Yes let’s all argue about bullshit
that sucks. would love to see all 3 evened up for tonight’s game
Awful betting.
Amy 25,000 (6,000)
Sam 20,000 (20,000)
Andrew 6,800 (5,999)
A cover bet by Amy would be 15,001 so Andrew is fine.
Sam’s is just stupid.
I don’t wtf Amy’s bet is about. If she is going small shouldn’t she guarantee that Sam has to be correct?
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He didn’t bet anything the first few times and it didn’t work out so he’s semi tilting
Amy cant cover, with the format the way it is and Andrew having two wins she cant put herself at risk for Andrew winning, so the max she could bet was about 10K. Sam should know this so his bet is fine. He isnt going to win with a miss, so might as well bet it all.
And yes, Amy should have bet 4999
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great game! sam winning me over even more
lol amy going into final with the lead, getting the clue right and losing
andrew hero tries to go for the double double. just a great match
Amy just trying to make sure she gets to play another game, while leaving herself a chance to win if Sam fumbled.
Who knows, might be the correct play?
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I love this format, because it completely changes the betting strategy. I think Amy made the right bet there, because she has to survive if she gets it wrong and she can win flat out on a triple stump, and can also win on an Andrew RWW. The only instance she loses is if Sam answers correctly.
lol he said at the end his plan to beat the buzzer is that he’s an old man so he’s going to fake an injury mid clue reading and the other contests are so nice they’ll rush to help and he’ll still be holding his buzzer and ring in.
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Would love to hear thoughts from others about the betting. Its a very interesting situation to me and I thi k Amys bet was correct but not 100% sure
Is RRW the least common final Jeopardy outcome?
If that was her thought process, the irony is that Andrew not getting that DD correct cost her the win.
I think WWR is the last frequent, however that is from regular play where the order of DJ finish correlates with probability of being correct in FJ. For a ToC final I think we have consider all the players have roughly equal chances of being correct unless someone gets a obvious good/bad category.
I’m not sure how I feel about it. She has probably >60% to end it (not sure what %correct is for FJ in the ToC).
So she is 3:2 to 2:1 fave to end it and probably 1:3 that it doesn’t there (some of the time Sam wins).
She Def gives up some outright win by betting small, but she does drop lose to 0.0%.
It seems like we’ve got a battle of playing to win (Andrew) vs playing not to lose (Amy). That generally goes one way most of the time.
I really hope Sam evens it up and we get sudden death.
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Amy even betting like a girl
But seriously, congrats to Amy on the win. Best player won.
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I liked the story about her tattoo.
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Andrew getting jobbed on an ambiguous "P.J."s category question with no prompt to clarify his response flipped the outcome. The only thing Ken says when announcing the category is this:
"P.J."s in quotes, uh, Penn Jillette, for example.
That says nothing about whether a first name is required for a correct response. He could have easily said exactly provided the same “example” for another category like TV Magicians where ‘Jillette’ would obviously be correct. That’s two major fuckups by the writers in a TOC finals. You seriously need to fire everyone and get people who actually know how to do this job.
I disagree, that’s pretty standard. If the category name contains anything in quotes, your response MUST contain what’s in the quotes.
Says who? I’ll also be pedantic and point out that the thing in quotation marks did not appear in any of the correct responses.
It’s in the rules, it’s well established. Those categories go back to the very beginning of the show. Alex used to be very explicit about what they mean, but in later years, he’d often introduce such a category by saying, “‘xxx’ in quotation marks, you know what that means.”