Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

Regardless his strategy is great and he's not getting many questions wrong. 3rd highest cash total after only three weeks or so!

Is this the guy who was the champ on the season opener?

yep. He's at something like 450k now.

Whoa cool

Netflix has just the season openers of each year in a set. It's a trip watching Alex, the sets, and people's hair/fashion rapidly change upon binge watching.

There's a few random episodes of the 70s version on YouTube. Man, the questions, er I mean answers were a lot harder then!

Ken Jennings is interviewed on Andy Richter's podcast and seems like a cool guy.

I didn't realize Eddie (mentioned in 1st post) is blind! Used braile to read the questions. That's impressive. And met his wife after she saw him on the show. Neat.

Holzhauer was on today (tournament of champs).

Holzhauer's twitter avatar makes me laugh every time I see it

Emma (she who defeated Holzhauer) is on today.

Miscalculating Contestant Rushes To Cross Out ‘Fuck Alex Trebek’ Final Jeopardy Answer After Seeing Goodwill From Previous Contestant https://t.co/6xPQ7IL641 pic.twitter.com/S2HbVK2SEk

— The Onion (@TheOnion) November 12, 2019

Alright this is pretty fun

The questions are kind of extra hard which adds something.

Co-sign. Was about to revive.

Glad my suspicion that James was gonna run away with this proven wrong

Want to make up my own hard questions answers, such as:
Macca ex involved with playback singer seen with fusty NYT film critic

good times

def rooting for jennings, as he is a recognizable human being, whereas holhauzer is a computer program that had to teach itself how to smile.

plus he's really good on Twitter

the sigh of relief after he got the last FJ right is as much emotion as I've ever seen on this show

yeah, he was pretty emotional the whole time. i'm glad he's kicking ass cause i was worried holhauzer would steamroll through, but the first night was fairly dramatic.

Brad constantly throwing himself on grenades probably helped. James can't steamroll if he doesn't hit the Daily Doubles

Brad had a rough night

who won the second match? i only caught the first. jennings getting the stupid "before and after" daily double right was clearly the turning point though it was pretty dramatic that brad made it to exactly half ken's "points" for final jeopardy

those before/during/after clues hurt my head

sorry i meant "james made it to exactly half ken's "points" for final jeopardy" not brad

James won the second game but not by enough to overtake the lead

both the before/during/after & triple rhyme time categories demonstrated just how much good these guys are, even the easy ones would've taken me more time to figure out than you get on the show. and they got them in like half a second

James can't steamroll if he doesn't hit the Daily Doubles

yeah, a huge part of james' strategy was hitting as many daily doubles as possible, which is easy to do when you control the board for nearly the entire game, which he tended to do for most of his run. you can't do that against these guys, obviously.

brad also lucked into daily doubles very early on in both games

is this the first game Brad ever lost to an actual human

poor brad

good news for him is he's only 1 behind, I want this series to go on as long as possible so I'll be pulling for him tonight

weird to see him look so out of his league here, he's arguably the best of the 3

If anything, Ken Jennings is the #JeopardyGOAT just for this pic.twitter.com/Mhjl1Y1zAW

— PPO David Budd (@jtakang7_22) January 9, 2020

A Hoe's Progress

the best $200 ever spent

man the new FJ theme is a banger

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— BuzzerBlog (@buzzerblog) January 8, 2020

holy shit pic.twitter.com/ssPeC7p1Fn

— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) January 10, 2020

(new final jeopardy jingle is fucking terrible)

Wowww James got a pretty good burn on Brad

What happened?

oh never mind, I see

Wow that was a riveting Final Jeopardy

Major style points for Ken

Btw here’s the aforementioned clip

KEN JENNINGS MIGHT WIN BUT JAMES HOLZHAUER IS TRULY THE GOAT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #JeopardyGOAT #Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/JwQAlBUnmL

— Nicholas (@TheNickVieira) January 15, 2020

damn, im surprised that james didn't know that final answer

ken and james are pretty entertaining together, hopefully they find a way to make something like this happen again

Final ep was so good. Wish they did first to 5 or something. And switch out brad with someone else

I agree this was really great TV. Probably the most entertained I've ever been watching this show.

so cool that it came down to the reveal on the last answer. I wanted james to have it right so we could get another episode. the right guy won though. kinda lame that 2/3 place got 250k each, 3rd shoulda been like 100k or something. james earned more money and outplayed brad so badly + he brought roughly 60% of the good jokes and entertainment and should be paid accordingly. brad just looked embarrassed to be there by like halfway through the first episode.

so did ken predict james would get the wrong answer? i'm too dum to understand why he didn't bet anything

because James was obviously going to bet everything and if he did & hit then Ken couldn't catch up even if he did bet it all. so it made no difference what he wagered there. actually getting it right was pure style