finishemzoe wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 12:50 pm
hansenkd wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 9:13 am
I noticed they finally added John Focht to the tracker on the official site. Unbelievable that nobody has hit four wins since then. The way regular play has been going lately, it will be a LONG time before the next ToC.
They might also just include some 3x winners if they can't fill up the field in a certain amount of time, like Kelly Donohue and Lucy Ricketts. Though with the controversy surrounding Kelly, idk how willing they'd actually be to include him. Lucy technically beats his amount
if you include consolation prizes too.
Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't believe that TPTB do that when calculating who the highest-earning winners - &, thus, the seeds - among equal-win champs are. That is, champs with an equal number of wins are ranked only by the amount of money which they won in the games which they won, & the consolation prizes which they were awarded in their final game don't come into play insofar as ranks are concerned.
In any event, though, I just can't imagine that TPTB would actually be willing to exclude Kelly in the event that they felt very ready to lock the next ToC & he happened to be final seed. Yes, they have a morality clause for contestants' potential future ToC appearances in that they could not invite someone back for any reason or for no reason at all, but IIRC from a ToC'ers (I wanna say it was Sam K.) comment in an r/Jeopardy thread on this matter a while back, they only apply it in the case of an actual crime (e.g., Slowik obviously not being invited to the 2014 ToC). Moreover, even the ADL said after reviewing the tape that Kelly's action was no more than what he claimed that it'd been - waving 1 finger when Johnny said he was a 1-day champ, 2 fingers when Johnny said he was a 2-day champ, & 3 fingers when Johnny said he was a 3-day champ; yes, awkwardly so, what with the folding of his index & forefingers as opposed to the presumably easier raising of the index, middle, & ring fingers while holding the thumb to the little finger, but it still wasn't even identical to the actual "OK" sign which white supremacists have appropriated (& he presumably would've just waved 4 fingers had he came back the next day too) - & not interpretable as "indicative of any ideology," so given the obvious absence of an actual crime here, I'd be very surprised to see the same TPTB that stuck with Ken through "bean dad" & Dr. Oz through, well, being Dr. Oz opt to not invite Kelly back were he to have otherwise earned himself a spot in the next ToC for what basically amounted to an overblown internet "controversy."