No College and/or Teen play this season?

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No College and/or Teen play this season?

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I had thought that one of those tournaments would be held starting this week (leading up to the already-announced Celebrity games). When I went to the J! site they're showing regular-game Howdies though. Unless they plan on airing both of them sometime between the latter part of May and the end of season, does that mean that for the first time since each of the respective tourneys began a season will go by without a Teen Tournament or College Championship?
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This topic has been discussed in a couple of other threads here, and many other posters shared your surprise that the College Tournament did not seem to be taking place before the Celebrity Week. Last year's Teen Tournament was held in July/August, in the last 2 weeks of the season before the summer hiatus, so some assumed the teens would again go in that spot with the college taking place in May. There are still many weeks in May/June/July that these tournaments could be shown, but if they are, it is a definite departure from past practices for them not to have aired during sweeps months. I think we're pretty much all in the dark at this point as to when or if either tournament will occur this season. It's been a very long time since they've held an online test for teens or college as well, so it could be that they're going to shift one or both of them from being held annually, and instead hold them sporadically like the TOC, possibly making more room for other specialty weeks, such as Celebrities, Power Players, or even expanding Kids Week to a full tournament. This is just my speculation, don't read anything into it.
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There will likely be a tournament to cap the season in July. Taping for the season has ended by now so somebody out there knows what will appear.
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Last I checked, my TiVo listings showed the college championship starting next week, which I noted as weird because it would be split by celeb week.

At any rate, I would expect at least one more tournament so they have enough reruns to fill the summer hiatus.
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My DVR which gets its listings from zap2it shows College Championship Week 1 for next week.

Also, a press release from Sony back in September said about Season 31: "Other season highlights include the Teachers Tournament, College Championship, Teen Tournament, and Kids Week."
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Robert K S wrote:There will likely be a tournament to cap the season in July. Taping for the season has ended by now so somebody out there knows what will appear.
I can confirm that there will not be a tournament either the week of 7/13 or 7/20.
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alamble wrote:
Robert K S wrote:There will likely be a tournament to cap the season in July. Taping for the season has ended by now so somebody out there knows what will appear.
I can confirm that there will not be a tournament either the week of 7/13 or 7/20.
Seems to be a tradition of sorts lately to end the season with s tournament, usually Kids or Teens
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alamble wrote:
Robert K S wrote:There will likely be a tournament to cap the season in July. Taping for the season has ended by now so somebody out there knows what will appear.
I can confirm that there will not be a tournament either the week of 7/13 or 7/20.
Curioser and curioser, this seems to get.
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Plactus wrote:Last I checked, my TiVo listings showed the college championship starting next week, which I noted as weird because it would be split by celeb week.

At any rate, I would expect at least one more tournament so they have enough reruns to fill the summer hiatus.
If they reran Teacher's, TOC, Kids and Celebs, that would fill it up.
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alamble wrote:
Robert K S wrote:There will likely be a tournament to cap the season in July. Taping for the season has ended by now so somebody out there knows what will appear.
I can confirm that there will not be a tournament either the week of 7/13 or 7/20.
I must admit I'm a bit relieved at this, because I'll be out of town. I do hope they have those tournaments, but it's been so long since the test that maybe everyone's eligibility has expired.
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Somebody asked about a College Championship on Jeopardy!'s Facebook page 3 or 4 weeks ago. An answer that purported to come from J! staff said there would "probably" not be a College Championship until Season 32.

I have no actual facts of my own, but I was worried that the Internet wasn't spreading gossip and rumors fast enough without my help.
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Usually my twitter search skills are on fleek, but I haven't seen a single mention of anybody taping a Teen or College tournament. Someone would have spilled the beans if it had happened already, I think.
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I agree.

And although it appears that celebs have just recently taped their games for the week of May 11, my sources tell me that regular-season games to be aired the last week of May taped during the first week of March, so a lot of Season 31 is probably already in the can.
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Winchell Factor wrote:I agree.

And although it appears that celebs have just recently taped their games for the week of May 11, my sources tell me that regular-season games to be aired the last week of May taped during the first week of March, so a lot of Season 31 is probably already in the can.
Usually the last games of the season(last show of the season now airs in late July or early August) are taped around late March or early April with a occasional May sweeps tourney taping a bit after that, no?
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Seems strange the info for the next two weeks on zap2it both show that there is a College Tournament then. I don't know if it's right or wrong.
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kingskip wrote:Seems strange the info for the next two weeks on zap2it both show that there is a College Tournament then. I don't know if it's right or wrong.
Wasn't there a similar discussion in the past year or so regarding a scheduled-but-never-actually-happened Armed Forces Week? I thought that some online sources said it was going to air, but it never did.
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The next 2 weeks are a Tournament with the regular games coming back May 18.
Also when I was out there taping, Greg said there had been 3 weeks since he was last out in California, so it looks like 2 tournaments taped in between his first appearances on Thursday and Friday and his return on Monday.
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mrsal67 wrote:The next 2 weeks are a Tournament with the regular games coming back May 18.
Also when I was out there taping, Greg said there had been 3 weeks since he was last out in California, so it looks like 2 tournaments taped in between his first appearances on Thursday and Friday and his return on Monday.
What are you basing it on when you say the next two weeks are a Tournament? The Celebrity Games are only one week, May 11-15.
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Rafferty Barnes wrote:Usually my twitter search skills are on fleek
Ummm ... what does that even mean?
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Skills on fleek is something you either know or you don't. :D
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