GSN today announced a special “Win With Words Week” to compliment their award winning “National Vocabulary Championship” special. Starting April 10th, special student and teacher teams will compete on the originals “Lingo” and “Chain Reaction”. “Quiznation” and “100 Winners” will also feature vocabulary-related puzzles and NVC prizes. Then, on Sunday, April 15th at 8PM ET, GSN will premiere the documentary-style special of the championship round of the “National Vocabulary Championship” final. It will look at the competition, sideline interviews with contestants, competition footage, and hometown visits with the contestants. The winner of the final receives $40,000 for his or her college education. GSN has stated they plan on making this an annual event. Again, Win With Words Week starts April 10th, and the special is on April 15th at 8PM ET on GSN.
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You read right, Embassy Row changed the “Chain Reaction” bonus again. Here’s the rundown.
*It’s now 60 seconds.
*If you get five right, you win $5,000. They did raise the money a bit, but you read right: just five to win.
*If you don’t get them all, you get $100 for each one right. You win up to $400 or $5,000.
*Once you press the buzzer to answer, time stops for a few seconds.
*Time resumes once you answer correct, incorrectly, or wait too long.
So what do you guys think? Personally, I think it’s a tad bit more broken. I’m happy the money went up a bit, but it’s so easy to win now it’s not even funny. There’s really no excuse not to win $5,000. I’d like to think at some point Embassy Row would go “OK, this bonus isn’t working. We need to make something else.” I respect trying to stay with the classic and I respect what Embassy Row does, but it’s evident this bonus is not working. No changes are being made to the main game at this point. We should have more information from a contestant this season later this week.
I ask that because I found an article that GSN is going to high schools, recruiting for a “Teachers vs. Students” theme week. We get a “sneak peek” of sorts into the audition process: You get 8 minutes to complete written 7-word chain(s), but you’re only allowed the first letters in each word (except, of course, the top and bottom words are filled in completely). Then, you’re filmed as you complete another chain verbally.
Also, the article says second season of Chain Reaction is slated to premiere March 1st at 10pm EST, “contrary” to our previous report of March 13th, so take this with a grain of salt.
A bit ago, BuzzerBlog announced “Chain Reaction”, GSN’s new word game, was renewed for a second season. It apparently got decent ratings, but a good deal of the game show community, quite frankly, disliked it and wondered why it was renewed instead of other things like “I’ve Got A Secret”. Many issues came up with things like game play, set, music, host, contestants, and everything. So, we called out to our readers to submit their changes. The results were rather astounding. Including emails, we got over 50 comments. We thought it would be nice to showcase our favorite ideas and then combine them to make what we feel would be a better edition of “Chain Reaction”. These are also going to be submitted to GSN and Embassy Row.
One quick comment before we start. We would like to note that, in theory, “Chain Reaction” is not a bad game. It has the makings of something terrific. However, there are so many tiny errors and flaws in the game play, set changes, music issues, host issues, and more, that it really takes away. When I say that we are making what we feel is a better show, I stress the we as in BuzzerBlog. We are not saying this is terrific to you or compares to the classic. This will just be a combination of your game play that was suggested into a format. Please click below the link to read your hard work.
ONE MORE NOTE: BuzzerBlog is reviving it’s podcast talk show “The Buzz”. If you would like to be featured in it and interviewed about “Chain Reaction”, please leave a comment about this post or email us.
I got way more responses than I figured I would, so I’d like to post this again. If you could make some changes to GSN’s “Chain Reaction”, since a majority of the game show fanbase does not like it apparently, what would you do? We’ll post the best suggestions we get here, and maybe combine them to make sense into Buzzer’s “Chain Reaction”. We do have people like GSN and Embassy Row read Buzzer, so this could make a difference, readers. So, again, if you have any more suggestions beyond raising the prize money to giant amounts that you know GSN will never give away, what would you do?
And I’m not saying that “Chain Reaction” is a bad show, in theory. There aren’t major problems needing fixing. There are a lot of minor things that can make it excellent, though. Everything is on the canvas, but they fail to create the picture nicely. We have finger painting instead of Mona Lisa.
I can’t believe it. GSN’s original game show “Chain Reaction” has been renewed for a second season and is currently looking for contestants, according to Craigslist. So, want to compete? Click the link below. Here’s a challenge for you all: Please leave comments on how you would improve “Chain Reaction”. I’m going to post your suggestions and my suggestions one day, as if GSN would read them and listen. It’s quite a shame that “I’ve Got A Secret” looks dead in the water. What happened to “Lingo” also?
APPLY FOR SEASON 2 OF CHAIN REACTION: THE WTF EDITION
Three female contestants from GSN’s show “Chain Reaction” are saying what many many many people are going to say when they are out of episodes: “I’m glad it’s over.” On Friday night (their show was taped in August), Kelly Hooper, Linda McAllister, and Helene Dunn compete on the GSN game show to win upwards of $3,000 if they are lucky.
“We had a ball,” said Helene, 41, who lives in Chalfont with her husband and three children. They made it through the first round, winning $1,700. That’s a total of $1,700; enough, they joked, to cover their two train trips to New York City.
Hooper, 38, of Harleysville, said, “I loved doing it, but I’m glad it’s over.”
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