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The best players from the past year return to the stage where they made their mark for one more run. At the end of the rainbow, a pot of gold... $250,000. Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN
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Preliminaries: Belote/Robbins/Srinivasan This year has produced many a memorable player, but now it all comes to a head, as 15 of said memorable players return to Sony Pictures Studio for another big money run. Fourteen of them will fall by the wayside. One will rise to the ranks of the greatest who ever played the game and inherit the title of Jeopardy! Grand Champion. And with it, riches in the amount of $250,000. Second best: $100,000. Third... $50,000. This is the ultimate showdown of mind against mind, mettle against mettle, buzzer against buzzer. This is the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. Only nine will be invited to return next week to play for one of three slots in the two-day final. Those nine will include the winners of the five prelims and the four highest scorers among non-winners... the Wild Cards. Two weeks of mental mayhem await our chosen 15 as the players match wits with the mighty game board that has fallen to them before. Semifinalists are guaranteed at least $10,000, while quarterfinalists are guaranteed $5000 for participation. As always, any and all winning accrued depends on how far up the ladder a player goes. So far, Liz Murphy locked away game 1, while Terry Linwood made game 2 a memorable match. Nick Yozamp holds the lead in the wild-card, but will game 3 change that?
Jeopardy! round ...
Daily Double: $600 Starry Night. Andy has $3400. Dave has $4400. Two clues to go. Do the math. Andy does and bets $2000 on this: best viewed from January to March, the stars of this constellation form 2 conventional stick figures holding hands. "What is ... Gemini?" Correct for $5400! At the end of the Jeopardy! round...
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Daily Double #1: $1200 Essays. Dave has $3600 in third. Regina has $8200 in first. Andy is in the middle on $4600. Dave bets $2000 on this: essay in which Thoreau wrote "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'." "What is 'Civil Disobedience'?" Correct for $5600! Daily Double #2: $2000 Countries' Largest Ethnic Groups. The last clue on the board, it belongs to Andy. He can put himself in good position with a face value bet on this: at 73%, Sinhalese. "What is Sri Lanka?" Correct for $14,200 to end the round..
Andy's in the lead, and his last gambit is keeping this game ever close. Final Jeopardy! category: 18th CENTURY SCOTSMEN
Correct response: who was James
Watt?
Monday, there was only one. Tuesday... it was a two-man race. Today, any one of the three could have won it. But in this case, Andy held on strong and bet to keep things very close. The Final ended up as the decider as the man from Carolina is going to the semis to join Liz Murphy and Terry Linwood. Meanwhile, Stephen Weingarten and Ryan Chaffee are going home with $5000 as they are mathematically eliminated from further play. Tomorrow, we'll reveal the first of the four wild-cards, as well as who's on the bubble. To read all about the tournament and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com. |
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SEMI-FINALIST:
Andy Srinivasan