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Oh, and there's this:

http://gamerscoreblog.com/press/archive/2009/11/13/ks028.aspx

“1 vs 100” Season 2 - Prizes, prizes, prizes!

Dress up your Avatar and brush up on your trivia, because it’s baaaaccckkk! The entertainment phenomenon that took Xbox LIVE by storm is hitting your Xbox 360 again with Season 2 of “1 vs 100” on Xbox LIVE!

You’ve been waiting for more information, and we’ve got it! Everyone loves to win, and what would a game show be without real prizes? Answer the following question for the latest scoop on prizes in “1 vs 100” Season 2:

Question: If I’m “the One” choosing between the money or “the Mob,” how will I know what prize is at stake in “1 vs 100” Season 2?
A: A banner will scroll across the screen and tell me what prize is at stake.
B: It’s all intuition and ESP with me.
C: A prizing ladder on the stage will light up throughout the show and tell me what prize is at stake.

Xbox LIVE is proud to present a new feature on the “1 vs 100” Season 2 set – the prizing ladder! Not sure if you should choose the money or “the Mob”? The prizing ladder will light up throughout the show just like on a TV set, let “the One” know how far they’ve progressed in the round, and which prize is at stake. You might just think twice before facing “the Mob” again!

If you’re chosen as “the One” in “1 vs 100” Season 2, you have the chance to win up to 10,000 Microsoft Points by knocking out all 100 members of “the Mob.” Members of “the Mob” and “the Crowd” can also win popular Xbox LIVE Arcade games and Microsoft Points.

Premiering on November 19 exclusively on your Xbox 360, “1 vs 100” Season 2 on Xbox LIVE combines the best of television show experiences and interactive video games, featuring regularly scheduled programming, Chris Cashman as the comedic live studio host, all-new fresh trivia, and real prizes.

See you at the premiere of “1 vs 100” Season 2 on November 19, and stay tuned next week for more details…
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This says it's premiering tonight? Hm.

Oh, and a dance contest thing: http://www.avatardancecontest.com/
 
Do people really search for the answers using Google? It doesn't seem like you would have enough time to do that. If that's really going on, they should shorten the time players have to answer even more so typing something into Google is close to impossible.
 
· Season score – Your total score for the entire season.

· Weekly score – Your total score for that week.

· Previous round score – The score you accumulated in the previous round of the live show.
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I wonder if the first two includes Extended Play, er, play. I seem to remember some of the criteria did last season. If that's the case, then I see a problem, since it gives a massive advantage to those people who can play all the time, and if you only make it to the live shows, you've got no chance.

I'm not sure I ever recieved a copy of Zuma that I won last season, actually. Probably ought to chase that up.
 
xbhaskarx said:
Do people really search for the answers using Google? It doesn't seem like you would have enough time to do that. If that's really going on, they should shorten the time players have to answer even more so typing something into Google is close to impossible.
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It was a silly complaint. No one would really do that. Not enough time.
 
I think the only time where google may be beneficial is if you're the one or in the mob. Correct answers become more important than speed there.
 
mclem said:
I wonder if the first two includes Extended Play, er, play. I seem to remember some of the criteria did last season. If that's the case, then I see a problem, since it gives a massive advantage to those people who can play all the time, and if you only make it to the live shows, you've got no chance.
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They do include Extended Play for the season/weekly score, yeah.

omg rite said:
It was a silly complaint. No one would really do that. Not enough time.
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Out of 30,000+ players, you think no one does it? Fairly naive
 
toythatkills said:
They do include Extended Play for the season/weekly score, yeah.
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Then yes, that I take issue with. I'm fine with it being linked to score; I'm not fine with it being linked to time invested, by offering people with more time more opportunities to accumulate score.

Out of 30,000+ players, you think no one does it? Fairly naive
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I think the point is rather more that you don't really gain an advantage with it. To have any real chance of making the top few you *need* to know the answer in advance and respond as soon as you see it. Any delay will drop your score far too much.

(As an aside, that was a problem I had with Season 1; the questions didn't always work with that system. A question of the form "Which of these animals is the largest?" requires you to see all three answers before you respond, meaning that you're extremely likely to miss out on the Instant Answer bonus - which someone who stabbed buttons randomly and got lucky would be able to guarantee getting, giving them a significant lead over you. That really frustrated me about the design)
 
mclem said:
I think the point is rather more that you don't really gain an advantage with it. To have any real chance of making the top few you *need* to know the answer in advance and respond as soon as you see it. Any delay will drop your score far too much.
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In a weekly show, that's completely true.

The problem is that over the course of a week, and a season, the speed bonuses become less important and it's your streak and points for answering correctly that's important, because that's how you'll amass huge totals. This is where accuracy wins over speed, and where Google would benefit cheats.

Incidentally, playing in other regions games will also probably add to your season score, won't it? If I play with my UK tag in the US game tomorrow I'm instantly 100,000 points ahead of everyone else. Another way to cheat the system.
 
Ah, 1 vs. 100. Good times with friends. I'm looking forward to playing Season 2 once I get home from college!

During the very first "episode", two friends and I collaborated and ended up getting 3rd overall one round! :D

Of course, there were no prizes at the time, so all I got was a bunch of friend requests from people that revoked them the next day. :\
 
Why is doing it by score a bad thing? In season 1 you could reliably be the one or in the mob by just pressing X as the answer to every question instantly regardless of whether it was right or not.

There really isn't a lot of time to Google answers, and some answers are plain ungooglable. I remember trying to Google the one answer I didn't know in the mob on my laptop and I couldn't get it fast enough. And I'm a pretty damn fast typist. Not saying it's not POSSIBLE, but Google is really a non-issue in this game.

Only three really bad things out of all this:
1) Extended play still counts heavily for 2/3 of the criteria, making your likelyhood of getting into the mob based entirely on how much time you play the game and
2) No more Trust the Brain. The highlight of my night is seeing some idiot try to "trust the brain" on the first question and still get it wrong.
3) The second live show's on Tuesday now instead of Saturday. Tuesday is raid night :(.

Still a much much much better way to handle picking players than the old way though.

Regarding easy questions: OF COURSE the first questions are going to be ridiculously easy. That's how game shows work! The first questions on Millionaire, the first questions on Jeopardy, hell, even the first box to open in Deal or No Deal are all ridiculously easy! It wouldn't be any fun if every one failed during the first three questions.
 
Mister Zimbu said:
2) No more Trust the Brain. The highlight of my night is seeing some idiot try to "trust the brain" on the first question and still get it wrong.
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As an aside, when toiling through some of the fine print of the rulebooks a while ago, I discovered that if you don't answer to one of the first few questions, it'll automatically use a help for you. I suspect that may be what *actually* happened in that sort of situation.
 
mclem said:
(As an aside, that was a problem I had with Season 1; the questions didn't always work with that system. A question of the form "Which of these animals is the largest?" requires you to see all three answers before you respond, meaning that you're extremely likely to miss out on the Instant Answer bonus - which someone who stabbed buttons randomly and got lucky would be able to guarantee getting, giving them a significant lead over you. That really frustrated me about the design)
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Assuming it's a fairly easy question after all the choices are presented, you have a 66% chance of getting it wrong on a random instant guess, while a near 100% chance of answering correctly with all the choices available.

Also, while the Instant Answer bonus can certainly add up if you're getting it over the entire round, it's nothing compared to the streak bonus. The high risk of losing the streak isn't worth the Instant Answer bonus on a random guess.
 
I really enjoyed this the few times I played it last season, but I was always vexed with how there would be people who's average answer time is 0. How is that even possible? Absurdly lucky button mashing?

Tuesday is a much better day to have a live show.
 
mclem said:
As an aside, when toiling through some of the fine print of the rulebooks a while ago, I discovered that if you don't answer to one of the first few questions, it'll automatically use a help for you. I suspect that may be what *actually* happened in that sort of situation.
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A man can dream :(

ultron87 said:
I really enjoyed this the few times I played it last season, but I was always vexed with how there would be people who's average answer time is 0. How is that even possible? Absurdly lucky button mashing?

Tuesday is a much better day to have a live show.
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Probably a rapid fire controller. Or they just don't answer. It's "fastest answer time", not "fastest correct answer time". It also counts as zero (or less!) if you instant-answered X when the correct answer was A or B, because the time is measured as ([time you pressed your answer] - [time the correct answer appeared])
 
Joe Shlabotnik said:
Assuming it's a fairly easy question after all the choices are presented, you have a 66% chance of getting it wrong on a random instant guess, while a near 100% chance of answering correctly with all the choices available.

Also, while the Instant Answer bonus can certainly add up if you're getting it over the entire round, it's nothing compared to the streak bonus. The high risk of losing the streak isn't worth the Instant Answer bonus on a random guess.
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If you just want a consistently high score, you're right; however, from my observations during Season 1, it looked like that if you wanted any chance of winning a Crowd Prize you'd have to hit *every* Instant Answer bonus and get *every* question correct - then it comes down to who is the fastest for the last little bit of granularity between scores. You might beat some of the lucky instant guessers, but can you beat them all?

This extends further in that matches which last five to ten questions - which it felt like the majority did - really weren't long enough to establish a decent winner. I think the solution I'd like best would be for it to award crowd prizes after every twenty-five questions or so - a long enough period to at least allow a good spread between scores, but short enough that you get multiple discrete chances in a single live show.

As an aside, it follows from that that, despite how cheerily the game tells you otherwise, there's really very little point playing on if you get knocked out of The Mob.

Mister Zimbu said:
It also counts as zero (or less!) if you instant-answered X when the correct answer was A or B, because the time is measured as ([time you pressed your answer] - [time the correct answer appeared])
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That answers *so* many questions I had about bizarre discrepancies I was seeing with the scoring.
 
Doodis said:
Anyone know specifically what time this starts tonight?
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8 pm on the east coast, but it's Extended Play. Tomorrow at 10 pm is the first live show.

Right now it's like 9 panels in on the Spotlight menu. You might want to go into it now as it will download the new game automatically.
 
mclem said:
If you just want a consistently high score, you're right; however, from my observations during Season 1, it looked like that if you wanted any chance of winning a Crowd Prize you'd have to hit *every* Instant Answer bonus and get *every* question correct - then it comes down to who is the fastest for the last little bit of granularity between scores. You might beat some of the lucky instant guessers, but can you beat them all?
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I honestly don't think the system is broken but this makes me think something is definitely sketchy with the execution. There shouldn't be a lot of instant lucky guessers to beat. Even in a short ten-question round, your odds of randomly and instantly guessing correctly are 1 out of 3^10, or about 1 in 59,000. Since that is (roughly) the average-sized crowd playing, that means if *everyone* randomly guessed, maybe one person in that round got incredibly super-lucky. If the round goes even one question longer the odds drop to almost nil for a single round.
 
omg rite said:
It was a silly complaint. No one would really do that. Not enough time.
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Funny thing, my friends and I wanted to see if we actually could google something in time and it actually worked some of the time. You just have to type super fast and hope the keyword is in the first couple of links. :lol

I should start playing it again. Last I played I think was E3 time when they did a big E3 special 1vs100. I failed at it since I didn't pay attention a whole lot to the actual Microsoft event.
 
“1 vs 100” Season 2 Premieres Today! Things are About to Heat up

The doors to Sprint Theater open, your Avatar begins to amp, Season 2 of the hit show “1 vs 100” on Xbox LIVE premieres today! Are you ready to win?

This week, join tens of thousands of Xbox LIVE members on the largest interactive game show stage in the world, where you’ll once again be pitted against “the One,” the Mob” or “the Crowd. ” Do you have a competitive streak? We know people love to compete and most importantly, win, so we’ve added new features that will have you jumping off the couch to answer the next trivia question.

Get the scoop by answering the following:

Question 1: You know you’re good at “1 vs 100” and you’ve got the Achievements to prove it! In Season 2, what other bragging rights will you receive?
A: You will be able to notify the people in your Xbox LIVE Party of your success by pressing a button on your controller.
B: Your Avatar will grow taller or shorter depending on how well you play.
C: You will receive Badges based on your accomplishments to show as a sign of pride.

Question 2: In “1 vs 100” Season 2, you’ll be able to keep track of how well you’ve played throughout the season by:
A: The number of golden eggs that appear at your front door.
B: A scoring ladder that illuminates when your Avatar takes the stage.
C: Which level you’re on – one through 50 – based on your score throughout the season.

Question 3: At the end of each round, how will you know how you stack up against others in your Xbox LIVE party?
A: The Avatars of everyone in your party will stand on a podium – if you’re the best, you’ll be on top!
B: The Avatar of the highest scoring player does a belly dance at the end of the round.
C: The Avatar of the highest scoring player will jump up and down in celebration.

Question 4: Avatars like to celebrate too! What will you be able to unlock for your Avatar throughout “1 vs 100” Season 2?
A: “1 vs 100” Avatar emotes – now you can really tell the crowd what you’re thinking.
B: “1 vs 100” Avatar dances – among the smooth moves, “the Carlton” and “the Elaine.”
C: New “1 vs 100” hairdos – the fohawk, the beehive and the bowl cut.

The answer to question 1 is…. C: You will receive Badges based on your accomplishments to show as a sign of pride. We love Achievements! In “1 vs 100” Season 2, Xbox LIVE will award Badges that will appear in your personal stats for outstanding accomplishments, including if your accuracy is 90% or higher.

The answer to question 2 is…. C: Which level you’re on – one through 50 – based on your score throughout the season. Want to know how well you’ve played this season? Your cumulative score determines what level you’re on from one through 50 – you know a level 50 contestant is on fire!

The answer to question 3 is…. A: The Avatars of everyone in your party will stand on a podium – if you’re the best, you’ll be on top! For instant bragging rights, if you’ve got the best score in your Xbox LIVE party at the end of the round, your Avatar will stand triumphant at the very top of a podium.

The answer to question 4 is…. B: “1 vs 100” Avatar dances – among the smooth moves, “the Carlton” and “the Elaine.” Yes, get ready to dance. Your Avatar will be breaking it down on the “1 vs 100” dance floor, with classic moves from pop-culture.

Get your game face on because the competition is going to be hot! See you at the “1 vs 100” Season 2 premiere on Xbox LIVE, today, November 19 at 5:00 pm PT.

Download new “1 vs 100” assets, including the Avatar dancing video at Edelman’s FTP site: http://edelmanadmin.psni.com/public/
For more information, please contact jessie.dimariano@edelman.com or hannah.wong@edelman.com
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http://gamerscoreblog.com/press/archive/2009/11/19/ln858.aspx
 
I didn't think they would activate the achievements and still have it a free for gold members, but question 1 in that Q&A makes it sound like they did that.

Very cool, that adds a lot of value to gold membership.
 
Yeah, back tonight!? I had no idea.

My favorite thing to do was synchronized dancing with my party. 4 Avatars doing the crazy hands in the air dance in sync was hilarious
 
The way to get rid of the Google problem, or perceived problem, is to shorten the time to answer. I mean almost all of these questions you either know or you don't. They're not usually complex math problems or multi-step deductions.
 
AstroLad said:
The way to get rid of the Google problem, or perceived problem, is to shorten the time to answer. I mean almost all of these questions you either know or you don't. They're not usually complex math problems or multi-step deductions.
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Replace Google with 'people that play in parties and give each other the answers' instead.

Either way, the system is weighted towards cheats now.

Out of interest, does anyone know how The One/Mob selection works in relation to one another?

Say you're the number two player, so the better guy gets to be The One and the next 100, including you, make up the Mob. So in the game after, do you miss out on being The One in favour of the 102nd best player?
 
toythatkills said:
Replace Google with 'people that play in parties and give each other the answers' instead.

Either way, the system is weighted towards cheats now.

Out of interest, does anyone know how The One/Mob selection works in relation to one another?

Say you're the number two player, so the better guy gets to be The One and the next 100, including you, make up the Mob. So in the game after, do you miss out on being The One in favour of the 102nd best player?
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No, since you're still eligible for The One, you're judged on whatever the criteria was for that round like everyone else. If you aren't selected as The One, though, you'd be passed over for the Mob even if you qualified.
 
toythatkills said:
Replace Google with 'people that play in parties and give each other the answers' instead.

Either way, the system is weighted towards cheats now.

Out of interest, does anyone know how The One/Mob selection works in relation to one another?

Say you're the number two player, so the better guy gets to be The One and the next 100, including you, make up the Mob. So in the game after, do you miss out on being The One in favour of the 102nd best player?
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They're not just going to pick the top 101 players. They just weigh your probability of getting picked based on how well you did. The person placed dead last still CAN get picked, they just won't be likely to.
 
Okay I got 3 now too: save up the maximum of three safeties in one round, score a total of 1,300 points through time bonuses, and get a 5-question streak going.

Ahahaha.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs secretly upgraded which organ in 2009?

The third choice was "iNtestine".
 
How the hell do you "max out your Avatar Action 10 times in one round"?

I press Y until he's jumping up and down and I'm pretty sure I've done that 10 times.
 
omg rite said:
How the hell do you "max out your Avatar Action 10 times in one round"?

I press Y until he's jumping up and down and I'm pretty sure I've done that 10 times.
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You have to do that in a LIVE game. This isn't LIVE game right now. First one is tomorrow.
 
Mister Zimbu said:
They're not just going to pick the top 101 players. They just weigh your probability of getting picked based on how well you did. The person placed dead last still CAN get picked, they just won't be likely to.
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It specifically states that they pick the best 101.

For those that played, are the speed bonuses still the same as they were before? I read the rules and it sounded like there was a flat 100 points for being quick (within .75 seconds), and the actual speed made no difference.
 
toythatkills said:
It specifically states that they pick the best 101.

For those that played, are the speed bonuses still the same as they were before? I read the rules and it sounded like there was a flat 100 points for being quick (within .75 seconds), and the actual speed made no difference.
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I didn't play much, but the lightning answer bonus does seem different. What you say sounds like it could be right, I was definintely getting a set amount instead of the weird numbers before.
 
Son of Godzilla said:
I didn't play much, but the lightning answer bonus does seem different. What you say sounds like it could be right, I was definintely getting a set amount instead of the weird numbers before.
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I feared that would be the case, every game will surely end up with 200 people on identical scores. I wonder how they decide who gets in the top three.

Apparently I hate all the changes this season. Still can't wait to play later :lol
 
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