[quote name=\'PYLdude\' date=\'Feb 23 2006, 10:35 PM\']Don't get me wrong, I like the progressive jackpot (anyone who knows me from the old FG board might remember my fondness for them), but on certain shows I don't think they fit (Feud, of course, being one of 'em).[/quote]My dislike of the progressive jackpot becomes apparent on a show like Super Password, where the Alphabetics pot rolls over for two weeks and a new champion comes in, takes the money and loses in the next game, winning about $51,000. A champion who comes in on a $5,000 jackpot will only have a chance at about $28,000, and through nothing more than sheer luck won't have a chance at anything more than that.
I would submit that any show that had a progressive jackpot would have worked just as well without one. Family Feud was never about the money anyway. That $10,000 jackpot is being split five ways.