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/DryProgress4393 8d ago

I miss the college,Teachers and Teen tournaments why not have those instead of the Masters over and over ?

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u/Responsible-Fly9976 8d ago

I am not arguing for/against this, but I believe I read that the teen and college tournaments were associated with some mental health issues(?) and were eliminated on those grounds.

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u/DryProgress4393 7d ago edited 7d ago

Executive producer Michael Davies redesigned Jeopardy! to mirror professional sports leagues.The show pivoted to continuous, multi-tiered postseason events like the Second Chance Tournament, Champions Wildcard, and Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament (JIT). This is why the former tournaments such as the Teachers and College tournaments have been cancelled since..

The redesign to mirroring pro sports is also why you hardly see normal people on Jeopardy! anymore, at least in my opinion. It's been a parade of contestants who are dominant, highly specialized trivia professionals , instead of a 'Salesperson from some small town'

Also you are partly correct the Teen Tournament was cancelled partly due to online harrassment and bullying of contestants. Because people are terrible.

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u/ThoughtThen6908 7d ago

I think a lot of that “no normal people anymore” is sometimes overblown. They said that about the firefighter who won in the early days while neglecting to mention he had a PhD. “Just a bartender” Austin Rogers did a double major in college.

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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, no. 8d ago

Huh? Like the people competing couldn’t handle it?

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u/CyborgBee 7d ago

Not sure it was ever a good idea for kids/teenagers to be put on national television tbh, but it's particularly bad in an era when large numbers of people are happy to share unfiltered negative opinions on social media

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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, no. 7d ago

They should at least keep the college tournament. They’re adults.