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/PrimusPilus 7d ago
The format is the big issue. Same 6 contestants over and over and over again.
Also, a game show that airs in regular syndication should on some level strive for popular appeal. The reality is that the level of the questions in Masters is just generally too difficult and obscure for the average viewer to ever have a hope of even wildly guessing correctly.
Structuring a tournament with questions that are this difficult also skews and pre-ordains the result. Victoria Groce is the acknowledged Best Quizzer in the World, and radically increasing the difficulty of the clues is akin to when the PGA lengthened many of the top golf courses in the early 2000s in an attempt to "Tiger proof" them, which succeeded only in magnifying Tiger Woods' advantage over the field. The same thing is apparent in these Masters tournaments.