I've concluded for a long time that story was apocryphal because I've not seen an episode using that format. None of the fanpages ever included that format in their rulesheets, either. Has anybody seen one?
Saw it myself in its original broadcast. Don't know what to tell you other than that.
I'm no fan of first-person hearsay, but I saw it as well. Team took em for $25,600. Then the format changed