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Title: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: chrisholland03 on April 06, 2019, 09:17:33 PM
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.



Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: TLEberle on April 06, 2019, 09:22:22 PM
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.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: chrisholland03 on April 06, 2019, 10:05:30 PM
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. 
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: JakeT on April 06, 2019, 11:51:59 PM
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
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: Jimmy Owen on April 07, 2019, 03:56:43 AM
Its not his own website.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: gromit82 on April 07, 2019, 01:33:30 PM
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."
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: Matt Ottinger on April 07, 2019, 11:11:09 PM
"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.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: clemon79 on April 08, 2019, 11:56:10 AM
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?

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Plus, apparently he posted some spoiler-type info even before it aired?

*This* is a much more compelling argument. :)
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: JakeT on April 08, 2019, 08:38:00 PM
Its not his own website.

Riiiiiiiiiigggghhhhttttt...

And shall we have a discussion about Santa and the Easter bunny next?

JakeT
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: JakeT on April 08, 2019, 08:40:27 PM
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
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: Jimmy Owen on April 08, 2019, 09:53:21 PM
Well, if it is him, wouldn't that put him in jeopardy of forfeiting his winnings for revealing show results?
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: JakeT on April 08, 2019, 09:57:32 PM
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
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: snowpeck on April 09, 2019, 01:15:29 PM
The show is running a social media promo saying an all-time Jeopardy record will be broken on tonight's episode.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: TLEberle on April 09, 2019, 01:27:27 PM
Wonderful--it's not like it can be too many things.

/s
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: TLEberle on April 10, 2019, 08:43:02 AM
He might be a bad winner but he can afford it now.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: BrandonFG on April 10, 2019, 01:08:29 PM
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.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: Joe Mello on April 10, 2019, 06:01:10 PM
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.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: JakeT on April 10, 2019, 08:19:45 PM
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
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: gromit82 on April 10, 2019, 09:28:16 PM
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.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: JakeT on April 10, 2019, 10:14:49 PM
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
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: trainman on April 11, 2019, 01:16:07 AM
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)
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: Mr. Matté on April 11, 2019, 08:12:20 AM
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?
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: nowhammies10 on April 11, 2019, 12:59:11 PM
... 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.
Title: Re: Jeopardy Contestant - a bad winner?
Post by: JakeT on April 11, 2019, 10:28:23 PM
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