Someone bought a U? Why?
So⌠Jeopardy TOC discussion in this thread, yea?
Sam probably the only favorite to make the final. Shocked that Ryan and Jason missed out. Ryan went from ecstasy on guessing FJ correct, to seeing the librarian obviously get the correct answer too. Jason wasnât near as sharp in the tourney as I expected.
MOTHER FUCKING PRE-SEVERE WEATHER COVERAGE PREEMPTED JEOPARDY.
The fact that thereâs no way to buy / stream jeopardy after the fact is a crime against humanity. Mother fucking fuck
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Found it on YouTube before it got deleted. Absurd that I have to do that.
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Not a fan of Jenniferâs daily double wager there. When you are behind by 20k after day 1 you have to go all in to try to catch up. She probably wins if she had gone all in there.
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I had to do this today. The recording on youtube was shit. Kept zooming in and out. And got spoiled as I was looking for the vid. That was some bullshit.
Yeah I also did that same terrible youtube channel for Thursday show which I missed. But only thing I could find.
She -WOULD- have won had she shoved her DD, assuming all else was the same.
She left roughly 8k on the table which would have been equal to 16k on a FJ doubles up. She left another 10k on the table in final. So she left about 26k potential and lost by about 16k.
I threw my proverbial brick through my TV when she said â$2200â. She made people from Michigan look bad.
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Spending like 2-3 hours learning very basic wagering strategy is probably more valuable than 40 hours studying random trivia or, hell, even Shakespeare if youâre preparing to go on this show. Itâs unbelievable how people know theyâre going to be on a game show involving wagering where a minimum of $10-20k is on the line and they just donât even know how to bet FJ as 3rd place or whatever.
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Well, what did you expect? She didnât even do the hand thing.
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Looks like she was trying to lock up 2nd place money. They should probably alter the pay structure to 250/75/75 if this is a serious consideration people are making.
https://twitter.com/Coooooorb/status/1398467112985841670
https://twitter.com/jenniferquail/status/1398467600800268288
Wrong answer. She could have won wo Sam doing anything stupid.
Was just talking to a friend last night about how the vast majority of contestants on every game show - be it Supermarket Sweep, Jeopardy, or anything in between - are incredibly bad at strategy. You have a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a significant amount of money. Take some time to figure out at least the basic strategy of whatever game it is youâre playing.
Itâs at least theoretically possible that depending on the rest of her personal finances, locking up the extra 50K for second place was the correct play. I forget all the totals at the decision points, but it seems unlikely. But itâs possible that she actually did bolded and played accordingly.
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Just wanted to expand on this by saying that while itâs theoretically possible that she played correctly, she almost certainly didnât. The main reason is because the EV of winning is more than 250K. Being one of very few women to win the TOC would open up a lot of other possibilities to make money in the future. That needs to go in to the calculation. She would have to be pretty destitute for locking up that 50K to have been the correct play.
Terrible DD wager by Jennifer.
Sam was the best contestant of the last year. Right person won.
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I was actually wondering about this, since I donât watch as much Jeopardy as I would like. I always watch TOC, but I donât watch much else. So itâs good to know the right guy won. Did he have the most wins and money won prior to TOC?
Along those lines, I havenât seen too many of these guest hosted episodes. But I can only conclude they were dumpster fires based on all of the âBuzzy is goodâ talk. I just donât see it. The best I can say is that Buzzy is competent. He is just too wooden. Every time he looks into the camera to talk itâs clear he has memorized what he wanted to say and is struggling to remember and regurgitate it just how he practiced it. Itâs like the exact opposite of natural.
But if Buzzy is what qualifies as good, then everyone else must have abjectly sucked.
I guess being a game show host is way harder than it looks.
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I pretty much missed Jason Zuffranieriâs enitre run. I still have Julia Collinâs run as the most unlikely of all time. At least Jason outscored Julia by 100k in one less game, but I take it his run was almost as crazy lucky?
No, Jason was #1 and Jennifer (runner up) was #2. But Jason wasnât near as impressive in this tourney IMO. I thought Sam was very impressive during his run, and was the standout player in the TOC. Jennifer was never one to wager aggressively, which is a giant leak.