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This game’s Jeopardy! Masters contestants:
Mattea Roach, a writer & podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (26-15, 5 points)
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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California (48-17, 5 points)
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Victoria Groce, a writer & television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (9-3, 13 points)
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Andy’s Pre-Game Thoughts:
This half of the episode is the important one: while Victoria Groce has already clinched her spot in the semifinals, both Amy Schneider and Mattea Roach have decidedly not. Both tied on 5 points right now, whoever finishes this game with the higher score advances to the semifinals, with the other player eliminated from the event.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! Masters today? Here’s the Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Jeopardy! Masters (game 2) by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: A Standing Oration; Science Fiction; Business & Pleasure; Let’s Get Cooking; Floating On A Stream Of TV; Foreign Words)
Victoria got the Daily Double and jumped into the lead; only 200 points separated Amy and Mattea through 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Victoria 12 correct 3 incorrect
Amy 6 correct 0 incorrect
Mattea 10 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Victoria 7,000
Amy 3,800
Mattea 3,600
Today’s interviews:
Mattea went to Primavera Sound Festival in Portugal.
Amy is planning on starting a podcast.
Victoria has injured herself twice while knitting.
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Down In The Valley; Prehistoric Creatures; Potpourri; The “RH” Factor; A Total Banger; Killer Riffs)
Mattea missed DD2, bringing them back to 0; they only got 2,800 the rest of the way—giving Amy a runaway for second. Victoria, who bet 5 points on DD3, had a runaway of her own going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Victoria 27 correct 4 incorrect
Amy 11 correct 1 incorrect
Mattea 13 correct 2 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Victoria 21,005
Amy 7,800
Mattea 2,800
Final Jeopardy category: Short Stories
Final Jeopardy! clue: “Down–steadily down it crept… downward with its lateral velocity. To the right–to the left” is in this 1842 tale
Correct response: What is “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
All three players were incorrect—and everyone bet zero! Victoria and Amy are your semifinalists. Mattea leaves with $75,000.
Tonight’s results:
Mattea 2,800 – $0 = $2,800 (What an anticlimactic end to the quarters! Congrats Amy)
Amy 7,800 – $0 = $7,800 (What is the Gold Bug?)
Victoria 21,005 – $0 = $21,005 (What is the Tell-Tale Heart?)
Jeopardy! Masters Standings:
(through May 15)
1st: Victoria Groce (16 points, 5 wins, 150 correct, 132,200 Coryat, 190,005 Pre-FJ)
2nd: Yogesh Raut (10 points, 3 wins, 120 correct, 94,200 Coryat, 120,395 Pre-FJ)
3rd: James Holzhauer (9 points, 2 wins, 127 correct, 87,800 Coryat, 127,000 Pre-FJ)
4th: Amy Schneider (6 points, 1 win, 86 correct, 59,000 Coryat, 73,400 Pre-FJ)
5th: Mattea Roach (5 points, 1 win, 81 correct, 53,200 Coryat, 61,200 Pre-FJ)
6th: Matt Amodio (2 points, 0 wins, 89 correct, 50,200 Coryat, 49,800 Pre-FJ)
Chances of winning / making the finals:
James Holzhauer: 39.1% to win, 84% to make the finals
Victoria Groce: 27.4% to win, 79.8% to make the finals
Amy Schneider: 17.6% to win, 69.7% to make the finals
Yogesh Raut: 15.9% to win, 66.6% to make the finals
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) SCIENCE FICTION $800 (clue #8)
Victoria 1400 +1400 (Amy 1800 Mattea 600)
2) DOWN IN THE VALLEY $1200 (clue #1)
Mattea 3600 -3600 (Victoria 7000 Amy 3800)
3) PREHISTORIC CREATURES $2000 (clue #9, $23600 left on board)
Victoria 11400 +5 (Amy 4200 Mattea 0)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 0
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Victoria 4 5 4 5 4*
Amy 3 3
Mattea 5
DJ! Round:
Victoria 4 3 2 5*
Amy 2 3 4
Mattea 3* 5
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Victoria 4.00
Amy 3.00
Mattea 4.33
Game Stats:
Victoria $22,400 Coryat, 27 correct, 4 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Amy $7,800 Coryat, 11 correct, 1 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Mattea $6,400 Coryat, 13 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $36,600
Lach Trash: $11,000 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,400
Player Statistics:
Victoria Groce, career statistics:
328 correct, 44 incorrect
10/11 on rebound attempts (on 34 rebound opportunities)
44.70% in first on buzzer (329/736)
16/19 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $106,705)
7/13 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,538
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
1790 correct, 130 incorrect
89/107 on rebound attempts (on 256 rebound opportunities)
43.34% in first on buzzer (1651/3809)
80/95 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $257,800)
45/67 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,382
Mattea Roach, career statistics:
970 correct, 107 incorrect
48/56 on rebound attempts (on 170 rebound opportunities)
37.13% in first on buzzer (926/2494)
41/51 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $115,000)
25/44 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,982
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I would be remiss if I did not point out that this is only the third known instance of all three players betting zero in Final Jeopardy.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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As someone who has the Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe on her Kindle, I got this as soon as my brain fully parsed the clue. I’m sorry and a bit surprised that this was a triple miss, though. Especially since Victoria and Amy both knew Poe (probably because of the year in the clue).
You mean to tell me that it’s possible to have a triple-zero-wager game without Mira Hayward?
Who coulda thunk it? 🙂
😉
As much as Victoria has impressed me throughout the JIT and the Masters, her inability to finish the drill with FJs in the six games so far has me a bit worried. It’s kind of surprising that she’s only 2-for-6 so far, and this FJ must have really flummoxed her since she forgot to say hi to Nora.
For me, this feels like a “she can’t keep getting away with it, can she” kind of deal. I don’t know which of Yogesh or James will take advantage — Amy seems to be out of her league against Victoria comparatively — but it feels like the proverbial gun on the mantel.
Oh well. Onto the semis!
Matchups for Friday are posted. As I predicted based on last year, Amy sits out Game 1 on Friday, and James does so in Game 2.
I expect Yogesh to have the bye in the early game on Monday, and Victoria in the nightcap. (That is, the players will be idle in reverse order of the quarterfinal standings.)
I think you’re correct on this assumption Matt. 🙂
I wonder what the rationale is behind this. It seems Victoria has earned the rights to “last at-bat”. I would have given byes in the order: Victoria, Yogesh, James, Amy.
The fourth-place player sits out the first semifinal, then the third-place player sits out the second semifinal, and so on.
The rationale is basically the opposite: because the top player in the quarters is generally seen as the most likely to have already qualified for the semis, it makes sense for suspense’s sake to have 2-3-4 play off for what amounts to the last spot in the finals at the end.
Thanks, that makes sense. A dead-rubber game 4 would be a pretty terrible outcome.
I still think Victoria (or whoever finishes first) deserves some advantage for her quarterfinals performance. I also think it’s kind of clunky to have four games just to pare four contestants down the three. I’m wondering if it would be better tournament design to give first place a bye directly into the final, and have second, third and fourth play a two-game total point round for the last two spots in the final.
The drawback (for me at least) is that it makes one fewer Masters episode.
I went with what Victoria did and guessed “The Tell Tale Heart.” I was close in the it was Poe and I was just spit balling. 🙂
Retro congrats to Amy on moving on to the Semis. Mattea is one of my faves and sorry to see Mattea go.
I think I’ve at least skimmed one, or,of Poe’s works. But what little of that I retained didn’t help me with this FInal Jeopardy. I didn’t even recognize the quote as being from one of Poe’s works.
I didn’t recognize it either, but I assumed Poe because Final Jeopardy! rarely goes very deep in a category and Poe is about the most famous short story writer of that time period. [For a bit broader period (as 1842 is too early) Mark Twain is pretty well known for short stories, but more so for books, whereas Poe is maybe more known for poems.] But this just sounded more like Poe. However, I did not expect to be able to think of what story it would be, so didn’t even try. I should have tried because though I did not like that story, its title has been an ear-worm before.
Not entirely logical, but Poe makes me think of ravens (animals) and “crept” made me think of animals [rather than inanimate objects], so I suppose that is why I did not believe I would be able to think of an apt story/title.
Congrats to Victoria, Yogesh, James, and Amy for making it to the semis! So sorry to Matt and Mattea for being eliminated so early this time around. 🥺