[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Thursday, February 20 episode of Jeopardy!]
A fan-favorite Jeopardy! participant misplaced out on the possibility to maneuver to the subsequent spherical of Jeopardy!‘s Invitational Event as three new contestants took their spots behind the rostrum, and followers had been shocked. The winner spoke out after fan outrage.
Raymond Goslow, a library know-how marketing consultant from Marietta, Georgia, confronted off in opposition to fan-favorite Troy Meyer, a music govt from Cleveland, Ohio, and Jackie Kelly, a developer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Goslow is the 2022 Nationwide Faculty Championship first runner-up. Meyer is probably the most seasoned out of all three because the 2024 Event of Champions second runner-up and Season 39 six-game champion. Kelly is a Season 38 four-game champion in addition to the 2022 ToC quarterfinalist.
Through the first spherical of the sport present, out of 30 questions, Meyer appropriately answered 9, together with the Every day Double. He answered two incorrectly. This made his whole a tie with Goslow at $7,400. Kelly was in final place with $1,600.
In Double Jeopardy!, it was a battle for first place as Meyer answered many appropriate questions in a row, then Goslow did the identical. Nevertheless, Kelly stepped up, appropriately answering three questions, together with a Every day Double. She made it a real DD and wormed her manner into second place with $11,200, proper behind Meyer. Goslow then gained the lead by answering a DD proper after Kelly, giving him a complete of $15,600.
From then on, it was backwards and forwards between Goslow and Meyer appropriately answering questions, regardless of the previous’s uncertainty on a lot of them. Kelly answered the final eight questions within the spherical appropriately, but it surely wasn’t sufficient. On the finish of Double Jeopardy!, Goslow led with $25,200, adopted by Meyer with $19,800, and Kelly in third with $13,200.
The class for Closing Jeopardy! was “The Southwest.” The query learn, “The four-syllable identify of this metropolis is sort of an identical to its namesake city in Spain, besides that the Spanish one has an additional ‘R’.” Kelly didn’t write something down and wagered all of her cash, bringing her right down to $0. Meyer answered appropriately with “What’s Albuquerque?” He wagered $7,601, which introduced him to $27,401.
Goslow additionally answered appropriately and ended with $39,601 after wagering $14,601. He had the second highest rating of the season and can advance to the semifinals. Goslow spoke out after his stunning win on Reddit.
“Extra ideas to return after I really get the possibility to observe the episode tonight, however I feel this needs to be some of the enjoyable and dynamic video games of Jeopardy I’ve ever skilled (as a participant or a viewer) – and I might say that even when I had come up quick in the long run!” he wrote.
Followers congratulated him within the feedback with many saying they had been scared Meyer would catch as much as him. Nevertheless, different followers had been shocked to see Meyer, who’s a beast at trivia, not win.
“Stunning as it could be to see Troy go down already within the QF’s when many individuals thought he was the favourite to win the entire thing, I additionally am kinda glad to see it. Not as a result of I don’t like Troy or something like that (if something I nonetheless want he gained the TOC over Yogesh), however as a result of it makes this event that rather more attention-grabbing and the potential winner and Masters slot a LOT extra of a wildcard!” one fan mentioned.
“My jaw’s on the ground. Godd**n, Raymond. All of the kudos to you. Even when three different folks have technically beat Troy at the very least as soon as, I’m nonetheless impressed to see it,” mentioned one other.
“Very shocking,” mentioned one other.
“OMG I used to be anticipating Troy to dominate however each Jackie and Raymond (particularly Raymond) put a cease to that,” wrote one final fan.
Friday, February 21 will see three new gamers behind the rostrum: Maya Wright, Jeopardy! Excessive Faculty Reunion Event competitor, Roger Craig, one-day successful file holder, and John Focht, a 2021 ToC finalist, will face off.
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