Room101 - Double the points!

You know the situation. You're in the lead it's the final round, you're feeling confident. But then, they double the points! And you're caught up and overtaken, feeling bitter that you should have won and pledging to wreck venegeance on Stephen Leahy or any American Gameshow comer-upper because you know, that's the sort of thing they 'do'.

Now, it's not so much doubling the points that I care about. OK it's pants, but apparently it makes a show more exciting (yeah, bollocks, more unfair more like). What I do have a problem with however are shows that make the preceding rounds completely meaningless. Yes! Split Second I'm talking to you here. You are hereby charged with making the first twenty minutes of the show absoloutely pointless by giving us the 'who goes next?' round, whereby the two players who were behind going into the last round get to play ping-pong with each other whilst the person who was in the lead sees his lead vanish into thin air and there is nothing. They. Can. Do. About. It.

Good, eh?

"Aah," you may incorrectly argue, "but surely that's just opponents using tactics in order to win. Therefore it is good and you are wrong, Nick."

"Aah," I will correctly reply, "but where is the fun when you have skillfully built up a lead when you lose it because the game mechanics don't give you a single chance to skillfully retain your lead, hmm?" And then I win.

Think of it this way. If you and your neighbour both ordered two pints of milk to delivered in the morning, imagine the riots when, just because your neighbour is the last house in the street they actually get four pints of milk, JUST for being the last in the street. And there was nothing you could do about it.

What WOULD Karl Marx say?