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sapagoo
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 		WINNER ANNOUNCED
http://www.abcmedianet.com/DNR/2002/pdf/dnr111202.pdf

Mark Nakamoto 24 of West New York, NJ

press release from www.abcmedianet.com

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ENTERTAINMENT
November 12, 2002
$1 MILLION PLUS WINNER IS ANNOUNCED IN THE PUSH, NEVADA GAME
Mark Nakamoto, 24, of New Jersey to Receive the Prize
Mark Nakamoto, 24, of West New York, New Jersey, is the lucky viewer who claimed the
$1,045,000 prize from the Push, Nevada Game, it was announced today by the ABC Television
Network.
Nakomoto solved the "Push, Nevada" puzzle after watching the "Push, Nevada" series and the
Final Clue, broadcast live during ABC's "Monday Night Football" on October 28, which completed the
information viewers needed to solve the puzzle. The Final Clue led viewers to a series of letters taken
from the episode clues that, together with a cipher, corresponded to a telephone number. Less than two
minutes after the final piece of the puzzle was broadcast, Nakamoto, an assistant editor for a Manhattan
publishing company, was the first contestant to call the winning number.
Nakamoto wasn't the only viewer to figure the puzzle out, just the quickest to respond. During
the first 20 minutes after the Final Clue was broadcast, more than 500 people solved the puzzle and
called the winning number. Within the first 24 hours, more than 10,000 viewers had called.
The Push, Nevada Game was the largest TV and online game of skill ever played in America (for
a prize of over 1 million dollars). The TV portion of the game is in a class of its own, as it was the only
nationwide game of skill that could be played and won by simply watching a TV show. An estimated
number of players upwards of 600,000 participated in the game, based on a percentage of broadcast
viewers and online numbers. Additionally, close to 200,000 of these players interacted with the online
portion of the game, rivaling some of the largest online games in existence.
"Push, Nevada," a mystery about a strange Nevada town where nothing is as it seems, had its
last original airing on the ABC Television Network on October 24. Sean Bailey, Ben Affleck, Matt
Damon and Chris Moore were executive producers of "Push, Nevada," from LivePlanet in association
with Touchstone Television.
LivePlanet creates, markets and distributes entertainment experiences that break down the
barriers between traditional media, new media and the physical world. LivePlanet calls this new kind of
entertainment experience "integrated media." Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Matt Damon and Chris Moore
founded LivePlanet in June 2000.
ABC Media Relations: Ellen Gonzalez (818) 460-7185
PMK/HBH Public Relations:
Los Angeles - Joy Kopaloff (310) 289-6200
New York - Toby Fleischman (212) 582-1111
(Contacts for interviews with the winner or LivePlanet execs)


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Additionally, close to 200,000 of these players interacted with the online portion of the game, rivaling some of the largest online games in existence.


Um....really? ABC, would you be so kind as to explain your methodology as to how, exactly, you came to that number? And, FYI, the "bong-hit" method is not a scientifically accepted method of demographic analysis.

200,000 people. Eeeeyeah right.

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ABC, would you be so kind as to explain your methodology as to how, exactly, you came to that number?


Well, you see... first you take all of the people who signed up to the push chamber of commerce, and then you add all the people who signed up for the y!dialectic, and then you add all the people who signed up for the nutscrape groups, and then you add all the votes on the poll about the clues, and all the votes on the poll about the truck spill, and all the votes about who has the solution...

...what do you mean 'some of those might be the same person'?
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 		Gee, hyperbole coming from Hollywood.

Imagine that....
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 		For some reason, I get the feeling that they just counted hits to the sites, ignoring the fact that the same IPs came up repeatedly. Same with the TV show, I'm guessing.
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 		If it was that big of a hit, Why cancel the show?
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 		Actually a ratings "Share" is equal to roughly 800,000 thousand people (+/-) watching the show...I think the numbers seem about right if not a little on the low side...

600,000 people were said to be playing the game...I don't actually have the Nielsen ratings of what the Push show were bringing in (obviously not too high seiing they cancelled it) but the first week I do recall hearing that Push had a 8 rating or so meaning about 6,400,000 viewers...not too bad for a debut show...and the week after it was around the same 8 share....

The problem, of course, was that week 3 C.S.I. came on CBS and clobbered Push and the rest, they say, is history...

Why they didn't put in on either before Alias or afterwards on Sunday I haven't a clue...it's a built in audience....

But regardless, I think that 600,000 people playing the game at the end of the run plus the 200,000 ether souls on-line seems a bit low to me....but in TV land that isn't very many people...C.S.I. is around a 30 share, or about a cool 24,000,000 people nationwide.

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 		Oh, I'm not beefing about the 600K. I think that's TOTALLY legit, if a wee tad conservative.

It's the 200K I have a problem with. Unless Ben decided to start counting each of the voices in his head as a separate player, I don't see how they're gonna get that many UNIQUE players. Maybe he convinced J.Lo's whole posse to sign on and play along. Razz

Actually, I think I do know how they got that number, now that I read their tortured syntax a wee tad more closely.

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...200,000 of these players interacted with the online
portion of the game


with the operative phrase being "interacted with", not "played". By that yardstick, any peon who visited the general Push, Nevada info page at ABC.com or who surfed the Toyota of Push site looking for Kelly Bluebook on a RAV-4 would have been deemed to have "interacted with the online portion" of the game, somehow.

Meh. Internet numbers....only slightly more reliable than Dade County voter registrations.

Oz the great and powerful woooo

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The Push, Nevada Game was the largest TV and online game of skill ever played in America (for
a prize of over 1 million dollars). The TV portion of the game is in a class of its own, as it was the only
nationwide game of skill that could be played and won by simply watching a TV show.


Did somebody say skill......fastest finger contest if you ask me.

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