What? No Ping Pong Balls?

[bluewater]

I am extremely disappointed that CNN will not be using a Lottery-style ping pong ball machine to select the candidates for the two nights of debates on July 30th and 31st.

They are going to draw cards from boxes. Yes, boxes.

Where is the spectacle in that?

I expected so much more from a serious news network like CNN than the use of boxes to assign candidates to each debate. I mean what is the point of hosting a prime time extravaganza for a serious matter like Presidential Candidate debates if it isn't done with pizzazz, with showmanship, with some pyrotechnics?

The 2nd Democratic primary Debate deserved much more dignity than a night of drawing cards from boxes.

It deserved ping pong balls.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Ping pong balls are so much harder to manipulate

[brooklynite]

2. BUT if a candidate has found a Hidden Immunity Idol...

....they can play it to send another candidate to the opposite night.

[Scurrilous]

3. They should hold a rock-paper-scissors tournament among the candidates.

Imagine the drama...the ratings...!!

[bluewater]

6. It is all about the ratings!

Well played!

and yeah, the ratings...

The ONLY reason we are not having ALL the highest polling candidates on the first night is that CNN wants RATING for the second night.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I was hoping the drawing would be something like this.

Thanks for the thread bluewater.

[bluewater]

5. +1000

lol

[Baclava]

7. Omg, it is a gameshow, their panel for THE DRAW has almost as many as on stage

One outta this box and one outta this box, drumroll please......lol