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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Jimmy Owen on September 29, 2021, 05:21:31 AM
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and were $48,000 behind, would you just let him run the board? You're not gonna get more than $2000 even if you earned it.
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I'd try to get at least double my other opponent's score to ensure the extra grand.
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Since I probably wasn’t doing well enough to avoid being in that position to begin with, what difference would it make what I did? I’m gonna keep trying to answer what I’m able to and let the chips fall as they will.
Just let me be around for Final. Hopefully with a few extra bucks in the kitty to play with.
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I’m gonna play as well as I can to look like I gave it a fight. And that’s not to diminish the contestants who fell short or ended in the red, but I’m not gonna roll over if I know the material and have quick enough reflexes.
ETA: "to look like". F.U. Autocorrest
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I’m gonna play as well as I can too look like I gave it a fight. And that’s not to diminish the contestants who fell short or ended in the red, but I’m not gonna roll over if I know the material and have quick enough reflexes.
CORRECT.
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This isn't a reverse-Herm Edwards' "you play to win" where you don't play when you can't win.
You are on freaking Jeopardy, which many very smart people try out for and don't make it. Since you will have a few more minutes before you have a lifetime disqualification from the show (unless there is a SuperPasswordesque Tournament of Losers), make the most of it.
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Maybe the high scores against Matt could be invited back for a "second best" invitational. As it stands now even if you have a second place, say $20,000, you only get two grand. Unless you find the daily doubles, Matt will beat you.
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Maybe the high scores against Matt could be invited back for a "second best" invitational. As it stands now even if you have a second place, say $20,000, you only get two grand. Unless you find the daily doubles, Matt will beat you.
Quit while you’re only a little behind.
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Maybe the high scores against Matt could be invited back for a "second best" invitational. As it stands now even if you have a second place, say $20,000, you only get two grand. Unless you find the daily doubles, Matt will beat you.
Quit while you’re only a little behind.
I believe that ship sailed around 2009 or so.
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Maybe the high scores against Matt could be invited back for a "second best" invitational. As it stands now even if you have a second place, say $20,000, you only get two grand. Unless you find the daily doubles, Matt will beat you.
Quit while you’re only a little behind.
I believe that is the strategy Jimmy is advising here, yes.
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You don't go on an American Institution, only to just give up when your opponent has ran up the score. You keep going until the Final (bell/whistle/Jeopardy) just to say that you've given it your all. Don't let your opponent (as cool as Matt is) run up the score.
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Quit while you’re only a little behind.
Oh, I disagree sir. He's an *enormous* behind.
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Your best effort to date, Jimmy. Look how many people you got to bite.
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Me: As soon as Matt gets one question right I would simply cry, lie down on the floor and allow the moss reclaim me.
Contestant coordinator: “Yeah, we’re gonna go with someone else here.”
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There is a point after the third daily double where Matt cannot be caught. I say play your best until that point. Another tactic he uses is feigning ignorance until the last second to eat up time.
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If it was my one shot on Jeopardy in my life, I'd try to answer as many as I could. Maybe I could squeeze into second place that way!
I really wonder what the contestants going against him are thinking when they're down $10,000 by the first commercial break (which has happened several times). Well...this is a lost cause.
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I played from behind almost my entire first episode, and at the end of both the J! and DJ! rounds, I had exactly half of the leader's score.
And I can say with complete honesty that, outside of pauses for DD's, not once did I look at the scoreboard during the game.
Play your heart out. Play to win. Even if you can't. Make yourself proud.
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Play your heart out. Play to win. Even if you can't. Make yourself proud.
Seconded. My feelings exactly.
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Play your heart out. Play to win. Even if you can't. Make yourself proud.
Right. Even if you don't dethrone a reigning champion, no matter how you finish, just MAKING it on the show is no small feat. Something I still hope to accomplish someday.
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Play your heart out. Play to win. Even if you can't. Make yourself proud.
Right. Even if you don't dethrone a reigning champion, no matter how you finish, just MAKING it on the show is no small feat. Something I still hope to accomplish someday.
Same.
It reminds me of Don Beebe from the Bills. They of course were getting blown out by the Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVII*. Leon Lett adds insult to injury by recovering a fumble and taking it to the front porch of the house. That's when Beebe knocked the ball out Lett's hands at about the 3 and forced a touchback.
My point: Don got a lotta praise for still putting up a fight even in a blowout. He later mentioned he was just frustrated and didn't want further humiliation.
*/SIGH
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Look, the world of trivia is very simple - if someone asks you a question, you answer it.
Don't try to get any deeper than that.
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if someone asks you a question, you answer it.
If called by a panther,
Don't anther.
-- Ogden Nash
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Look, the world of trivia is very simple - if someone asks you a question, you answer it.
Don't try to get any deeper than that.
What if they give you teh answers, then what happens? </light sarcasm>
I guess this is moot given the events of yesterday's session (in which I've missed the 3:30pm Chicago Jeopardy! due to a cancelled flight)
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It depends on if they lift the pitch of their voice at the end.