# Jeopardy Tournament: What Happened? {maybe some spoilers} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615 "2019-03-06T05:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Garak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Garak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615/21 "2019-03-06T22:32:45Z")
I didn’t hate the format as much as a lot of people seem too, but I wouldn’t be sad if they never did it again ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615/22 "2019-03-06T22:41:55Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > When your dealing with numbers like that, it’ll be all electronic and $333,333.33⅓ is a perfectly fine number for that, and $1,000,000 sounds better when spoken than $1,000,002 or $999,999. $1.5 million is easy. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615/23 "2019-03-06T22:48:36Z")
Not for the Bean Counters ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615/24 "2019-03-07T00:33:35Z")
The cluttered megacolor facing on the three contestants’ platform looked like a third-world ice cream truck. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615/25 "2019-03-07T00:45:57Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Based on this exhaustive data, we can safely conclude that the public is split 50-50 in its enjoyment of the tournament format. 🙂 What amazes me is that public opinion is split about 50-50 whether or not Austin is a jerk. I would have thought it would be unanimous. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615/26 "2019-03-07T01:29:51Z")
When they announced they were having a “team tournament,” I assumed it would be follow the \*\*\*Quiz Bowl \*\*\* format; i.e. teams facing off against each other in groups of three or four. The competition would have gone much faster and been a lot more tense. How much would it have cost them to build a tiered set and do it that way? Not much, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615/27 "2019-03-10T03:37:49Z")
I enjoyed the tournament, but wouldn’t want to watch the show in that kind of format all the time. The “strategy sessions” were a joke, with the captains pretty much giving orders and the others saying, “Yeah, sure, sounds great.” Just once I would’ve liked a captain to ask, “OK, who wants to do what?” > [@notfrommensa](#): > > In the Wild Card Match (Game #2), Alex Jacob singlehandedly cost team Buzzy the spot in the finals. He went All In on a DD when he had a big lead in DJ. I think he had about 15K twice and about twice as much as the other teams. It was the 2nd DD of DJ so it was unlikely a team was going to catch up. He got the question wrong and it put them where they couldn’t come back… OMFG, I almost screamed when he bet it all. I thought his team was like 4:1 ahead of the others. Quite possibly the all-time dumbest game-show decision I’ve ever seen. > [@terentii](#): > > I noticed that too. He did it more than once. I just noticed that he did it once. Still not good. Should’ve dinged him - rules are rules. > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > The cluttered megacolor facing on the three contestants’ platform looked like a third-world ice cream truck. Yeah, that was pretty ugly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-tournament-what-happened-maybe-some-spoilers/830615.md?page=1)