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This game’s Jeopardy! Masters contestants:
Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, New York (0 points)
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Mattea Roach, a writer & podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1 points)
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James Holzhauer, the self-described “final boss” of Jeopardy! from Las Vegas, Nevada (1 points)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Tonight’s opening match is between James Holzhauer, Mattea Roach, and Matt Amodio, in a rematch of last year’s final. I’m anticipating this to be a good bounce-back game for James.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! Masters today? Here’s the Monday, May 6, 2024 Jeopardy! Masters (game 1) by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: 18th Century Names; Days Of Guns N’ Roses; Weight Of The Whirled; The State I’m In; Same First & Last Letter; Mastering Italian Cooking)
It was Matt who got out to the best start, picking up $5,000 on a Daily Double and holding the lead through 30.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Matt 12 correct 0 incorrect
James 12 correct 0 incorrect
Mattea 3 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt 12,000
James 6,800
Mattea 1,200
Today’s interviews:
Matt went to Cleveland for the eclipse.
Mattea got into a Talking Heads afterparty in Toronto.
James went to the Super Bowl with Paul Bailey.
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Death Of A Writer; Movie Series Characters; Too Much; Hobbies & Pastimes; World Religion; The Response’s GPA)
I think Matt poked the bear; James doubled up twice on Daily Doubles to hold a massive lead going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
James 23 correct 0 incorrect
Matt 20 correct 1 incorrect
Mattea 9 correct 1 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
James 45,200
Matt 19,200
Mattea 5,600
Final Jeopardy category: 20th Century Leaders
Final Jeopardy! clue: 1 of the “Big Four” at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference & a former journalist, he’d supported the Impressionists & Alfred Dreyfus
Correct response: Who is Georges Clemenceau?
Everyone was correct; 3 points for James, 1 for Matt!
Tonight’s results:
Mattea 5,600 + 158 = 5,758 (Who is Clemenceau?) (0 points, 1 total)
Matt 19,200 + 0 = 19,200 (Who Clemenceau) (1 point, 1 total)
James 45,200 + 908 = 46,108 (Who is Clemenceau) (3 points, 4 total)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) 18th CENTURY NAMES 400 (clue #11)
Matt 5000 +5000 (James 2600 Mattea 0)
2) DEATH OF A WRITER 1200 (clue #2)
James 8400 +8400 (Mattea 1200 Matt 12000)
3) THE RESPONSE’S GPA 1600 (clue #16, 14400 left on board)
James 20000 +20000 (Mattea 3200 Matt 18800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 300
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
James 5 4 3 4
Mattea
Matt 5 4 5 3 5 5 2*
DJ! Round:
James 3* 3 3 2 4*
Mattea 4 2
Matt 4 5 3 4 5 4 3 2 3
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
James 3.44
Matt 3.88
Mattea 3.00
Game Stats:
James 19,600 Coryat, 23 correct, 0 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Matt 14,600 Coryat, 20 correct, 1 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Mattea 5,600 Coryat, 9 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $39,800
Lach Trash: $11,800 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $2,400
Player Statistics:
James Holzhauer, career statistics:
1851 correct, 94 incorrect
57/62 on rebound attempts (on 136 rebound opportunities)
51.12% in first on buzzer (1710/3345)
104/114 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $883,793)
46/59 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $25,671
Mattea Roach, career statistics:
910 correct, 97 incorrect
46/54 on rebound attempts (on 155 rebound opportunities)
38.22% in first on buzzer (866/2266)
38/47 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $102,000)
24/40 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,600
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
1564 correct, 178 incorrect
63/73 on rebound attempts (on 162 rebound opportunities)
48.41% in first on buzzer (1509/3117)
91/105 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $352,200)
36/54 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $23,044
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This is the James I was fully expecting to see 🙂
Gotta feel for Matt, though, having what I believe to be the highest first-round score of any Master (last year or this year) and then having this happen. At least he got a point!
don’t know if Matt really “poked the bear” (James) this game. To me, James began to “hit his stride” late in the Jeopardy round, continued in Double Jeopardy, found, and, bet very agressively, as his style, and, was right on both, which gave him his unsurmountable lead.
As for the Final Jeopardy, I didn’t know who the “Big Four” were from WWI, so I had no chance to come up with the correct response.
Such a great game all around in my opinion. Nice to see both Matt and James thriving again.
Like Bill, I didn’t know who the Big 4 were in 1919 and just said Kaiser Wilhelm as a guess.
Didn’t get to watch, as I am in Laughlin.
I was quite sure the Big 4 represented USA, Great Britain, France & Italy and I was pretty confident that the correct response would be the Prime Minister of France, but I had no idea what his name was.