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Curious Hair
 Post subject: Alex Jacob!
PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:21 am 
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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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 Post subject: Re: Alex Jacob!
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How's Art Fleming doing these days?

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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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 Post subject: Re: Alex Jacob!
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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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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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 Post subject: Re: Alex Jacob!
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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:

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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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The Soup featured Matt Jackson a few weeks ago. That dude has to have Aspergers.
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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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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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Look at jimmypasta wiping his ass all over my thread.

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Look at jimmypasta wiping his ass all over my thread.


Ok,sorry!

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Won by about $38,000 across two days. I bow to thee.

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EDIT: in retrospect, Ken Jennings seems unsettlingly normal.


I think it's because he's a Mormon...

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I watched him today. Good stuff. Poor Matt.
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How's Art Fleming doing these days?


He went underground 20 years ago ...

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