That wasn't something I was expecting, though I was wondering where the Corvette from the commercial promos was going to show up. I guess I have my answer. Certainly an interesting mix of easy, hard, and everything in-between setups.
Triple Play didn't see all that hard, even though it did have the oddity of the second car being worth more than the first. When I heard A6 and Quattro, I was thinking something more than $49,257, but it was actually between the $44,875 and the $49,257 that I believe most contestants would have guessed. I was rather taken aback by how easy the Range Rover was. Combining the Evoque's Range Rover
(and Roadgeek Adam, just so you'll see it, it is Evoque, not Evoke) brand name reputation and the highest fake being.$41,142 made this a surefire deal. Unfortunately, Richard didn't see it that way, and gave himself a slim $146 range to fit his car price guess in, allowing nothing higher than $41,141. Still, I have to believe here that the show was again giving the contestants another realistic chance at an exciting start.
Now, on the other side, Bonus Game was (in my honest opinion) its usual hard self with unexpectedly inexpensive (or otherwise hard to price) small prizes, and Double Cross was flat out mean. $1,725 for a pair of HDTVs is unusually cheap for the show to begin with, and compounding this is that the matching pair didn't even end in with an even number or a typical doubled price. I also had a good feeling Dice Game was going to be lost as soon as he went higher than two, even when the game itself gave him some help at the end (he rolled the four, anyway). Like I said before, strange combination of setups.
So far, I'm finding this iteration of Big Money Week a little more palatable than the last version, lacking any of the obscene game setups of that version. However, I still stand by my previous opinion of wanting a more balanced distribution of the extra prize money, where instead of lumping it all into one game, sapping out a lot of the intended excitement and suspense whether that one game is lost or won, you're going through the whole show waiting for that next big item up for bids, extra special car, or higher zoot showcase. Something akin to the 80s primetime specials or a MDS without the M.
That makes a useless statistic.
Again, makes no difference. He still made up for not winning the car (his Showcase was much more expensive than the Scion)
I'm going to have to
reiterate what I said before and state that the provided statistic isn't utterly pointless. Like I said before, while some people can't use cars or have no use for them, the same is true (and likely to a larger extent) with boats. As we've seen before with the obscenely priced trips and other junk the show has put on before, numbers value ≠ actual or usable value to the contestant as a useful prize. That boat could be a huge lead anchor to a potential contestant who very well might would have much rather had a $21,564 Scion he could use than a $27,907
he couldn't use or has no idea how to sell or what the resale value is. Again, different strokes for different blokes, and different opinions depending on who you're asking. The statistic isn't without merit, use, or consideration as is being said here. This very place is about discussing shows and what happens in them, and the various bits of different information in them. Some people have different viewpoints, specialized interests, and ways of looking at things, and that's the entire point of discussing shows here, and what makes it so interesting. Now, I know that being on the show isn't all about prizes and some of it is the experience, and so on and so forth, but winning prizes you can use is a longstanding part of the show, and, well, car loser/boat winner #3. It's just not that complicated to me.
Sorry..........I won't bring it up again. Just keeping count, is all.
You have nothing to apologize for. You made a perfectly valid observation about the season thus far while discussing the show in the appropriate thread. There's no realistic reason for what you said getting on anyone's nerves or being annoying.
