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Re: Jeopardy! National College Championship

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MattKnowles wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:07 am There are 24 teams with 16 players from 28 colleges. They are competing in 17 games over 10 broadcast days. Each game will have 3 rounds except for the wild card rounds and the quarter finals. The wild card rounds will have 2 rounds each and a bonus dance contest. The finals will be preempted by the semi finals to save time. In case of a tie breaker the winner will be determined by attendance records.
You left out the part about the requirement that they each dress as a character from Call Me Kat and that each losing player will be sent to Elimination Island (Mike Richards' old dressing room), where they'll compete in rounds of Wheel of Fortune to determine which player will come back at the end and challenge the tournament winner to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock to determine the overall Tournament Champion.

...or we can just relax and look forward to something new and interesting. After last year's transition debacle, it does seem that the show is now in pretty reliable hands, and that the Jeopardy! ship is being righted nicely after a difficult patch.
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MattKnowles wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:07 am There are 24 teams with 16 players from 28 colleges. They are competing in 17 games over 10 broadcast days. Each game will have 3 rounds
And from now on every tournament will keep this format, but randomly switch those numbers around.
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Re: Jeopardy! National College Championship

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Wait, 36 instead of 32? Does that mean they have one of those dreadful playins like NCAA put in when they went to 68?

Edit: yeah I know it’s 3 per game, it was a tongue-in-cheek comment.
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BobF wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:38 am Wait, 36 instead of 32? Does that mean they have one of those dreadful playins like NCAA put in when they went to 68?

Edit: yeah I know it’s 3 per game, it was a tongue-in-cheek comment.
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OntarioQuizzer wrote: Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:44 pm Note: the following I would consider to be informed speculation.

18 teams of 2 players, each representing the same school.

9 hour-long episodes (Remember, The Bachelor airs on ABC Mondays and that ain't moving.) Each episode is a self-contained match where one player from the team plays one half and the other plays the other half.

First 6 episodes: Quarterfinals, winners advance.
Next 2 episodes: Semifinals, winners + highest 2nd placed team advances
Last episode: Final.
Just a reminder: While I did say it was informed speculation, it is still speculation. There is still a reasonable chance that this isn't the format.
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Re: Jeopardy! National College Championship

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Press photos for the first two episodes are out: https://www.dgepress.com/abc/shows/jeop ... 643650339/
- There are no teams, as the players in the first half of the quarterfinal matches aren't representing the same college as the contestants in the second half.
Here are the matchups. The taping dates can be found through the metadata of the press photos:
Episode 1; Taped Sunday, November 21; Airing Tuesday, February 8: Isaac Applebaum (Stanford) vs. Gus Guszkowski (Dartmouth) vs. Catherine Zhang (Cornell) and Ella Feiner (Princeton) vs. Jasmine Manansala (Rice) vs. Stephen Privat (LSU)
Episode 2; Taped Monday, November 22; Airing Wednesday, February 9: Touissant Pegues (Caltech) vs. Emmey Harris (University of Minnesota) vs. Mehek Boparai (Penn State) and Yejun Kim (Northwestern) vs. Mitch Macek (Villanova) vs. Joey Kornman (Brandeis)
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gameshowfandanny wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:41 pm Press photos for the first two episodes are out: https://www.dgepress.com/abc/shows/jeop ... 643650339/
- There are no teams, as the players in the first half of the quarterfinal matches aren't representing the same college as the contestants in the second half.
Here are the matchups. The taping dates can be found through the metadata of the press photos:
Episode 1; Taped Sunday, November 21; Airing Tuesday, February 8: Isaac Applebaum (Stanford) vs. Gus Guszkowski (Dartmouth) vs. Catherine Zhang (Cornell) and Ella Feiner (Princeton) vs. Jasmine Manansala (Rice) vs. Stephen Privat (LSU)
Episode 2; Taped Monday, November 22; Airing Wednesday, February 9: Touissant Pegues (Caltech) vs. Emmey Harris (University of Minnesota) vs. Mehek Boparai (Penn State) and Yejun Kim (Northwestern) vs. Mitch Macek (Villanova) vs. Joey Kornman (Brandeis)
Good EXIF sleuthing. Would much appreciate it if you could post back here every time there is an update on the press release page.
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Robert K S wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:59 pm
gameshowfandanny wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:41 pm Press photos for the first two episodes are out: https://www.dgepress.com/abc/shows/jeop ... 643650339/
- There are no teams, as the players in the first half of the quarterfinal matches aren't representing the same college as the contestants in the second half.
Here are the matchups. The taping dates can be found through the metadata of the press photos:
Episode 1; Taped Sunday, November 21; Airing Tuesday, February 8: Isaac Applebaum (Stanford) vs. Gus Guszkowski (Dartmouth) vs. Catherine Zhang (Cornell) and Ella Feiner (Princeton) vs. Jasmine Manansala (Rice) vs. Stephen Privat (LSU)
Episode 2; Taped Monday, November 22; Airing Wednesday, February 9: Touissant Pegues (Caltech) vs. Emmey Harris (University of Minnesota) vs. Mehek Boparai (Penn State) and Yejun Kim (Northwestern) vs. Mitch Macek (Villanova) vs. Joey Kornman (Brandeis)
Good EXIF sleuthing. Would much appreciate it if you could post back here every time there is an update on the press release page.
Yes, I will do that.
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Thanks for the update.

So after six nights (12 games), we will have three more nights (six games) to determine the champion from the 12 winners.
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Bamaman wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:22 pm So after six nights (12 games), we will have three more nights (six games) to determine the champion from the 12 winners.
And, as noted previously in this thread, it will consume four of those six games just for the 12 winners to play a second round. But that would give us... four finalists. For two final games? Still having a hard time making sense of this.
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Robert K S wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:35 pm
Bamaman wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:22 pm So after six nights (12 games), we will have three more nights (six games) to determine the champion from the 12 winners.
And, as noted previously in this thread, it will consume four of those six games just for the 12 winners to play a second round. But that would give us... four finalists. For two final games? Still having a hard time making sense of this.
Two possibilities come to mind:

1. They drag the fourth podium from Super Jeopardy out of storage.

2. The lowest scoring SF winner is eliminated, like in the Teen Reunion Tournament

Not a fan of either one, but I’d prefer the first option
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Robert K S wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:35 pm
Bamaman wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:22 pm So after six nights (12 games), we will have three more nights (six games) to determine the champion from the 12 winners.
And, as noted previously in this thread, it will consume four of those six games just for the 12 winners to play a second round. But that would give us... four finalists. For two final games? Still having a hard time making sense of this.
Night 7A: 1 winner out of 3 players
Night 7B: 1 winner
Night: 8A: 1 winner
Night 8B: 1 winner

Night 9A&B - 4 players and 2-game total - Could Be?
Night 9A&B - 3 highest-scoring winners from Nights 7 & 8 in 2-game total?

Just to mess with people's heads:
9A is 4 players and top 3 go to one-game final in 9B? :)
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Re: Jeopardy! National College Championship

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What if the last two nights have a four-game finals where the object for each of the four finalists is to accumulate as much money over three of the four games that the finalist gets to play in, the four finalists A, B, C, D being assigned as follows (or equivalent):

Final game 1: A B C
Final game 2: B C D
Final game 3: C D A
Final game 4: D A B

Each of the four finalists gets to play in three games, and each of the four finalists gets to play each of the three other finalists exactly twice.
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Robert K S wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:13 pm What if the last two nights have a four-game finals where the object for each of the four finalists is to accumulate as much money over three of the four games that the finalist gets to play in, the four finalists A, B, C, D being assigned as follows (or equivalent):

Final game 1: A B C
Final game 2: B C D
Final game 3: C D A
Final game 4: D A B

Each of the four finalists gets to play in three games, and each of the four finalists gets to play each of the three other finalists exactly twice.
A better idea than either of my suggestions, have the lowest scoring SF winner sit out Game 4. But this format probably confuses viewers.
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Robert K S wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:13 pm What if the last two nights have a four-game finals where the object for each of the four finalists is to accumulate as much money over three of the four games that the finalist gets to play in, the four finalists A, B, C, D being assigned as follows (or equivalent):

Final game 1: A B C
Final game 2: B C D
Final game 3: C D A
Final game 4: D A B

Each of the four finalists gets to play in three games, and each of the four finalists gets to play each of the three other finalists exactly twice.
Wouldn’t this format take 10 nights?

Also, the fact that there is only one contestant from each institution doesn’t necessarily eliminate a team format.
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Golf wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:13 pm Wouldn’t this format take 10 nights?
Oops, you're right. Wishful thinking on my part.
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Re: Jeopardy! National College Championship

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Wow, very much appreciate these updates. Glad to know it's not going to be teams. I'm really looking forward to watching this!

I guess, other than how the semis/finals are going to be formatted, the only question I have is if the winner of the NCC is going to be invited to the 2022 ToC. I would imagine as such! Would be cool if they matched up the NCC winner with Sam Buttrey, haha.
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Assuming that Four players come out of the semis and advance to the finals night, I still think we could see something like this:

Game 1: 2nd, 3rd, and 4th highest scoring semi-final winners.

Game 2: Top 2 scorers from Game 1 vs. Highest scoring semi-final winner for Championship.
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Re: Jeopardy! National College Championship

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Does anyone know if getting rid of the teams had something to do NBC's College Bowl program last year? Like they didn't want to be seen as copycats
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Re: Jeopardy! National College Championship

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Interviews? I hope not. I don't want to listen to 20 year old's talk.
I want action. Hopefully, something like this:

11 days or 22 games.
36 into 12 games (6 days) will give 12 winners. First round
12 winners + 3 WC (2 1/2 days) will give 5 winners. Quarter's
5 winners + 4 WC (1 1/2 days) will give 3 winners. Semi's
3 winners (1 day) for a two-game final. Championship.

11 days in there.
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