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1glitch0 posted:I don't know what's wrong with just the usual Tournament of Champions thing. This feels so convoluted. Agreed, I'm ready for the tiger claws furry DJ to come back and dominate some more. Poque fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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I would have preferred two rounds of Jeopardy on day 1, double and final on day 2. That would leave plenty o'time to do the talking heads portion.
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They should have stuck with the standard format, nixed the contestant interviews, and routed everyone to Jeopardy.com for the behind-the-scenes stuff like they usually do. Maybe I'm overestimating the geriatric common-room demographic, but I think people would have figured out what was happening. It just feels like a contrived move to squeeze in ad space to accommodate the big pot.
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Poque posted:Agreed, I'm ready for the tiger claws furry DJ to come back and dominate some more. Also gently caress Buzzy Oh hell yeah, I forgot we haven’t seen him in ToC yet.
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If they used this exact format but did full games every episode, it'd only be an 8-episode tournament. It's possible sponsors don't want to buy in to fund the prize when historically, most Jeopardy tournaments have been 10 eps long. Of course, the easy solution around this is to just have the first two matches be three games each instead of two - that way each member of the team gets to play all three rounds and naturally will get to have a contestant story time as a result of being guaranteed to play in single Jeopardy. Hell, then you could have the wild card game just be a single, exciting episode, and then the finals could be another three-game series.
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Poque posted:that way each member of the team gets to play all three rounds
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I think this is the only episode with only one round played. 2 rounds today, full game in Friday. I enjoyed the "filler." All the captains have a good personality for TV which is probably why they were picked. And the format explanation was necessary for people who don't watch every day. I'd forgotten how insanely good Alex Jacob is. He's also got the buzzer skills to keep up with Brad. I feel confident in saying Brad is better than Ken but Alex might be up there too.
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zakharov posted:I'd forgotten how insanely good Alex Jacob is. He's also got the buzzer skills to keep up with Brad. I feel confident in saying Brad is better than Ken but Alex might be up there too.
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it sounds patronizing but I was genuinely impressed Colby did as well as he did. Jacobs + Rutter is a loving meatgrinder of a Jeopardy round and he was hanging in there right until Brad doubled up
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Vulture Culture posted:Doesn't this sort of defeat the point? Yeah, maybe a little. But it makes matchups more important for games 2 and 3 - if you're behind going into game 2, maybe it makes FJ more valuable for you to make sure you're still in it for game 3, and if you have a lead, maybe you move your people around to try to pad the lead. You also run a significant risk of the entire third game being unnecessary and boring if the same team wins the first two, so it's probably for the best that it's just a two-game match.
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I'm honestly expecting either Team Ken or Team Brad to get eliminated as 6th out of 6th. I hope it's not Team Ken 
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Cockblocktopus posted:I'm honestly expecting either Team Ken or Team Brad to get eliminated as 6th out of 6th. With how Team Colby got rocked today, wow. It might actually be them. Alan Lin got destroyed, and Pam Mueller misreading the Final Jeopardy clue didn’t help either. Dave Madden left Team Brad in a huge lead going into game 2 after the setup by Larissa Kelly. Buzzy played well too. Also, holy crap commercial break a minute into the show? What the hell, Jeopardy producers?
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whoever that jacobs guy is and larissa are complete and utter monsters
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I'm sad Tom Nissley, Matt Jackson and Craig uh...something aren't in on this.
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Whew. That was a massacre.
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banned from Starbucks posted:I'm sad Tom Nissley, Matt Jackson and Craig uh...something aren't in on this. Roger Craig, and yeah, he’d be great. He’s in the next batch of episodes though! Also, man, I had forgotten how much of a buzz saw Larissa Kelly could be. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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gently caress yeah African final jeopardy categories.
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That piano category in Double was hell. Video categories already slow the show way down but that guy took a minute to read the clue.
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banned from Starbucks posted:I'm sad Tom Nissley, Matt Jackson and Craig uh...something aren't in on this. Matt's on Team Ken; we'll see him next week.
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Mantis42 posted:That piano category in Double was hell. Video categories already slow the show way down but that guy took a minute to read the clue. Well, they had an entire like 2/3 of an episode to do Double this episode, so a little slowdown couldn’t hurt them that much.
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HookShot posted:gently caress yeah African final jeopardy categories. 
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I have to think they wouldn't have done those piano clues in a regular game. The silver lining for Team Colby is that none of them did well, so none has to feel solely responsible for the defeat. Although Pam should probably feel most responsible. I wouldn't count them out yet, though. It's entirely possible one of the three teams in the second match will have a zero day, too.
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Propaniac posted:I have to think they wouldn't have done those piano clues in a regular game. I've got my doubts. Buzzy's team will probably play the same as they did today and play conservative in the second final. I'm hoping for two teams to tie for sixth at $0 for maximum chaos.
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HookShot posted:gently caress yeah African final jeopardy categories. Dave Madden’s current profile pic on FB is a pin of crossed flags, those of Somalia and Senegal. Wasn’t that hard to work out, got Somalia first because the Horn of Africa juts out into the Indian Ocean and is part of that country, then figure out a West Coast African country starting with an S.
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I am absolutely horrible at geography questions so I have nothing bad to say about anyone missing that clue. Here is an excellent article excoriating the captains for letting Larissa fall to 6th. https://deadspin.com/letting-larissa-kelly-fall-to-the-sixth-pick-in-jeopard-1832814009/amp?__twitter_impression=true
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GhostStalker posted:Dave Madden’s current profile pic on FB is a pin of crossed flags, those of Somalia and Senegal. Odd, I got Senegal right away due to the historical context of it being the last African stop during the slave trade, but I whiffed on Somalia. I think it was a very good FJ clue because you could approach it from a number of angles and get it right, but it still required a decent amount of thought.
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Former Jeopardy FB group admin Jennifer Morrow (the Rush fangirl with the drumsticks who won 2 shows a couple years back and did the Batutsi during her intro shot during one of those shows) got her Twitter post misrepresented in a USA Today article (lol, USA Today), where her mention about being thrown off about format of the episode (10 minutes with no trivia the first day) was used as an example of people slamming the tournament, with no mention of her history with the show despite displaying her Tweet with the profile pic being her contestant photo with Trebek. Apparently Alex Jacob took offense, and has been very vocal on Twitter saying there there actually weren’t any more commercials than normal, and it’s just the commercial break format that makes it seem that way. Also really down on any criticism because he thinks it’s diminishing the contestants or whatever. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Feb 22, 2019 |
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Alex was being a complete loving dick to Jennifer.
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HookShot posted:Alex was being a complete loving dick to Jennifer. 
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where do they find these nerds who don't know Babylon 5?
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lol Alex Jacob tried to stall out Daily Doubles again despite wagering such a low amount, backfired on him the first time, though it only cost $100. And I figured Team Brad had too much of a lead to beat from yesterday’s game even if Alex destroyed Brad on the buzzer (and that “Crap!” from Brad when he blanked on an answer was hilarious). Too bad Buzzy didn’t know Final. And at least Team Colby made a respectable showing as well. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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As a rabid metagame enthusiast, I flipped out and yelled at the TV when Dave deliberately took the $200 hit to gain initiative in the Double Jeopardy round It's something I've always thought about at high levels of play and you only actually see it done maybe a couple times in the show's whole history Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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Vulture Culture posted:As a rabid metagame enthusiast, I flipped out and yelled at the TV when Dave deliberately took the $200 hit to gain initiative in the Double Jeopardy round I didn’t even notice that. Man, Madden is operating on a different level...
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I hate how incredulous Brad looks when Trebek tells him he's wrong. Trebek knows best dude.
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El Jeffe posted:I hate how incredulous Brad looks when Trebek tells him he's wrong. Trebek knows best dude.
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HookShot posted:Alex was being a complete loving dick to Jennifer. I missed it what happened
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KenJen, Julia, and Austin tonight hell yeah
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banned from Starbucks posted:I missed it what happened In the contestant's FB group, Alex basically blew up at Jennifer over the tweet she did. She pointed out that she wasn't even being negative about it, she enjoys the tournament but was just going out that the rhythm felt off and weird for a show that she spent years studying for, and Alex refused to back down, accusing her of being negative for no reason, of ruining the show, of not respecting the people that went on it, and blah blah blah. It appears the whole thread may have disappeared because I can't find it now, but yeah, he was being a huge dick over it.
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Jeopardy fame has gone to some of these peoples' heads and it's a really bad look https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/25/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers-defend-all-stars-new-format-haters/
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banned from Starbucks posted:I missed it what happened Alex Jacob to Jennifer Morrow on our FB group, not Alex Trebek to Jennifer Giles on the show.
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