Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

my mom calls him Matt Immodium

(she does not like him)

Holzhauer won 32 games, Amodio is only at 23.

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oops misread. my bad

the girl who could’ve beat him on monday with the Roger rabbit question was smashing the pop culture categories, i thought he was in trouble when they announced final jeopardy category was 80s movies and it wasn’t a runaway

i like matt

I think he is cool too, dude likes some baseball. Dude flat out knows his geography and kills on the lit questions.

Hard to believe he missed the Turing question tonight considering he is an AI doctoral student.

Seeing Mayim Bialik host for the first time, she's terrible.

yep

So many people not making Final Jeopardy against Amodio. He goes up by so much so early I think it makes competitors swing for the fences a bit

what's goin on Amodio? u shook!

finished in last damn

Amodio's loss was kind of like the excellent sports team that wins by a ton week after week and then finally gets in a close game and kinda comes apart at the seams.

questions seemed super easy. otoh, matt got a few obvious ones wrong (spawn dude?!)

he choked and the rough thing was he knew he was choking, otoh it was bound to happen! hate to see a big champ go down squirming though

...and on a Monday game (i.e. the first one of that shooting day)!

Yeah, that was surprising. And it seemed like the others' quickness with the buzzer really rattled him. None of his previous opponents came close to him in that regard, and suddenly he had two challengers who were as quick as him (or quicker).

I really wanted the lady in the middle to win, she seemed cool

yeah imagine beating matt and still finishing in second lol. that's rough.

for him to miss a geography based final jeopardy that both other players got correct was really shocking. not that it would've mattered but international geography felt like one of his (many) strong suits through his run. especially one like that where the question inherently narrowed down the answer to essentially a multiple choice set of answers... crazy.

you could tell he was just off kilter the entire second round, which was wild bcuz there were some games where ppl stayed close to him in round 1 and then he would just rip off like 13 of 15 answers in the second round and be up by 25k. even when the buzzer went to him he was out of rhythm, stammering etc. they also stuck both double jeopardies at the top of the board and the one dude getting them back to back pretty much killed any chance matt had at that point. you could tell when the woman in the middle ran through that entire section of medical abbreviations to open the round w/o matt even buzzing in once that something was off

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/coral-gables/article254949482.html#storylink=mainstage_card2

gonna miss matt. looking forward to tournament of champions

they should do a tournament of players who would’ve won an episode had they just not faced matt. you could easily fill a whole week

^that is a really good idea

in general strong 2nd place ppl, not only vs matt; redemption wk or w/e

this doesn't need to be said but today i am reminded that ken >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bialik

i didn't catch friday's episode, so when i turned on monday's saw that amy schneider wasn't one of the contestants my heart dropped. turns out it's just a 2-week college professor special and she'll be back after that--phew!

she is fucking good

otm. A week or so ago, one of her challengers had a kind of robotic I MUST WIN JEOPARDY thing happening, and beat Amy to the buzzer a bunch of times in the first round. Amy didn't seem rattled in the least, even when she was in negative territory, and cleaned up on Final.

the squash player! she was full on terminator mode, scared me from home. a really good player, would've won any other day but amy got that juice.

anyways, i have my follow-up at home audition tomorrow. second time through the process!

Good luck!

Yeah, the squash player, I just thought, there's no way she can keep up that insane hyper-focused energy through the entire show, much less multiple shows. She lost a lot on a Double, and never regained her momentum. But while she was buzzing in, she was definitely impressive.

This season's Tournament of Champions is gonna be lit.

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."

'Jeopardy!' champ Amy Schneider says she was robbed over weekend.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trans-jeopardy-champ-amy-schneider-says-was-robbed-recent-attack-rcna10900

wtf

my mom called to tell me about this and framed it as "I don't think they got her jeopardy winnings? the npr article wasn't clear"

just imagining a closest with comic book sized money bags that says "JEOPARDY MONEY"

when I was a kid I always imagined they filled up a sack full of money for you on the way out. I was devastated to find out they didn't

i imagine you'd be lucky to get a check in six weeks. we have winners on this forum who could clarify though....?

maybe winners don't get paid, they're just indentured to Jeopardy forever

I also thought if you finished with $-800 or whatever you'd have to pay the show

how it should be IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_hcC3lRds

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amy has gotten like 4 out of the last 5 final jeopardys wrong. every game is a runaway so it doesn't matter but--makes me nervous!

yeah lots of missed double jeopardys too. kinda surprised no one has really made her sweat during this stretch

i'm conflicted cause i don't want her run to (ever) end, but at the same time want it to finish in time for her to go head to head with amodio in tournament of champions

according to ken's stats updates she's currently #2 in games won (behind only ken), but #4 in winnings (behind amodio, ken and holzhauer) but getting close to #3. at her rate of winnings per game it would take a long time for her to overtake the top 2

i <3 <3 <3 her. it’s interesting she plays the anti-analytic way, top down and small daily double bets. she’s just so smart and has a breadth of knowledge & is clearly good on the buzzer routinely sweeping categories. i love that she sweeps basically every sports category.

it will be interesting to see what happens when she is in a close game. matt basically imploded in his loss, missing a bunch of questions he’d normally get, kinda stammering and visibly losing confidence. the pressure really got to him. i liked matt but i hope amy hangs in long enough to pass him

she still has 4 more games to go to pass matt. she did pass holzhauer tho