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Jimmy Owen

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If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« on: September 29, 2021, 05:21:31 AM »
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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SuperMatch93

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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2021, 07:32:48 AM »
I'd try to get at least double my other opponent's score to ensure the extra grand.
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PYLdude

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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2021, 01:14:42 PM »
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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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2021, 01:33:52 PM »
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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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2021, 03:26:58 PM »
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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Otm Shank

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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2021, 07:55:56 PM »
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.

Jimmy Owen

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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2021, 09:22:20 PM »
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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PYLdude

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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2021, 09:59:55 PM »
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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Kevin Prather

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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2021, 10:21:38 PM »
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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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2021, 11:41:30 PM »
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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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2021, 01:40:34 PM »
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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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2021, 06:06:21 PM »
Quit while you’re only a little behind.

Oh, I disagree sir. He's an *enormous* behind.
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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2021, 06:25:20 PM »
Your best effort to date, Jimmy.  Look how many people you got to bite.

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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2021, 05:16:58 PM »
Me: As soon as Matt gets one question right I would simply cry, lie down on the floor and allow the moss reclaim me.

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Jimmy Owen

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Re: If you were going up against Matt Amodio....
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2021, 05:41:11 PM »
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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