There are definitely contestants I have rooted against because I haven't liked them. I had a friend who was up against James Holzhauer on the second taping day of his Jeopardy! run and supposedly he kept up the "Jeopardy! villain" kayfabe to the point where the contestant staff were complaining at him and this friend took an intense dislike to him as a person.

I think that's what turned me off when he was a Chaser: he leaned into the villain role way too heavily. Ken and Brad seemed to have fun with it, Mark continued his role from the UK and GSN versions, but it really felt like James was self-aware for all the wrong reasons.

Wasn't a big fan of the other Chasers they added in S2 for the same reason.

/His "Brad's score is still up there" J!GOAT zinger is still pretty funny tho

This blends into the "hyperactive contestants" discussion quite a bit, but whenever I see a contestant that's so incredibly extra that it reads as fake, then I'm rooting for that player to go down.

There was also a phenomenon when I worked on Funny You Should Ask where about 20-30% of the contestants in the interview phase would say, "WHEN I win the money..." and we usually rooted for those players to lose. It's like, you're playing for $6800, max. The last question is going to be a 1-in-5 crapshoot. Stop it.

In terms of specific examples, there was that one guy on WWTBAM during the clock era who verbally trampled over Meredith to lock in his answer as fast as humanly possible just to pick up a few extra seconds for that million-dollar question that he was oh so certain he would get to. Strategy wise I get it, but he was playing into the heel role a bit too heavily by bellowing "Do You Have A Problem With That?" when Meredith called him on it. Watching him crash at $25K was immensely satisfying.

Scroll to the bottom. We have audio of what we think is the first two minutes of the premiere.

https://www.billcullen.net/three-on-a-match

Woh! Thanks!

Yes and-ing Matt, I will never not want to see the premiere of “Three on a Match.” I so want to hear how that game was explained for the first time.

Scroll to the bottom. We have audio of what we think is the first two minutes of the premiere.

https://www.billcullen.net/three-on-a-match

On Tuesday's WOF (10/14), towards the end, Ryan showed a home game with his picture on the box.