Day by day Doubles could make or break a sport of Jeopardy! — or, as followers are discussing on Reddit, a contestant’s legacy.
In a current thread within the r/Jeopardy discussion board, followers have been naming their picks for Day by day Doubles that modified the course of Jeopardy! historical past.
Reddit person bluegambit875 kicked off the dialogue, writing about one Day by day Double “that appeared to have an outsized influence within the superchamp period.”
That Day by day Double, bluegambit875 wrote, got here throughout the first sport of 2014’s Battle of the Many years finals, when Roger Craig, pictured above, guess all the pieces on a Day by day Double about medical phrases. Sadly, Craig couldn’t identify the five-letter time period for swelling or bloating within the physique attributable to an extra build-up of fluid — it was “edema” — and misplaced $10,200.
“If Roger hit that DD, then he may have runaway with Recreation 1 and plausibly have received your entire match. That might have gained him entry into the assorted superchamp tournaments which have come since then (most notably Jeopardy! Masters),” bluegambit875 wrote. “Whereas there are loads of ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda’ moments in sport exhibits, this gave the impression to be a turning level. … To me, that one missed DD was greater than a single missed clue however a missed probability to be among the many super-elite champs that we’re seeing right this moment.”
(Craig, who’s married to champ Julia Collins, acquired a comeback run on this 12 months’s Jeopardy! Invitational Event, nevertheless, and received the $50,000 runner-up prize.)
Reddit person YangClaw, nevertheless, nominated James Holzhauer’s Day by day Double in his second-ever Jeopardy! sport — wherein Holzhauer earned $11,914 on a clue about Sarah Lawrence School — as “maybe the only greatest what-if second on the present timeline.”
Had Holzhauer missed that Day by day Double, he “would have retired as a talented however unfortunate one-day champ, and since this was earlier than the Champions Wildcard period, we by no means would have seen him once more,” YangClaw stated. “With out James’ insane 2019 run, we don’t get the Best of All Time occasion, and if [Ken Jennings] doesn’t have that main scores bonanza of a platform proper earlier than [Alex Trebek’s] passing, perhaps issues play out otherwise with the brand new host search. Maybe we do ultimately see a really completely different GOAT occasion between Ken, [Matt] Amodio, and Amy [Schneider].”
Reddit person DeezNuts90210, in the meantime, nominated others, together with Emma Boettcher’s profitable Day by day Doubles from the 2019 sport wherein she defeated Holzhauer and ended his 33-game streak whereas he was about $58,000 shy from beating Ken Jennings’ file $2.52 million in regular-season winnings.
That Redditor additionally highlighted the Day by day Double that acquired Rhone Talsma in vary of Amy Schneider’s rating in a 2022 sport, in the end resulting in the tip of Schneider’s 41-game streak.
“All this to say that Day by day Doubles actually do change the dynamic of the sport and the trajectory of the exhibits historical past,” DeezNuts90210 added.
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