Alex Trebek/Jeopardy Tribute Thread

Holzhauer-lite

 

I haven't watched much of new season. But what Mngwa says about his being dour and plain, he definitely was that early on.

 

Ha, yeah - That seems to be his strategy, and also, he's not quite as dominant as Holzhauer was in most games. I think a Ringer article on him noted that his average winning night was $33,000, which is impressive, but Holzhauer was regularly close to six figures, IIRC.

Amodio could have lost last week - He got Final Jeopardy wrong, but the second place person also got it wrong, and oddly, it was the rare Final Jeopardy that I knew. (Something like, this 1989 movie had characters fearful of the Dip. What is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) Outside of that, I've only seen two other games he could have been caught, and I think he got FJ in both of them.

 

In the games I've seen he's always out front early and making the other contestants take risks on questions they might not normally buzz in on. There's only one or two games I've seen where he's been down entering DJ.

 

He was actually in the negative in one of the games going to DJ, but he changed that pretty quickly.

 

I always wonder what it's like to be the first two contestants introduced who hear, "...and our returning champion, whose 31-day cash winnings total..." and know you're going into the meat grinder.

 

It's worse for some of them - I think everyone gets to play a "practice game" on the actual recording day. So, some of them will get chewed up by the dominant champ in that, and then just have to sit there and know they play them again in a couple of hours.

 

I think it forces people to chime in when they're unsure of the answer, too, because if he gets rolling and controls the board it can get out of hand quickly, especially if he finds the daily double.

 

Claire McNear had a good story on Matt last week: Nothing Can Stop Matt Amodio

Given how the season ended and restarted, many of the recent contestants have had weeks/months knowing they'd have to go up against him.

 

He strikes me as beatable, but you have to get "lucky" when it comes to categories and what not. I'm not sure if anyone else is watching "The Chase," but Jennings and Holzhauer are monsters. They've overcome 15 to 20 question deficits to win the game.

 

I saw an episode 2-3 weeks ago in which Ken did poorly. James and Brad were openly ashamed.

 

Matt is out of his mind dominant in a lot of categories, he’s quick on the buzzer and he makes smartly aggressive bets. He’s missed a few Final Jeopardys which I knew which leads me to think that he can be had.