I know there are many Jeopardy! fans on here. I’ve been enjoying Austin Rogers’ run on the show for the past several days. He’s a little quirky and has fun reactions at times. He’s been pretty dominant in each show–often unbeatable by the time they reach the Final Jeopardy round. He’s currently on a 7-day streak with winnings over $278,000.
Anyone else watching?
I was a little surprised during the Final Jeopardy round of today’s show (10/4/2017)
that Austin missed it. I guessed it right–it felt like an obvious choice.
Yes, I have been watching. Also surprised that he missed today’s FJ. Apparently, he has had to be censored a couple of times especially in first or second episode
He has a knack for figuring the out the subtle clues in the “given answer”. He is very animated as you can almost see the gears moving in his head as he tries to figure out the answers to the Daily Doubles.
Averaging close to 40 grand per episode is impressive.
He had a runaway. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t bother trying that hard to think of the right answer and just wrote about his intended lunch when it didn’t hit him right away.
I don’t know. He tends to bet pretty big, even when he has a runaway victory. You’d think he would try to get it right if he could, to maximize his total.
I’m enjoying watching him as well, but you don’t have to search too far online to find Jeopardy forums that absolutely hate him. There is a pretty large segment of the Jeopardy audience who feel that contestants should be staid and dignified, and Austin is not that.
He hits most of the Daily Doubles, and has the guts to bet big when he does. That’s gotten him some big totals, but it also has the potential to screw him if he gets it wrong. It will be fun to see how long he can keep it going.
I wouldn’t be surprised if his pre-game dances/gestures are just trolling those fans. Austin was probably watching an episode of Jeopardy and said to himself “why do they always just smile blankly at the camera? Have some fun!”
Anyone who has the guts to continuously bet big and succeed gets props from me.
I’m told* that the love/hate ratio is about 50/50.
I can’t stand the guy, not for being “undignified” but rather for projecting a flamboyantly smugness that expects a fawning audience, and playing much too hard to that adoring audience. I like J! contestants to relax and have fun if they can, but he’s like the attention whore guy who always lugs his guitar to small parties. Of course I don’t know the man, and have no idea what he’s like in three-dimensional real life.
But God DAMN he’s good. His boldness with DD’s (not to mention FJ) is especially impressive.
Irritates me that I can’t enjoy watching him, because he’s amazing.
*By someone I trust who knows more than I do about it. Not much of a cite, I know.
I didn’t see tonight’s show. Does anyone remember the category and clue, or will someone remind me to check j-archive.com in a couple days when it’s posted?
American Plays. Paraphrasing the clue a bit, but the gist was ‘By the latitude and longitude given, this play should take place in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire’. (Wording’s definitely wrong, information is correct.)
Correct response…what is Our Town.
I got it right, myself…oddly, I have never seen nor read the play, but somehow I knew it…
Neither my wife nor I can stand the guy. It’s like this show is just the audition tape for his post-Jeopardy career. He’s the guy who dumps the salad over his head, so he gets a laugh, then he keeps doing it every time. And I was a fan of Arthur Chu. I didn’t even hate Matt Jackson. Austin is worse than Buzzy Cohen and his touchy-feely routine
In the FB J! forums, the likers mock the haters by saying “you just don’t like people smarter than you”. He’s a clue: if that were true, they wouldn’t be watching at all, because even the losers are smarter than most people. That’s how they survived the process to get on the show.
Me, I think he acts like he’s coked up the entire time. But, boy, he sure can play the game!
Just remember, fellow haters, we have to suffer him again in the championships.
One vital part of the clue that you didn’t recall was the mention of “the narrator.” That’s one of the things that made it obvious to me. Relatively few plays have narrators.
I actually was annoyed by him in his first couple of games, because he does come across as a bit smug. But he grew on me and I do now enjoy his enthusiasm and especially his game play.
So why did Wilder get the coordinates wrong? It’s not like it mattered - he didn’t have to give geographic coordinates. No one would have cared.
It’s like the coordinates for Devil’s Tower in CE3K, or even more so, because DT is an actual real place. I always pictured the true ending of CE3K had the aliens waiting alone at the coordinates that they gave (nearly 300 miles away!) for the humans to show up, and wondering what’s taking so long.
I did too. Never read it or seen it. When Alex read the category, I yelled, “Our Town” even before the commercial. Pissed off my wife and kid.
He reminds me of Paul F. Tompkins. But I find him mostly annoying. But he’s a smart fucker!
By the way, I smoked my family last night. Ran two complete categories and nailed the final.
