Hi everyone,

Let me introduce myself : my name is Nicolas, I'm 22, and I come from a little country near France, called Belgium, known for french fries (no ... Belgian fries, it's better), and Belgian chocolate of course. I'm horn student at the Royal conservatorium of Mons (I'm musician), and I'm a real game show lover. I participated to 7 different game shows in France and Belgium, I have one of the biggest collection about this subject in my country (game boards, video games, ...), and my lucky objet is a boyard coin.

I see your game shows and for me, definitively "Minute to win it" is one of the best actuel game show of US television. So I'm training on the different games. It's really hard but I give the best of myself to win it. But I have a little problem and I need your help for that. I come indeed from Belgium, and I see on the contestant application that I have to be a legal US resident to apply and I don't know if I have a passeport with the US visa is enough and the second problem is come from Belgium to Los Angeles is really expansive (maybe 3000 $ for just one trip). So, come to make an audition, and after a show if I'm choosen, it's really hard for a student.

But I'm not really try to do this game for the money. I love to participate and it's at base for fun. And I promess you something for you : whatever I could win on the show, 50 % of the money will go for the charity of your choice.

To help me to make this dream and challenge become true, just follow me right now on Twitter (www.twitter.com/descanic) or be my friend on facebook (www.facebook.com/descanic) to support me, and together we can put an "international way" on a next show. I'll put on twitter and nbc some photos and video to see me on the different games and my attempts, and know more about me and my country (unknown for you, I think).

So, thanks for readed this post and for your help.

Friendly,

Nicolas

P.S. : sorry if in the text I made some mistakes, my english is sometimes really poorlish :-)

What a JOKE!! This episode really bothered me!!!! Not only do I think it's unfair to give Mark Staniec a 2nd chance when nobody else gets a 2nd chance... but even worse was WHO they gave the 2nd chance to! His overly dramatic excuses were too much... especially how he disappointed his daughters, he failed them, he was embarrassed that he lost, blah, blah... so in other words he is teaching his daughters, and other kids watching, that if they ever fail at anything, they are disappointing people around them and should feel terrible about it themselves, they should be ashamed. HELLO!! Everyone fails at SOMETHING... it's how we learn sometimes!!
And going on and on about how tough times are, he doesn't have a college fund for his daughters... WHATEVER... many people can't even FEED their children, they aren't worried about college funds right now!! Many other people are struggling MUCH more than this guy!

IMO NBC had no valid reason to bring this guy back... OH, and not only do they bring him back, but they DO things they normally don't do to... HELP him go farther & win more... why does this guy get such preferential treatment??? He gets the "bonuses" that so far they only gave on the Holiday episodes... why did they all of a sudden choose THIS episode to have these 'bonuses' come up again, which if they hadn't been there, Mark would have lost sooner!! Also, that last blueprint... as Guy said "we're gonna do something we've never done before"... WHY?? Why does this REPEAT guy get so many "extras" to help him on the way!?!?!?!

He was on the show... he LOST... period! Lots of people LOSE and get nothing on game shows and reality shows... they don't all get 2nd chances... they almost never do! And he was such a drama queen... the gooey gaggy phony stuff coming from his mouth made me want to turn it off!! Nothing he said ever pulled at my heartstrings... and I tend to get emotional and cry very easily at real, heartwarming stories... Mark's story was NOT heartwarming!

Sorry NBC and Minute to Win It... you BLEW it tonight in my opinion! Others may not post that they agree with me, but I would bet that there are numerous people out there who DO agree with me... and it really makes me want to watch Minute to Win It less than I used to... I just moved it to the bottom of my DVR priority list... if anything else comes up at the same time, it will record the other... and I'll only watch those that do record when I have nothing else to watch.

Very disappointed!!

what is the celebration song that goes:

Stand up now, be a winner, let yourself stand up,
you can make your move, comes down to you, stand up now