Leonard drops the mic on Jeopardy!

[JackReacher]

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/50788/the-jeopardy-teen-tournament-just-got-real

That was incredible.

 

[Versatile]

It's not about a salary; it's all about reality.

 

[Bruce Leroy]

Holy ****, that was fantastic. I hear Leonard is related to Billy Ocean too.

 

[dreunc1542]

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Freaking fantastic.

 

[Rhody31]

That took balls because he did not have that thing won until the first kid got the answer wrong. The kid in the middle couldn't have caught his two-day total, but if that little indian kid gets the answer right, Leonard loses.

 

[LongTimeListener]

That took balls because he did not have that thing won until the first kid got the answer wrong. The kid in the middle couldn't have caught his two-day total, but if that little indian kid gets the answer right, Leonard loses.

Incorrect. The Indian kid had $14,400. Leonard had $37,000. He actually could have lost $8,000 on the bet and still won.

C'mon man. Leonard don't play.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

That took balls because he did not have that thing won until the first kid got the answer wrong. The kid in the middle couldn't have caught his two-day total, but if that little indian kid gets the answer right, Leonard loses.

Incorrect. The Indian kid had $14,400. Leonard had $37,000. He actually could have lost $8,000 on the bet and still won.

C'mon man. Leonard don't play.

Wrong.

After Day One: Indian Kid 19000 Pointdexter 17600 Leonard 3000

Day 2, going into Final Jeopardy: Indian Kid 14400 Pointdexter 9000 Leonard 37000

The Indian kid actually bet 7000 in Final Jeopardy. Had he got it right, his two day total would have been 40,400. (19,000 from day 1; 21,400 from day 2). Leonard could have lost by $400.

 

[buckweaver]

That took balls because he did not have that thing won until the first kid got the answer wrong. The kid in the middle couldn't have caught his two-day total, but if that little indian kid gets the answer right, Leonard loses.

Incorrect. The Indian kid had $14,400. Leonard had $37,000. He actually could have lost $8,000 on the bet and still won.

C'mon man. Leonard don't play.

Wrong.

After Day One: Indian Kid 19000 Pointdexter 17600 Leonard 3000

Day 2, going into Final Jeopardy: Indian Kid 14400 Pointdexter 9000 Leonard 37000

The Indian kid actually bet 7000 in Final Jeopardy. Had he got it right, his two day total would have been 40,400. (19,000 from day 1; 21,400 from day 2). Leonard could have lost by $400.

I don't think so. The $37K and $14.4K were running two-day totals.

Have you ever watched the show? I don't think I have ever one time seen a single person rack up $37,000 in a single day. Your scenario has a total of $60,400 handed out, in a game where the total prize available if everybody gets everything right is $45,000 plus daily doubles. That is with 100 percent correct answers and some big ass daily double wagers.

Please to be trying math again.

Go back and watch the video. They "wiped out" the first day totals before they started the second show.

In the final minute, Leonard had $18.2K in second-day winnings and then he won an $18K Daily Double to give him $36.2K. He answered an $800 question (unseen on the video clip) to give him $37K entering Final Jeopardy.

Adding that to his $3,000 first-day winnings gave him $40K total.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Wow, ****. Yeah, my bad. Apologies to the Pontiff.

That takes some ****ing balls. Holy cow.

 

[FootballScribe]

I have a feeling it wasn't about having balls and more about his not doing the calculations correctly. It's pretty funny but he got lucky.

 

[albert77]

I was rooting for him all along. I mean, you've gotta love a kid who shows up for the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament with an afro. I'd have been OK with the Indian kid winning, but the dork in the middle came off like a stuffed shirt.

BTW, I recall a similar finish in one of the college tournaments, when a guy from Rutgers, who looked and acted like just another dude from the Deke house, had the title sewed up by Final Jeopardy, and his answer was, "Who is someone I've never met?"

 

[Big Circus]

I was rooting for him all along. I mean, you've gotta love a kid who shows up for the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament with an afro. I'd have been OK with the Indian kid winning, but the dork in the middle came off like a stuffed shirt.

Grantland's Jay Kang had a great comment on the white dude:

Also, Barrett's going to have a nice career as the spokesperson for the White Delegation at the next Racial Draft. Send that dude to Georgetown already and get him out of my life.

 

[BDC99]

I have a feeling it wasn't about having balls and more about his not doing the calculations correctly. It's pretty funny but he got lucky.

Don't think he got lucky, but he just played the percentages. Would have looked like an idiot if he lost, but I doubt anyone would remember it for long.

 

[SalukiNC]

Not as cool without the afro

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I have a feeling it wasn't about having balls and more about his not doing the calculations correctly. It's pretty funny but he got lucky.

Don't think he got lucky, but he just played the percentages. Would have looked like an idiot if he lost, but I doubt anyone would remember it for long.

I wonder if he was watching the other contestants and knew the only guy who could catch him was struggling?

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

I was rooting for him all along. I mean, you've gotta love a kid who shows up for the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament with an afro. I'd have been OK with the Indian kid winning, but the dork in the middle came off like a stuffed shirt.

Grantland's Jay Kang had a great comment on the white dude:

Also, Barrett's going to have a nice career as the spokesperson for the White Delegation at the next Racial Draft. Send that dude to Georgetown already and get him out of my life.

1. Jay Kang is a douchebag. So is anyone with the middle name Caspian.

2. Way to pick on an awkward teen. Like I said: Douchebag.

 

[FootballScribe]

I have a feeling it wasn't about having balls and more about his not doing the calculations correctly. It's pretty funny but he got lucky.

Don't think he got lucky, but he just played the percentages. Would have looked like an idiot if he lost, but I doubt anyone would remember it for long.

Not sure he was really playing the percentages. The other kid either gets it right or he gets it wrong. Maybe I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt in assuming he just miscalculated because if he did that knowing full well he could lose, it's not ballsy, it's stupid.

 

[deskslave]

That took balls because he did not have that thing won until the first kid got the answer wrong. The kid in the middle couldn't have caught his two-day total, but if that little indian kid gets the answer right, Leonard loses.

Incorrect. The Indian kid had $14,400. Leonard had $37,000. He actually could have lost $8,000 on the bet and still won.

C'mon man. Leonard don't play.

Wrong.

After Day One: Indian Kid 19000 Pointdexter 17600 Leonard 3000

Day 2, going into Final Jeopardy: Indian Kid 14400 Pointdexter 9000 Leonard 37000

The Indian kid actually bet 7000 in Final Jeopardy. Had he got it right, his two day total would have been 40,400. (19,000 from day 1; 21,400 from day 2). Leonard could have lost by $400.

I don't think so. The $37K and $14.4K were running two-day totals.

Have you ever watched the show? I don't think I have ever one time seen a single person rack up $37,000 in a single day. Your scenario has a total of $60,400 handed out, in a game where the total prize available if everybody gets everything right is $45,000 plus daily doubles. That is with 100 percent correct answers and some big ass daily double wagers.

Please to be trying math again.

Go back and watch the video. They "wiped out" the first day totals before they started the second show.

In the final minute, Leonard had $18.2K in second-day winnings and then he won an $18K Daily Double to give him $36.2K. He answered an $800 question (unseen on the video clip) to give him $37K entering Final Jeopardy.

Adding that to his $3,000 first-day winnings gave him $40K total.

When did they change that rule? I guess it's to keep someone from running away with it on day one and making day two rather meaningless. Still, with the point values nowadays, seems like no first-day lead would be safe.

Also, how freaking easy are the Teen Jeopardy questions? Twelve Angry Men? On a Daily Double? I'm sure they weren't that easy when I was that age.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Here is some video from it:

If you watched it with the sound off, it's almost a parody. The kid in the middle stepped out of central casting as a miniaturized version of Greg Marmalard's roommate at the Omega Theta Pi house. ... and Leonard looks like Chris Rock doing Nat X.

I have no idea if he miscalculated, or what was going through his head, but the only thing better would have been, "I don't know the answer Alex, but shut the **** up and pay me."