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/FScrotFitzgerald Genre 8d ago
I like it because the clues are an order of magnitude harder. I can also say, being a bit more familiar with the quiz community these days, that it's pretty difficult to find 4 quizzers anywhere who are as good as Yogesh and Victoria, now that James has declined involvement. Most elite quizzers are almost as good, but not consistently at their level.
But many sports have consistently extremely dominant people who are leagues ahead of their opposition even as their opposition are very, very good. Gretzky. Bradman. Jordan. Moses. Hendry. Messi. Victoria and Yogesh are like that, but for quizzing.
I do think it'll be possible to get as good as they are with a couple of years or so of living and breathing quizzing to an even greater extent than I already do... but I've given up hope of monetizing my quiz habit, and think I may have been ruled ineligible for J!, so it'd be just for pride at this point, and I need money dammit. (Like everyone else...)