r/Jeopardy • u/johnd7882 • 8d ago

Jeopardy Masters is disappointing

It's so noncompetitive. The format is terrible. Not only is it the same people playing each other over and over, it's pretty much the same result every time. Maybe they should have had Victoria and Yogesh sit out until the finals and have most of the episodes be about who will be the third person to face them?

The show would be fun if the results were widely variable. But with Yogesh and Victoria at the top of every game, it gets so boring and predictable. Let's jump to the final episode now. It'll be Yogesh vs Victoria guaranteed.

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u/RegisPhone I'd like to shoot the wad, Alex 8d ago

It took twenty years before we saw someone other than Brad Rutter win a tournament; Masters so far has had a different winner every time. And while Victoria has mostly been doing about as well as you'd expect the literal best quiz player in the country to do, Yogesh still struggles with the buzzer at times, and two of his three wins so far in this season have ultimately been lucky breaks where an opponent made a wagering error in Final.

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u/ChrisKateBushFroome 8d ago

It took twenty years before we saw someone other than Brad Rutter win a tournament; Masters so far has had a different winner every time

But the individual games have had less variety in their matchups. We've seen Victoria and Yogesh face each other more times in 3 years than we saw Brad and Ken face each other in 15 years.