I am very disappointed about today's show, and I feel that the contestant are to blame for not showing enough enthusiasm about wanting to win big prizes. I think the contestants might be at fault, ... Why must contestants turn winning pricing games into a struggle?
If you go on stage, infront of tons of people, on television, with a celebrity host, with the ability to win thousands of dollars worth of prizes, you're bound to be nervous and thus be more prone to making mistakes. I personally have never been on TPiR, but there are people here that have, and I have been on stage infront of many individuals, and even then it was nerve-wreaking. This nervousness can cause one to forget the simpliest of facts, which can mess up their strategy.
There's also the fact that people go on TPiR to have fun and to win prizes, and most likely don't study the pricing games as closely as we do. You could write a WHOLE essay on TPiR and the way contestants are affected to be honest. Last week we had a guy who barely reacted when a car appeared, and yesterday we had a guy dive right into his new hot tub, it's to each their own.
Sure, today was a losing day, but there's many reasons why:
Safe Crackers - Peanut Gallery, tough set up.
Money Game - This one always seems to be hard for the contestant due to the many plausible choices. Reliance on peanut gallery played a part as well.
Grand Game - Again, reliance on peanut gallery. Not everybody studies the prices of commonly-used items in TPiR (though the yams are generally known
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Clock Game - Nervousness seemed to be the key factor here, plus lack of speed (probably due to excitement and speed of thought)
Card Game - Reliance on peanut gallery, nervousness was evident.
Squeeze Game - Tough set-up (
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As you can see, there are always reasons for a person losing, and this is usually due to their emotions or the overwhelming support of the audience, whether they're right or wrong.
Also remember, each show is different, different crowd and different games with different contestants. Just because we have a losing streak today doesn't mean it's going to be 'bad' tomorrow, for all we know we may have a perfect show with a DSW. We'll have to wait and see, don't worry so much about the outcome of the next show based on another, especially since episodes are aired out of order (except for this week's Christmas episodes).
