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I think many people who get on Jeopardy are just risk averse. But I agree with old goat that it doesn't make sense to hold back when it's your only shot. There aren't a lot of people out there who have the knowledge base and iron balls like James Holzhauer had.Quote:
Originally Posted by RShea
James Holzhauer might still be there if he really wanted to be. It really looked to me like he just bowed out when he lost. He had enough money to guarantee the win but bet more than that and got the question wrong. I really think he just wanted to cash in his chips and go home..
The honey-do list had gotten too long. Wax rings don't change themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
What, that isn’t how he lost. He was behind going into final jeopardy and missed the question. Regardless, the person who was in the lead answered the final jeopardy question correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
Of course Holzhauer didn't lose intentionally. Dude is a professional gambler. He's not going to take a knee on that kind of easy money.
Did not see it last night, but now #2 in all time win streak...
he was behind but actually got it right; it didn't matter what he bet though because Emma (who was leading) bet enough to win if she got it right and she did- here's what happened and James' strategic betting, hedging against the 3rd place player: https://www.actionnetwork.com/entert...ecord-run-2019 He did not lose on purpose.Quote:
Originally Posted by doubleeject
SumJong- are you thinking of Cliff Clavin?
Didn't James get the Final Jeopardy question wrong in the last GOAT game? Or is my memory failing me. In any case, I'd like to see a rematch of the GOAT. Brad kind of screwed it up by getting so many DD's and then missing them. Drop him, replace him with Amy/
We're both wrong. He was behind.. he did get the question right, but didn't bet nearly enough to win..Quote:
Originally Posted by doubleeject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyVQ44z1jZQ
Amy’s kryptonite has been final jeopardy and it finally caught up her tonight. She was a great champ but painful to see her go out on such an easy final question
Wow. Can’t believe she lost on such an easy question. One of the easiest I’ve seen in a while.
Good run.
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I thought it was an easy one too. The glasses guy’s face was priceless when he realized he won
I didn't get it, either. Exactly the kind of clue I hate.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
Country that ends in an “h” and one of the most populous in the world?
That’s basic geography.
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Well you still have to go through a mental list of countries that it could be and light on the correct one. That's the shit I hate. It's not like Amy (or I) don't know of Bangladesh's existence or that it's populous--we just couldn't pull it in time.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
Also seemed kind of strange they let the new champ slide with his "Barney the Dinosaur" answer.
Yea. I suck at most other categories but geography is my best. For high Population areas I just think India, then think about the surrounding countries.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
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I thought the population hint really narrowed the possibilities but given the circumstances and that she has missed a lot of final jeopardy answers not too surprising she whiffed on it. She just hasn’t be catchable on earlier misses.
I think in general jeopardy has had much more difficult questions this year. There have been some real esoteric ones that weren’t very common at all under Alex
Ill miss Amy. She was a really good champ. It will be interesting to see the ToC w all the recent mega champs
As predicted since her appearance on another show, her streak ended with Ken's longest number of days win streak in tact. She has missed a number of final Jeopardy questions recently, but always was a run away and had a pretty big lead and it only cut into her winnings and average.
I did not get the answer in time and ran through a number of countries ending in a and n.... Only one of them got it right and he had made the big double jeopardy move.
I had to avoid this thread last night. Didn't want to totally spoil it for anyone out west who hadn't seen it or the other social media posts about her finally being done..
Yesterday morning the news was on the home page of the NYT on line--near the top, no way to miss it. I immediately canceled my subscription and signed up for OAN.
It was? I look at the NYT website pretty religiously and didn't see it. I was pretty amazed I didn't get spoiled before the show.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
It was in the front page of CNN yesterday before the show aired on the west coast.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Pretty annoying. I was watching thinking “how will she blow this lead?”
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FAKE NEWS!!! Amy is still the champion and totally won. STOP THE STEAL!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Ya I was scrolling and saw a picture on my feed of glasses guy just as Jeopardy came on and didn’t even need a headline after that. I was glad she played well and lost only because of her achilles heal final historyQuote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
Odd though I got the impression she totally killed it on most of the other geography questions..
Could've been WaPo. I'd better go back and check--maybe I need to resubscribe to the NYT and cancel WaPo. That would be good, because of the xword.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Amy-killer bald glasses guy didn't know the Bette Midler question? Disappointing. You want to see a giant killer win at least one more after.
That game was a huge let down. Bring back Amy.
That Final Jeopardy clue was ridiculous (Gilbert Stuart). I doubt all three of the GOATs would have gotten that one right.
I think she killed everything but still got a disproportionate amount of finals wrong. It was a little weirdQuote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
ya Gilbert Stuart? Without even a hint on painting makes that a real trivia stretch. I really think the new regime has increased the trivia difficulty. There have been quite a few esoteric questions that would have been unlikely to be used previously
Who knew Gilbert Stuart was Irish?Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Apparently he wasn't. He was American, but had gone to England and then Ireland to flee debtor's prison. That made it even more cryptic. WTF?Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
true in the second half of her run, but she got almost all of them right in her first half (I think Ken jinxed her- he remarked on it right before her final jeopardys started to fall apart). She and other long-running champs have talked about the pressure of playing a long time- I think it messes with you after a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
Ken threw that one in there to derail Amy, knowing that the only way she was going to be beaten was in FJ, and not knowing she would have already lost in taping earlier that day. It's pretty clear Ken doesn't want his record broken.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
I don’t think Ken was worried his record was actually in danger yet. The grind of tapings must be pretty exhausting and eventually is gonna balance the buzzer experience advantage.
No back to Blossom after weeks of Ken is really bugging me now
This current guy w the HAIR went to the same school as me. Will have to see if we have any friends of hair cutters in common
The girl challenger has all the energy of Aubrey Plaza’s character on Parks n Rec
God, you're right. That's exactly who she was reminiscent of! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
The final yesterday (which no one got) was one of the hardest I can remember: "Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: “Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one.” Correct response: Gertrude Stein. So you had to have read her enough to recognize the writing style- yikes.
I got that one easily. But then Gertrude was the one who convinced me I had no future as a writer. She was a lot funnier than people think.
And if the only line of Gertrude Stein you know (like 99.999% of the English speaking world) is "A rose is a rose is a rose" that should have been enough.