How's Art Fleming doing these days?
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Alex Jacob! |
Chicago guy straight-up killing it in the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions. Went double or nothing twice and got both, guy's ahead of the other finalists by like $26,000 or something. It's a two-day match but I don't see any way that anyone catches him. He's my hero. |
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
How's Art Fleming doing these days? |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
I am glad he is beating that Matt Jackson guy. Dude is sharp as a tack, but a giant dork and horribly annoying. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Frank Coztansa wrote: I am glad he is beating that Matt Jackson guy. Dude is sharp as a tack, but a giant dork and horribly annoying. Haha, Alex isn't exactly a social butterfly himself. Between Arthur Chu and these guys we're in like a golden age of eccentric Jeopardy champions. Matt Jackson was destroying everybody to this point, too, that's the craziest thing. |
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| Author: | America [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Curious Hair wrote: Chicago guy Commission the statue baby we got ourselves another area legend. I think there's some room there in that plaza off the SW corner of Adams and Dearborn. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Hmm, speaking of Arthur Chu, looks like this guy has the same strategy that pisses off these bullshit "purists" who think you should do one category at a time, top to bottom: Quote: Jacob has been dominating his competition by jumping around each Jeopardy category, which throws his opponents off and allows him to find the Daily Doubles more quickly. Once he gets a Daily Double, he either bets big to make his lead insurmountable, or bets small to steal a double up opportunity from the other contestants. I liked when he ran up the score so hard that he just wrote "ALEVE" in big letters for Final Jeopardy. |
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| Author: | Ed_from_Lisle [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
The Soup featured Matt Jackson a few weeks ago. That dude has to have Aspergers. |
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Ed_from_Lisle wrote: The Soup featured Matt Jackson a few weeks ago. That dude has to have Aspergers. I enjoyed the first one but the 2nd one with Ultron was more of the same. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Ed_from_Lisle wrote: The Soup featured Matt Jackson a few weeks ago. That dude has to have Aspergers. Yeah, a guy who is dominating at Jeopardy probably perseverates on special interests and has poor social skills. You willing to wager everything on that one? EDIT: in retrospect, Ken Jennings seems unsettlingly normal. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Look at jimmypasta wiping his ass all over my thread. |
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Curious Hair wrote: Look at jimmypasta wiping his ass all over my thread. Ok,sorry! |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 4:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Won by about $38,000 across two days. I bow to thee. |
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| Author: | sjboyd0137 [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 5:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
Curious Hair wrote: EDIT: in retrospect, Ken Jennings seems unsettlingly normal. I think it's because he's a Mormon... |
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| Author: | W_Z [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
I watched him today. Good stuff. Poor Matt. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Jacob! |
jimmypasta wrote: How's Art Fleming doing these days? He went underground 20 years ago ... |
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