Agree to disagree. Try writing it that way in a contract. 
Also, pet peeves don’t have to be unassailable.
If the contestants go DD hunting as a rule, then I am fine with this. Place them randomly, including the first row. They were kept out of the first row in order to keep them from being found too early, but with DD hunting I think that changes.
If I said I ate “a cheesecake and a half,” would you think I ate one cheesecake and fifty cents?
The “half” refers to whatever I mentioned a full one of earlier.
I really don’t care where the DD’s are placed, although I think at least one of them should be lower on the board where the supposedly harder answers are located.
So ten and a half means 15?
I can tell you that if you don’t understand or accept that “fourteen million five” means $14,500,000, you’re not going to survive in corporate or investment finance.
Us big shots round it off to the nearest million.
The New York Times has an article here Matt Amodio Streak Over (it’s a “gift” link so should be readable). They mentioned it was the first episode without Mike Richards as Executive Producer. I makes me wonder if they “tweaked” a few things to challenge Matt’s domination, such as:
- Scatter the Daily Doubles around more randomly versus being able to expect them in the $1600 row
- Find the best contestants from the current pool based on their test scores
- Find contestants who were very quick on the buzzer, so that Matt didn’t get to every answer
- Choose categories that benefit the new players and would be hard for Matt; I doubt they’d do that deliberately
I’m sure these things could just happen by chance, but perhaps???
I’ll miss Matt a little, and I feel sorry for the middle player. It was indeed an exciting game; between the second and third players it was coming down to who got the final bunch of answers (and strong FJ betting).
I’d actually be open to have the game format be more variable, with there being AN AVERAGE of three Daily Doubles per game. But it can vary between one and five, and their placements between Single and Double Jeopardy can also vary. It’s a game, and all games involve some degree of luck. I want a more varied game, and Jeopardy needs more variety in the game format. Right now I’m a bit bored with the static nature of the game itself, and people spending oodles of prep time in solving the unchanging game format. Change it up.
I really, really doubt they would do any such thing, as that’s the kind of stuff that triggered the quiz show scandals in the in 1950s.
Toward the end, I suspect Matt was counting on the other two contestants betting big, getting the response wrong, and cancelling each other out. He just never dreamed he’d get it wrong instead.
I’m not sure Poland was ever even “annexed” the way Austria and Czechoslovakia were. It was invaded, overrun, dismembered, and occupied, and the areas formerly belonging to Germany were “restored:” to the Reich. But “annexed”? I don’t think so, and I doubt Hitler and his crew did either.
Okay, if you think “fourteen billion five” means $14,000,000,005, you’re going to get canned.
Quick question, can the contestants see a count down clock after buzzing in?
Ken and Matt often buzzed in and paused before answering. Confident they’d know the answer. I can’t recall anyone timing out before answering.
That happens sometimes - one contestant today took too long and Bialik said something like “Ooh too much time”, and the next person buzzed in. I don’t know if contestants can see a per-answer timer though, as it’s a pretty short time.
Did anyone hear what ‘condition’ the guy with the long hyphenated first name was born with? I couldn’t understand a word he said. I deleted my recording before I thought to go back with closed captioning turned on.
In case it’s bugging anyone- it’s Sabu he looks like.
Tetragametic chimerism—basically he is his own dead twin. 
The lights on their podium go out in sequence, and they have to respond before the last one goes out. I don’t know whether the contestants can see those.
Yeah, me, too. As others have said, it was a shame that he faced TWO good players–the woman who came in second could have had a long run of her own, I suspect. But those are the breaks.
Wow, that guy on the right tonight was an embarrassment. An affirmative-action contestant if there ever was one. Was he high? He didn’t seem to know when it was appropriate to talk and when it was not. And what’s with the name? Who names their kid Robinson-Gissette? He should have given a nickname so Mayim didn’t have to say 5 syllables every time she called on him.
For those of you who glory in Jeopardy as a “bastion of hard science,” he describes himself as a medium and astrologer.
What is a thread shit?