FF 79 daytime 6/21

[whewfan]

This may be another "as exciting as drinking a glass of water" observation, but I noticed on today's Feud, they went back to  2 singles and 2 doubles, instead of the 3 singles, 1 double and 1 triple. I know sometime later in the run, they switched again to the latter. I think the syndie run (300 pt era) had the 3 single, 1 double, 1 triple.

Can anyone think of why they kept switching back and forth?

[The Pyramids]

[quote name=\'whewfan\' date=\'Jun 22 2005, 04:50 AM\']This may be another "as exciting as drinking a glass of water" observation, but I noticed on today's Feud, they went back to  2 singles and 2 doubles, instead of the 3 singles, 1 double and 1 triple. I know sometime later in the run, they switched again to the latter. I think the syndie run (300 pt era) had the 3 single, 1 double, 1 triple.

Can anyone think of why they kept switching back and forth?

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Probably to expirement to find the combination in the time alloted.

[Jay Temple]

I've been watching for the past few weeks because I knew this was coming.  The 3/5/79 show (seen on 6/5/05) was the first played to 300, with the 11123 format.  The 3/19 show was the first with the 11223 format.  I don't know when the daytime show went back to 11123, but I know from watching that it was still 11223 in the spring of 1981, but the TV Favorites special that recently aired on a Saturday night was from 1983, and it used 11123.

I like 11223 better for two reasons:
1. The face-value questions are, counterintuitively, more important.  Sweep the first three questions and you usually win.  Under 11123, if you get two of the three singles, the third is unimportant.
2. Symmetry.  Teams that are evenly matched, by definition, are likely to split the first two and the next two.  Under 11223, such teams will have close scores.

[digiblader]

With the 11223 format, it was more likely that the winning team would easily win more than $500 in the front game.. and it was more exciting that the game could be decided in the Triple round.