[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Wednesday, December 4 episode of Jeopardy!]
Jeopardy!’s bolo-tie-boasting champ Stevie Ruiz clinched his second win on Wednesday — thanks partly to a different shocking wager. However not like his savvy $413 Closing Jeopardy guess that gained him his first sport (his lunch order, who knew!), an opponent’s strategically questionable transfer took her out of the operating.
Ruiz, an assistant entrance workplace supervisor from Montauk, New York, entered with one-day winnings of $17,987 off his well-played conservative wager within the earlier match. He confronted Gloria Nastas, a retired healthcare coverage analyst from Troy, Michigan, and Kimberley Debus, a Unitarian Universalist minister from Takoma Park, Maryland. Ken Jennings reminded the gamers we’d seen a carousel of one-day champs lately, setting the stage for an additional potential upset.
Within the Jeopardy! spherical, Ruiz pulled forward, bolstered by a Yeezus-era Kanye West Day by day Double, he had $7,600. Debus, who scored laughs with a peppy story about an Ethel Merman impersonation, held $3,000, and Nastas had $1,200.
In Double Jeopardy!, Ruiz aced the second Day by day Double, including $2,000 to his main rating by understanding the “Film Creatures” clue was “Creatures From The Black Lagoon.” Immediately Debus crept up and mounted a critical second-place rating. She had $10,600 to Ruiz’s $16,800 when she discovered the final Day by day Double with lower than a minute left. Then, issues hit a critical snag.
“Oh expensive,” she stated upon touchdown on it. “Lower than a minute, Kimberly,” Jennings reminded her. “Let’s do $4,000” she stated, shocking followers. The “Actual Sob Story” clue was, “She sobs so much, however imprisoned unjustly & sexually harassed by Frollo, she has simply trigger.” Debus didn’t have a guess, dropping her to $6,600.
Quickly after, as Debus appeared to wallow within the second utilizing a few of the remaining minute to lament over ending the class from the miss, Ruiz obtained management again, sealing his runaway and the time ran out with three clues left. He sailed into Closing Jeopardy with $18,000, Debus with $8,600 and Nastas with $1,600.
The “twentieth Century” Closing Jeopardy clue was, “This nation’s nationwide radio launched in 1925; 14 years later, it fell into a protracted silence following a piano nocturne.” Ruiz and a spirited Nastas had been right with “Poland.” The previous wagered $0 to win with $18,000 for a two-day complete of $35,987. “Very good!” Jennings closed.
Followers on Reddit had been surprised by Debus’ Day by day Double wager, stating it was too conservative to have given her the lead even when right—and with below a minute left, it was so giant {that a} miss meant elimination.
“I’m sorry for Kimberly, who performed properly and was a enjoyable contestant. However that DD3 wager should be probably the most ill-advised we now have seen all season,” one Redditor wrote.
“Fairly often a trailing contestant is seemingly afraid to go massive, however in all probability feels compelled to guess at the very least one thing. That results in conditions like on this sport, when right reply doesn’t actually offer you any further benefit and incorrect reply enormously reduces your possibilities, generally to zero,” wrote one other.
“With how badly the class had gone to that time AND with Ken giving the one-minute warning, I believed for positive Kimberly would default to a 2,000 wager or much less. Alas, she didn’t,” wrote a 3rd.
“Lower than a minute left within the spherical, and the girl in second place is stalling and taking her time. Ultimately it will not have mattered, however that was not sensible. Gave herself no probability to make Closing Jeopardy related,” wrote a fourth on YouTube.
“It felt like the sport screeched to a halt in direction of the tip of DJ–from clues 18 to 24 (together with DD3), there was only one right response. Ouch,” wrote a fifth Redditor. “Stevie performed very properly, however Kimberley was cleansing up on the 2000 row–she obtained 4/5 of the revealed clues there!”
The second victory for Ruiz means he’ll be bringing his “Quick Trend” to Champions Wildcard, if not the Match of Champions if he wins yet one more.
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