Should Wheel do tournaments again?

Absolutely have at least some kind of tournament. I liked the Friday Finals concept and I could see it working with sixth episodes as a Tournament Week. They need to have some kind of form of returning players.

I'm sure we'd love to see that (I know I personally would). But the way things are done now, with tapings done well out of order, it would make doing that style of champions very difficult logistically if you allowed champions to straddle between weeks.

A Friday Finals style of returning players would work more in line with the current taping structure, but then they would have to either abandon the taping of "sixth shows" (America's Game weeks) or have five weeks out of the season where you didn't have a Friday final.

Something else to keep in mind is that having returning champions cuts down the number of fresh contestants each season (by 20% for the Friday Finals format and a little less than a third for regular returning champions).

Not necessarily, in the case of the Friday Finals, since every week is self-contained. But they would have to cut out the America's Game "leftover" weeks because there would be no way to have a Final for those.

But in the case of the regular champions, they would absolutely have to do that.

The problem is that the show has a different set for most weeks, and some weeks have the same themed set, hence it's just easier for them to tape the same-set shows at the same time.

Still, you'd think Seasons 28-29 would tell them that taping out of order is a bad idea...

Sounds pretty reasonable to me, since each week would be self-contained (barring the sixth-show tapings, but you could call them 'second-chance week' or something like that)

^Then you're getting far too technical. The home audience doesn't know, for the Prize Puzzle for instance, that they forfeited the prize. A lot of people still think I actually took the private jet flight I won on TPIR--and it's only when they ask me where I went when I have to politely explain to them that I didn't accept it.

As for the original question, I was the lone brave soul who voted no. A champion on Wheel is not determined in much of the same way as a champion on Jeopardy! is. Much of the game is dictated by how the Wheel behaves on a given day, who spins it, how hard they spin it, etc. Let's face it, take Michelle Lowenstein for example. That first spin, imagine if she had under- or overdone it by even one peg. History would have been much different.

My point is, it'd be silly to call them Champions, expect a very high level of gameplay out of them, and not be able to play to that high standard because they were screwed over by the Wheel.

Um...Press Your Luck was five days or $25,000 (later $50,000), whichever came first.

If anything, Wheel was the oddity for having a three-day limit when most games had 1, 5, "get the top prize", some sort of winnings limit, or no limits at all. The only other game show I know of that had a three-day limit was The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime, and that was part of the format because winning the bonus game three days in a row won the Million.