Everyone plays along from their seat. When they need to fill the hot seat they do a fastest fingers with everyone or after that first time and someone loses they take the fastest person who hasn't gotten any wrong( you are playing along with the hotseat person.)
It's really fun. My Dh made it to 32,000 and got a bunch of Pins, Golf shirt, Cd of the game and a hat. We were at the last show of the night and they even escorted us over to Fantasmic for special seating after. I don't think they usually do that, but Dh won then they ran out of time and asked him to come back. He said "o.k. but we'll have to miss Fantasmic." The CM's were all so nice.