Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

"Oh my, I won?"

"Hell, no - I threw that shit!"

Apparently he lost
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-- Ed (dal...) (webmail), September 9th, 2004 8:36 AM. (dali) (link)

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yup, it'll air in october
-- cinniblount

I was happy to see Brad and Jerome in the final. I remember Jerome very well from his initial run -- he was one of the most dominant players I ever saw.

Brad was a more than deserving winner. He crushed his competition in the semifinal, and cruised in the third day of the final. Ken and Jerome actually looked lost out there.

As discussed upthread, "Jeopardy" could learn a thing or two about fanfare. Alex was like "we'll be back tomorrow with regular games". Brad won the match and he reacted like he'd just been congratulated on his tie. DUDE, YOU JUST BEAT LIKE 150 PEOPLE AND WON TWO MILLION DOLLARS. BE HAPPY.

Jerome would have dominated for a while as well. He won $96K during his five days on the show (when the $ totals were half of what they are now) and all five of them were typical Ken wins -- complete dominance. He'd go on long rolls and answer questions all over the board while his opponents just stood there. He finished all his games with 20K to everyone else's 4K and was never seriously tested. When tested, however, in the Tournament of Champions, he made far too many mistakes against quality opponents, fell behind early in the final and couldn't catch up. And that's exactly what happened to him in this tournament (what's more, he was extremely lucky to get out of his quarterfinal match).

Ken: $3,020,700
Brad: $3,255,102.

So, yes, Ken can pass Brad again if he wins the TOC.

The Wikipedia page here will tell you everything you every wanted to know about the UTOC.

Also, Brad was a five-time champion, won the TOC, and the Million Dollar Masters all within a twelve month span or thereabouts ... so he certainly was a favourite to win the MDM. This all happened so quickly that I guess I was taken by surprise when he won it.

On a question that was almost COMPLETELY freakin' impossible! Lucretia?!?! WHO KNOWS THAT?!?

I think he still is (or was until very recently anyway). He was probably better than the guy who beat him in the semi-finals (Jerome) but he missed the final question (which was pretty damn hard.) Not that it would have made much of a difference.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/25/people.kenjennings.ap/index.html

"He knows there's no way I was genuinely calling for angry bees and ventriloquist's dummies to be added to the Jeopardy! format," Jennings wrote on his site. "It's a humor piece, and one which gets its laughs from the outrageous non sequiturs it proposes, not the ripeness of its target for criticism."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060725/en_tv_eo/19591

What ever happened to Ken Jennings?

took his money and went back to utah?

http://ken-jennings.com/blog/

he'll be trotted out for some end-o-decade fanfare before too long, I imagine.

Haha "a deeply unstable Labrador retriever named Banjo."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCVfWjlMSa4&feature=related

he comes to my shows in seattle

That's awesome.

i would've thought that answer too

he sorta seems like the coolest mormon ever. he's a democrat too!

His little blog post on Gates is very sensible.

Haven't watched the one that aired today, but manchild Stefan kicked some ass all 5 days last week.

yeah, i simultaneously wanna KIW and straight up kick his ass.
It's that little head bobble he gives every time he requests the next question.
That said, dude bet TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS on final jeopardy when he knew he had the game won no matter what and got the answer wrong! That's some RLS 'If' shit right there and I was pretty impressed by how batty he is in his wagers.
Would love for him to run up some sorta three week win run.

haha me too. But I find it hard to hate on someone who is a camp counselor/video game tester.
Yes I love people who have "method to their madness" type wagering. So far I gather he bets it all when he was under 5K, and gets more conservative the more he has (provided he has the lead). The quickness and accuracy with which he cleared the "multples of..." math category leads me to believe he's on some genius level shit rather than a pure "i know a lot of random trivia" type.

god, i had no idea he was a professional video game tester! i always ffwd past the personal info.

Do you tape this shit, Granny Dainger? I kick myself every week when I forget to watch Jeopardy! on Saturday, since it's the only time during the week I can actually see it.

Or DVR or TiVo or whatever it is people do.

Or are you unemployed.

If so, sorry to hear it, man.

But at least you get to watch Jeopardy!

but yeah, the mathematic multiples category was one of those moments where he straight smoked everyone and it was a thing to behold.
Also the first few minutes against the "gadabout" when he absolutely destroyed dude and gadabout was all but holding the buzzer over his head trying to get a question in was straight comedy.
This kid has a system for buzzing that really seems to work; he straight monopolizes the board for minutes at a time.

uh, xpost.

This kid has a system for buzzing that really seems to work

This is supposedly a big, big part of success on the show. Jennings admits that one reason he was able to last for weeks at a time is that he'd gotten so comfortable with the buzzer and knowing exactly when to press down on it after Alex finished reading the clue; in some cases, he may have been evenly matched, knowledge-wise, but he just had that experiential advantage.

current dude's father was a multi-day champ; I think pops imparted some advice.

Also the first few minutes against the "gadabout" when he absolutely destroyed dude and gadabout was all but holding the buzzer over his head trying to get a question in was straight comedy.

OH GOD THAT GUY! Watching him try to answer and freaking out with his buzzer was amazing.

btw I used to watch Jeaopardy with while holding a calculator and keeping score while I was in high school. Yes, I was that sad.

yeah I dvr the series, jaymc. somehow I owned a dvr for months before realizing I should be.

Also the first few minutes against the "gadabout" when he absolutely destroyed dude and gadabout was all but holding the buzzer over his head trying to get a question in was straight comedy.

hahahaha yes! Was so glad that tool had his ass handed to him. A lot of being a good Jeopardy contestant comes down to having quicker reflexes than your opponents. The gadabout's strategy seemed to be to press that mofo a bazillion times as soon as you know the answer, whereas Stefan's seems to be press it once as soon as the question (er, answer, i mean) is "open".

xps

x-post uuuhhhh Jeopardy, rather