Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

overdue if true

Ken doing the next three months of regular Jeop, including Tournament of Champions, while Mayim does hour-long Celebrity Jeop tournament on Sunday nights; then Mayim scheduled to have another run on daily eps in or from January.

that really seemed like the direction they were going and - barring the shitshow - should have gone from the start: give fans Ken for the regular show and then give tourists Mayim.

It doesn’t seem to be a change per se (yet) - they’ve traded off since the shitshow as their schedules allowed; now there’s a block of primetime specials (a few days’ taping?) for Mayim to do as per her initial contract, so she won’t be on the nightly show until it’s over.

Presumably there was some major panic behind the scenes with the post-shit-shedu-show, and they will now have more time to find specials for Mayim going forward, so her regular episodes will be fewer…

It’d be fun to have Ken banter with the slebs, but definitely better to have him piloting the TO’C.

mayim hosting TOC would've been a national disaster

ngl i kinda like the alternating rhythm. sometimes ken is all a bit too... ken

So, Chris...

*Cris

first episode of tournament of champions... these guys stink

https://www.jeopardy.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_960_/public/2022-10/JEP39_TOC_Site_MiniSite_Desktop_Bracket_V233yypEYyfL.png?itok=kar2DAXQ

had big hopes for Ryan but he pretty much disintegrated immediately, tough break

All in on Amy tbh

Rowan Ward was really impressive in the second chance tournament.

exhibition episode was fun. would be wild if mattea wins the tournament

i felt like matt was playing possum a bit

seemed like he was treating it purely as buzzer practice, not a bad idea honestly

I loved it. There should be a whole season of Jeopardy with just those three. Such a fun game. And "I will bet 2500...magic beans" made me lol (think it was Mattea who said that?)

I also noticed that Mattea started saying "What's." Wonder if Amodio thought, "Hey, you're stealing my bit!"

Yes! That game was such a blast...Ken Jennings swearing (and having to be bleeped!) after accidentally giving away an answer, Mattea getting audience reactions from her saying "that was my favorite song when I was 4" (as if it was some intentional sick burn - I don't think it was) and then later on Amy saying (after a correct response) "that was my favorite song when I was 27"...Ken poking fun at Matt (after Amy said she was invited to the White House after her winning streak) for him throwing the first pitch at a minor-league game after his winning streak. I don't follow any sports...I can't remember the last time I've been this excited by any competitive event, honestly.

yes that game was a blast. pretty interesting that mattea wiped the floor with the three of them buzzer wise. would love for the three of them to come back and do a more competitive game for charity or something.

amy was pretty unflappable in the semifinal. tyler is a strong player but she kinda ended up cruising. it could’ve been an even bigger margin had she not guessed wrong off two of tyler’s misses in double jeopardy

the matt semifinal game was amazing, one of the best jeopardy games i’ve ever seen. they got the daily doubles off the board within like the first 5 clues which i think really hurt matt given the aggressive nature of his wagering. he was only able to get up from 4,000 to 8,000 and then had to play the rest of the game more or less heads up with the other two guys. it didn’t break his way. i also was completely shocked at his final jeopardy wager, it feels like he sometimes psychs himself out under pressure. ken even called out how strong he is in geography. i don’t think it would’ve mattered in the end but that was wild. the professor guy who won is a really strong player. sad we won’t be getting the amy/matt/mattea final tho

rip Matt, would’ve prob taken him against the field but he seemed somewhat unengaged especially as the game wore on and he didn’t grab his usual advantage

FYI, Jeopardy uploaded the entire exhibition game to YouTube here. Ken's amusing mess-up is at 9:39.

Today game (Mattea's semifinal game) was wild - no spoilers here, but one moment in particular had big gasps from the audience.

All three players in the Amodio semi had a good game. The middle guy had a good game considering he did not get any of the daily doubles.

After the professor tournament, I thought that guy might do pretty well as him and the guy who was runner up in that tournament both seemed to know a boodle of obscure stuff.

I still don't get Matt going 'zero' on final jeopardy with a geography question as that seemed to be one subject he would tear through in his winning reign.

Today's is not on here until 730, I have not seen it yet.

didnt realize the finals format is a race to 3, that is cool

amy the GOAT

Legit deserving winner

So happy she won. Does this mean there'll be a game in the future with her, James Holzhauer, and Brad Rutter? Because I wanna see her win that one, too.

what a badass

The Little Mermaid? Jeez, and just when I was starting to root for you.

So, Ray...

His movements are a little distracting -- he looks like he REALLY has to pee -- but I like him.

Ray’s great, but my husband says that podium dance makes him sea sick.

fwiw I read he has a back injury and the swaying keeps the pain at bay

Love this new guy hope he makes a run

having trouble finding a link to today's episode on youtube

Love this guy

It would be extremely easy to replace me with an AI because roughly 60% of the things I say come from the Poochie episode of Simpsons.

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 21, 2023

I don’t watch Jeopardy, but I am extremely invested in the guy who won three times but was apparently bad on the buzzer, then began a multi-week Facebook meltdown about how Jeopardy is not the REAL quizzing world and compared himself to Muhammad Ali. https://t.co/LmFd2fpUXL pic.twitter.com/LFN8QEajre

— Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell) January 23, 2023

i would like to know more about this

hahaha i read that tweet and knew exactly who it was about. dude was as arrogant and unlikable a jeopardy champ as i've ever seen.

his rants are amazing. he calls jeopardy "fundamentally incompatible with true social justice"

hey he's not totally wrong. for a competition that throws around terms like "greatest of all time" it's a fundamentally unfair format. what if NFL quarterbacks had to retire after a loss? if NBA players were forced to score 20 every game? if blowing a save blew your career??? then what

hmmm, i don't know, maybe he should try being an olympic gymnast or skier, where you spend your entire life training for a single event, at which you get one walk down the balance beam or one run down the hill (two if you're lucky), and if you fuck it up, that's it, probably forever.

Absolutely nutball ending to last night’s Celebrity Jeopardy. Patton had a solid streak towards the beginning, but Brendan soon mastered the buzzer. You could tell Patton was getting frustrated — when he did manage to buzz in (and he was always correct), he sounded more and more tense, especially after Cera hit a big Daily Double. I knew Patton would ultimately triumph, but I didn’t think it would be that dramatic.

Jeopardy! Has Finally Perfected the Post-Trebek Formula

Literal LOL’d the Connery/Moore comparison. They ain’t wrong.

British Jeopardy is coming: https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/jeopardy-new-host-stephen-fry.html

The story behind a season 2 winner whose episodes got pulled: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/2/23705821/jeopardy-lost-tapes-barbara-lowe-mystery-champion

Anyone watching Jeopardy! Masters? I don't like that they reveal the locations of the Daily Doubles to the audience, but I kind of like the whole rankings and leaderboard setup. And of course it's extremely entertaining.

I kinda like the DD reveal, it added some anticipation when one of the players was running down a category & everyone missed the second to last answer so they decided to try a new category, but we knew the last answer was the DD just hanging out there waiting for them to come back to it.

The best part so far is James trying so hard to be evil and Ken making fun of him for it

dat that was an interesting article! sounded v petty on the Jeopardy producers part