Comments on: “Grand Slam” Roster Announced

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:36:46 +0000

the big winners from DOND and similar shows wouldn’t be on. DOND is not a TRIVIA show.

By: W

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:16:45 +0000

Oh!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:57:00 +0000

W: He’s been dead for some time.

By: W

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:37:09 +0000

Wat about the guy from PYL? The one who “cheated”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:24:08 +0000

I just reread the article and figured this out: The 2 first-round matchups I’m most interested in are going to be on my birthday!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:30:53 +0000

A. Responding with a vulgarity is not allowable.

B. If you really are Amy Kelly, using such language on a public bulletin board isn’t the best publicity for you or potentially for the show. You could’ve gone about this many different ways without resorting to expletives.

lol Amy Kelly indeed.

By: Jakes

Jakes — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:52:09 +0000

Since this is about Grand Slam I’ll say that it looks promising, but the real reason I’m writing is because I saw Greed mentioned quite a bit and I was wondering for what years did Greed actually run on regular TV (not the reruns on GSN)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:58:27 +0000

This is a good roster, I have to say. I’d really like to see a 21 champ up against a Millionaire at one point. IMO, they’re the easiest to win a lot of dough on. I just wish that they wouldv’e used a more scientific system for ranking the competitors. I have 2 ideas. The first one, just a regular written quiz, with questions similar to those they’ll have to use against their opponents. The other is a bit of time for the contestants to chat with one another, all 16 rank the other 15, not counting themselves, and they base the rankings on that. Because with this system, Thom McKee in particular gets shafted. But besides that, I have no complaints about the show.

By: dc

dc — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:47:12 +0000

I also have to say I’m surprised “Catherine Rahm” wasn’t involved here, but, we don’t know who was approached and might have turned it down (like many speculate Warren might have)

By: dc

dc — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:46:06 +0000

Here are my predictions:
First round:
#1 Rutter over #16 Kelly
#2 Jennings over #15 Lee
#3 Olmstead over #14 Kitt
#4 Toutant over #13 Pawlowicz – Although this is the first one I could see as an upset. Pawlowicz is lowly ranked because he wasn’t on any big money shows, but, has a more impressive series of wins than Toutant
#12 Spangenberg over #5 Legler – I think the “21″ contestants are vastly over-rated by being on a big money show with fairly easy questions
#6 Carpenter over #11 McKee – For whatever reason, I think Carpenter has a slight edge, but, I think it could go either way and will probably be the best game of the first round.
#10 Harris over #7 Oberholtzer
#9 Ogas over #8 Christy

Other than Spangenberg, I could see it going either way on any of the matches other than the top 3.

Assuming they do this bracketed instead of “lowest seed vs. highest seed” in the next round, we should have:

Rutter vs. Ogas
Jennings vs. Harris
Olmstead vs. Carpenter
Toutant vs. Spangenberg

I’ll go 1,2,3 again, with Spangenberg being the George Mason of the tournament.

Which leave Rutter vs. Spengenberg and Jennings vs. Olmstead.

I’ll just say I’d pick Jennings over Rutter in the final, but, with those final 4, I wouldn’t be surprised with any finals matchup and result honestly.

By: The Great Butler

The Great Butler — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:50:04 +0000

I believe Curtis Warren has shunned publicity following his victory on Greed, so he’d turn down an invitation to Grand Slam.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:27:26 +0000

Well GSN just put out a press release on their site saying that the winner of WSOPC Victor Lee, will be going against Ken Jennings.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:30:14 +0000

Other People Who Could/Should Be There:

- Curtis Warren (Greed/Sale of the Century/Win Ben Stein’s Money), won over $1.5 million combined

- Dr. Tim Hseih, won over a million on “It’s Your Chance of a Lifetime”, NOT an easy show to win that much on given the format

- Catherine Rahm, won half a million on the glorious mind trip that was the Winning Lines bonus round, and (perhaps more impressively) took home the $50,000 top prize on WinTuition (HARD show, and hey, it is a GSN Original!!!)

By: David

David — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:05:24 +0000

I’ve heard the “TBA” is one of the players from the eventual winning team on VH1’s 2007 World Series of Pop Culture..

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:06:06 +0000

I’m disappointed that we won’t see any of the first big-time winners (Michael Shutterly and Doug What’s-his-face from Millionaire, etc). Also, why does no one ever mention Dan Blonsky? He was the second million-dollar winner, and in my opinion a much more entertaining guy to watch than John Carpenter.