I watch re-runs of this show on GSN all of the time, and in all of the shows I’ve seen, I think I’ve only seen jackpots over $100k two or three times…and one of those was on a teen tournament!!
The potential payout is $1mm, and part of the show was Anne Robinson berating the players for their pathetic performance.
Did anyone ever climb the whole 8-question ladder and get the round’s $125k goal in one swoop? I know I saw one show where Anne pointed out that they had answered 8 questions in a row, but someone had banked halfway through so they didn’t complete the $125k chain.
Anyone know where I can find out what the best jackpot was?
I have no idea if this is still true or not but on a google search for “weakest link” + “most money”, I found this site saying LeVar Burton won $167,500 as part of the Star Trek episode in November 2001, making his the biggest pot to date.
I suppose, but it’s not necessarily realistic to think that it should be possible to reach the maximum. I mean, think of Jeopardy. I think it’s possible to win a couple million on one day, but the record is less than 500,000 I think.
I’ve never understood the structure on Weakest Link. If the contestants manage to answer eight in a row and bank $125,000, does the round immediately stop? If they answer seven in a row and someone banks (for $60,000, if I recall correctly), then answer eight in a row and bank (for a total of $185,000), does it get rounded down? I can’t see how a group that was fast and accurate enough couldn’t pull this off in the first round when they have the most time. In practice, I can see why this is extremely unlikely, but there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism in place to keep teams from calmly picking up more than $125 G in one round.
