Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

it's interesting, on a recent episode (maybe a few days ago?) ken opened by talking about how previous all time winners (maybe holzhauer and matt?) had lost on mondays, i think he said "the curse of monday" or something. his theory was that they weren't warmed up w/ the buzzer or weren't as locked into the game as you might be after a few in a row.

i wasn’t watching when he was winning but holzhauer’s average winnings per game is completely crazy

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 19, 2022 2:04 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

holzhauers run was all-time great tv. cocky but nerdy and fun. i thought he would never lose

i would buy a box set of holzhauer's run

yea he had the Tom Brady thing going, he just dominated so much that it was fun to root against him. I also got the "this guy might never lose" feeling but you had to figure at some point he would miss one of those big double-or-nothing wagers and be unable to come back. I was legitimately surprised that Ken beat him in the GOAT tournament.

ken must have the quickest trigger finger on the planet

I suspect they made the questions a lot harder for that but idk if they were hard enough. Feel like I can get like 15-18 right during a regular show, during that tournament it was more like....3

I think it was the guy who beat Amodio defended him by saying Matt had gotten burned out because they fell behind on tapings after Richards was fired and were doing three shoots a week with his loss being his 11th taping of the week or something.

ah that’s interesting. and in matt’s defense that guy (jonathan) did go on to win like 10-11 games himself, so it’s not like matt lost to a scrub

I was legitimately surprised that Ken beat him in the GOAT tournament.

ken must have the quickest trigger finger on the planet

i think it's also that james' entire strategy was based on steamrolling over his opponents from the get-go, which greatly enhanced his chances of finding the daily doubles, which is where he made a huge percentage of his money. there was no way that was going to work in a tournament of super champions, where suddenly he was on an even playing field of both trigger fingers and breadth of knowledge. there was no way he was going to be able to rely on daily doubles to carry him through that, because there was no way he was going to be the guy who found all of 'em.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r2-fLvufgE
pure class

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/1/24/22899973/amy-schneider-jeopardy-winning-streak-secret

always thought this part of Brainiac was fascinating

“Lying to everyone I know for months on end is taking a psychological toll as well,” Jennings wrote in his 2006 memoir, Brainiac. “The secret starts to make me feel a little schizophrenic. A couple days a month, I’m the Ken Jennings who’s shattered game show records, whose ever-growing daily winnings total is starting to look like a life-changing amount of money. But nobody knows about him yet. I still have to come home and be Ken Jennings the boring suburban dad, in his same old mundane treadmill of an office job, pretending nothing has happened.”

amy 4eva <3

i almost never get double jeopardy but i knew this one. i actually thought “top 10 most populous countries” made it too easy

guy who beat her is pretty cute, his reaction to winning was hysterical. in a way amy being ousted by a gay librarian is a relief, could’ve been worse

lol otm

i could see her mind racing trying to come up w the answer and slightly panicking as time ticked by

tourney of champs will be goood

as amy points out in that post-show video clip above, rhone did the one thing you absolutely have to do to beat a champion like her but that so few people are willing to do: max out your daily double bets.

and, yeah, his reaction was great.

he hyperventilated on the spot!

xp I read "gay libertarian" at first

i’m shocked she didn’t get final jeopardy, like flopson i almost never get them but i got that one pretty quickly. odd too because she had her two highest winning days in the last week which included getting final jeopardy on really big wagers, seemed like she had regained her footing there after a bit of a cold streak

anyway — absolute icon & legend. what a run.

Holzhauer also lost to a Chicago librarian (Emma Boettcher). It's a curse!

The day I miss Jeopardy to go argue at the bank...

honestly don't know if i could continue watching regularly if bialik became permanent host. i find her saccharine, phony, and cringe. CBS is seriously at risk of losing the demographic of people 3 decades younger than the show's median viewer who watch the show via adless illegal youtube rips if they chose her over ken

she shills for bullshit brain power supplements too

i don’t mind her but it’s clear that ken is just miles better, more natural and more engaging as a host. she has the same problem of stiltedness as most of the hosts they tried out

dying to know what demands, negotiations and hubris led to mayim being introduced every show as "the host of jeopardy" and ken as "hosting jeopardy."

still flummoxed and curious about this.

i grew to like ken a lot more over the course of his last run. his humour in the meet the contestants segment started to grate on me a bit; the way he always had a clever little line to wrap each interview with. (the trebek interviews were obviously a miracle of oblique comedy that will never be replicated). i like the little trebekisms that ken's adopted, like saying "good" in response to a correct answer

there's an old interview where trebek says that the real stars are the writers of the clues, and anyone could host it. there's a lot of truth to that, but only up to a point. something about mayim's cadence reading clues reminds me of a keen elementary school student and it takes me out of it

xp- my guess is she and mike richards signed contracts back in august, his got torn up but hers still valid, and it says "host of jeopardy" on it since she was hired to do college tournaments & specials

I do enjoy how Ken tries to keep alive Alex's subtle "tsk tsking" of people who fuck up

amy is #TeamKen

Jennings was manning the trivia board during Schneider’s victory run. At first, she didn’t consider him a shoe-in for permanent host despite his record as a long-running contestant. After seeing the Jeopardy! GOAT in action at the lectern, Schneider views Jennings as the only one for the job.

“Ken Jennings should be the host,” Schneider said on CNN, according to The Week. “I really can’t say enough about him. I didn’t necessarily think that before going into this because, yes, he was a great champion, but this is a different skill set. But you could see the work that he put into it, and I just thought he did a really great job. So as far as I’m concerned, that’s my endorsement.”

(the trebek interviews were obviously a miracle of oblique comedy that will never be replicated)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWW9uiSUB8

so i got the call but the timing didn't work because of my shoulder rehab which broke my heart.
they said they would likely check back in March if they had filming openings? Let's see.

as such, i will refrain from discussing bialik's tone and angular body motions

wow congrats. you can talk about organizing message board polls in your interview

there's an old interview where trebek says that the real stars are the writers of the clues, and anyone could host it. there's a lot of truth to that, but only up to a point. something about mayim's cadence reading clues reminds me of a keen elementary school student and it takes me out of it

― flopson, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 11:48 AM (two hours ago)

i can see why he would say this i mean it does *seem* easy but actually imparting genuine personality and having a rhythm when you're basically only ever speaking in intermittent 3 second sound bites is actually pretty difficult. even practiced TV ppl like joe buck weren't great at it, i feel like ken having been on the show more than any other person on earth aside from trebek makes it unsurprising that he was one of the only ppl they tried out who actually gave the show connective tissue instead of coming off as a robot interjecting quips in the midst of human conversation

congrats forks!!! (and damn about that timing)

i'm hopeful it will work out eventually anyway; my partner keeps saying it's unlikely they would devote so much time vetting people and then shrug them off if they're recovering from surgery.

This is great news!

yesssss forks I hope they do get you!

Friend confirmed that they will likely reschedule you.

I should really be studying geography i guess

and the bible

and sports

and Potent Potables

A strong Jeopardy! player and an even stronger person. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/NQqJS2uAs1

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) March 1, 2022

recent 4 day champion margaret who i was very sad to see go is first cousins w/ eli & peyton manning (her mom is archie's brother)

https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2022/03/07/margaret-shelton-jeopardy-champion/stories/202203070074

i was sad to see margaret go, too, and what a heartbreaking way to lose. she and maureen, who beat her, both made the wrong bets in final. maureen's bad bet should've handed margaret the win, and then margaret handed it right back with an equally bad bet. i yelled at my tv.

margaret looked like she was done tbh. she seemed stressed!