Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

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

POTENT POTABLES

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

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

she's a total monster, absolute all timer.
my physical therapist kept referring to her as "him" today, regardless of how many times I said "yeah, SHE'S great"

wrt Amy as eternal champion: i feel like at a certain point people get a little tired of taping five games a day or whatever the schedule is and no one can keep it up forever.

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

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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.