Watching a team bust off 5 answers in thirty-and-change seconds, and then watching the other team come down and BEAT that, is as good a moment as you'll see on any game show.
By the way, Chris's comment above brings to mind a topc that I've often thought about but never articulated. I'm curious what others think of this:
On shows like "Go" and "Pyramid"--shows that have timed rounds--flubs will often happen in the middle of taping that will stop gameplay in the middle of a round. The way I've seen that handled on numerous occasions is that they'll pick up the round in the middle at the precise second where the mistake occurred, giving credit to the contestant for however many answers were gotten right up to the moment of the problem.
Now this is not an unusual occurrance, it happens on almost every taping of a show of this kiind.
What I've observed though, is that this often gives an unfair advantage to the contestant who was interrrupted, because they get to anticipate that upon resuming, they need one more answer in, say 4 seconds, or 3 answers in 10 seconds. I've seen many occasions where a contestant, knowing this information, picked up their energy appreciably, really focused, and got the needed answers in the remaining time.
My team was a victim of this on Go, where the opposing team needed to beat our time of 45 seconds, looked like it was floundering, got interrupted with a technical miscue, and then had a chance to re-group and was told they needed one more answer in five seconds when taping resumes. The pieces of the round are edited together, but you can see between the edits that the team's energy picks up to a huge degree and they speed through the last quetion to get it in under five seconds.
As a recent contestant on Pyramid, I've seen similar things happen when front game rounds get stopped and resumed for technical difficulties. This almost always works to the advantage of the player who is interrupted, and I've always wondered if any contestants ever complain to Standards and Practices about this phenomenon?
I, for one, never complained, because I wanted to stay on the good side of the coordinators so I could get on future shows. But I'm curious if that strikes anyone else as unfair. I've often thought that they should re-examine this method of resuming taping, even though to fix the practice would invovle throwing out entire played rounds and take more time and cause more material to have to be written.
