Matt Jackson was my choice for the poll and I expect him to be a first round selection along with Roger, Ben, Alex, & Alan. Larissa or David will round out the first round with the other one available to complete a very strong team. With Buzzy and Austin both captains I do not see Alan dropping to the final six remaining.I'm looking forward to seeing if Julia will pick Ben or go elsewhere with her selection. Roger Craig could be a high risk/high reward team member and will be fun to see how this tournament goes for him.
Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:03 pmIs there any reason not to take Roger? I consider him a better player than four of the captains and he's proven he knows how to prepare.No argument if Roger had been one of the captains. The hesitation I would have on Roger is number of negs and how he might perform in tight circumstances. Perhaps blasphemous, but I would have him play the J!
For the first-time ever, the popular game show, Jeopardy, is going to be played in teams! The 18 champions return for the All-Stars. Alex Trebek speaks with KARE 11's Rena Sarigianopoulos about.
Round as the positive could be a huge double up and big lead while the possible negative of a farm loss would have the potential to be overcome later.In the BotD Roger made the finals and could have won the whole thing with a different strategy on the DDs or even better converting them in the heat of the contest. Along the way Roger did not dominate Vijay Balse and Stephanie Jass as Sg already pointed out. In the semis the FJ! Clue was a triple miss.
A solve by Pam or Colby and one of those two make the finals.Roger's big weapon often is the Daily Double. That power play for him is cut to 0, 1 or 2 with no chance for 3 in a game.To me I would rather have Matt Jackson on my team then letting him go on someone's else's team.
Does anyone watch Team Ninja Warrior? This is different than the regular version of American Ninja Warrior seen on NBC. This team version airs on USA (also available on On Demand) and while part of it has an individual aspect there is a portion of each episode with each of the three team members required to run a third of the course.Each team has two men and one woman.
While many teams have their weakest player go first on the easier portion of the course, some teams go a different way and try to build up a lead with their best member going first. Other teams might have their best two players do the first two thirds and try to set up enough of a cushion for their weakest member being the anchor.Sometimes one great player can be so outstanding that there is nothing the other team can do to account for such skill. On the other hand one player is such a dead weight that the other two very good athletes on the team are left high and dry with no chance to overcome the handicap.It's a different animal and yet I expect J! All Stars to have some similar factors come into play.
Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:40 pmDouble Jeopardy is the round that matters. But if I'm good enough to be a captain, I'm playing that myself. So my pick is going to be a FJ specialist. And of the players on the list, nobody is better at FJ than Ben Ingram.I don't remember exactly where I heard this, but it may have been from one of the players involved so it could be legit. The info I got implied that each team is playing multiple games and each player will be limited on playing the same round, either not at all or not in consecutive games, so this changes things a bit.With that in mind let's take another stab at the format. Let's say 8 games played in the first 8 of 10 days, and the Final is a two day affair. So each team plays 4 times, ensuring that they see every opponent either once or twice, and obviously the same set of 3 teams in a match should not be repeated.
Rules for round assignemtns could either be:a.) Each of the 3 players must play each of the 3 rounds at least once in the 4 matches.orb.) No player may play the same round in consecutive matches, though they do not have to play all 3 rounds over the 4.Whichever of these rules is in place, I would start fresh with the 2 game final but say no one may play the same round in both halves.How to determine the top 3 after 8 games? I thought that on Friday night the advance view of the website mentioned a wild card but now it does not. Much cleaner without it.
Seems like two valid ways to go with this:a.) The top 3 teams in total dollars accumulated advance to the finals, this seems unlikely as Jeopardy! Is first about winning, not amassing dollars.orb.) Using some kind of a points system such as 5-3-1 or 3-2-1 for 1st-2nd-3rd in each match, top 3 teams by finish points earned advance to the finals, with total 'dollars' available to be used as a tiebreaker.Another wrinkle could be that the description clearly says head-to-head, is it possible that these games could be 2 teams only rather than 3? Seems much less like the Jeopardy! That we know but maybe it's a possibility. With one-on-one matches there could then be 9 games with each team playing 3 times, and then 3 in the single day final. In this format it would make sense to say all 3 players on each team must play each round once in the 3 qualifying games. The final 3 could still be decided by either method above, either W-L record or total dollars earned.
Maybe even take the top 2 records and then call the 3rd a wild card for the remaining team with the most dollars earned. Roger would be my first pick.
My next choices I think would be Alex, Larissa, Ben, Pam, then a toss up between Alan, David, and Matt.That is a fair point about Ben with FJs, but I feel like there was at least a little luck involved there. Arthur outplayed him in the other rounds, though Ben was the clear #2 in his ToC field.Alex clearly outplayed Matt in their ToC, so I don't see the rationale in picking the latter over the former. I also think that Matt largely had to rely on dominance in academic categories + buzzer speed. I would not want to have to count on that in a tournament.Madden has the knowledge base, but I don't trust his buzzer speed. He has a history of being outplayed by established quizzers (Victoria Groce, Steve Kaltenbaugh, Willy Jay, Bill MacDonald). But he did beat Falk.I will take my chances on Roger, for his knowledge base and strategy. Slightly biased perhaps because he's my favorite player since Ken, but I'd take Matt - Roger a close #2.Matt dominated DJ!
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Rounds during his initial 14 games. He has an absurd DD solve rate. His preparation is also matched by few, considering he deactivated his Facebook account in the weeks leading up to taping. I understand FJ is a massive achilles heel, but with a little extra work learning how to solve those types of clues, he'll be fine.
At 26 and three years removed from last appearing, I'd say he has the highest upside of anyone in this tournament.
Celebrates its 35th anniversary this February with featuring 18 of its most popular past champions. They were drafted today into six teams, representing hundreds of thousands of dollars in winnings and victory streaks spanning several weeks.The No. 1 draft pick was Alex Jacob of Greensboro, N.C. Whose six-game winning streak and Tournament of Champions victory in 2015 won him more than $400,000. Alex was selected first by Buzzy Cohen of Los Angeles, one of six team captains chosen for their prolific winning and crowd appeal.Cohen, who in 2016 won more than $150,000 in a series of blowouts that featured snarky Final Jeopardy answers, joined all time money winner Brad Rutter of Los Angeles ($4.3 million) and Ken Jennings of Seattle, probably the most famous Jeopardy!
Contestant ever and owner of a record 74-show winning streak from 2004.Other captains included Colby Burnett of Chicago (a two-time tournament winner); Julia Collins of Kenilworth, Ill. (20 victories, top female champion); and Austin Rogers of New York ($461,000 in winnings).(mentally, you must now make a boop-boop-boop-beep-boop-beep-boop-boo sound as the board is assembled):. Colby Burnett (captain), Pam Mueller of Culver City, Calif. (2000 College Tournament champion, multiple semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions) and Alan Lin of Riverside, Calif. (top three in 2017 Tournament of Champions).
Buzzy Cohen (captain), Alex Jacob and Jennifer Giles of Longmont, Colo. (winner of the 2015 Teachers’ Tournament).
Julia Collins (captain), Ben Ingram of Lake Wylie, S.C. (a Tournament of Champions winner and friend of Collins) and Seth Wilson of Chicago, (12-time winner, top 5 in victories all time). Ken Jennings (captain), Matt Jackson of Washington (No.
4 all time in victories) and Monica Thieu of New York (a College Tournament champion). Austin Rogers (captain), Roger Craig of Jersey City, N.J. (most money won in a single game, known for big bets on Daily Doubles) and Leonard Cooper of Little Rock, Ark., (the memorable 2013 Teen Tournament winner). Brad Rutter (captain), Larissa Kelly of Richmond, Va. (first woman with a winning streak longer than 5, top 10 in victories) and David Madden of Ridgewood, N.J.
(a 19-time winner, the third longest streak).The Jeopardy! All-Star Games will be taped in January and will air from Feb. 20 to March 5. Under the format, each team will designate a player for the Jeopardy! Double Jeopardy! And Final Jeopardy! Teams will be eliminated based on their point totals through the tournament.
The top three teams will be matched in a two-day final that delivers $1 million to the winners.Jeopardy!, the daily syndicated show viewers and fans are most familiar with (it had a daytime run in the 1960s and 1970s) began airing on Sept. It has won the most Daytime Emmys (15) in the best game show category. Host Alex Trebek has won five for his role as the host, plus a lifetime achievement award in 2011.
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