Buzzer skill doomed him. He may have been better at trivia than Ken/James/whoever else but doesn’t matter if you can’t ring in. Not shoving when he got that DD was malpractice given how shit he was at ringing in. Also thought the winner committed malpractice not jamming when she got her DD in a category where the bottom 2 clues were so trivially easy, but she won so w/e I guess.
It was humorous to me that his quip was basically “I beat James in trivia bowl” followed by “bet $4,000” on a dd, immediately removing all doubt as to whether he was on that level.
I’m not sure what I was expecting from his blog, but it appears that I enjoy reading danspartan’s message board posts about Jeopardy! much more than Yogesh does. Is this the first time a contestant has insulted a UPer?
Champ making the worst possible wager on that last DD followed by making the worst possible wager on final is chef’s kiss. I figured she was just mashing buttons on the final bet against Yogesh but this loss confirms it. Back to our regularly scheduled run of one shitty champ after another.
I was not thinking about “chip on shoulder” being a buzzword. I sincerely didn’t mean it that way but I am ignorant that it’s a negative phrase. I do try to be aware of my privilege in the world but my frame of reference is certainly limited.
I have no idea how to tease apart cultural aspects vs individual ones. I can see how certain applicants would have trouble being considered “show friendly”. I can also see how that is disadvantageous to those that have a different cultural background.
Funny thing is that I try to more carefully phrase myself on the Jboard than I do here.
Just checked- there seems to be no response on the board and I’m not going to stir things up.
This is changing IMO. They have more and more dumb categories that barely qualify as trivia and are more about wordplay. Rhyme Time is NOT trivia. These new categories where they want you to give “two car companies that share a letter” are ridiculous.
I know Erin a little from Chicago stuff, fun to see her do well. Troy from Thursday night’s episode is one of the most accomplished trivia dudes in the USA which has made him so famous that I um had zero idea who he was until after the game when I read his last name
yeah iirc Troy and his wife are bonafide Trivia Pros (she’s won stuff on The Chase and WWTBAM and they’re on some world-renowned trivia team together and he’s won the LL Championship three or four times now). I’m a trivia casual so to me Erin’s Jeopardy journey (she prepped five hrs brushing up on geography and presidents) is like how in Hunger Games the posh districts have their trained Career Tribute tween assassins but then katniss wanders in eating hardtack and porridge with a bow & arrow and a dress and some grammar jewelry
