So College Jeopardy is on right now. The guy in the middle is from Stanford, and he is killing it. Running away with an easy victory.
Here's the thing, though. He's made a huge strategic mistake.
He's on College Jeopardy.
Your ceiling is limited in College Jeopardy. He had over $33,000 after Double Jeopardy. However, he won't get all that money. He gets $5,000 for being a quarterfinalist. For being a semifinalist, he'll get at least $10,000. If he gets into the finals, he'll get at least $25,000.
So for winning two games in the college tournament, he'll get at least $25,000. Not the $40,000 he would have gotten today. It's not uncommon to win at least that in only one game of real Jeopardy.
Additionally, the questions are a lot easier in College Jeopardy. Making it less than the real man's Jeopardy. A little kid's Jeopardy, really. Barely harder than the questions in the Teen Tournament.
Oh, and if you get in College Jeopardy, you can't get on real Jeopardy. You're done.
So, to conclude, Mr. Stanford Guy....excellent job tonight. You did well and you seem pretty smart. I look forward to seeing you later this week as the tournament continues. However...I'm sorry that you left thousands of dollars on the table by not applying to real Jeopardy.
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Shoot...shouldn't have read this. I dvr it and am still 3 weeks behind. But my friend and I have some questions for you. What's up on the left? Contestants keep looking there. The scores? Also, do the answers show up bigger for you to read, or not? Seems like it would be hard to read the answers if they didn't. I think that's it for now.
Wonderful questions :)
Yes, the scores are on the left, just three numbers are on the left in yellow. The numbers are similar to what you would see on an old digital watch and are about the size of one of the clues, not very big.
The answers do not show up bigger for us to read - I would have been at a huge disadvantage without contacts/glasses. Definitely easier to see at home, when the answer takes up the whole screen. (Also, they show only the answer while Alex reads it so if he messes it up, they can have him reread it and just paste the audio in. This happened probably about once a show on average.)
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