I'm already sick of this guy, and I'm worried that he's ruining Jeopardy forever...

is he really the first person to do this? jeopardy is about being brainy or knowing factoids or whatever and the board has run the same way for decades how the fuck hasn't the meta already been settled?

autism

uhgh!

Quick rundown for a Europoor?

Absolutely based
Git gud everyone else

>Just cure cancer

>Trebek will be replaced by a black woman

He isn't by a long shot. The only thing he is doing differently is making the big balls bets once he gets the DD instead of making a safe or defensive one. This leads to an insurmountable lead

This strategy would blow up in someone's face who isn't answering correctly 95% of the time.

>AI they made to beat Jennings that had to be retired because it got too redpilled

What?

So in your opinion is he just the perfect storm of professional gambler and someone who is just really good at trivia?

No my opinion is you are a faggot

>Most contestants are normal people who don't really play strategically

bullshit, some people are better than others get over it faggit

He is really good at pulling the answers out of thin air. I have no idea how he gets answers like the one about Canada's southernmost city on the Hudson Bay or whatever that silly factoid was.

What sets him apart from the rest, to me, is that he is confidently making the big balls bets on every daily double, and going for a dominating victory every single game. It's an avenue I don't see a lot of multi-day winners going down. They all want the safe victories by a narrow runaway.

Ya'll are mean as shit.
OOF!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holzhauer

What's his weakness? What category can they exploit to take him down?

He'd lose by chance if someone got those Daily Doubles early on and was very proficient in a wide range of categories.

Unfortunately, Holzhauer has what seems like an Eidetic memory + incredibly fast button timing.

It's going to take someone from Reddit to conquer this idiot savant.

Stop whinng. He plays to win. Just like the computer did. You play like a pussy

FUCK OFF jAMES IS GREATNESS...why hate greatness unless you are a loser

>I don't want my favorite game show turning into a tournament for "professional gamblers."
You don't know how TV Game Shows work do you? They have a fairly long screening process where they see if the people have some decent charisma and ask them sample trivia questions. The producers then pick.

While it's a fair game the people who run Jeopardy know far in advance who is going to be the next Ken Jennings and they let them thru because they know a big winner gets the show positive attention.

t. James

more like jame homopower rofl

Thanks

>watching Jeopardy for contestant drama
literally my mom tier
>watching Jeopardy for your personal test of trivia
patrician.

youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ

What's his name, again?

Looks like Clutch Cargo with his weird teethy smile.

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Why don't they ask Chuck Forrest and the Asian guy to team up and dab on him?

Ask zoomer questions like they did in the teen tournament. Ask about rappers and stuff only black people care about. Category: Black Twitter.

Shut up. This shit is only interesting when people like him are dabbing on it.

I'm sure there are plenty of people here who could beat this guy, but they'd never let weird internet manchildren on the show.

They let Louis CK on

Having sex

Ask Robert Gagno

Just heard that ellen is in talks to be the next host..

He's fucking based. Why are you so mad

Fuck Ellen Degenerate, I'd rather have anyone including Leslie Jones host than her

Strategy doesn't matter if you don't know the answers. He's just insanely quick and answers like 99% correct.

Jerry is cool with ellen so im cool with ellen

Fuck you, fuck Ellen and fuck whoever Jerry is

I'd assassinate her.

Jerry Seinfeld you know the man.

why don't they just get ken jennings?

He also has to be intelligent about a broad range of topics.

No fuck that, let her have Wheel instead
This

I remember once they had a neckbeard who worked at McDonalds

Stream?

Don't they just shoot these in a week and Dole them out over time?

That would actually be cool

He kinda looks like Marty Robbins

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Nice doubles.

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Why no Jerry Seinfeld or Norm Macdonald for new host?

Watson
the ibm AI that runs everything now

The absolute madman cannot be stopped

I'm pretty sure he needs glasses. Dude always looks like he's squinting.

It's so he can read the answers on his ocular implants

>Jerry Seinfeld
For what purpose
>Norm Macdonald
An acceptable choice

norm is too much of a pullhead to film episodes

Have they tried not having women and old farts play against him? Women are stupid and old people can't buzz in right

>the AI they made to beat Jennings that had to be retired because it got too redpilled.
Watson got redpilled?

>james misses the first couple of $1000 questions, putting him in a hole or near zero
>competitors hunt the daily doubles and get them off the board
>james now can't build a lead
>repeat for the next round
someone has to run his own strat against him and hope he has a bad night. it's gonna take someone equally as autistic because people don't have the confidence to let a 15k daily double fly. I don't know if he's missed a single final jeopardy question yet, but that obviously would need to happen too.

Alec Baldwin you unsophisticated plebes.

According to wikipedia he is part Japanese

There's a dude that uploads them to daily motion
Username is President_Eisenhower (if i'm not mistaken)

His buzzer time is considered elite and he never misses questions. Takes the most valuable selections away from his opponents as quickly as possible and bets the max on DD. Also his success rate on questions is almost perfect.

My favorite part about him is how much Trebek loves him. Trebek fucking hated Jennings. HATED him. James is actually exciting because of how big the bets are.

Norm would be a shit Jeopardy host. Just because you love him doesn't mean he's perfect for everything.

>Alec Baldwin
Oh that slaps me on the knee

Only one time since he's been on the show has his game not been decided before final jeopardy. By the time FJ comes around he's usually already put the game out mathematical reach.

Someone's gonna have to just come in with a quick buzzer and balls the size of Texas, I mean they have nothing to lose anyway

Who is the 34th president of the United States?

>I don't know if he's missed a single final jeopardy question yet,
He's missed a few, but the ones I've seen were either early enough in the game where he could make it up in a couple questions or so far ahead it didn't really matter. I think there was one maybe that could have ruined his strategy but then he went on another big run right after it.

They shoot five games a day I think.

What is his strat for Final Jeopardy? Does he wager it all?

The problem now is he always gets to start the game since he's the champ so usually by the time he screws up or doesn't ring in he's already built up a significant lead.

Why would Trebek hate Jennings? He's not allowed to interact with the contestants at all outside of the actual game.
Ken was always funny and polite. He's easily the first choice for succession

he's usually so far ahead it literally doesn't matter, but he did bet a specific dollar amount so that the number matched up with the day he got married or something ($110914 -> 11/09/14)

Does the math. If he knows the answer he wagers a hefty chunk. If not he makes a safe bet that insures that even if he does get it wrong his competitors won't be able to pull ahead, even if they bet it all.
Needless to say he always goes into Final Jeopardy with a comfortable lead.

I honestly think he's gonna feel kinda bad for dominating so much and lose on purpose soon.

It's only not been a runaway game like once, so he just bets as much as he can while still beating the 2nd place player's potentially doubled score if he were to get the wrong answer.

>if he knows the answer
I think you mean category. You wager before you see the question (or in this case, the answer)

He's so adorable, no homo.

It's a WORK you idiots. They're trying to drum up ratings.

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You don't know the question until after you make your bet.

he looks like a faggot

i was out the other day, and there was a tv playing jeopardy.

i had seen the guy’s picture so i was curious. i ended up standing there watching for 10 minutes. with the exception of maybe 3 questions that his opponents got, he answered every single question on the board in a row.

I bet he cheats.

You guys are really overplaying the strategy part of things, he's just really fucking smart.

Put your tinfoil away, retard. Ratings were already getting bumped from the tournament of champions and Alex's health update.

Is there a rule that if you choose the question then you get priority to buzz in because it sure seems that way.

You know the category though, for someone like him, it's pretty much all he needs to know id he knows the answer of if there's a chance he doesnte

Haha no, he's just that good

god, that's so hot. my boipucci is already wet

I don't think anyone's saying he's not smart. But combine smart with solid strategy/timing and he's nigh unbeatable.
Could have him face off against a dude with an IQ of 2 billion but it doesn't mean shit if he can't hit the buzzer in time.

Will he lose on purpose like Ken?

Sure, Vince.

Sure.

He'll realize the monster he's created and sacrifice himself.

It shouldn't have a comedian hosting. Alex jokes around occasionally but he mostly plays it straight. It's not the kind of format that lends to comedy without making drastic changes.

I don't like literature of poetry categories, no one cares about that gay stuff.

Yes, but not until he passes Jennings at 2.5 mil

Did you guys know that Ken tithed 10% of his winnings to the mormon church?
Pretty based and faithpilled if you ask me.

And 40% of his winnings were taxed for the military-industrial complex.

The only religiously acceptable outcome is to win $0.

what a faggot

Part of his advantage now is that the other competitors don't expect to win at all which is self-defeating

Has he missed a final jeopardy question yet?

cheating

Surprised he had to guess tonight's question. It was pretty easy to figure out even if you don't know the answer on impact.

>t.coping nigger

HOW SASSY

What are the jeopardy buzzer rules? Are they still the same as they were back in the day: window of opportunity starts when Alex finishes speaking the question + early ring ins cause a delay in the window of opportunity?

He was probably just joking about guessing just so the sheep they keep sending to get slaughtered by him don't feel so bad.

He will get bored and quit winning. You can tell he will. Sometimes during double jeopardy he just kicks back and lets the other two take a couple as gimmies or how he does stupid shit on sail doubles like “lol I’ll bet $10K plus muh wife’s bday.” He’ll make enough to be a rich record holder for a while and nobody will care.

Yes that's why you sometimes see the contestant constantly trying to ring in but can't

are you saying jeopardy is in jeopardy?

*jepperdy

What happens when he hits 7 figures?

ADDS ANOTHER MILLY TO HIS BANK ACCOUNT

The sign isn’t big enough though.

THEY DROP THE FONT SIZE OR SUMMAT

Of course he's smart, and he's also got phenomenal buzzer timing. But strategy is the reason why he is amassing unprecedented totals. He's maximizing the amount he has to wager on DDs and Final by going for the big money questions early. If you pay attention, once the DDs are off the board, he tends to start playing out categories (albeit still from the bottom up), instead of playing across rows. He's been able to smash the winnings records in large part because he's been able to smash the wager records, and he's been able to smash the wager records because he's been able to maximize the amount he has available to wager.

He'd probably still be winning without the strategy, but he wouldn't have racked up the winnings. Ken Jennings was smart and fast enough to win 74 games, but he only averaged $34K per game. James is averaging more than double that ($75.6K/game through 15 games) because of how aggressively he wagers, which is in turn a product of how he plays the board.

wew

Yeah there's a light indicating the moment they can buzz in.
Apparently James made a makeshift buzzer out of a pen and other stuff to practice. as others have stated, his reaction times are much faster than most competitors

>He’ll make enough to be a rich record holder for a while
>a while
He's setting records that are going to be very difficult to ever beat.

They will probably eventually change the person in charge of managing that in order to switch up the timing somewhat, the same as they did with Ken in his second season.

PROBABLY PLAYS VIDYA GAMES

RISE UP!!

>They will probably eventually change the person in charge of managing that in order to switch up the timing somewhat, the same as they did with Ken in his second season.

What do you mean?

for now I would expect them to let James ride it out. If they change it up, then people are going to think it was intentional to sabotage him. It would be a real low note for the show, inevitably followed up by Trebek's retirement (or death) which would make it difficult for the show to recover in the public sphere.

Alex seems to like him even though James talks over him all the time.

They changed the person managing the buzzer system during Ken's run, and also increased the rehearsal time allotted for challengers to practice with the buzzers. The idea was that a champion on an extended streak had an advantage from being familiar with the system and that they needed to level the playing field a bit.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect it before the end of the season (if he should last that long). I said "eventually," not "soon."

ALEX IS A SEASONED AUTIST WRANGLER

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD

he’s missed one final jeopardy and only 19 other answers he’s ringed in on in his streak
you’re right though, the best chance is to deny the doubles

Not even Alex Trebek can deny these doubles

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He already did.

>makes fun of grandmother’s dead, retarded, super alf fan grandson
yeah he’s a nice guy

What?

>some autist who records Jeopardy unironically named himself "President_Eisenhower"
based

The show runners cheated the contestants in a technicality

>You guys are really overplaying the strategy part of things, he's just really fucking smart.

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twitter.com/kenjennings/status/1026249825199607809?s=21

achshually, "factoids" are things you think are facts but which aren't in fact (heh heh) true

Fast buzzer speed and good at trivia. He’d win even playing like a traditional player.

increased rehearsal time? user these people are autistic not stupid just press the button its literally 1 step

THATS NOT THE MEANING BEING USED IN RELATION TO JEOPARDY

>those roasties he plays against who aggressively hit their buzzard while based James stands calm and collected

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Why are people just now figuring out the daily double is just as powerful as final jeopardy? You can bet anything and it is almost always an easier question than the daily double.

THEY BLOW THEIR LOAD TOO EARLY

GOTTA HIT RIGHT WHEN THE WINDOW OPENS, THE BUZZMASTER

>buzzard

*eaiser than final jeopardy

>buzzard

There's more to it than that. You want to ring in as fast as you can to beat the others to it, but if you ring in too early you are temporarily locked out. Getting the timing down is key.

Anyone who's ever been on a quiz bowl team can attest to how challenging buzzer timing can be.

>brainy
Jeopardy has little to do with comprehension of useful knowledge. Unless all the random entertainment/sports facts are supposed to make anybody smart

How did that AI bet when it got daily double? I remember they were always wacky numbers based on confidence level or something like that.

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>t. serial killer

>wife

How the fuck do they not know to wait? Are they that fucking autistic? Is it autism?

?

Usually all the players know most of the answers. Jeopardy recycles most of the questions in some form every season so it is easy to practice. The real key to winning is the timing of the buzzer.

Jokes on him when Uncle Sam comes a knocking for that tax return.

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he is homosex

>Daily Double
>Actually available three times per episode

Excuse me, what the fuck?

wife material on the right

>what is americum?

what is her problem?

CONFIDENCE LEVEL SHOULD BE 100% ITS DATABASE SHOULD CONTAIN EVERYTHING AND AI CAN SEARCH IT ALL IN A MICROSECOND

ITS BUZZER TIMING SHOULD ALSO BE FASTER THAN ANY POSSIBLE HUMAN REACTION

YOU MEATBRAINS ARE FUCKEN DEAD KIDDO

>Americum

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They say she's still paying off her debt by servicing Johnny Gilbert in between breaks

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Fun fact: his wife was on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire five years ago (she won $28K).

Nope.

he goes for all the high points first, then when the daily double comes up, he bets all his money which is how he hits 6 digits. Normal people just play jeopardy top to bottom and dont really care about betting high.

>-$6,800
is this the lowest amount?

Imagine this..... Triple Jeopardy.

SHIEEEEEET

t. UNCOLLECTED TYRONE

>Nope.
Well fuck me I could have sworn he mentioned a husband...

Americium is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Am and atomic number 95. It is radioactive and a transuranic member of the actinide series, in the periodic table located under the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after the Americas.

Faggot.

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GIVE HIM THE AMERICUM SUPERGUY

Is there a torrent of his run?
I just finished watching One Outs after years of looking for a show like Akagi, and this nigger is literally the demon genius protag of Jeopardy that I've been wanting.

>that guy's retarded face in the middle
>the sad roastie
Perfect.

lol

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>Normal people just play jeopardy top to bottom
There's also the Arthur Chu method of bouncing all over the board hunting DDs (Austin Rogers did that, too, IIRC).

What's it do?

You mean Chuck Forrest. I didn't even remember the Asian's name and just call him the Asian.

>Is there a torrent of his run?
Probably, but some autist on dailymotion has started uploading his streak.
dailymotion.com/President_Eisenhower

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That'll work for me.
Thanks user. Never thought I'd see a nigga like this in real life.

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You guys are just jealous that you are not professional gamblers

Jennings was just as dominant, but he just played conservatively so his scores were lower.

Professional gambler is the lamest "cool" job out there. Like laser tag world champion.

>jennings was a pussy
thanks but we already knew that

Gambling is for degenerates.

>Jennings was just as dominant

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MORE LIKE HE PLAYED WHOLESOMELY, A TRUE WHITE MAN

NOT LIKE THIS MAXING VEGAS DEGENERATE

>Chuck Forrest.
Yeah, I knew it predated Arthur, but I couldn't remember who originated it, only that Arthur caught a lot of flak for it during his run (I don't remember Austin being criticized for it, though I seem to recall him using it, too).

Forrest is one of those who would probably be better remembered if not having played in the era of the five-game limit (seems like the only one consistently remembered from that era is Brad Rutter, and that because he's racked up so much money in tourneys and special events and because he's beaten Ken multiple times).

This drives me nuts, people saying their bored. Its excotong now cause we are waiting for him to be dethroned and also, who watches jeaporady for the contestants? Its all about answering the trivia.

Lol i just told somebody last week we should bet on who will leave Jeaporady first.

>excotong

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My middle school English teacher had a delightfully 80's plastic veneer faux-wooden paneled "jeopardy machine" he'd sometimes set up for kids to play a match related to the curriculum.
I don't know if it was an official product or not but he explained he had to let go of a dead man's switch before we could ring in and that if we rang in early it would time us out for a quarter second or whatever it was for every single early input.
I didn't find out that's pretty close to how the show actually operates until like 20 years later.

>three days late
Damn. Luckily it's only an hour of footage.

A lot of the questions come with clues that give away the answer with a tad bit of deliberation. Hes just really good at doing it quickly. For example, the double daily he got about mercury, you could clearly tell he was deducing and the clue helped eliminate answers that could possibly be the correct one. Same thing with the final jeaporady. I got the answer right tonight (bermuda triangle) but it wasnt because i knew the reference, i.e the pulp magazine nickname from 1964, but because after thinking for a minute, there really isnt any other location in the atlantic with nickname. He even said that he guessed.

>we are waiting for him to be dethroned
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm still just in awe. Also, I'm waiting to see if he can catch Ken's (regular game) money total (about 45% of the way there) and/or Julia Collins' second-place winning streak (75% of the way there).

Eh, i dont think theres been a single game that he could be caught in the final and usually by a longshot. So he just wagers up to the max without losing. A more interesting question is what happens if he sweeps the board or both the other contestants are straight up negative, do they still go to final or does he auto win?

Who can even replace Alex Trebek?

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Show's over once Trebek is done regardless, best to make your peace now.

They're probably going to go diversity hire, which isn't inherently terrible. But it'll end up being Nicki Minaj or something awful like that.

That darn smile.

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everybody likes trivia, it'll keep going

>excotong

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They're*

You don't wanna see Terry Crews or Steve Harvey do it?

>diversity hire, which isn't inherently terrible

THE RELATIVELY SMALL STRETCH OF THE SOUND I NAVIGATE IN THE SUMMER CONTAINS AT LEAST 20 NICKNAMED AREAS I'M AWARE OF, THE FISHERMEN GIVE THEIR OWN NAMES TO EVERYTHING, YOU'LL HEAR IT ON THE DOCKS

>diversity hire, which isn't inherently terrible

Yea im a phone poster and the autocorrect is off since it usually makes my shit even worse when its on lol

Someone pls

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I remember him because his name is super cool. Chuck Forrest! Sounds like a movie character.

Yea but jeaporady is unlikely to give an answer so obscure

>who watches jeaporady for the contestants?
y-yeah... who would do such a thing?

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I keep autocorrect off too, but I still use the suggestion bar above the keyboard

She's so fucking bubbly.
Is bubbly something you can even fetishize because I sure as shit did.

Ive asked this question myself and thought no one worthy but grammer is actually a really solid choice. Granted its in the frasier persona haha

They would still do final with just the one contestant (IIRC, this has actually happened). In theory, they would NOT do final if no one had any money (this has never happened in the Trebek era, though it did happen once in the original incarnation of the show), though it's been suggested that they might still show the clue for the sake of the home audience.

>not using large birds of prey to answer trivia questions

>haha
stopped reading there
fucking drink bleach

This guy is based as fuck and I hope he destroys Jeopardy.

You stopped at the end haha?

But it burns...

>stopped reading there
Well that makes sense, it was the last word of the post

>watching this first video up on dailymotion
Wow he is pretty good, yeah you never see people start at the bottom.
Also it's funny how desperately the woman is clicking, only to get the one question she got it in time wrong

Also I wonder if im smarter than the last time I watched jeopardy because I'm actually getting most.

Nice try shill. Not subtle enough. Try Reddit.

VULTURES ARE SCAVENGERS
BIRDS OF PLEB

FALCONS ARE THE STATE BIRD OF Yea Forums

Really the only old 5-time winner I can still remember off-hand by name (other than Brad) is Doak Fairey, and that's just because of his unusual name (I had to look up his surname just now, but I have never forgotten "Doak" even after 30+ years).

kek he literally is Tokuchi

My last falcon got shot in the theater and the pet store is getting tired of my shit.

>HE DOESNT CHARTER A PLANE FOR HIS BACKUP FALCONS

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His life is in Jeopardy

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Thank you based user

Whatever happened to Watson?

Ken Jennings will be remembered as a traitor of the species.

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>made his first million in half the time Jennings did
Fucking hell I love when history gets made.
You know it's helping Trebek hold on, too. He'll keep going as long as based James keeps winning.

Arthur Chu was unironically superiror but he pissed off Aleks.

THE FUTURE WAS THEN

WHY IS THE SET OLDER LOOKING NOW WHAT THE H*ECK

>I love when history gets made
it's a fucking game show loser get a life lmao

>James eventually loses
>Alex dies soon afterwards
imagine the shitstorm for James

Go to bed Ken.

CV
-DEGENERATE GAMBLER
-WON JEOPARDY
-KILLED TRABECK

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I have had Eidetic Memory since 8th grade based on tests and it's nothing like this.

If James loses, and didn't want to, does that mean Trebek's death was the opposite of what he wanted?

Not true

Needs to be that lil English qt from teen tournament.

Can anybody on Earth possibly beat him? It's insane.

Ahem. Buzzy Cohen is the true chosen one. Goyim btfo

>(((Holzhauer)))

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All narrative arcs on game shows are contrived.

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I should probably watch those. I bet they were smart, unlike today.

youtube.com/watch?v=yAJNwPWVmNc

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society lives in us

based tinfoil hat wearing /pol/-reject

It's the most Christian Bavarian Name someone could come up with, you pathological faggot.

>getting this upset
t. jidf

>watch recent Jeopardy episodes
>Alex is visibly weaker and slower, lacking his usual authority and gravitas

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from what im seeing he does 4 things
>He starts with the hardest question in the catagory he is strongest on the board to get quick points.

>He fishes for the daily double and bets a huge amount.

>He clicks at the right time.
By that i mean it almost seems like he has it timed to know the exact time at the end of alex reading a question in order to click.

>The mind games. People in jepordy are not concerned with number one but number 2 as in their mind they always have to be twice the value of number 2 or they can lose in final jepordy. You lose points if you get the wrong answer and by clicking you lose points if not answering.

So his attack is to get people to take longer to respond by going for the hardest questions first and then he sets the pace at which the questions get answered and they have to follow his pace. You notice that as soon as he starts in the bottom the other two people always pick from the bottom instead of the top. This slows down their game and lets him get in their head. Basically he is going in with a game plan and others are going in to play a game. It would be like playing tic tac toe but instead of going center first you chose a corner

Fitting name for an ubermensch

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The pen trick is something everyone does
When you make it past the online audition and get to meet in Chicago with the actual team, they give you a special pen pic related is mine that's weighted to be identical to the buzzers, for practice
I almost got on the show about five years ago but ironically, I was too quick with the buzzer and nobody else got to ring in except me during our test game
Didn't sweep the board, but I was a quick motherfucker with the buzzer

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Idk, i used to be on the ken jennings host train, but after seeing holzhaur play i really want to be able to see a jennings/rutter/holzhaur final round of a tournament

i mean here's to hoping the next tournament we get isn't some bullshit "fantasy league" chad system

>I almost got on the show but I didn't because I was too fast

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>I almost got on the show about five years ago but ironically, I was too quick with the buzzer and nobody else got to ring in except me during our test game

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Like I said, I didn't sweep the board
Toward the end I could see the faces on the judges start to sour a bit when I buzzed in
Believe me or not, I really don't care

could he defeat james

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THEN YOU SHOULDA MISSED SOME DELIBERATELY DUM ASS, WERE YOU UP AGAINST OLD PEOPLE

JOB THE TRYOUT THEN RAPE THE REAL GAME

got woke to the jq

You're not wrong
I think they screen contestants at so many levels specifically to avoid people like Jennings or Holzhauer

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pls more info on this

I heard of this guy just today from this thread and looked up a 1 minute clip on youtube of him answering a Final Jeopardy question

this guy is 100% a literal closet-fag lmao. he's a flamer.

>wife
wew lad someone's in for a surprise

F

>being this obsessed with gays
yikes
save your gay fantasies for tumblr

>t. closetfag

back to your trap threads

dude... I think the only gay one here is you
ask mike pence for the cure before it's too late

Why would you actively look for sexuality in a man?
>spacing
Answered my own question. Go back to plebbit and fap among people who support you.

That trend keeps going. Laura does the same autistic clicking.
She almost catches up at one point, but Jimbo fucking wrecks.

they should test for adderall

people under 60 watch jeopardy?

When fucking madmen like James come along, people are gonna gather.

I'm seeing him employ this method, usually on Double Jeopardy's. While he often lands daily doubles early in game he doesn't really give a shit about them until he hits that second round.

What the fuck user, he ravaged them. They didn't even do that bad. I don't think it's that he's exceptionally smarter than most contestants, he gets 1 or 2 wrong and most of the others do too, but he buzzes fast and bets big. I even got about half of the board and I dropped out of high school. He just has balls and strategy.

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>and it's going to take someone like him to beat him

True, but it's going to be him beating himself. All gamblers bust out eventually, no matter how skilled. Trouble is Jeopardy's format is a lot more forgiving, so it's going to take a nasty late Daily Double or Final Jeopardy to do it.

How often he ends up being right is also a factor.
When his opponents get one or two wrong, they're not given as many opportunities to answer as James is by his own design. James's speed, confidence, and wide general knowledge are all used to his advantage. On top of this he plays the board strategically.
He gets the highest-dollar answers out of the way as quickly as he can in the first phase. This isn't just to amass enough money to double when he hits the second phase's daily doubles, but it also prevents his opponents from getting that money at all. The typical Jeopardy opponent likes to warm him or herself up with the easy, low-dollar answers.
This seems like a logical step for two reasons: the first being that it's practically free money to start off with. The second reason is that the categories are vague at best and cryptic at worst.
James pushes forward with the full knowledge that you're going to hit the thousand dollar answers anyway and goes right for it without a hint of hesitation. This approach throws his opponents off and makes them more tense and hesitant in general, and you can see this in his opponents' body language. They want to catch up, and they know that the only way they can is also to bet high and hard. They aren't accustomed to this. James, however, feels right at home.
It really does remind me of fucking One Outs. I find it extremely entertaining.

>the categories are vague at best and cryptic at worst.
Just to quickly elaborate on what I mean by this: when you play jeopardy, your first obstacle is figuring out what the categories mean. You wouldn't want to risk getting into $-1000 right out of the gate just because you need a second to correlate what the category's asking of you with the difficult answer given.

Sometimes he explains it when it's a bit cyrptic and then other times he says nothing.

>he gets 1 or 2 wrong and most of the others do too
To date, James has scored 535 correct and only 19 incorrect. He's broken the mould.

Ken wouldn't be able to resist interjecting his "character" into the proceedings every other clue, he'd just plain ham it up too much to be a suitable replacement for Trebek.

That is true, and that is pretty nice of him honestly. I figured the categories were, by design, another thing to occupy your mind under the very strict time limits given. When every half second counts, you'd naturally have more focus with a clear, on-the-nose category title.

In double jeopardy, what's her name started to relax and go for lower values and that's why she was able to nearly catch up with Sameer but they were basically just off in the corner with dunce caps on compared to James. Fucking hell. So he's a perfect storm, where the only thing that will bring him down is not getting daily doubles and opponents getting their's right. Final jeopardies are one thing but he won't win by big boy margins if he can't double his money twice over.
I guess the game I watched he missed 2 which is still incredible but his opponents also only missed 1 or 2. I wasn't keeping count so maybe it was different. Most of that game seemed like basic knowledge but that's just my perspective. There are some games that are impossible to me.

every streak winner is the same

abuse the fuck out of the doubles, risk it all

>the only thing that will bring him down is not getting daily doubles and opponents getting their's right. Final jeopardies are one thing but he won't win by big boy margins if he can't double his money twice over.
And that's really the position James is in, and in my opinion it helps him give less of a shit overall, further relaxing him.
At this point he's in a very comfortable position. For James it's not about winning or losing, it's about winning or winning really hard. Thanks to his abilities he's literally in a win-win situation at this point.
What I want to see is how well he holds up with an opponent who also attacks his opponents through similar tactics.
>I guess the game I watched he missed 2 which is still incredible but his opponents also only missed 1 or 2.
His opponents do have some skill, sure. The thing is this: there are 61 answers in your average game of Jeopardy. Out of those James is (and this is just a half-thought guess) buzzing around 40-45, or at least more than half. What's left is divided between his two other opponents, and this is a part of how he wins so big so consistently. That being said it's also giving his mind more of a workload. He has more questions to answer than his opponents. This is a double edged sword, though. If he gets nearly all of them right, then one or two wrong answers are negligible. Meanwhile the considerably fewer answers his opponents get wrong hurt them. While it's about the same 1 or 2 answers they're getting wrong, they're simultaneously getting a higher percentage of their answers wrong by a wide margin. Looking at James's right/wrong percentage will dwarf his opponents' every time.
If you're gonna play the game, play it right. Taking advantage of doubles and risking it all is playing it right, and the risk makes this a fair method.

>Generally the delay is around three months — if I recall correctly. Shows are generally recorded two days a week and only every other week. The ones I have attended were on Tuesday and Wednesday with five shows (a full week) being recorded each day.
>The show maintains the illusion that the winner is returning from “yesterday’s game,” even though it ended only 15–20 minutes ago.
This is actually pretty impressive.

Its tge usual fare for most gameshows. They ask people to bring changes of clothes, and the audience is shuffled around if it's visible.

The ol' Bob Ross method.

my country has a football commentator for a trivia host and he can barely pronounce large english words let alone any foreign words that come up. It really detracts from the experience and wouldnt help the contestants at all.

I'll take shit for this suggestion, but i would throw JGL into the host role, at least for an interim period.
>studied history
>studied french
>reasonably charming and funny without being a comedian
Trebek is honestly the best host i have ever known and any good replacement is just trying to tick the boxes he defined

Why is reddit so obsessed with norm Macdonald

I get it now; same amount of answers missed, but his misses are less painful due to having greater control of the board. Proportionally, his opponents would miss at least twice as many as him or more if they buzzed them all like he did. So he is definitely a bit sharper than most, unlike my first impressions.

Whether or not it's fair is hard to say but there's nothing stopping someone else from mirroring him. I want to see an arms race to the top, taking the meta to its limits.
The way Alex pronounces French words is just too cultured for my hamburger ears but it does give the show a bit more sophistication.

>The way Alex pronounces French words
It's because he's Canadian originally.

James actually buzzes in first about 60% of the time

His pronunciation isn't French-Canadian at all, he's just a Francophile.

i studied a little french and forgot most, but just having the host make the effort is a nice touch.
>A koup DEE TATT

Any good host required to deal with foreign nouns should at the least know their way around an ipa table

>Whether or not it's fair is hard to say but there's nothing stopping someone else from mirroring him. I want to see an arms race to the top, taking the meta to its limits.
Same fucking here, man. Seeing a full blown Jeopardy battle with a guy on his level would be as legendary as the streak itself, assuming Jimbo doesn't cave under the pressure of a true challenger. At this point such an encounter could either break him or spur him on. I'd fucking love to find out which reaction he'd have.
As for fairness, well, that's what the rules dictate. As long as you play a game within those rules, you're good and it's fair.
Just eyeballing the show it did seem like it was over half the time. By a slightly smaller margin than I expected but still, the remaining percentage would be distributed between his opponents, which ain't helping them.

Yeah, it's much too comprehensible to be Quebecois.

Oh, a triggered anglo. Go back to sleep James McCuck.

He is a savante of some sort. It's easy to tell if you have been around professional gamers and gambers. He has the monotone voice, the bland/neat appearance, the seeming struggle to maintain a casual atmosphere in conversation. And the annoying misunderstanding of the difference between swagger and smugness. Savants always try to have swagger but come across as douchebags.

Still, guys like this are sharks and are not to be fucked with in the competitive scenes. They are about 3rd rung down from the mountaintop and will absolutely slaughter anyone who thinks they are "good" but has never met someone like them before.

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By the way if you want to know what the next two rungs up are they are:

2. the OCD Savant.

This is an upgraded savant who ALSO has the incessant drive to play the game over and over and over and over and over and over while also having a high level of natural skill at the game. These are the majority of your world record speed runners in video games, and the "combo monsters" in fighting games who pull out absolutely insane shit at the highest level under clutch situations. In Jeopardy Ken Jennings and Julia Collins are these types of players. Both have an insane thirst for general knowledge and literally sit around reading encyclopedias for fun. But being savants they are also good at the game of Jeopardy (and other quiz games) through a high natural aptitude that has been polished with countless hours of play.

1. The Supreme Being
These guys are weird because they come across as "normal" people most of the time but are quick witted, insightful, and you cannot get any bullshit past them. They have all the powers of the lower rungs, but they have an even higher power and that is a deep, deep understanding of people and their habits. They don't play the game, they play against YOU. They will "download" you in the newer parlance of gaming, and then exploit that mercilessly. Fortunately, these people tend to be good of heart outside of gaming. Alex Jacob and Brad Rutter are Jeopardy!! examples.

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You're trying to sound condescending but you just come across as a know-nothing.