TPiR Recap - 10/12/2012

[JayC]

It's saying the recap is unavailable for me

[Roadgeek Adam]

It's saying the recap is unavailable for me

I will fix it, hold on. Had to change something on my hosting.

Edit, 10:36, check now.

[Bud8Amp88]

Season Totals - After Week Three:
One-Bids:
# of IUFBs: 90
Total Value of IUFBs: $111,315 ($39,556 This Week)
Average Value of Each: $1,286.83 (Up $40.85 from last week)
Perfect Bids: 3 for $1,500 (0 This Week)

Pricing Games:
# of PGs: 90 (38 Wins, 47 Losses, 5 Bailouts - 15-14-1 This Week)
Winning %: 42.22% (Up 3.89% over last week)
Total Prizes Awarded: $400,126 ($157,026 This Week)
Average Prize Awarded Per Game: $4,445.84 (Up $394.17 from last week)

Showcase Showdown:
# of $1.00 Bonuses: 6 for $6,000 (2 This Week)
# of Green Bonus Spins: 1 for $10,000 (got our 1st of the season this week)
# of $1.00 Bonus Spins: 0 for $0

Showcases:
Double Showcase Winners: 0
Double Over-Bids: 2 (1 This Week)
Total Value of Showcases Won: $419,741 ($132,768 This Week)
Average Value of Won Showcases: $27,892.63 (Down $714.57 from last week)

Overall:
Perfect Shows: 0
Skunks: 0
Current Grand Total: $948,682 in cash and prizes ($341,360 This Week)
Average Payout Per Show: $63,245.47 (Up $2,512.27 over last week)

Top 10 Games By Prizes Awarded: (Upping from 5 to 10 now that most of the games have been played)
01 - Plinko (3 Playings for $23,689)
02 - Any Number (3 Playings for $22,806)
03 - Dice Game (2 Playings for $22,423)
04 - Coming or Going? (3 Playings for $21,001)
05 - Money Game (3 Playings for $21,000)
06 - Rangefinder (3 Playings for $19,955)
07 - Line Em Up (1 Playings for $18,687)
08 - Cliff Hangers (2 Playings for $17,578)
09 - Double Prices (2 Playings for $17,570)
10 - Hole in One (1 Playing for $16,714)

As usual, if you want to see the spreadsheet, send me a PM and I'll link it to you.

[JokerFan]

Adam thinks we're still playing FPG.

Wait, we're not?  I haven't been much attention, so I thought I just skipped over any FPG posts.  Is it just a later start, is it always started later in the season, is there some special exception, what's the story behind this?

[Roadgeek Adam]

Wait, we're not?  I haven't been much attention, so I thought I just skipped over any FPG posts.  Is it just a later start, is it always started later in the season, is there some special exception, what's the story behind this?

Willy just never started it.

[stardf29]

Eh, it was cool to see our former Price contestant's daughter win her game; too bad we couldn't learn more about her mother. (From her shirt, it looks like her mom played Blank Check as it was known as back then.)

Other than that, blah. Evil Pathy and More or Less being set up the exact same way it's normally set up almost every single time it's been played, and a DOB on top of it all.

[SteveGavazzi]

Grand Game was totally set up to be won.  There is no way it should have ended with someone winning $10.

Everyone in the first Showcase Showdown was a woman whose name started with N.  I know that doesn't really mean anything, but I find it interesting.

And speaking of those girls, what the heck was up with Nadine?  She seemed to be terribly unfamiliar with the show.  I'm pretty sure I've never seen someone have to ask what spinning 80¢ on the Big Wheel meant before.

There was an unintentionally strange moment at the end of More or Less -- when they dissolved from the shot of the game to the shot of the audience, Drew's face and Anne's son's face were in exactly the same place.

but I'm not sure I'm gonna like it if Pathfinder gets played 20+ times...

You'd have hated the early '90s!

[joeyboy]

Oh yeah, the lineups for these "first two weeks of the season" are just weird. Cover skipping both of the first two weeks, while Pathfinder and Gas Money get played two weeks in a row? L7 and TTM both take the 2nd week off? It's going to take awhile to figure out what's going on here, but I'm not sure I'm gonna like it if Pathfinder gets played 20+ times...

Man, more Pathfinder and less of those 3 games? I'm down.

[Roadgeek Adam]

Everyone in the first Showcase Showdown was a woman whose name started with N.  I know that doesn't really mean anything, but I find it interesting.

I mentioned this in chat yesterday. Has it ever happened that we have three contestants starting with N and of the same gender.

[BRB_TheFireball]

Willy just never started it.

Right.  Willy typically doesn't start an FPG season until after at least a few weeks of shows have aired.  Wait at least another month and he'll make an announcement of some kind.

[SteveGavazzi]

Willy typically doesn't start an FPG season until after at least a few weeks of shows have aired.

Willy typically runs a game every week of the season.  I haven't talked to him, but I have to assume we're not doing it this year.

[Wayoshi]

He heavily fumbled the end of last season and still doesn't seem willing to admit it.

[SteveGavazzi]

He heavily fumbled the end of last season and still doesn't seem willing to admit it.

Methinks ye be confusing "isn't willing to admit it" with "doesn't care."

[Wayoshi]

Why bring it back for a couple months and then drop it, otherwise?

[SteveGavazzi]

Why bring it back for a couple months and then drop it, otherwise?

Because he doesn't care.  I already told you that.

You have your explanation.  Whether or not it's the one you want, I'm quite sure it's the correct one.  We're not going to go 'round and 'round about this.