This is Jeopardy!

Yesterday's final Jeopardy was incredibly easy, yet all 3 contestants were stumped. Something about a 630 foot span structure or monument with the spacing of its 2 legs making it as wide as it is high. I immediately thought of the Gateway arch in St. Louis, which was the right answer. But 2 of them said Eiffel tower, which is a really stupid guess. The other one said Christ the Redeemer, also stupid. What the hell?
 
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Agreed, it was relatively easy and two gave dumb guesses.

I’ve been completely lost for months now when one tournament is beginning, when one is ending. I’ve determined just to enjoy the episode and try not to think about the tournament scenarios.
 
Aaron said:
I’ve been completely lost for months now when one tournament is beginning, when one is ending. I’ve determined just to enjoy the episode and try not to think about the tournament scenarios.
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This is the semifinal of the last round of champions wildcard. When the final is over, the Tournament of Champions is next.

What confuses things is that this current tournament includes the winner of the second chance tournament. And then the winner of this one will move on to the ToC.
 
scotchandcigar said:
Yesterday's final Jeopardy was incredibly easy, yet all 3 contestants were stumped. Something about a 630 foot span structure or monument with the spacing of its 2 legs making it as wide as it is high. I immediately thought of the Gateway arch in St. Louis, which was the right answer. But 2 of them said Eiffel tower, which is a really stupid guess. The other one said Christ the Redeemer, also stupid. What the hell?
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You didn't know that Christ the Redeemer's feet were 2 football fields apart and the Eiffel Tower only has two legs and is as tall as it is wide?

I had that answer before hi finished asking the question.
 
scotchandcigar said:
This is the semifinal of the last round of champions wildcard. When the final is over, the Tournament of Champions is next.

What confuses things is that this current tournament includes the winner of the second chance tournament. And then the winner of this one will move on to the ToC.
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When you make your tournaments so complex you need to be a contestant on Jeopardy to understand it ...
 
HecticArt said:
It's time for the behind the scenes drama to stop.
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Seems ripe for an HBO type 3 part docu-series. After Alex, the fight for the host position. IDK many of the details but it appears to be like the Letterman/Leno drama when they were vying to replace Carson.

I'm sure Ken and his agents did shit behind the scenes to get Mayim out of the picture.

Also let's not forget Alex was a player. Jean was 23 years his junior. She was 57 when he died at 80. And unlike a Larry King and his shit ton of wives, by all reports she really loved Alex. And she was a hot 57.

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I mean my dad was 20 years older than my mom and they found true love...it's just harder to believe it's possible when it involves rich Hollywood people.
 
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So the winners from the 2nd chance tournaments get into the champions wildcard tournament. And the winners from that tournament get into the tournament of champions. And now I just learned that the winner of the ToC gets into the masters tournament.

Makes perfect sense.
 
Breaking news!

Chris Panullo got smoked. He started strong, but petered out. I guess you can't be both handsome and a ToC winner.
 
Aaron said:
I hope to never see them do another entire season of tournaments.
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I read an article that said it was due to the writers' strike. Something about it not being fair to invite new contestants to play with old questions (answers). But it would be okay to have tournaments pitting previous contestants against each other, using rehashed questions.

So while they won't do 6 months of tournaments again, I think they will incorporate the second chance and champions wildcard rounds in the future.
 
scotchandcigar said:
I read an article that said it was due to the writers' strike. Something about it not being fair to invite new contestants to play with old questions (answers). But it would be okay to have tournaments pitting previous contestants against each other, using rehashed questions.

So while they won't do 6 months of tournaments again, I think they will incorporate the second chance and champions wildcard rounds in the future.
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I heard that too. Not knowing how long the strike would last, they guessed long, and wrong.
 
Yesterday's ToC game was really fun to watch. It was tit-for-tat between Luigi de gooz-MONN (as Ken Jennings says it) and Juveria Zaheer. Luigi won with a total score of $44,000, which shows how intense the competition was.

Juveria had a long road to the ToC. She actually lost on her 1st appearance on Jeopardy, but was invited to a Second Chance tournament, which she won. That got her into a Champions Wildcard tournament, which she also won. So leading up to the ToC, she had to win 6 consecutive games. But with Luigi squeaking out the win, he's actually the first top-seed ToC contestant to win so far. All the other contestants who earned the left position were losers.
 
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