Alex Trebek/Jeopardy Tribute Thread

From April on Reddit:


2. ⁠Final Jeopardy — My wager was a huge mistake. I was confident in the final category, too! I intended to cover Luigi's potential final total by a dollar, but I lost perspective while I scribbled on scratch paper. Soon after I submitted my wager, I realized I’d messed up. Filming hadn’t resumed yet but I was stuck. As you may know, on a contestant’s screen, there’s a confirmation button by the wager box and once you tap that button, the wager’s locked in with few exceptions. We were sufficiently warned. I'd made an unforced error and I was gutted.
I left the studio lot with my scratch paper and took this picture of it later. The arrows point to my flawed wager (1,801) and what I could’ve wagered to win (14,800). I’d practiced wagering before the show but not nearly enough. I devoted way more time to cramming trivia, not just to win, but also to avoid embarrassment on national TV. Didn't work out!
Shoutout to the compassionate contestant coordinators. The audience was supportive when

 

Yeah, she looked absolutely gutted when she realized what she had done. People are human.

 

I don't understand the Second Chance tournament. Are these people who won 2 or 3 games? Or people who lost to a buzzsaw?

Seems rinky-dink.

 

I haven't been watching so I'm not sure, but I don't think it's the worst idea to invite someone back who ran up high dollars but lost to a Jennings/Holzhauer, et al.

 

I think it's the latter. I also think Jeopardy has so many long-time winners (Roach, Amodio, Schneider, etc.) that it was probably hard to properly fill out a full tournament of champions field.

 

Great ToC filled with successful and unsuccessful gameplay

 

We're a couple games behind, so we just saw the game -

Spoiler

Where Matt bet $0 on Final Jeopardy. Kind of shocking, even though I don't think he would have won anyway, with Not Steve Martin's FJ bet.

 

I know these top level Jeopardy players know a lot more than me about how to place their Final Jeopardy bets, but the conservative betting several times in this TOC just baffled me.

 

Amy has been on social media explaining all of her FJ bets. Not sure I agree with the logic, especially in 2 of the games, but there was a plan.

 

And she still won.

 

I was ok with her bet blocking out Andrew in game 4. I didn’t get the bet in game 5.
Sam was the star of the show.

 

This champ Jake from this week is a frigging weirdo.