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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: Beachum/Bernbach/Valada 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, Terry Linwood, and Andy Srinivasan are all assured of a spot in the semis. Tonight, three people will join them: two wild cards, and the winner of this match.
Jeopardy! round ...
Daily Double: $800 Brands. Justin came with a strategy, and now he's in the lead on $5800 to Joey's $3000. He goes $2200 on this: in 1795 the King of Spain granted him the first license to commercially produce tequila. "Who is Jose Cuervo?" Correct for $8000! At the end of the Jeopardy! round...
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Daily Double #1: $1200 The Hecuba, You Say. Justin has $11,800, betting $3200 of it on this: this son of Hecuba & title character of a Shakespeare play was ambushed & killed by Achilles. "Who is Troilus?" Correct for $15,000! Daily Double #2: $1600 New York Times Science Times. Dilemma for Joey, as he has $7600 to Justin's $25,800. Does he want to go all-in and hopefully catch the leader in the Final, or does he want to bide his time and hope for a wild card? "Let's go $3000." Biding his time it is... The Dot Earth blog had an interview with the maker of his documentary about dolphin slaughter that just won an Oscar. Joey blanks on "The Cove", leaving him with $4600.
It looks like spot #4 is going to go to Justin, and Joey & Christine are competing for Wild Cards. Final Jeopardy! category: BUSY PRESIDENTS
Correct response: who was James
Monroe?
This was simply no contest. Justin just smoked the competition and stands to smoke the rest of the field as well. And that field will include Nick Yozamp ($16,400) and Dave Belote ($4999), who have locked wild card positions. Tomorrow, we'll have the final nine. To read all about the tournament and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com. |
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SEMI-FINALIST:
Justin Bernbach