Wheel Final Audition in Milwaukee

No word on letters from DC Auditions?

I just got around to watching the Christmas week episodes. Lynelle sat next to me at the audition, she was a little concerned not knowing how she did, but it looks as though she did well at the audition.

I will be able to comment further in a few days of course. I will be honest, I didn't know what was going to happen. I had read a lot about the audition process and I had some input from friends and unbelievable recommendations from one in particular. The thing I heard was to try to get in the front row, always smile, always clap and always stay positive. I had no clue what was going to happen. During the test I really seemed to rattle off a lot early, I got two categories with great ease, and then I hit a wall. I think there were 3 I left blank, 2 partials and 11 for sure. If I was let go I would have been pretty confident, but we were asked to stay which had concerned me, I figured we were on the bubble, so I left it all out there. During the second half we were, as know, asked to spin the wheel. I saw some people spinning it as if it where the price is right, swatting at flies or really just not acting it out. I will admit, I went all in and tried my best to make a spinning motion as on the show. We played, we solved, we did our Pat chat. We royally messed up the Pat chat. As we left the audition, despite wanting to originally audition as separate players, we were grouped and I thought that was it, the fumbling and bumbling. Well, 1 hour into our ride home, there was a ray of light that flashed . . . I realized that the 5 couples that were asked to stay did something new, they took our pictures again as couples, I then realized that couples were not on the bubble, but they wanted to see how we played together and our strategy in a more formal type of setting, I was given that bit of hope back. 3 hours later, while at my sons music concert, the call came in. After I say all this, I have to admit, having gone through everything, the wheel mobile, the final audition, and subsequently the show, even thought I can never get on again, I would still redo even the audition process again, it was just that much fun. Anyways, thank you for the kind words, I am fortunate yo have gone from Wheel mobile to taping in 1 month given how others have sometimes had to wait a while. Never stop chasing the dream!

The whole thing went so fast, we went in with a clear cut strategy on how we would play and how we would execute this couples game.  I can comment more after airing of course.  Anne & I had a short window of time to prepare and discuss.  Game day was a total rush, it started and ended so fast.  Given our Thursday air date, it is no secret the order we taped.  Again, our process from the Wheel Mobile  to taping was 35 days, it really was over before it started.  The only way to get there quicker would have been to tape at the location we audition if it happened to be on locstion.  I, like many of you, have been a game show fan ever since I was a kid, this was the pinnacle of it all, more comments after.

-Ryan