Just one season 25 Coryat today: 25400 on the 1-15-09 episode (27800 without negs). But wait, there’s more about this: Yesterday I mentioned that a couple of us are posting our Coryats from season 25, and I invited you to post or at least compare yours. (You can either watch these episodes weekdays on the Game Show Network or play from the archive.) I thought about listing links to these season 25 Coryats, but a chat with Andy gave me another idea: tagging all those posts. So I have swept through and done that. (Okay, more like plodded through.) The tag is “Season25Coryats.” And there’s even more – I’ve added “QandA” tags to all the past interviews and Q & As. (By the way, tomorrow’s Mike Lonesky has agreed to do one!) I hope I haven’t missed any tags but I’m not all that confident that I haven’t! If you notice any I’ve missed, I’d like to know. Finally, I’ve added a list of these “labels” to the side of the blog for easy reference. And I removed my Twitter widget. I hope you like the changes!
And speaking of Coryats and Twitter, Andy did such a bang-up job talking about the method on Twitter this morning that I just have to share it. How I wish I could’ve linked to the whole conversation, but it doesn’t appear to be possible. 🙁 You might want to see this so you know some of what else was said, then read this (We’re talking to a guy who uses the Jeopardy! Challenger to keep score, like I used to do):
What I think she’s saying is that most people feel there is a better way of tracking how well you know the material that is asked on the show and that “wagering on Daily Doubles” measures that poorly. With Coryat scoring, DDs are counted at clue value if correct and nothing if incorrect (as response is forced).
“Fourth podium” scoring is only realistic if you only count your Lach Trash in your calculations and you can only face Daily Doubles if they appear immediately following a Triple Stumper that you got. Otherwise, there’s no meaningful basis for comparison, as nobody uses your scoring system anymore.
I hope clamming on a DD is counted as incorrect in your system, Robert (as you’d lose the money on the show). If it isn’t, the system holds even less comparative value. If you had a way of tracking how you did on each clue, you could still play Challenger for yourself, and then go and calculate your Coryat after the fact!
Apparently this was not quite enough, as Robert struggled this evening, too. Look, I’ve been thinking, for months now actually, about posting a little video tutorial on the method. My computer guy wants kind of a lot of money to help me with this, so I wonder, is it something you want?
All right, on to today’s episode.
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| Margaret Minett-Longdon of Winnebago IL (What does she mean by “health care worker”?) |
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| Brendan O’Connor of San Francisco CA (an Internet security engineer) |
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| Erik Dresner of Elmhurst NY (an Internet marketer) |
Erik is the returning champ, with one victory coming into today’s episode.
We only saw 11 clues at the first break, but four of them were triple-stumpers! Mr. Trebek got to practice his look and his slow school-teacher voice, and he’d need it again before the half-hour was through. Erik had gotten 4 right and had 2400. Brendan had gotten 3 right and one wrong, and had 600. Margaret had gotten 2 wrong and had -400.
The first clue after the break was the Daily Double, in The Stock Market. Erik found it, and he wagered all 2400 on this clue: “The world’s fourth-largest public company according to Forbes, it is traded in Amsterdam.” I thought I wanted more time on this one, but I wouldn’t have gotten it. Erik didn’t get it either.
I swept Rocktober, so that includes this triple-stumper: “Booing heard during his Oct. 15, 1971 performance at MSG inspired this ex-teen idol to write the song ‘Garden Party.'”
Mr. Trebek gave the less-than-a-minute warning with 6 clues left. Three of them were left covered, and one was another triple-stumper to make 6 so far. Erik had gotten 4 right since the break and had 1600. Brendan had 7 right since the break and had 5600. Margaret got 2 right and now had 0.
Erik made up for saying “Mauri-itis” (Mauritius) yesterday by picking up this one when Brendan left off a syllable, in “A” There: “Ethiopian empress Taitu gave this city a name meaning ‘new flower.'” Brendan had given Mr. Trebek pause on the last clue, when he sounded like he said “Acapoco.” (Acapulco) Margaret, though, found the first Daily Double of the round in the same category. She’d gotten 2 right since the break and had 2000. Erik had gotten the one right and had 2800. Brendan had gotten the one right and one wrong, and had 5200. Margaret wagered all 2000 on this clue: “From the Arabic for ‘the islands,’ this African city is capital of a country with a similar name.” Poor Margaret didn’t come up with anything, and Mr. Trebek had to say, “Did you forget the category?” “No,” she said.
Brendan had better luck on his Daily Double, in Like a Vestal Virgin. He’d gotten 3 right since Margaret’s Daily Double and had 7600. Erik had gotten 2 right and had 3600. Margaret had gotten 2 right and one wrong and had 400. There’d been another triple-stumper, too. Brendan wagered 1600 on this clue: “The vestal virgins received the wills of dignitaries, like this man who died in 30 B.C. & requested to be buried in Egypt.” He got it right. Did you notice Mr. Trebek added an ‘h’ when he said the response after Brendan did? Like the singer.
I got these two triple-stumpers in Snag a Ram with Anagrams: “‘Hey dog, run!’ appropriately anagrams to this breed” and “Runway star who ‘eludes romp.'” I didn’t notice til the second time through that Mr. Trebek added an ‘s’ when he revealed the response on the latter!
Mr. Trebek gave the one-minute warning with 9 clues left! Three were left covered. Did I really count 9 triple-stumpers in Double Jeopardy, for a total of 15? Erik had gotten one clue wrong and one right since Brendan’s Daily Double, and had 2000. Brendan had also gotten one right and one wrong, and had 8800. Margeret had gotten 3 right and had 5600.
The Final Jeopardy category was Authors, which, Mr. Trebek said, “might be a little easier for them.” This was the clue: “In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo river.” I’m a little surprised that all three contestants got this right, considering what a rough game it was. I said “Jules Verne” in desperation at the end of the 30 seconds. I’m happy to
see when I look it up that he died in 1905, making my guess at least possible. Erik wagered all 2000. Margaret wagered 3200, which gave her 8800 like Brendan, before he added 2401. This makes him the new champion!
My Coryat today was 17600; 19200 without negs. 🙁
Just one season 25 Coryat today: 25400 on the 1-15-09 episode (27800 without negs). But wait, there’s more about this: Yesterday I mentioned that a couple of us are posting our Coryats from season 25, and I invited you to post or at least compare yours. (You can either watch these episodes weekdays on the Game Show Network or play from the archive.) I thought about listing links to these season 25 Coryats, but a chat with Andy gave me another idea: tagging all those posts. So I have swept through and done that. (Okay, more like plodded through.) The tag is “Season25Coryats.” And there’s even more – I’ve added “QandA” tags to all the past interviews and Q & As. (By the way, tomorrow’s Mike Lonesky has agreed to do one!) I hope I haven’t missed any tags but I’m not all that confident that I haven’t! If you notice any I’ve missed, I’d like to know. Finally, I’ve added a list of these “labels” to the side of the blog for easy reference. And I removed my Twitter widget. I hope you like the changes!
