MATT JACKSON WAS ON JEOPARDY AND WAS PRETTY GOOD AND COOL

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:39 pm

jonpin wrote:
Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant wrote:Last night I read all of the comment sections I could find because I hate myself. Good to see that the talk on the Huffpo piece only got better. Highlights include people feeding the troll who responded with "He's Black." to every post at the time, at least one person who thinks there's cheating ("No 23 year old with a mid range job is that dogone smart" LOL), and
With his smarts, why doesn't he have a degree in something worthwhile that can help the world? He's completely lacking in social skills but he could be a science researcher or surgeon or something similar!
jeez
LOL. No 23 year old who wasn't born into millions of dollars has anything above a mid range job nowadays.

LOL JOB MARKET

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant · Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:26 pm

Oh my lord, the people on Twitter claiming that Matt really lost because the DD wager of "five" really meant "five thousand". This one guy seems to be insisting that since Matt's general strategy is to find the Daily Doubles early to get a big lead, he couldn't possibly have bet $5, never mind that every other question in the category had gone dead.

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 10:14 pm

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant wrote:Oh my lord, the people on Twitter claiming that Matt really lost because the DD wager of "five" really meant "five thousand". This one guy seems to be insisting that since Matt's general strategy is to find the Daily Doubles early to get a big lead, he couldn't possibly have bet $5, never mind that every other question in the category had gone dead.

never tweet

jonpin · Post by **jonpin** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:00 am

I was disappointed in how badly that sports category was failed. DUKE Snider, Bob KNIGHT, EARL Anthony (OK, I wouldn't have pulled that one, ever). We'll never find out, but I wonder if the $400 clue was Prince Fielder (and whether that would've helped the contestants see more clearly what was meant by "Sports Nobility").
This was a board which could have spelled the end for Matt, had the other two contestants had any clue on the pop culture material. Still, Alison was within range and with a category like "Movie Characters", I spent the commercial break wondering if Alison had a chance to pull it off... until that total gimme of a Final Jeopardy clue came up.

Skepticism and Animal Feed · Thu Oct 08, 2015 10:47 am

Did anyone in the DC area catch Matt on "Good Morning Washington" this morning on local ABC? How was it?

I like Matt, just not enough to wake up at 7:00 AM to see him on TV.

Post by **theMoMA** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:26 pm

http://wjla.com/news/videos/interview-w ... tt-jackson

(A link to part two of the interview is in the lower left.)

ryanrosenberg · Post by **ryanrosenberg** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:24 am

So, uh, /r/jeopardy has produced this work of art.

Mewto55555 · Post by **Mewto55555** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 1:41 pm

Granny Soberer wrote:So, uh, /r/jeopardy has produced this work of art.

This is amazing.

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:20 pm

Urech hydantoin synthesis · Fri Oct 09, 2015 6:50 pm

Also this

Fado Alexandrino · Post by **Fado Alexandrino** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:20 pm

this reddit comment

not quite · Post by **not quite** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 7:12 pm

The Last 21 Stanley Cup Winners wrote:this reddit comment

with context

Banana Stand · Post by **Banana Stand** » Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:18 pm

A quiz bowler who memorizes lists, never actually reads poems, and watches Jeopardy sporadically WOULD think that "One Art" is the answer to that question.

Bishop won a Pulitzer in 1956. Check! Bishop was a lesbian. Check! But "One Art" - write it! - is hardly a tirade.

Lol I love the J! forums.

Post by **Auks Ran Ova** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:14 am

Really amused by the idea that quizbowlers memorize Pulitzer dates--if anything, that'd be something I might go over while specifically studying for Jeopardy!

ALTERNATE TAKE: "Tch, typical quizbowler, using entirely reasonable context clues together in a sensible way but failing to come up with the right answer." As opposed to...what, exactly?

naan/steak-holding toll · Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:40 am

Ukonvasara wrote:ALTERNATE TAKE: "Tch, typical quizbowler, using entirely reasonable context clues together in a sensible way but failing to come up with the right answer." As opposed to...what, exactly?"

Probably as opposed to looking things up on Wikipedia and pretending you're smarter than then person who's answering tons of questions right and stacking mad cash while you post on Jeopardy pretending you're better somehow.

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:27 am

updated thread title to reflect reality

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:15 am

"This was one of Matt's least dominant runaways. I'm starting to think he's not that great."

lol

Skepticism and Animal Feed · Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:46 am

I had the "playing Jeopardy against Matt Jackson" dream last night. I was only $500 behind him after the end of regular Jeopardy, in large part because I swept the "Seabirds" category.

Double Jeopardy had both a "Green Grapes" and "Red Grapes" category, that was literally all just clue crew questions of the format "I'm here in [country] where they grow this variety of grape". Yeah, as a teetotaler I had no idea what the heck was going on, but Matt Jackson sure did.

I had a final chance when I got a daily double in the "Gourds" category. They showed me a picture of a gourd that looked like a human face with a large nose that grows in the Everglades. I guessed "What is a nose gourd". Nope, it was called a Florida gourd. I had $0.

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant · Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:01 pm

But "One Art" - write it! - is hardly a tirade.

Meh, there are people for whom pretty much any assertion of homosexuality is some sort of gay supremacy thing (same with other minorities). The clue was about what a critic said, not the actual content of the work.

Anyways! Here are the Matt-Jackson-related conspiracy theories I've seen so far:

-He is being fed the answers, either by the show or a third party
-Jeopardy is ensuring that he gets both Daily Doubles back to back
-They are intentionally putting him up against weak opponents
-His answer of "Bayeux Tapestry!" had an exclamation mark and thus was not actually in the form of a question (might actually be a joke theory)
-And, of course, that sports Daily Double should have cost him 5000 instead of 5 (there's this one person still tweeting at the official J! account about this lmao)

All in the name of having a winning streak to give Jeopardy better ratings. I suspect people said similar things about other long-running champions, but this is the first time I've paid attention to Jeopardy talk outside of quizbowl spaces.

vinteuil · Post by **vinteuil** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:39 pm

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:58 pm

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant · Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:02 pm

got that conspiracy theory post in just in time

oh, and we still have the tournament of champions to look forward to
edit: which will start Nov 9

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:12 pm

Plus, saying "he would be just as good as one of the ~5 best players of all time with six months of preparation!" is preposterous in any activity with any modicum of history.

Post by **theMoMA** » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:25 pm

Please stop using this thread to speculate on hypothetical quizbowl matches between Steve Perry and Matt Jackson. Please start using this thread!!!

<3 mgmt

jonpin · Post by **jonpin** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:26 am

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant wrote:got that conspiracy theory post in just in time

oh, and we still have the tournament of champions to look forward to
edit: which will start Nov 9

Well I was all set to add two conspiracy theories, based on them originally accepting "al" (which shocked me, and looked to surprise Matt); and that the end of Double Jeopardy was perfectly timed when Matt took back the lead. However, that turns out to have been a curse. Had he been in second, most likely he makes the small wager and Michael makes the big wager.

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:03 am

http://i.imgur.com/k5QxVy6.jpg

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant · Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:30 pm

jonpin wrote:Well I was all set to add two conspiracy theories, based on them originally accepting "al" (which shocked me, and looked to surprise Matt); and that the end of Double Jeopardy was perfectly timed when Matt took back the lead. However, that turns out to have been a curse. Had he been in second, most likely he makes the small wager and Michael makes the big wager.

Instead we can add "Jeopardy rigged it for Matt to lose", either by planting someone who knew the answers beforehand or somehow convincing him to throw the game.

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:50 pm

you have to play the game the right way

dictated by a grumpy person i guess

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant · Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:38 pm

introducing polite robot jeopardy

lumosityfan · Post by **lumosityfan** » Sun Nov 01, 2015 12:04 am

Just thought this would be the perfect time to say that Matt Jackson will be back on Jeopardy! for the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions from November 9-20, 2015! He will be going against John Schultz and Jennifer Giles on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, so be sure to tune in to see him then and see if he will be moving on to the semifinals!

MiltonPlayer47 · Post by **MiltonPlayer47** » Sun Nov 01, 2015 10:24 am

lumosityfan wrote:Just thought this would be the perfect time to say that Matt Jackson will be back on Jeopardy! for the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions from November 9-20, 2015! He will be going against John Schultz and Jennifer Giles on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, so be sure to tune in to see him then and see if he will be moving on to the semifinals!

Also, the ToC website with some behind the scenes material is here: https://www.jeopardy.com/tournaments/20 ... -champions

Good Goblin Housekeeping · Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:30 am

dibbs on this gif

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Wed Nov 11, 2015 8:45 am

HE'S COMING

run

to your nearest television set
for whenever jeopardy is syndicated in your area

jonpin · Post by **jonpin** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 1:53 pm

That "famous triples" category gave me flashback to mid-2000s NAQT bonuses (and, by extension, the mock NAQT packet that someone--I think Rob Carson?--put together some time back).

Final Jeopardy was a traveshamockery, but luckily Matt was well above any mental cutoff he had.

Post by **Auks Ran Ova** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:14 pm

jonpin wrote:That "famous triples" category gave me flashback to mid-2000s NAQT bonuses (and, by extension, the mock NAQT packet that someone--I think Rob Carson?--put together some time back).

Final Jeopardy was a traveshamockery, but luckily Matt was well above any mental cutoff he had.

That was me, and accordingly I got a kick out of that category.

lumosityfan · Post by **lumosityfan** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:35 pm

Matt won his quarterfinal and semifinal and will be facing off against Alex Jacob and Kerry Greene on Thursday and Friday in the 2015 Tournament of Champions Final!

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:48 pm

SPOILERS BRA

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant · Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:00 pm

Matt gave the most relatable mid-show interview I have ever seen.

also yaaaaaay

vinteuil · Post by **vinteuil** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:00 pm

hi matt b

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant · Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:09 pm

Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant wrote:Matt gave the most relatable mid-show interview I have ever seen.

In fact, you know what? I'm gonna give my own anecdote. One time after a church concert, some lady came up to me and said "you did good". I had no idea what she was on about until discovering that she was really talking about my sister, who had been performing.

One of the songs she sang?

"Defying Gravity"

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 2:30 pm

I did think it was appropriate for "hi matt b" to get some mention in a game involving the top-ranked quizbowl player from the Mid-Atlantic region from 2012.

jonpin · Post by **jonpin** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 3:07 pm

That probably pertains to this, though the list of 5 states is not quite the same.

Mnemosyne · Post by **Mnemosyne** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:05 am

Ted Mosby brought the pain those last two games. In fact, he seems to be a pretty impressive guy. According to his wikipedia page, he won a major poker championship before graduating from Yale.

Sima Guang Hater · Post by **Sima Guang Hater** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:23 pm

Kyle wrote:I did think it was appropriate for "hi matt b" to get some mention in a game involving the top-ranked quizbowl player from the Mid-Atlantic region from 2012.

Great. The lies (and the memes) continue.

Good Goblin Housekeeping · Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:38 pm

Adventure Temple Trail · Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:10 am

Thanks for watching, everybody! It's been amazing to see so much excitement and support from many of you.

You can stop with the gifs now lol

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:37 am

Adventure Temple Trail wrote:You can stop with the gifs now lol

no chance in hell, buddy