The only thing I don't like about Miljoenenjacht is the extensive qualifying round. It seems more elaborate than it needs to be.
After 3 questions, the one half of the audience with the highest score advances.
After 3 more questions, the highest scoring "vak," or group, of the winning half of the audience advances.
After 3 more questions, the highest scoring "blok," or block, of the winning vak advances.
From there, 5 people are randomly selected from that blok, and 1 person is selected at random from elsewhere in the audience.
Those 6 people then play a round similar to Pepsi's Play For a Billion. A player may ring in and accept one of 5 colored briefcases, which hold 2,000 euro to 22,000 euro, as a bailout. If not, a player is eliminated. (I think it's the low scorer in the preliminary games, but I'm not sure.)
Once the 6 are down to 2, the remaining 2 face off on one final question. The winner goes on to play Deal or No Deal.
All told, the qualifying round takes about a half hour to play.
That's an awful lot of trouble to go through just to determine the contestant. Plus it's unfair for people who did really well, but were surrounded by goombahs. I don't even know how they determine the twenty-five sub-players. Why don't they just do 5 or ten questions and have the highest scoring person play?
