Jeopardy!‘s Event of Champions continues because the Semifinals kicked off with Adriana Harmeyer, Will Wallace, and Ryan Manton on February 4th.
It was an thrilling match for Ryan and Adriana who went head-to-head for many of the match, with Will admittedly not delivering his greatest efficiency. “It was clearly not my recreation. Adriana and Ryan are superb gamers, and whereas I had my buzzer locked in on my quarterfinal, I by no means discovered my rhythm this recreation. It threw me off and I by no means recovered,” Will wrote on Reddit.
Finally, Adriana got here out on high, successful the sport with 25,000 whole factors, outdoing Ryan’s 22,001, and Will’s 0. Whereas Ryan began the sport sturdy, main the sport heading into Double Jeopardy with 5,200 towards Adriana’s 4,400. It was a Day by day Double throughout the second spherical that allowed Adriana to achieve traction, placing her forward of Ryan.
Heading into Closing Jeopardy, Adriana had 22,000 towards Ryan’s 12,000, which meant this recreation wasn’t a runaway, however definitely shut heading into the ultimate spherical. The class was “International locations of the World,” with the clue studying, “About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that nation’s 14 neighbors.”
The proper response was “What’s North Korea?” and each Ryan and Adriana responded appropriately. However even when they’d the suitable solutions there, the match had one class that stumped all of them. The class of celeb podcasts left the gamers fairly duped, because the gamers handed on responses to a few of the 5 clues offered.
Whereas Adriana took a second on Reddit to admire her fellow opponents, as she wrote, “Probably the most pleasant issues about Jeopardy is assembly fellow opponents, and one of many worst issues about Jeopardy goes out on the stage with two of these opponents, realizing that solely one in all you may win. Will and Ryan are each glorious gamers and simply nice individuals. Having watched their quarterfinals, I knew we could possibly be in for a tricky recreation.”
However on the finish of the day, she jokingly defined, “It seems that not solely do none of us hearken to celeb podcasts, I haven’t even heard of most of them.”
What did you consider the participant’s lack of understanding in the case of celeb podcasts? Hold forth within the feedback part, and keep tuned because the Event of Champions continues.
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