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15 of the best champions of the past year face each other in trivial combat for bragging rights and $250,000.
Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN |
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Semifinals:
Pawson/Kohlstedt/Vogel A beat is when a good hand is beaten by a lucky hand... A Bad Beat is when it happens to you. And at a new high-def, high-tech battle arena showcased at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it's happened to six $5000 winners so far on the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, leaving just the final nine. Now they will take on each other for one of only three seats in our version of the final table. At stake, $250,000 and the title of Jeopardy! Grand Champion. Wild cards... Gone. Second chances...
Gone. For three nine people, it's WIN... OR GO HOME. In our first semifinal...
Two Wild Cards against a pretty strong opponent. The Jeopardy! round...
Out of the break, Matt goes hunting for a.... Daily Double: $600 Also a Vegas Casino. Matt begrudgingly (possibly jokingly) bets it all on this: it extends upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles above the Earth. "What is the Stratosphere?" Correct for the doubler to $4400! At the end of the Jeopardy! round, Donna's seeing red...
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Now Dan is going hunting for a Daily Double... But Matt finds the first. Daily Double #1: $1600 What's That Number? Matt is on $10,400, $2400 behind Dan's $12,800. Donna is still in the red. Matt bets $2600 to try and take the lead. The clue: Millard Fillmore's, as US President. "What is 12?" He should've asked Donna what it was, because for the last two clues in this category, she had guessed 13... the correct response. Now Matt drops to $8000 even. Daily Double #2: $1600 The World Court. Dan has $13,200 and is on pace to lock Matt and Donna out of it, with $5800 for the former and big red blotches resembling a score for the latter (-$2600). He bets $5000 to do so on this: the International Criminal Court replaces ad hoc UN tribunals like the one for the 1994 events in this African country. "What is Rwanda?" Correct for $18,200! One clue later, he makes this category a sweep and this game a non-event. Donna recovers, but it may be for naught at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round...
Normally, in this space, we would have a little spiel about what each player needs to do in order to win. All Dan needs to do is bet nothing (or at least nothing over $11,000). All Matt and Donna need to do is pray that he trips, falls, and comes up with a massive case of a brain fart and DOES. Final Jeopardy! category: ELVIS PRESLEY
Correct response: what is gospel?
Last week was all about getting to this point. This week... it's about half a million bucks. Dan knew it. Dan played like he knew it. If he does so again next week, he can go ahead and cash that check right now. But he'll have to stay focused, because he's going to be up against some stiff competition. Semifinal #2 next time. |
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FINALIST:
Dan Pawson