Inaugural Entry
Hi all, this my first LJ entry, so in the spirit of new ventures we are going to talk about old accomplishments. For the curious, I have a few things to say about being on Jeopardy! again recently, if for some reason you missed out and want to catch up, let me know. I might have a tape or DVD for you to borrow, in a way that I am sure is highly respectful of Sony's intellectual property.
I wanted to blog on this earlier, but Jeopardy! was "uncomfortable" with me "doing my own publicity", so I waited. Now I guess I'm open to questions, should any of you teeming masses have any.
*spoiler alert*
(revealing game outcome, and honestly, venting just a bit)
So I lost in the first round of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. What can I say? They're all excellent players. A few things, however, I would like point out: The writers didn't do me any favors certainly, with some of my strongest areas marginalized. Note that the only science was a bug category in the first round, the only pop culture was song lyrics, also in the first round. I got 4/5 in each, but no daily doubles, and those topics appearing early seemed to exclude "harder" science and pop culture later on where it would have been worth at least twice as much. Arts is another good area for me, visual arts, classical music, opera, and literature are all some of my favorite topics. I'm not bad at theater, but when they decide to throw a theater category at us where 4/5 questions died with no one answering (apparently plays that were not nearly as famous as they thought they were), and that is the only arts they deign to use for that game it's pretty painful. Also painful is being reduced to a spectator as your competition hits all three daily doubles, when you've been specifically looking for them. Ah well, thats the game I guess. With better writing and different distribution, I definitely might have had an edge. As it was, it was definitely an uphill battle, and pretty much all the breaks went against me. I had a good time, and I was certainly compensated and all, but I like to believe it could have easily gone another way.
I wanted to blog on this earlier, but Jeopardy! was "uncomfortable" with me "doing my own publicity", so I waited. Now I guess I'm open to questions, should any of you teeming masses have any.
*spoiler alert*
(revealing game outcome, and honestly, venting just a bit)
So I lost in the first round of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. What can I say? They're all excellent players. A few things, however, I would like point out: The writers didn't do me any favors certainly, with some of my strongest areas marginalized. Note that the only science was a bug category in the first round, the only pop culture was song lyrics, also in the first round. I got 4/5 in each, but no daily doubles, and those topics appearing early seemed to exclude "harder" science and pop culture later on where it would have been worth at least twice as much. Arts is another good area for me, visual arts, classical music, opera, and literature are all some of my favorite topics. I'm not bad at theater, but when they decide to throw a theater category at us where 4/5 questions died with no one answering (apparently plays that were not nearly as famous as they thought they were), and that is the only arts they deign to use for that game it's pretty painful. Also painful is being reduced to a spectator as your competition hits all three daily doubles, when you've been specifically looking for them. Ah well, thats the game I guess. With better writing and different distribution, I definitely might have had an edge. As it was, it was definitely an uphill battle, and pretty much all the breaks went against me. I had a good time, and I was certainly compensated and all, but I like to believe it could have easily gone another way.