Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

Trebek compared him to Ken Jennings today. I can only hope!!! (I don't understand this dude's status as a "Jeopardy villain", but the very idea of a "Jeopardy villain" is entertaining)

aw crap, i fell asleep and forgot. must remember tomorrow

def in favor of game show villainy: "if i win this episode, three audience will not make it home today

your move, trebek"

*audience members
fuck i cant even do my shitty sub-custos shit anymore

He's up by something ridiculous like 10 grand after the first round. His opponents' attempts at beating him with his strategy are pointless and futile.

Hilarious. When he's winning by over double the next opponent, there's basically no point in even doing Final Jeopardy, right? (I believe in this case it was 44K to 6K!)

He kinda wussed out by not going for the one-day record tonight. But then again, I would have too.

I did love how Trebek blatantly egged him on there to go for that bet, since if he lost it, it would've given the others a chance (he would have had to bet about 30K?) to win. But we all knew he would make the smart play

And how the producers apparently corrected Alex during the break to let him know that he was $2000 off. I wonder if they let Chu know that before he laid down his wager.

*$200 off

actually if he had gone for the record and missed he still would have won by a mile.

that's true - he would have had to lose AND the second place winner would have had to bet it all and won (doubling her $6K to $12K, and Chu would go from $44K to about 11K)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/28/arthur_chu_jeopardy_s_reigning_champion_talks_to_ken_jennings_about_the.html

yeah caught the end of last night w/ trebek egging him on and chu not taking the bait

Pure badass. I love this guy

The one thing I do think is a negative thing where I wish I hadn’t done it was “cutting off Alex,” which is what I think gets people most riled up—but of course that’s what you’re likely to do when you’re in the zone and already thinking about jumping to the next clue. Problem is Alex kind of chooses the points at which he makes a little comment or joke about a question at semi-random, sparse intervals so it’s hard to predict when he’s going to do it— people accidentally “cut him off” on the show even when they aren’t all hyped-up and intense like I was. It’s something I would be more careful about if I could do it again, though, because I do think interrupting/talking over someone truly is rude in a way that just being intense and abrupt isn’t.

uh oh

Pretty sure that interview happened after his first week of shows, during the break when there were a bunch of tournaments.

And yeah, one of the things that embitters me is that the entire Television Without Pity “brand” is now tarnished for me.

He should consider that a blessing. TWP has been ass for years now.

Chu already seems a lot more "normal" in the second week, in terms of appearance/mannerisms

I hadn't seen the obnoxious anti-Chu tweets featured in the Slate article, but no surprise that people are morons. LOL @ Chu-phoria

Last night was the first time watching Jeopardy since Ken Jennings. I'm all in with this dude.

I learned a new word today: whizbo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/02/27/why-were-actually-mad-at-jeopardy-villain-arthur-chu/

Chu’s strategy wasn’t part of some long-brewing master plan, but simply the result of some Googling. He did some searching once he found out he would appear on the show and was inspired by what discovered about Chuck Forrest, a 1985 contestant whose similar Daily Double hunting even earned a phrase to describe his method of play, the “Forrest Bounce.”

How anyone can be mad at this guy is beyond me. 40K BEFORE final jeopardy! This guy is awesome.

after reading that chat with KJ i am even more in the tank for this dude

Yeah, me too. I fucking love that he said this:

So we root for Rocky against black guys who, by all appearances, really are better boxers than he is, because unlike them Rocky isn’t JUST a boxer, he has a girlfriend, he has hopes, he has dreams, etc. This comes up over and over again in movies where the athletic black competitor is set up as the “heel”—look at the black chick in Million Dollar Baby and how much we’re pushed to hate her. Look at all this “Great White Hope” stuff, historically, with Joe Louis.

So is it any surprise that this trope comes into play with Asians? That the Asian character in the movie is the robotic, heartless, genius mastermind who is only pure intellect and whom we’re crying out to be defeated by some white guy who may not be as brainy but has more pluck, more heart, more humanity? It’s not just Flash Gordon vs. Ming the Merciless, it’s stuff like how in the pilot episode of Girls Hannah gets fired in favor of an overachieving Asian girl who’s genuinely better at her job than she is (the Asian girl knows Photoshop and she doesn’t) and we’re supposed to sympathize with Hannah.

i knew i wouldn't like Girls, for some reason

clearly researched all aspects of modern media management: learned that GIRLS references get clicks in online venues. guy is a master

I haven't watched this show in months, but I'm watching today's episode now. Happy to provide spoilers if y'all want.

NO

3PM??? barbaric imo

i was worried for a second

final jeopardy bet lol

If that other guy hadn't tried to bet "cleverly"..

By how much did Ken Jennings lose when he was defeated?

I felt like the other dude was betting to make sure chu kept playing!
I am loving this run

Arthur Chu @arthur_affect

Fun fact: @semretlemma told me after tonight's game "You thought you were doing me a favor by betting to tie but you ruined my life"

What a villain

without knowing what the taping schedule was like, semret's bet was perfectly defensible if he doesn't know that arthur bets to tie so frequently. arthur betting to tie against a contestant as good as semret, however, is kinda crazy

also one of the easiest FJs in awhile - it was extremely possible to predict the answer just based on category alone. how many other modern-day suffixes are there, even?

https://twitter.com/semretlemma/status/439607765141819392

here semret confirms: he'd only seen the last four runaways, he had no idea about the bet to tie thing

kinda sucks as a viewer that he keeps getting interrupted by these stunt tournaments

Do Jeopardy fans archive episodes or make comps of greatest moments or anything? I've been totally out of the habit of the show for a few years now and am kicking myself for not following Chu's streak. Based on the recent posts it sounds like it's made for great TV (despite the early commentators taking the opposite stance).

Agree xp.

Last night was actually kind of intense! Started the second round horribly.

It'll be interesting to see how/if challengers in two weeks try to use his strategy against him.

we should really get arthur chu to post on ILX. guy is pretty brilliant, and a talented cultural observer. i feel like he'd have a lot to add here.

yeah, seeing Arthur climb back both from his -$1000 answer in the first round and his poor performance in round 2 was pretty great

well, i hear he's pretty active on twitter, somebody point him in this direction lol

maybe he's already here

it's weird to me that there's this public figure who has made CNN reports who sounds like nabisco/nitsuh in interviews.

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrI3kfFMLsk

Oh awesome, I'm stuck in the airport for at least another hour. This should greatly help.