Almost $100,000 richer, an ASU student got voted off the game show "The Weakest Link" in the fourth round, leaving the show empty handed during it's college week series.
"I could have won too, I'm convinced," said Sarah Stevenson, an ASU exercise senior who was a participant on Tuesday's show. "It's a winner-take-all show, so either you win it all or you just go home," Stevenson said.
Stevenson only missed three questions altogether and wasn't sure why she got voted off in the last round, where she could have won the maximum prize of $100,000.
"You don't get a T-shirt or anything," she said.
Stevenson said she first heard about the show in August, when she and her brother went to an audition held at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Tempe at Rural Road and U.S. 60.
The first audition was here in Tempe, then two weeks later a few people out of the approximately 100 who auditioned were chosen to go to Burbank, Calif.
Once in California, the prospective participants had to be interviewed live by the producers, Stevenson said.
"Just because they flew you out there doesn't mean you are on the show," she said.
Stevenson was chosen from a group of 23 finalists and said between filming her show and waiting for the first show to tape, it took five hours to get through the half an hour of airtime for "The Weakest Link."
Although Stevenson said she enjoyed her experience, she said the show made her feel stupid.
"I think the whole objective there is to make you feel dumb," she said. "The three questions I got wrong were common sense questions."
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