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Today's episode of Jeopardy... [Spoilers]
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Yeah but there's just no way. You're in the studio for the first time, lights on you, and he's ripping off 1000 dollar clues before you have a chance to learn the buzzer timing.
At least getting to watch a few games let's you consider it. I really think the Mon/Tues players are at gigantic disadvantages against him until next season, beyond just the normal returning champion advantage
This is a guy who studied a literal book on the best way to press the buzzer when playing on Jeopardy. The only one who can beat James is James. Statistically, he's eventually going to lose a Daily Double or Final Jeopardy when it really counts and that will be that. But his trivia knowledge is so tremendous that it may still be a long while.
Yep. Nobody will defeat him, but he will eventually lose. He's amazing.
Unexpected side effect of James (possibly):
As of today Wheel of Fortune has had 20 straight bonus round losses. The previous record was 14.
Fucking CNN has a headline "Spoiler: Jeopardy! champion James Holzhauer passes $2 million mark"
Thanks assholes, dearly The West Coast
Thanks assholes, dearly The West Coast
It airs at different times across the country. Also, it's Jeopardy, you'll be alright.
No, I won't be alright! CNN has ruined my life! ;)
It doesn't come on until 7:30 in my market.
I feel like a total dunce for not figuring out Final Jeopardy. Only $59k for James today. Inching ever closer to Ken's winning total
Did he get it?That's cool and all but last week Wheel of Fortune had this moment:
I would've guessed "cooking", panicked once I realized I was wrong and then just said a bunch of unintelligible non-sense.
A clip of Monday's episode leaked on the interwebs and ...
Are we sure it's tomorrow? Looks like we know he loses this season at least.
Now watch as that chick loses the very next game.
If people keep posting in this thread with spoiler tags, that could ironically become a spoiler in itself since it'll be obvious something major happened. lol
If the leak is true, super odd that he bet soooo little on final Jeopardy. Ending wouldn't have mattered since the other contestant bet enough to where he wouldn't catch her. But super out of character to bet essentially nothing at the end.
Fuck the NY Post for bringing attention to the person who spoiled it. Also, why the fuck did you post the article itself and perpetuate what they are doing?
Edit: Now Brobible is doing it. Fucking assholes.
Edit: Now Brobible is doing it. Fucking assholes.
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Agreed, it's really strange for sure, especially when he was so close to the all-time winnings record.
I've never heard of there being precedent for fake Jeopardy leaks before, and I doubt they'd purposefully stage this...
I've never heard of there being precedent for fake Jeopardy leaks before, and I doubt they'd purposefully stage this...
He knew she was going to bet big and beat him if they both got it right so his only hope was she misses it and then not let the third contestant catch up from behind if the third contestant bet it all
He went into final jeopardy in a losing position on purpose? Maybe he wasnt that smart after all lol. He couldn't win final jeopardy unless the lady misbid or got it wrong.
i prefer to watch the best players play, and judging from the increased ratings this run, people seem to agree with me
but yes it is boring when one player is so dominant over the others and the game is basically over at the start of the double jeopardy round...it becomes more about whether james can outdo himself
Well until 11-12 years ago the rules capped you at 5 wins.
Crazily enough Holzhauer's assumed win percentage was around 97%, so of course he lose right around game 33.
Or he is a professional gambler, and he bet money on himself...losing?
Most of Jeopardy's entertainment value to me comes from playing along.
When a contestant like James is going, it's about playing along & watching something special happen.
I'm confused about how this is related. Does the network go "oh man, we're losing so much money on this James guy, we better make the bonus round for Wheel of Fortune extremely hard to compensate" or something?
Not the network, but Wheel and Jeopardy are produced by the same company. And James is such a black swan event that they seemingly had to make up his winnings somehow.
To be fair, we don't know how this game was lost yet. I mean Nancy Zerg beat Ken because he completely blew the game, missing daily doubles and the final Jeopardy. It's completely possible that James was just outplayed, rather than beating himself as Ken did.
doubt it. not like wheel of fortune suddenly got harder while ken jennings was winning 34k a game for 74 games