The pressure does weird things to the brain. Even on much smaller scales than national game shows! And you led your team to victory, so that should be worth something, even if your answers were wrong.

I was the team coach for a corporate sponsored spelling bee team. (That meant I asked the words in the practices. I wasn't one of the spellers. I filled in at the last minute for the person saying the words.)

Our team went down on the word "Shepherd". The team quickly compared, confirmed that it was not SHEEPherd, but SHEPherd. And the spokesperson spelled it. Without the H. They'd been so focused one E or two, they missed that he'd written SHEPerd on his slip.