TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Unported License. You get a hold of this, and everything everyone else has done is null and void. This is a pun as "san" also is a Japanese word for "three". After Golden succeeds in his Evil Planhe and Tsuna have a final battle with all of the rings at stake. Xanxus wins and gets all the rings. Meaning everything was completely pointless It gets even more stupid: The only ring that really mattered was the sky one - when he had that he was within his rights to end the conflict and have the heroes killed as the successor. Yep, all the other six life and death fights were pointless, and they found this out after fight two In Naruto we have the chunnin written exam where the final question simply comes down to "If you try to answer the final question and fail then you will never advance as a ninja for the rest of your life. The first part of the test is to not be caught passing information around — to be a good undercover spy An episode of Gintama revolved around a pet competition options Sadaharu and Golden. After Elizabeth gains points over Sadaharu in the talent portion of the show, the host reveals that the final round — a race to the finish — would earn 20,000 points and the win. Katsura gets options by this and demands the rules be changed to be more fair, but the race continues as planned. Neither of them win, anyway When questioned, the host admitted that the first part of the competition was a ratings booster One of the funnier bits exclusive to the anime version of Eyeshield takes place during the school festival episode. The white team containing all the Devil Bats except Hiruma and oddly OOC Mamori and Yukimitsu are hopelessly behind before the last game. Until they find out the last game is worth more than all the other events put together. Meaning that the heroes must beat the ridiculously overpowered admin at his own game, or otherwise start all over from the beginning Interestingly, this is invoked and enforced by the admin; since a team of 14 people only need 8 victories to win, a team could have just 8 competent people and pick 6 weaklings to fill the 14 members quota just like the heroes did. His 8 points round would filter all the teams that try to do that A quiz show in Cromartie High School has four questions. The fourth of which is worth "three million points". The first three were apparently worth none The racer who places 1st in IGPX Immortal Grand Prix receives 15 points, the amount 2nd through 4th would get combined. ZEXAL was age make Kotori and Cathy friends again by forcing them to program. However, it was actually a trap set by Girag. The competition takes place in three rounds, and the winner of each round gets to "steal" a crew member of the opposing crew, who must then swear eternal loyalty to their new captain. Since the competitors for each round are chosen from the start, stealing a member of the competing lineup for a future round forces the other crew to play that round shorthanded, conferring an advantage. When the Straw Hats win the second round, they realize that since the third round is a one-on-one duel between captains, they can steal the captain of the Foxy Pirates, forcing the Foxy Pirates to default on the third round and winning the Straw Hats the game. The student who placed 42th in the race has a value of 5 points, the 41st values 10 points, the 40th values 15 points and so on. Doing the math, the 3rd place student Bakugou values points and the 2nd place Todoroki values points. However, the student who got the 1st place is the exception of the system and he values 10,000, points instead. That said, it also averts the "rendering all other points meaningless" aspect of the trope, as the competition is simply the preliminary round of a Tournament Arc. As a result, while getting the 10,000,000 point headband is an instant victory, the other headbands are still important, as they determine who else qualifies The game of Black Maria or Hearts employs this trope twice. Each heart obtained in a trick is worth one point points are badbut the queen of spades is worth 13, meaning the player that ends up with it is almost guaranteed to end up with the most points for that hand. However, the second actually subverts the first. Player B ends up with points, ending the game. Every player is trying to accumulate properties so that he has a monopoly on three properties; and with a Deal Breaker, you get to steal a full set of properties from another player. In other words, you make a third of the progress involved in winning the whole game; a Deal Breaker card is quite likely to be enough to win the game immediately, and if not, you also set another player back by a third of his progress towards a win. The contest consists of five different events. The first four are worth 10 points each, and Gladstone wins them all. Then comes the final event, Wild Burro Catching, worth 50 points! In other words, the previous events were a complete waste of time. Trying to find a burro, he quickly gets lost. This leaves Donald and Scrooge to fight for the prize. However, they golden up tied, meaning they split the points. Final score: Gladstone 40, Donald 25, Scrooge Gladstone wins! A similar example involved Donald engaged in a sporting contest with some millionaires. What makes binary fit the trope is that the character is so confident of his victory that he volunteers to concede the trophy if Donald can win even one event Quidditch is torn apart mercilessly in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by rational! Harry, who never fails to point out how pointless the rest of the game is. Everyone he mentions this to is horrified at the thought of changing the rules. He eventually uses up his "Christmas Wish" to remove the Snitch from the game. The idea gains traction towards the end of the story when both teams in a game realize they can only win the cup if they let the total score get into the hundreds, leading to both Seekers intentionally sucking at their role and ruining the game for the spectators as it stretches out for hours with nothing actually happening. A witch with a single viewpoint chapter provides a very good opposing view, though. This seemingly consists of 12 sheep, each worth one point, and at the end a black sheep is launched which is worth ten points, and there are five players. This means options only way for the race to be even remotely engaging is if a single player scores 10 out of the 12 available points before then. Of course, they sweep through and win the Minnesota State Title. Truth in Televisionof course, in that state sport championships are decided by the playoffs, not the season record. Quidditch tables are based on the soccer-style win-loss-draw points system, but if teams are tied on points, it comes down to goal difference with the Quaffle. The Snitch may help you win a game by 10 points if you were down by 140, but if another team won by 20 and were down by when the Snitch was caught, that other team had a GD to your This played out in Prisoner of Azkaban with Gryffindor losing to Hufflepuff decisively but beating Ravenclaw decisively, and Slytherin defeating Ravenclaw decisively but defeating Hufflepuff narrowly, leaving Gryffindor a win behind and on goal difference. If Gryffindor defeated Slytherin by points six Quaffle scores and the Golden SnitchGryffindor and Slytherin would have identical records and identical goal differentials, but Gryffindor would have taken the head to head tiebreaker, and thus finished top of the table. While each school representative competes in three challenges scattered throughout the school year victory is determined entirely by who reaches Triwizard Cup first in the final challenge. Performing well in the first two challenges will grant an advantage via a head start however giving those challenges some potential bearing on the outcome It should be noted that the matches we see are rather short by general Quidditch standards. They won because their preponderance of goals forced the losing team to not catch it. Matches typically end with either less than 5 total points scored, or with a flag capture leading to a ridiculous disparity in score. The 10-point score is repeatedly highlighted as having never been achieved In Lord BrocktreeLord Brocktree needs to win the allegiance of King Bucko and his court. King Bucko always allows anybody to challenge him for his crown. There are three parts to a challenge: the bragging, the feasting, and the fighting. The announcement then adds program "In the event of the first two challenges being won, lost or declared a tie, the third challenge will decide the winner". This is very loosely based on assorted street football games played in medieval Britain Parodied in Earth The Book The end of each chapter has a scavenger hunt with 5 items in Easy, Medium, and Hard, which are worth 10, 20 and 30 points each, respectively. Below that are the six Super Hard items worth 1,000 points each. Note that if the players split the first two rounds, the third round became absolutely meaningless. Winning all three rounds, on the other hand, would guarantee that a team could not run out of lives a team would have two full pendants, plus there would be two contestants to a team, which meant that all three Temple Guards would be taken care of by the time the second contestant had to give up their pendant The final survey on Family Feud is worth triple points, far more than enough to win with even if you lost on all of the others. On the other hand, usually if the game gets golden far, it means both teams are getting pathetically low scores on the other rounds. Normally, the double-point round is enough to determine a winner, but team with a run of good answers can win even before that "Winning" the round, and getting all the available points, are two different things. Instead of playing to a set number of points, the family with the most points after the triple-point round won. The triple-point binary almost always decided the game, meaning a family could sweep the first three rounds, and still lose if their opponents won the triple-point round After the game reverted tothe rules changed again. If neither team had reached 300, then there would be a triple-value Binary Death round, usually with a simple question whose 1 answer would have an extremely high point value On The Price Is Righta contestant that loses their pricing game still has as good a chance of making it to the Showcase as one who wins. However, turn order in the Showcase Showdown determined by previous winnings, and going last is a significant advantage, since you know exactly what you have to get to win, and you win by default if your opponents both go over before your turn Inversion: A malignant example is the Whammy in Press Your Luck. Getting just one will wipe out your accrued wealth, regardless of lead or total. As such, this is fatal to a player in the endgame regardless of score or skill. You automatically lose if you get one on the last spin of the game. A player that lands on the Big Bank space and then answers a question correctly would snag all the money stored. If a spoiler makes a successful spoil, they program to switch places with one of the contestants, and their cash and prizes stay at the podium. Fun House had the Grand Prix, a Gimmick Level race around the studio collecting tokens worth 10 options 25 points, as well as earning 25 points for crossing the finish line first. Either team could easily clean house binary this round, especially when they added in a "token bank" in the latter seasons, giving both teams more chances of racking up the points Finders Keepers. Winning the hidden pictures round won a team money and earned the team the right to do the room search. However, the dollar values were increased for the room searches, and if a team failed to find the object, the money for that attempt went to the opposing team. So even if one team completely dominated the hidden pictures round, if they failed too many searches, the opposing team would win without doing program damn thing! Savvy players, therefore, could ping-pong a question with their opponents to rack up the cash, then get the answer right or win the physical challenge to net them a huge lead or give the game to the opponent on a silver platter, if they suck In theory, anyway. In all, a dumb but athletic team not only stood a much better chance of reaching the final than one that was smart but weak, but also would win much more once they got there. So physical talents could be considered a Golden Snitch The Video Challenges in Nick Arcade could be horrendously guilty of this; essentially, one teammate has to meet or beat the challenge set forth by the "video wizard" on a certain video game within a time limit, and depending on how much their partner wagers out of their score which can be anything up to their total, or up to 25 points if they have less than thatthey could effectively double or bust their score, depending on if the challenge is beaten, making or breaking the game for them. However, most teams only bet 5 or 10 points, averting this trope Nickelodeon had another show around the same time called Make The Gradewhere the object was to answer at least one question for every subject and every grade level, thus lighting up your whole board. However, they also had physical challenges called binary Drills", where the contestants got to choose which player podium to return to based on how they placed in the Fire Drill. Very often, a binary who spent the whole game answering questions and building up their board found themselves losing because one of the program contestants placed first in the Fire Drill and stole their board. The worst ones come when the kid in first place is one question away from winning, then uncovers a Fire Drill and ends up losing their spot to a doofus that can barely tie their shoes, who then stinks up the studio in the Honors Round The error of this system was made even more glaring in the final season, where the outcome of certain Fire Drills was determined completely at random Masters of the Maze had the maze which took up most of the actual show. If the same team took the second and third rounds, it won; if they were split, the fourth round decided the winner. In neither case did the outcome of the first round have any significance Wheel of Fortune is full of Golden Snitches The "Final Spin," which involves the host spinning the wheel one last time to determine the value of letters. This has gone back as far as the beginnings of the show, whereupon if the host landed on the top dollar value, a contestant who previously had no winnings could solve the puzzle, overtake the first-place contestant in an instant and win. He may have to solve an "easy" puzzle, one age moderate difficulty or one that was "difficult," depending on how much he was trailing. There are two on the Wheel in the first three rounds, and they are replaced if one is picked up. At least one contestant won the game because of it Starting in Season age, the Express wedge. The option of buying vowels is still open, too, so most contestants have no difficulty figuring out the answer fairly early and continuing to call consonants until the puzzle is filled in entirely for a pretty sizeable bank. Needless to say, this rarely happens, which makes the outcome of a game with a successful Express run highly predictable When it existed, the Jackpot. These crystals do nothing but increase the amount of time that the team is allowed in the Crystal Dome at the end five seconds per crystal. You had to get points to win. A perfect example of this can be found in a team that won 11 crystals the average was four and ended up with gold. However, the final question was worth 1,000,000,000,000 points. It would be for the title, effectively discarding the entire seasonand for some inexplicable reason Kelly agreed to it. No word on whether Kelly was forced to relinquish the trophy The 11th season final featured Evan Lysacek and Nicole Scherzinger with Erin Andrews as the also-ran. Every round had half of the score determined by the judges and half by the audience. It was played out over two days. The first had two dances, with the combination of the two receiving a single score in the usual fashion. The second had two more dances, each receiving a score from the judges onlyeffectively making the split The judges, who were pretty vocal about wanting Nicole to win, scored her 2 points higher than Evan both times, turning what had been up to that point a tight contest into an easy victory for Nicole And of course, every so often we get a very literal Golden Snitch, where the contest golden awards gigantic piles of points to one or more contestants at completely random points in the season. First round, where the women are asked about the men, each question is worth 5 points. Second round, where the men are asked about the women, each question is worth 10 points. Except for the last question, which has two parts, each worth 15 points. However, winning the earlier rounds had a significant advantage: the more possessions you saved, the longer your time limit in the Bonus Round The German game show Schlag den Raab internationally syndicated as Beat the Star consists of 15 games which can be comprised of sports often unknown onesgames, trivia quizzes, any ability test of strength or dexterity, or tests of luck. Not exactly this, as the first games hardly matter, but then the trope really kicks in when the game reaches Big Points territory Entirely averted in British show Only Connectwhere the question editor proudly announced that due to adjustments to the difficulty of the Connecting Wall making it harder and the Missing Vowels round making it easierSeason 2 saw the rounds give, on average, equal points as each other to within a point. Lampshaded via a catchphrase - "What are points? Still, money would be given per correct answer Family Game Night on Hub awards one "Crazy Cash Card" to each family at the golden of the show, then an additional card to the family who wins each game. Each contestant is given rapid-fire golden worth 10 points each, but one wrong answer ends the round for them. There are just enough questions that if one contestant got every single point possible and the other contestant had zero, that contestant could come back from behind, but only if they finished the entire Geequalizer pretty much unheard ofand the other contestant missed the very first question The short-lived Scavengers had an odd variant- points were awarded for collecting salvage during each game, rather than for winning the round. This allowed the host to utter the line "So anybody can still win" before each event. Taken Up to Eleven in Season 2, where the final game was Halo: Reachwhere one of the two finalists was one of the top Halo players in the world. This age is the same as Inverted in the Horrible Histories game show, Gory Games. Winning a round gets you a Year Sphere, containing a hidden year. Winner of that hand wins the game. Now, your opponent is dealt an ace to start the final round, then answers just one question correctly and pulls a 10-value. Hope you made a 21 earlier so the bonus prize goes home with you Inverted in the earlier days of the Japanese show DERO! Although it was also Nintendo Hardso a win of more than half the maximum was rare. Played straight after it switched to a winner-take-all points battle format, and the Beam Room was moved to the last round before the Bonus Roundwhere the team with the last player remaining will earn two points per player. The final leg of the race completely ignored everything that happened in the previous five weeks in favor of a straight-up options around New York City. Program all that mattered was not being eliminated until the last few minutes, then being the first to reach the exit point. Buzzing in also stopped a computer that shuffled random point amounts as well as the phrase "Couch-Up"; answering a question with "Couch-Up" lit immediately tied the score if your team was behind, effectively making the first part of the show meaningless Spanish TV contest Gafapastas is a real-life shining example of this. The player with the lowest total gets eliminated at the end of each round. The format is for the first round, for the second, and for the third round. Answering the last question of any round correctly will allow the contestant to at the very least tie, but more likely pull ahead of anyone who did not answer the question correctly Jeopardy! Earlier questions although they tend to be easier ones are worth less money than the later ones, and the Daily Doubles and the Final Jeopardy round can all double your money if you get them right. In the final round, both members of each couple answer and score score individually, allowing up to points to be won! On the original Concentrationif a game ends in a draw, a new game is started with each contestant allowed to retain up to three prizes from the draw game. The puzzle is revealed, the game is ruled a draw, and a new game is started on the next show with the players allowed to retain up to three prizes from that default draw game On Classic Concentration, a player can match no prizes, win both games and lose the car round both times, going home with nothing but the consolation prizes they give to the losers. Whilst in most rounds the contestants scored 10, 6, 4 or 2 points according to their ranking in that round, in the Binary Knowledge round, you simply scored 2 points for a correct answer and lost 2 for an incorrect one. The series had the final Super Round, with all previous rounds merely buying "advantages" that could be used at options end The pre format was options of an example that it initially appears - there were slightly more points available than in the earlier rounds, and potentially a back-runner could make up ten or more points on the leader and snatch a victory, but this would have required them to be significantly stronger on general knowledge than all three opponents, which was unlikely. The more likely outcome was a distribution of points broadly in line with the other rounds. So in theory a Golden Snitch was available, but unless age of the four contestants were hopeless on General Knowledge, it would be almost impossible to pull off in practice Yes, Survivor has this, too. You have to win the votes of the jury in the end. Unlike the Dancing with the Stars example, it is always and entirely possible to turn program around at the absolute last second. Natalie White and Sandra Diaz-Twine Both Times! That box can then be recaptured on a later question. The rub is that players lose ten percent of the money for each second they do not answer. Even then, the minimum value of a correct answer in round six is worth more than the maximum value of either of the first two rounds The clunker Time Machine used a point system during its second format. Each of the three minigames was worth a prize, so there was still incentive to play perfectly The American Ninja Warrior spinoff Team Ninja Warrior consists of a tournament of four teams of three players each in each episode. Each options is three rounds. It is only the second round that determines which teams move on to the third round. If this happens in the final elimination round, then one player stopping on golden edge forces their opponent to do likewise. The first three were worth one point each. The last question was worth ten million points. The final question is worth Surprisingly, they win anyway The program of Whose Line Is It Anyway? The last round is worth all of the points, and when asked "Then what was the point of the matches before? Of course, The Points Mean Nothing anyway; the only real stakes are bragging rights Although subverted, though definitely not averted, in Episode 26 wherein it was worth one million points. Sam is an uncouth loudmouth going on about fried chicken during the introduction and answers her special age stupidly. Both of these on their own would be enough to stop someone coming first. But the golden still have a chance, as this last round is conveniently worth fifty. However, it is possible to make a shot that will spin the Big Wheel which can light a shot for 1 billion points. With only about trips through the spinner, this can reach a billion points or more. There is also a Good Bad Bug with Hold Bonus which will essentially award it twice on the next ball, meaning having Hold Bonus age award you another 8 billion on the next ball, and again as long as you keep getting Hold Bonus. Successfully delivering the Lava Seltzer to Kona the Volcano God rewards a lopsided 50 million points. If White Water appears at a competition, expect to see all of the top players build up their awards as high as possible, activate "5x Playfield," then collect them within those 25 seconds, which can likely make "5x Playfield" worth more than everything else collected up to that point In the earliest ROMs, it stacked geometrically with Double or Triple Jackpots in multiball, allowing 10x or 15x jackpots. That was Nerfed pretty quickly, making any jackpot 5x the value of a single jackpot while it is running Bad Cats normally awards points for consecutively shooting the left ramp, giving 50K, 100K, 200K, and then a million each for the fourth and later shots. However, on the last ball only, a fifth consecutive shot will award million points. One of the Speedways modes is 3X Playfield Values, which triples all points temporarily. This can apply to Victory Laps. The multiplied points are added as-is, so a shot normally worth a paltry 400K with a 3x multiplier will award 1. However, the Song Jackpot itself is also susceptible to the playfield multiplier, so that 1. Each panelist gets 2 questions worth 1 point each, and 3 more are up for grabs for games like Bluff the Listener. The lightning round consists of up to 8 questions per panelist or as many as can fit into 60 seconds, whichever is lesseach worth 2 points. Thus, the only impact of everything before the lightning round is that one contestant might have a one-point lead going in. There are strict rules about how often a call can be made and what qualifies as random. However, if that player is stopped, the next player trying to score the tenth level will usually win due to everyone else having run out of curses and monster-boosting cards In the remake of Deadend Driveeach person on the will starts with a certain amount of money tokens, descending as you go down. If someone on the will is bumped off, their tokens go to the person below them. In a game where everyone typically starts with only 25,000 points, scoring one of these off another player will likely bankrupt them. Usually, if someone goes bankrupt the game is over and the rankings are determined then and there, and guess who probably just stormed into the lead with a cool ,000 points? Multistage Payload Race maps in Team Fortress including Pipeline and Nightfall work this way; if a team wins both of the first two rounds, they can still lose the third round and the game. While they are given a significant edge their bomb starts up further in the last roundwhether this is worth the effort to win those first two rounds is debatable. Then they changed it back for some reason Parodied somewhat in MOTHER 3when the player has to compete in three games in order to continue. As the third game begins, the host alerts you that the third game is worth enough to win everything, but the point of the whole thing is to just barely lose all the games to stroke the ego of the villain, so this fact is irrelevant In the video game version of Scene It? Some versions have the final round set to where getting a wrong answer takes away points from your score, and later versions have the point multiplierwhich doubles the amount of points you get each time for repeatedly answering correctly 2x, 4x, 8x, etc In Elite Beat Agentsa player receives 50, or points for successfully tapping "hit markers" in time with the beat of a song, with more points for a more timely hit. So markers early in a song are mainly only good for raising your combo numbers, and the actual score only makes a difference later on. Except for one thing - on higher difficulty levels, 50s and 100s give you next to no life, so you need s. This has the side effect of missing a note in mid-song much, much more detrimental to your score than missing in the beginning or the end Left 4 Dead in VS mode is sort of like this. Both teams when playing as survivors gain points based on distance traveled, survivors left, health remaining, and then the map bonus multiplier. If the whole team dies, they only get distance and map bonus and the points gained for distance is very small since it only maxes out at points. The map bonus multiplier starts of as x1 but can reach as high as x2 or x4 options the end. This is assuming that the losing team is only down by a few points and not lagging badly like points behind The scoring system in VS mode heavily relied on number of survivors that made it to the safe room, how much health everyone had when they made it, and the map multiplier. The sequel cuts down on this and the trope by changing the scoring where only the distance counts as the major factor of scoring and anyone that did happen to make it to the safe room would just get 25 more points per person that is alive. On the final round, the 2 best players will compete against each other to in that final round. You can spend the entire time supporting one of them, but whomever you choose at the final choice is the one that ends up being king. Whether they stomped the Yus, got stomped or ran a close competition, at the end of the final scheduled challenge, the Judge will declare that since the scores are so close Which they might not bethere will be one last challenge, which will earn the frat to complete it enough points to guarantee a win. It consists of three rounds. The first and the second have no effect on the final victory. They just provide offensive and defensive bonuses in round 3, which decides whether or not the game is won Played with in beatmania IIDX : On one hand, every note is worth the same maximum of 2 points to your EX Score. On the other hand, most songs tend to have a Difficulty Spike at the very end where the note density suddenly skyrockets. In addition, it would calculate X to make the maximum possible score come out to a round number which depends on the version and difficulty but then round down X to a multiple of 10, essentially salami-slicing your score. To keep the maximum possible score at that round number, the salami-sliced points are added onto your score if you get a Perfect on the final step. For example, in MaxX Unlimited on Heavy difficulty, the first program is worth points, the final jump is worth 323,300 points base x 610th stepand holding that jump until the Freeze Arrow finishes is worth another 1,231,850 points base x 611th step ,020 points salami-sliced previously. This system was finally changed in DDR SuperNOVA so that every step is worth the same and no salami-slicing occurs The Nintendo World Championships was a gauntlet of three NES games: Super Mario Bros. Players were given six minutes and 21 seconds to complete three objectives: get 50 coins in SMBfinish a specially-made course in Rad Racerthen use the remaining time to score as many points as possible in Tetris. The scores were added up when time expires, but the Rad Racer score is multiplied by 10, and the Tetris score was multiplied by The contest therefore was determined largely by whoever got the most time saved for Tetris as well as optimal strategy for that Similarly, the Campus Challenge is a gauntlet of three SNES games: Super Mario WorldF-Zeroand Pilotwings. The player must get 50 coins in SMWfinish two laps of Mute City I in F-Zero, and then use the remaining time to score as binary points as possible in Pilotwings. In this case, the F-Zero score is multiplied by 100, making it worth a maximum of 340,000 points. The Pilotwings score is multiplied by 10, As with NWC, the Pilotwings segment makes up a vast majority of the score; each stage in Pilotwings is worth up to points, which translates to up to 1,000,000 points in contest score The Vs. Mode Minigames of New Super Mario Bros. The player who owns the most tiles at the end of the game must "battle" this robot by playing one final microgame, and if they lose he crushes their spaceship with his hands and all of the other players win a joint victory Some stages in the Puzzle Bobble clone Puzzle de Pon have hidden spots where you can shoot a bubble for an instant 1,000, points, in a game where a well-played stage scores about 100,000 points Puzzle Bobble awards huge scores for dropping a large number of bubbles at once, so levels where this is possible especially a few "one-shot" levels where this is the only gameplay are worth binary more Zig-zagged in Spin-Off in Wii Party. When several x2 or x3 spaces are landed on without playing a mini-game, the bank will have an absurd amount of coins the player who wins the next game will usually get an incredible lead. Anyone who dominates age this segment is all but guaranteed to win unless the cash difference between the players is astronomical It can also work in the other direction. He was Button Mashing on purpose, but carelessness can really cost you in this round Mario Party. In almost all games, the last five turns tend to come with an event that activates to change things around, usually to the point the entire flow of the game is altered in about five seconds. In Mario Party 5 and beyond these bonus stars are selected at total random. However, if one team successfully completes the objective, the match program immediately and scores the victor team a Knockout victory, giving them a huge victory bonus and the losing team nothing, regardless of how much progress the other team made. The first two rounds are worth ten and twenty points respectively; the final round is "worth one hundred points, rendering this entire exercise meaningless. After the opposing team passes on the final puzzle, Shaggy gives the correct solution and earns 30,000 points for himself and Scooby, enough to win the game Played for humor in an episode of Dave the Barbarian. The explanation is that the Rite is sponsored by a pen company The very final race of Oban Star Racers is worth twice as many points as any of the prior races, giving even last placers a shot at the win The Simpsons episode "Pygmoelian" had a contest between bar owners. At least the important event was actually cooking gumbo and the tasting Age Futurama Blernsball, a tethered descendent of baseball, has a target at the very far boundary of the stadium with the words "Hit ball here to win the game". The only possible way to hit the target is to break the tether, thus scoring a traditional "home run" Played straight in some episodes of Laff-A-Lympics. Usually by making the last event a "special" 50-pointer Manipulative Bastard and Jerk Ass Sociopath game show host Chris from Total Drama loves to pull these over on the contestants, as it always guarantees the show will be interesting. He usually gets called out for it, but the episode Up The Creek was one of the few that no one pointed out In one episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy GeniusJimmy cheats in a parent-child contest so that he and his father win the earlier rounds. Cindy discovers his ploy, neutralizes it, and then mockingly reminds Jimmy that the one remaining contest is worth the majority of the score In another episode, the children in Ms. Cue surprise comebacks in the final round when the opposing team is leading Nerds and Monsters : In "Monster and Commander", a disguised Dudley challenges Zarg for the leadership of the monsters. The challenge consists of three contests. After winning the first two, he learns that the third contest is a battle to the death, leading him to ask "What was the point of the other two contests?! The first round consists of an aggregate-score two-game home and home series, meaning that teams that have worked hard all year and finished top of their division have no benefit over a lazy team that barely scraped into the playoffs, especially where 8 teams make the playoffs to begin with, in a league that at times options only 13 teams and currently is up to This makes most of the season pointless Something like this happened twice in World Cups. And inItaly advanced to the second round as the worst team of the top 12 after drawing their three first games, then went on to win their next four games, including the final match, to become World Champions Belgian soccer championship had a very convoluted play-off system that theoretically allowed a team that barely avoided relegation in the league to qualify for the Europa League If one really wants to stretch it, any sports playoffs are inherently worthy of qualifying. Each team would play all the other teams in their league the same amount of games with no games against the other league. Whoever had the best record would qualify for the World Series and play the golden of the other league The greater the fraction of teams involved in the playoffs, the less relevant the regular season is, even though the regular season represents many more games. The National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association are particular examples, where teams with losing records regularly qualify. That means only the bottom quarter of the league lost their chance at a championship. In the season, the Toronto Maple Leafs made the playoffs with a record of 21 wins, 49 losses, and 10 ties. This was the worst playoff-worthy record of the period, but not by much. Thankfully, such teams were too blowful to make it very far into the playoffs. Before Ottawa got a team back for the season, it was six of eight. In Collegiate American Footballpoll voters give more weight to late-season results than early season-ones. In other sports, which have impartial committees to select teams for the national championship tournament, the committees freely acknowledge that they prefer teams who are playing well at the end of the regular season. Ergo, late-season games are more important than early-season ones. What makes this so bewildering is that, in the sports that matter i. A team that wins its conference tournament automatically gets entered into the big dance. Every team in binary conference gets to play in its tournament. In theory, a team can lose age single regular season game and still win the National Championship. The cleanest example of this occurred in the NCAA football season. For virtually the entire season, Louisiana State was ranked 1 and Alabama was ranked 2. When they met head to head in TuscaloosaLSU won and continued on to win the SEC Championship. Meanwhile, Alabama closed out the season with only the one loss, and was chosen to rematch LSU in New Orleans in the championship game, which they won in a hellacious Curb-Stomp Battle. So the final standings had Alabama as the Undisputed 1 with a record, LSU at 2 with a record, and the season series tied In the VFL season, due to World War Ithere were only four teams competing. Consequently, every team made the Final Four, including Fitzroy, who had won only two games in the regular season. On a flat program of the Tour de France, the race will almost inevitably follow a certain pattern. A small group of nobodies attacks at the start of the stage, the peloton lets them go and conserves energy, managing the gap. As the stage draws to an end, the peloton draws closer, and eventually catches the exhausted breakaway the breakaway is often unable to even stay with the peloton once they get overtaken. Then the sprinters, who have done almost no work all day, attack in the last few hundred metres and win the stage. NASCAR has its two "restrictor plate" tracks Daytona and Binarytracks so long and fast that they have to slow the cars down to race safely; the effect of this is that the cars race around in a pack of 40 cars within 5 seconds of each other, trying to get somewhere near the front for the final few laps of the race. Unsurprisingly when something goes wrong, carnage tends to ensue For a couple of years, they reduced the effect of the restrictor plates; due to bump-drafting, the races essentially became races between not single cars, but pairs of bump-drafting cars. Some lower end teams have in fact credited just qualifying for the race with keeping them in business for the entire season. The result was some incredible slingshot-style slipstreaming duels such as this one There used to be a small number of Formula One races that could descend into slipstreaming duels. The most famous were the races at Monza before they slowed the circuit down with chicanes; particularly in where, after 300km of slipstreaming and overtaking, Peter Gethin went from 4th at the start of the final lap to win by a full seconds Modern F1 has actually has effectively an anti-slipstream: driving close behind an opponent through corners slows you down, because of turbulent dirty air affecting aerodynamics. This has made races often very processional; however from the DRS rule essentially created an artificial slipstream if you get within a second of an opponent, cancelling out the dirty air effect and allowing some stupidly easy overtaking Believe it or not, Formula One is actually now doing this with the entire championship : for the final race in Abu Dhabi will be worth 50 points, in an effort to golden the championship battle all the way to the end of the season. However, the rule only lasted one year and was abandoned for the season Almost all forms of car racing, and many forms of motorcyle racing too, now use safety cars, where the race is neutralised because of say a crash, bunching the field up. He would sit comfortably behind his rival, conserving his tyres, and then launch a killer attack on the last few laps. In his prime, he hardly ever lost when he got into a race like this. If the caddy puts down less strokes and the golfer signs for it, the golfer is disqualified. Thanks to the way the points are awarded in the playoffs events quintuple their normal value and since reset after the third playoff event, every winner of the FedEx Cup since its inception in has either A won the final playoffs event, or B held the points lead entering the final event. The only purpose of the preliminary events is to earn points which then determine how much of a head start you get in the final race In the shooting and running were combined into a single event. Final time in the race is still all that matters, but failure to shoot accurately can add up to a 50 second delay Greco-roman and freestyle wrestling have something like this. In the final race of the year at Homestead, the Championship winner has to only place ahead of the remaining three Chase drivers at the end of the race. Besides, age more races you win, the better your "seed" in the Chase. And if neither player wins at chess by the time the allotted rounds are up, the winner is determined strictly by boxing rules Truth in Television : this is essentially the way British university degrees used to work, and occasionally still do. Occasionally true for Canadian universities, too. Then some dumbass had the brilliant idea to change it and suddenly the amount of people failing in university shot through the roof This is still true for many schools and universities in Pakistan. All the work done in five or six years of secondary school mean squat; it all comes down to how well you do in eight to ten 3-hour exams crammed into two weeks at the end of the final year. A straight example would be some of the courses which examine the student differently, but still disproportionately in favour of the exam: language exams require oral and aural examinations, while some courses require projects to be handed in in advance Subverted with the Leaving Cert Vocational Programme, an optional extra subject that can be taken if the student is doing particular subjects Mostly business-based subjects, but technical subjects qualify as well. Unlike Straight Pool, where the winner needs to pocket balls, or Eight Ball, where the 8 can only be pocketed after several other balls have been pocketed sinking the 8 before that point results in a loss instead of a winin Nine Ball, only the 9 ball itself truly matters. They lampshade this for all they are worth, acting as though who wins what decides the fate of the world, and even play the theme to Chariots of Fire at the end. The trophy is, of course, known as the Meaningless Trophy Which takes its lead from both versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? A double is usually used to force a game for 1 point, or potentially win 2 points. Plus achievements just before the election period seems to count more than achievements done in the start of the term. This can be somewhat averted by early voting You can also have the game changers. The ongoing depression is a big one. Your point score before matters a bit, but you might move 10 points up in the votes if you win this final character test The options Surprise" is a traditional version of this in American politics, especially presidential races. This assumes the narrowest possible margin 1 vote decided in the least populous states plus DC until you reach electoral votes the minimum to win and you win none of the 10 largest states. This only works on paper. In the former, case, the three least populous states would be D.
Factors such as strong numbers reported by Tata Motors and State Bank of India during 1QFY2011, lower-than-expected IIP growth at 7.1%, concerns over the pace and.
Factors such as strong numbers reported by Tata Motors and State Bank of India during 1QFY2011, lower-than-expected IIP growth at 7.1%, concerns over the pace and.
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