Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

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.

Haven't watched this show in forever, but damn, you better have a strategy to dominate, because those questions weren't that bad.

For a professed AV Club nerd I'm surprised he didn't get Harry Dean Stanton.

Wow, he really is playing against Alex and the show and not the other contestants, isn't he

what a fuckin boss

This white guy Chris, what a fucking robot. No feeling or depth

love this guy

lol when did they add that cheesy guitar lick to the intro music

video clues are the worst tho

also i miss the beep beep boop boop bwoeoop

lol did i just see a jeopardy contestant answer a question about doms and subs, i did, it is truly a new world

instead of giving chu shit for his audible clicking why don't they just make their clickers less squeaky, can they not afford that

i was once on a public access movie trivia show where the reward was 3 DVDs i feel like i understand him on a deeper level

hes p funny on twitter too

Arthur Chu ‏@arthur_affect Feb 28
Wow so a reporter from Cleveland Magazine is going to come to my house and watch me live-tweet @Jeopardy tonight #ThugLife

Still my fav http://i.imgur.com/NP9MpmD.png

haha yes

lol

Arthur Chu ‏@arthur_affect Feb 26

Anyway Alex says that he 1) does not hate me and 2) thinks I'm a "very good player"

hahaha

Wow wow wow, that was fun to watch. I do get that the category-jumping is slightly bewildering; it demands that you really watch the show, you can't tune in and out at all. But mannnnn I love seeing somebody just clobber a game. When he made and won the utterly casual $10,000 bet I went "holy fuck" out loud.

amazed there aren't at least more people starting at the highest value, just to make sure the round doesn't end with 1000s and 800s left on the board

All the dude's appearances are on YT. Just search the show + yyyy + mmm + dd

First appearance is interesting. He never dominates, and wins primarily because his opponents made huge bets in Final (and were wrong).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww0gQz8wXKE

wow the first five minutes are pretty brutal for him

maybe just the first 3 mins haha

Wow, totally forgot Ken Jennings won 75 games! The next in line after him won 19.