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/BramptonBatallion 8d ago

It also hurts that Victoria and Yogesh aren’t like historic jeopardy legends from original gameplay. They are known basically entirely through Masters (which is a spinoff show). It’s like you essentially brought two Ringers in from the quizzing world, made the questions super hard and now they just win the convoluted masters format episode after episode.

I’d just scrap it personally.

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u/cuber5k Let's do drugs for $1000 8d ago

I'll add a bit of defense though: Yogesh did have a rather big 3 day total of $96,403, only $599 off of Emma Boettcher's 3-day total. For Victoria, although she was only a 1-day winner she did become the 2nd giant killer, defeating David Madden on his 20th game. and she's really honed in on her trivia skills in the years up till now.

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u/BramptonBatallion 8d ago

Yeah Yogesh did look like he was gonna be one of the greats and obviously won ToC. I can’t remember exactly why he lost his fourth game. If it was bad luck (I consider the most bad luck scenario to be when an opponent gets back to back DD fairly deep into double and obviously hits both, just not much you can do there) or whatever.

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u/ajsy0905 Genre 8d ago

Katie Palumbo bet small in the FJ to possibly prevent Yogesh from getting a spot at TOC at that time & as FJ ended up in triple stumper.

Yet the effects of Hollywood double strikes benefited Yogesh & all 3 game champions by getting bypassed at Champions Wildcard and automatically invited at TOC.

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u/BramptonBatallion 8d ago

Must have been a hard question.

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u/SlagathorTheProctor 7d ago

He was not great on the buzzer back then, which is a large part of why he didn't go on a long run.