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COVER STORY ARCHIVES Analysis: Drew Carey as host of The Price Is Right Bob Barker on his career 2007 Jeopardy! college champ Cliff Galiher Tribute to Tom Poston More Tributes to Tom Poston Part 1 with Art James GSN executive Kevin Belinkoff on Lingo Kitty Angel of GSN's Cat-Minster $250,000 WWTBAM winner Jeff Jones 2007 Jeopardy! teen champ David Walter Country singer Julie Roberts, Wheel of Fortune Michael Davies, executive producer, WWTBAM Leigh Hampton, executive producer, WWTBAM $100,000 WWTBAM winner Molly Ball Barry Lander of 1 vs. 100 Michele Falco, Player of the Year Scott St. John, Executive of the Year Richard Hayes of All About Faces Ira Skutch, producer of Match Game Natalie Hlavenka of Wheel of Fortune Show Me the Money executive producer Mike Nichols Miguel Ferrer of Celebrity Jeopardy! Tribute to Bud Collyer Geoff Edwards of Treasure Hunt and Jackpot Bob Harris, author of "Prisoner of Trebekistan" Johnny Gilbert, Jeopardy! announcer Bob Goen of That's the Question Ken Jennings, author of "Brainiac" Howie Mandel of Deal or No Deal Pilar Laster of Deal or No Deal Claudia Jordan of Deal or No Deal $1.86 million WWTBAM winner Ed Toutant Network TV's top winner Dr. Kevin Olmstead Kathy Garver of Family Affair Tribute to Mike Douglas Burton Richardson of Family Feud Dylan Lane of Chain Reaction Pat Kiernan of World Series of Pop Culture Author Wesley Hyatt on Emmy-winning game shows Laird MacIntosh of Treasure Hunters Teresa Strasser of How to Get the Guy Ricki Lake of Game Show Marathon Michael Falk, Jeopardy! 2006 Tournament of Champions Winner Is Survivor Slipping? Vanna White of Wheel of Fortune Bob Juch of Millionaire Sheetal Shetty of Deal or No Deal Wink Martindale Did Richard Karn Get the Shaft on Family Feud? Bob Boden, Laura Chambers on Peter Tomarken Bil Dwyer of I've Got a Secret Don Knotts: a TV Legend Leaves Us Robert Purdum: $132,000 Wheel Winner Adam Wade of Musical Chairs Michael Davies: His New Sony Deal Nipsey & Adam: They Were the Pioneers Peter Marshall: 40th anniverary of Hollywood Squares 2005 Player of the Year: Brad Rutter Lin Bolen Betty White Jeopardy! college champion Nico Martinez Deal or No Deal's Scott St. John Harry Friedman, Wheel and Jeopardy! executive producer |
  OGI UPSETS RUTTER, LEGLER OUSTS LESZEK Who Wants to Be a Millionaire $500,000 winner Ogi Ogas eliminated Rutter from the $100,000 winner-take-all tournament. Rutter lost too much ground in the math round of the Elite Eight showdown and could not come from behind in the finale. In the nightcap, former Navy Lt. David Legler---television's all-time top winner until Kevin Olmstead's $2.18 million victory on Millionaire---defeated former Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions king Leszek Pawlowicz. Rutter vs. Ogas: Ogas outanswered Rutter in the opening round 6-for-8 to 5-for-8 but Ogas used two clock-eating passes to fall behind by 18.63 seconds. Rutter, on the air, cited math as his decidedly weak point. It was. In the second round of numbers and logic, Rutter was only 4-for-9 and used two switches and a pass. The intensely-focused Ogas was 4-for-4 and used two switches and two passes but exercised his options quickly. He ended the math showdown with a huge 39-second advantage and went to halftime with a 20.45-second edge.Next weekend: the quarterfinal matches of Ken Jennings vs. Phyllis Harris and Michelle Kitt vs. John Carpenter will fill out the Final Four field. In the Sept. 1 semifinals, Ogas faces Legler with next weekend's winners taking on each other. TVgameshows.net will have post-game analysis of this weekend's quarterfinal competition Sunday night. NOTE: TVgameshows.net's stats are slightly different from the actual Grand Slam show totals. Because the element of a pass is so crucial in costing contestants time, we break out passes as a separate category, rather than counting them as a miss. For the week's Cover Story interview with executive producer Davies, follow the link below.   Miss Francis' gowns by Bonwit Teller © Copyright 2007 TVgameshows.net. All Rights Reserved. |
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Legler vs. Pawlowicz: When Pawlowicz knocked off Millionaire's Ed Toutant in the first round, he parlayed a strong math stanza and a steady word competition. This time, those two cost Leszek, along with the smooth concentration of Legler, who reeled off a perfect math round.
Despite a 5-for-7 word round in questions tried, Pawlowicz used two switches and passed four times. Two of the switches ate up 13 seconds. Though using up all of his switches and passing twice, Legler nailed the three questions he tried to move out to a lead of nearly 40 seconds going into the windup.