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Post by supermillionaire on Nov 14, 2017 19:16:45 GMT -5
What if, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show, the show decided to create a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: International Tournament of Champions? The show would take former contestants around the world who either won the top prize or walked away with the second-to-last prize (i.e. $500,000), and put them in a qualifying tournament, and the finals would take place in the United States, using a larger audience the size of the former Play It! attraction at Walt Disney World. The finals would take place over several weeks, with each contestant who wins at least the question 10 prize advancing to the final week. The criteria for deciding who advances to the final week will be winning the most money in the least amount of time; regarding the time rule, there is initially no time limit, but if the contestant takes too long, they will be placed on a 60-second shot clock, which will force them to walk away if they allow it to expire; and the final week will be the final round, and will use a 60-second time limit for all questions except the final question, which will be 60 seconds plus any accumulated banked time from the previous 14 questions. The winner of the final round, determined by winning the most money in the least amount of time, will receive a prize of $10 million. |
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Post by FinalAnswer19 on Nov 15, 2017 1:48:28 GMT -5
A couple questions regarding this:
1. How would one write questions for this? What's easy in one country isn't in another. It wouldn't be fair to have one set of questions written specifically for a contestant from the US and then another set written specifically for one from Germany.
2. Language barrier. How is a Russian contestant that doesn't speak English going to fairly compete?
3. If there's no initial time limit but there will be a 60 second "shot clock," how would you fairly decide what amount of time to give before starting the 60 seconds? Seems if you are going to have any sort of clock, it would need to be consistent throughout the entire game.
It's a nice idea, but I just don't see anything like that happening, logistically.
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Post by supermillionaire on Nov 15, 2017 14:25:00 GMT -5
The event would employ question writers from around the world, as well as hosts from around the world. I think that an American master of ceremonies, possibly Chris Harrison, Ryan Seacrest, or Michael Strahan, would be the master of ceremonies, while Meredith Vieira will be the U.S. host, if Regis Philbin still isn't around by this time. The Fastest Finger questions will be universally appealing to all international contestants alike, and when they get in the hot seat, their multiple-choice questions would be tailored to fit their nationality.
Contestants will have the option to play either in English or their native language; if they can't speak English, then their national host will speak their native language, and the questions will be in their native language; to the rest of the public, the questions will be shown in English, or the language native to the country that they are from if they do not speak English, and their dialogue will be subtitled in English and other languages according to the country that they are watching the event from.
As for the rule on time, for the first 5 questions; the shot clock will activate after the contestant has spent more than 5 minutes on a question; for the next 5 questions, the shot clock will activate after the contestant has spent more than 10 minutes on a question; for the next 4 questions, the shot clock will activate after the contestant has spent more than 15 minutes on a question; and for the final question, the shot clock will activate after the contestant has spent more than 30 minutes on the question. |
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Post by supermillionaire on Nov 20, 2017 15:07:42 GMT -5
Is there anything else that you would like me to clarify about how this international tournament would work? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2017 15:29:02 GMT -5
A couple questions regarding this: 1. How would one write questions for this? What's easy in one country isn't in another. It wouldn't be fair to have one set of questions written specifically for a contestant from the US and then another set written specifically for one from Germany. 2. Language barrier. How is a Russian contestant that doesn't speak English going to fairly compete? 3. If there's no initial time limit but there will be a 60 second "shot clock," how would you fairly decide what amount of time to give before starting the 60 seconds? Seems if you are going to have any sort of clock, it would need to be consistent throughout the entire game. It's a nice idea, but I just don't see anything like that happening, logistically. At this point, I indeed agree with FinalAnswer19. Since the question writers for the international versions of WWTBAM usually have their own way of writing them. That could also have an association with the language barrier, as some questions might only be understood when they're shown in the original language. To be honest, my personal issue is the fact that it would be hard to organize the tournament, since people would come from all over the world to compete. But other than that, it's actually quite a nice idea.  |
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Post by kplewisvox on Dec 20, 2017 23:08:09 GMT -5
I've proposed something similar in the past.
Just get two jackpot winners from the US, the UK, Australia and India. Since they're all English speaking counties (the Indian show goes back and forth), the language barrier is not an issue. Just make sure the question material is fairly universal.
Fly these players to the UK, and let them each play for £1 million. Easy peasy. Doesn't have to be a competition.
For extra fun, have Tarrant, Regis, Eddie and Bachchan round-robin as host.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 10:52:15 GMT -5
I've proposed something similar in the past. Just get two jackpot winners from the US, the UK, Australia and India. Since they're all English speaking counties (the Indian show goes back and forth), the language barrier is not an issue. Just make sure the question material is fairly universal. Fly these players to the UK, and let them each play for £1 million. Easy peasy. Doesn't have to be a competition. For extra fun, have Tarrant, Regis, Eddie and Bachchan round-robin as host. Hmm, that would actually be a good idea! Although, the only problem is the fact that the questions have to be universal, since it is quite hard to find out which of the countries would be writing the questions. |
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Post by kplewisvox on Dec 21, 2017 17:45:46 GMT -5
I've proposed something similar in the past. Just get two jackpot winners from the US, the UK, Australia and India. Since they're all English speaking counties (the Indian show goes back and forth), the language barrier is not an issue. Just make sure the question material is fairly universal. Fly these players to the UK, and let them each play for £1 million. Easy peasy. Doesn't have to be a competition. For extra fun, have Tarrant, Regis, Eddie and Bachchan round-robin as host. Hmm, that would actually be a good idea! Although, the only problem is the fact that the questions have to be universal, since it is quite hard to find out which of the countries would be writing the questions. That'd be easy. One conference call between the question writers in each country. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2017 7:20:21 GMT -5
Nice! That way, we would also have an extraordinary way of writing the questions on Millionaire.
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
