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Jeopardy Baby, Ooooh-ooh-oooooh (1 Viewer)

Glad that kid Isaac from Stanford won -  nice inspirational story about wanting to become an oncologist due to his mom’s bout with cancer.

Also good to see the kid from LSU knock off the academic powerhouses. Also the least nerdy of the 6.

 
Man...that Villanova kid was a SUPER dork.  The faces...the constant thumbs up, the cringey comments....brutal.

90% chance he's gonna blow that 10K 2nd place price buying kegs for other people's parties just so they'll let him come.

 
TLEF316 said:
Man...that Villanova kid was a SUPER dork.  The faces...the constant thumbs up, the cringey comments....brutal.
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Seriously-  was hoping like hell he would lose. No doubt he spent a lot of time stuck in his gym locker during high school. 

 
zamboni said:
Seriously-  was hoping like hell he would lose. No doubt he spent a lot of time stuck in his gym locker during high school. 
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I mean...I'm not for picking on "nerds" (whatever the hell that means....says the guy on the magic football message board) but that kid was totally asking for it.

 
TLEF316 said:
I mean...I'm not for picking on "nerds" (whatever the hell that means....says the guy on the magic football message board) but that kid was totally asking for it.
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Lol - so true. Many people would think of us that way having spent years on this board.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Mayim Bialik is really getting on my nerves.  Can't she just shut up?
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It's funny because I think they must be telling her to tone it down a bit - like not overreacting every time a Daily Double is found ("Oh! There's a Daily Double!") and then again when the contestant announces their wager ("Wow! Four thousand dollars!"). 

The problem is, now she leaves little awkward pauses all over the place. And still talks too much at other times.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Not a fan of this format.  You can win your semi-final and still not get to the finals?  That's nuts.
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They're going to have a Second Chances tournament featuring the woman who helped Jonathan take down Matt, some of the more promising people who lost to Matt and Amy, etc. The fourth semifinal winner is going to have a spot in that tournament. 

https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/news-events/jeopardy-second-chance-tournament-ep-michael-davies-explains
 

As to the criticism of the tournament structure, and specifically the fact that one of our four semifinalists will not advance to the final, I get it. It's an imperfect solution that resulted from necessary changes to the original tournament format and the fixed number of hours we were committed to deliver. However, I am happy to announce that we will invite the fourth place finisher back for our postseason Second Chance Tournament that will precede, and feed, at least one player into the Tournament of Champions. ….

I may have just broken the Jeopardy!-verse.

I started thinking about a Second Chance Tournament almost the day I started on Jeopardy!, when Jessica Stephens beat Matt Amodio, but lost to Jonathan Fisher by just $401. I thought, “Wow, wouldn’t it be a cool idea to have a tournament where we bring excellent contestants like Jessica back?” Like most good ideas, it was quickly apparent that many, many other people – both inside and outside the show – had had exactly the same thought, long before me. But now we’re actually going to do it, and slot it in right before the ToC. More details to follow, including the criteria we will be using to select the rest of the participants. To be clear, though, the eligibility time frame will be the same as for this year’s ToC: We are looking at contestants who appeared on Jeopardy! since the last Tournament of Champions who we believe deserve a second shot. I know there will be many contestants from previous years who will be howling at this point, and I do not rule out a future opportunity to compete again for some of you. But for now this is part of the postseason for this season. We are all so excited at the prospect, and we look forward to seeing some wonderful contestants again on our stage.
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That's just BS.  They managed perfectly well to have the tournaments in the regular time slot for a gazillion years.  But now we have to be in prime time?  Nope.

 
WTF.  On normal Final Jeopardy.  Minneapolis is way bigger than 90k and not on a lake (although at least in the correct state), and while Green Bay is close to 90k, there might be a few other cities on Lake Michigan that are slightly larger, and a few lakes larger lake than Michigan.

 
UOFI_316 said:
WTF.  On normal Final Jeopardy.  Minneapolis is way bigger than 90k and not on a lake (although at least in the correct state), and while Green Bay is close to 90k, there might be a few other cities on Lake Michigan that are slightly larger, and a few lakes larger lake than Michigan.
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I assume they meant Lake Superior as the largest lake in North America, and the largest US city on that lake is Duluth. I think Lake Michigan doesn't count because it's not individually larger until Huron is included. Probably what confused people?

Edit: Technically Thunder Bay, Ontario has a greater population but they asked for US city on the largest lake. 

 
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Runkle said:
I assume they meant Lake Superior as the largest lake in North America, and the largest US city on that lake is Duluth. I think Lake Michigan doesn't count because it's not individually larger until Huron is included. Probably what confused people?

Edit: Technically Thunder Bay, Ontario has a greater population but they asked for US city on the largest lake. 
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Exactly, Lake Superior is the largest North American lake, so that gets you to mostly Minnesota and a few Wisconsin towns that are in the US.  Green Bay is on the wrong lake, and has cities that are 5x and 27x times larger on the same lake.  Combining 2 lakes wouldn't count, because that is combining 2 lakes.

I assume me living in the Chicago suburbs, and driven around Lake Superior on vacation has given me a different perspective, but I would think someone who qualified for Jeopardy would at least get the lake correct. 

 
Runkle said:
UOFI_316 said:
WTF.  On normal Final Jeopardy.  Minneapolis is way bigger than 90k and not on a lake (although at least in the correct state), and while Green Bay is close to 90k, there might be a few other cities on Lake Michigan that are slightly larger, and a few lakes larger lake than Michigan.
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I assume they meant Lake Superior as the largest lake in North America, and the largest US city on that lake is Duluth. I think Lake Michigan doesn't count because it's not individually larger until Huron is included. Probably what confused people?

Edit: Technically Thunder Bay, Ontario has a greater population but they asked for US city on the largest lake. 
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I thought I made a decent guess with Marquette, Michigan, but overlooked Duluth.

A few other observations:

1) Thankfully Ken is back! 

2) Mohawk guy is growing on me - seems like a decent modest guy.

3) Loved that category where Johnny Gilbert read the lyrics to songs.

 
Watching College, never before have I rooted so much against someone.  That Duke girl just needed to go. She had a "I know way more than you" demeanor.  The few times she knew the answer she was asking for the next question immediately after answering.  Loved it when she got something wrong that I knew.

 
UOFI_316 said:
Watching College, never before have I rooted so much against someone.  That Duke girl just needed to go. She had a "I know way more than you" demeanor.  The few times she knew the answer she was asking for the next question immediately after answering.  Loved it when she got something wrong that I knew.
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Ending up with a negative score seemed like justice.

 
The guy from Kennesaw State that looked like the kid from A Christmas Story really annoyed me. What was with that gesture walking on the stage?

 
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Was happy to see Jaskaran win the college tournament. Seemed like a really nice grounded kid. I'm sure the Kennesaw Mountain kid isn't a bad guy, but he needed a beat down for those stupid gestures he was making.

 
Not a fan of them working the goop website into a clue. I guess when one of your hosts hawks Neurivo, it shouldn't be surprising. 

 
Always roll my eyes when someone says, "I've always wanted to say this...". Saying it when you only have 800? 🥺

 
brun said:
Always roll my eyes when someone says, "I've always wanted to say this...". Saying it when you only have 800? 🥺
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I don’t see a problem with it. Dream of a lot of people to go on the show and say to make it a true daily double. I’m sure the dream usually involves having more money when saying that, but one and done, and only opportunity.

 
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brun said:
Always roll my eyes when someone says, "I've always wanted to say this...". Saying it when you only have 800? 🥺
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Don Quixote said:
I don’t see a problem with it. Dream of a lot of people to go on the show and say to make it a true daily double. I’m sure the dream usually involves having more money when saying that, but one and done, and only opportunity.
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I can see the dream, but I figure that maximizing that wager gets you 400 more, and the real goal for me would be to win.

He might get another opportunity in the 2nd round. If he won he might get another shot or 2 in the next episode as well.

At least he got on the show. I know I never will. I just sit in my recliner and take pot shots at people on the show.

 
Don Quixote said:
brun said:
Always roll my eyes when someone says, "I've always wanted to say this...". Saying it when you only have 800? 🥺
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I don’t see a problem with it. Dream of a lot of people to go on the show and say to make it a true daily double. I’m sure the dream usually involves having more money when saying that, but one and done, and only opportunity.
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Heh I just stumbled on to an old game from 1991, in the category GAMBLING, the Daily Double was behind the $400 clue: "Racetrack combination in which you pick the winners of 2 races, usually the first 2". Poor guy guessed "Exacta". I can only imagine Alex's tone in the response when giving the right answer, apparently the audience found it quite hilarious. If only he'd prefaced it with "I've always wanted to say this"...

 
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So, two days in a row the leader going into FJ fails to bet enough to cover an all-in wager from second place and still wins. Since we haven't heard from Mrs. R yet, I'm guessing she smashed her keyboard.

 
apalmer said:
So, two days in a row the leader going into FJ fails to bet enough to cover an all-in wager from second place and still wins. Since we haven't heard from Mrs. R yet, I'm guessing she smashed her keyboard.
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Sometimes it's the best players that are the worse at wagering. I do wish that more got burned by it.

 
apalmer said:
So, two days in a row the leader going into FJ fails to bet enough to cover an all-in wager from second place and still wins. Since we haven't heard from Mrs. R yet, I'm guessing she smashed her keyboard.
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I noticed the same thing. What are the odds that she would win both of them?

I do feel some extra admiration for her though since she knocked off Christine, who I didn't like right from her first answer.

 
Mrs. Pittsburgh really pulled that one out last night. Thought she was done but the middle weird guy with a big lead somehow was the only one couldn't come up with Palermo (one of the easier FJ questions I've seen in a bit). 

 
zamboni said:
Mrs. Pittsburgh really pulled that one out last night. Thought she was done but the middle weird guy with a big lead somehow was the only one couldn't come up with Palermo (one of the easier FJ questions I've seen in a bit). 
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I'll confess: Sicily immediately occurred to me, but I couldn't name a city there, let alone the capital. Sort of ironic, considering my name.

 
Oof. On the question about the Ukraine, did everyone have the "recorded January ____" text in the corner of the screen??

 
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