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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: chrisholland03 on April 06, 2019, 09:17:33 PM
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http://kingjamesholzhauer.com/
Can't say I've seen this before - a Jeopardy winner with a website that actively mocks the losing competitors? Built in such a way that implies that it's the contestant himself that built the site, but with just enough legalese to imply that maybe he didn't.
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I don't know if that makes him a bad winner per se--anyone could go to Jeopardy Archive or JBoard.tv to see the results.
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Word on the street is the website published the results of the first two matches prior to the first match airing in the US. Also I think referring to the players who lost against him as 'the humbled' is bad form at best, tasteless at worst.
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I don't think calling him a "bad winner" goes near far enough...
Let me take a shot...
Obnoxious self-important self-absorbed douchenozzle...a complete and total dickhead...
That's better...
JakeT
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Its not his own website.
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I don't understand why the page was created, but it specifically says that it wasn't created by James:
"King James Holzhauer is an unofficial fan site dedicated to James Holzhauer. Our purpose is to promote interest in James Holzhauer and his Jeopardy! appearance(s). We are in no way officially affiliated with James Holzhauer, his friends, or his family. This is a site made by a fan for the fans."
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"King James Holzhauer is an unofficial fan site dedicated to James Holzhauer. Our purpose is to promote interest in James Holzhauer and his Jeopardy! appearance(s). We are in no way officially affiliated with James Holzhauer, his friends, or his family. This is a site made by a fan for the fans."
I'm sorry, a random fan doesn't decide to create a website for a contestant he likes after seeing him play for two days. Plus, apparently he posted some spoiler-type info even before it aired? Whoever this is, whether it's Holzhauer himself or not, it's somebody connected to him.
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I'm sorry, a random fan doesn't decide to create a website for a contestant he likes after seeing him play for two days.
Um, are you new here?
Plus, apparently he posted some spoiler-type info even before it aired?
*This* is a much more compelling argument. :)
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Its not his own website.
Riiiiiiiiiigggghhhhttttt...
And shall we have a discussion about Santa and the Easter bunny next?
JakeT
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I don't understand why the page was created, but it specifically says that it wasn't created by James:
"King James Holzhauer is an unofficial fan site dedicated to James Holzhauer. Our purpose is to promote interest in James Holzhauer and his Jeopardy! appearance(s). We are in no way officially affiliated with James Holzhauer, his friends, or his family. This is a site made by a fan for the fans."
Probably the biggest problem in our country today is the troubling level of gullibility...
Let me guess...you believe windmill noise causes cancer, right?
JakeT
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Well, if it is him, wouldn't that put him in jeopardy of forfeiting his winnings for revealing show results?
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Well, if it is him, wouldn't that put him in jeopardy of forfeiting his winnings for revealing show results?
Yeah, it would...ergo the ridiculous disclaimer...but anyone with half a brain can see right through it...
This would hardly be the first time someone did something incredibly stupid against their own self-interest...
For some, ego is simply more important than money...
JakeT
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The show is running a social media promo saying an all-time Jeopardy record will be broken on tonight's episode.
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Wonderful--it's not like it can be too many things.
/s
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He might be a bad winner but he can afford it now.
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I finally checked out the site. If there were ever two things that should’ve stopped being a thing in the early-2000s it’s 1) amateurish-looking fan pages and 2) calling anyone with a criticism a “hater”.
Thanks to the webmaster who’s apparently the one person keeping GeoCities around in 2019.
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After watching poker off and on for 15 years I cannot possibly believe that a professional gambler would ever develop an inflated sense of self-importance. I would be shocked, shocked to find he has an ego.
Thanks to the webmaster who’s apparently the one person keeping GeoCities around in 2019.
While doing trivia research, I discovered that GeoCities was still a thing in Japan until just this month.
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He might be a bad winner but he can afford it now.
Which, of course, is what is really important, right?
Welcome to The United States of America...where you're welcome to be a dick as long as you have enough money...
JakeT
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I don't understand why the page was created, but it specifically says that it wasn't created by James:
"King James Holzhauer is an unofficial fan site dedicated to James Holzhauer. Our purpose is to promote interest in James Holzhauer and his Jeopardy! appearance(s). We are in no way officially affiliated with James Holzhauer, his friends, or his family. This is a site made by a fan for the fans."
Probably the biggest problem in our country today is the troubling level of gullibility...
I said that the site SAYS that it wasn't created by James. You don't have to believe that, but it does in fact say that.
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I don't understand why the page was created, but it specifically says that it wasn't created by James:
"King James Holzhauer is an unofficial fan site dedicated to James Holzhauer. Our purpose is to promote interest in James Holzhauer and his Jeopardy! appearance(s). We are in no way officially affiliated with James Holzhauer, his friends, or his family. This is a site made by a fan for the fans."
Probably the biggest problem in our country today is the troubling level of gullibility...
I said that the site SAYS that it wasn't created by James. You don't have to believe that, but it does in fact say that.
Guess what? I can read...I saw what it said...
But guess what else? I have the ability to use logic...and reason...and when I know something is almost certainly false, I don't repeat it as alleged fact just because someone SAYS so...
JakeT
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James has set up his own fan page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jeopardyjames/posts/373145346622790), on which he posted...
(https://i.imgur.com/GAQUW4M.png)
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If the "fan" page is truly not maintained by the person (I don't know if he is or isn't, don't really care either way), could he send a cease
to exist and desist order to the webpage owner for using his likeness without permission or is he now considered a public personality due to his appearances on Jeopardy?
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... could he send a cease to exist and desist order...
I LOL'd.
In all truth, if he can't I expect Jeopardy! themselves probably could.
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James has set up his own fan page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jeopardyjames/posts/373145346622790), on which he posted...
(https://i.imgur.com/GAQUW4M.png)
If this doesn't reek of a desperate "cover your ass" move, I don't know what does...
JakeT