts [/quote]
It probably had more to do with the fact that they always wanted to get 6 (or earlier, 4) questions in the 30 minute show, by having the leader go first, you can always have the loser's questions be meaningful.
On the daytime version, you don't have the restriction of time, so you can use the more fair alternating method.
--Mike