[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Wednesday, January 8 episode of Jeopardy!]
A Jeopardy! participant bought the redemption they have been looking for of their second likelihood on the podium within the Wednesday, January 8, episode, snagging their place within the Second Likelihood Event finals. Right here, we break down the sport, which was almost received by juts $1, and who’ll be competing on this week’s SCC finals, set to air on Thursday, January 9.
Enjoying within the January 8 sport have been Sam Cameron, a finance supervisor from Fargo, North Dakota; Ferdinand Percentie, a day dealer from Altamonte Springs, Florida; and Lindsay Denninger, a author from Smithtown, New York. Cameron staged a formidable catch-up within the second spherical, discovering two Day by day Doubles in fast succession of one another and answering each accurately, though he appeared shocked that he bought the primary one proper. That spherical additionally featured a Wheel of Fortune-inspired class known as, “No, Ryan. I Would Not Prefer to Purchase a Vowel.”
Percentie caught as much as Cameron together with his right Remaining Jeopardy reply, surpassing his rating by simply $1 by means of a sensible wager. However Cameron answered accurately as properly, rising his $19,400 rating by $1,001. The ultimate scores have been Cameron with $20,401, Percentie with $19,401, and Denninger with $2,199.
Who made it to the Jeopardy SCC finals?
As host Ken Jennings stated on the episode’s finish, Cameron will now compete towards returning gamers Drew Gloins and Enzo Cunanan. Goins enters tomorrow’s sport with $36,801 in winnings, Cunanan has $19,400, and Cameron has $20,401.
(L-R) Jeopardy! SCC finalists Drew Gloins, Enzo Cunanan, Sam Cameron (Jeopardy, Inc.)
Cameron opened up about his second likelihood on Jeopardy! on the Reddit dialogue board for the episode, admitting he felt “unusual” returning to the set so quickly after filming his first episode. As he shared in his feedback, he had solely filmed his first episode a couple of weeks previous to filming SCC, and he thought-about not coming again. He additionally talked about Gloins and Cunanan’s earlier performances of their previous video games.
“It felt very unusual to be the latest returning participant; I’d solely taped initially a few month-and-a-half beforehand,” Cameron wrote on Reddit. “I received’t lie, dropping the primary time round felt fairly devastating, so after I bought the message asking me to come back again, I genuinely debated about whether or not I needed to dip my toes again in so rapidly. In the end, I made the promise to myself that if I returned, I’d solely accomplish that with one purpose in thoughts — to have enjoyable. I by no means anticipated to get one other chew on the apple, so I actually solely needed to make use of this second likelihood to ‘restore my relationship’ with the present I beloved a lot. I needed to benefit from the expertise as a substitute of dreading it, to soak in what it felt prefer to be on the set, to go away feeling gratitude as a substitute of disgrace it doesn’t matter what occurred. With that perspective in thoughts, I flew out west the very subsequent day after my authentic watch get together.”
“Preparing within the inexperienced room once more was essentially the most intimidating expertise of my life,” the remark later provides. “Like, everybody who will get on Jeopardy is wise to start with, however these people had all proved that they have been particularly good at PLAYING JEOPARDY, if that is smart. Even listening to everybody chatting gave me the worst imposter syndrome I’ve ever had — like at any second they’d abruptly notice that they’d tousled in together with this random bumpkin from North Dakota amongst this group of proficient geniuses and ship me packing. Seeing the lightning buzzer speeds through the apply spherical didn’t assist that, particularly since that was one space particularly I’d felt self-conscious about in my authentic sport. Ferdinand particularly was an absolute buzzsaw even up towards Drew and Enzo, who we’d later see win their very own matches.”
“Realizing I used to be going to be the final semifinal taped gave me flashbacks to my first sport — ready within the again for that lengthy actually ended up shaking my preliminary confidence, so I attempted to remind myself after I lastly bought up there why I’d come again within the first place,” he continued. “I used to be there to have enjoyable, and nothing else mattered. I felt 100% sure I used to be going to get completely destroyed, however there was virtually a peace in that. If I used to be taking place, I used to be taking place content material.”
“I actually don’t bear in mind a lot in regards to the sport itself – I bear in mind fully blowing my first DD, pulling the second DD reply out of my precise ass, and dreading being the one to seek out the third DD,” he added. Now, he can “lastly name myself a Jeopardy champion. However greater than that, I used to be capable of finding a way of peace with why I needed to look on the present within the first place, and I’m endlessly grateful to the Second Likelihood Competitors for permitting me that change in perspective.”
Catch the primary of two SCC finals video games on Thursday, January 9.
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