Jeopardy Masters’ James Holzhauer trolls show for ‘unnecessary ranking system’ after emerging as ‘clear frontrunner’
JAMES Holzhauer has trolled Jeopardy! Masters for having a ranking system when he’s the “clear” frontrunner of the special.
The self-described game show villain gloated about being quite far ahead of the pack going into its last week in a rowdy tweet.
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James Holzhauer took to Twitter to joke about Jeopardy! Masters’ ‘leaderboard’Credit: Jeopardy!
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He trolled the tournament for even having a tiebreaker system when he’s the ‘clear number 1 seed’Credit: Twitter/ James_Holzhauer
Jeopardy! Masters – which has invited back six-fan favorite contestants- finished out its second of three can’t-miss weeks.
James, 38, has landed in first place having won five of his six matches with his calling card “all in” Daily Double bets.
The tournament’s leaderboard showed James so ahead that he joked the other stats that would determine the eventual $500,000 grand prize weren’t even necessary.
With only the semi-finals and finals left starting next Monday, he sarcastically tweeted: “Good thing we had those tiebreakers to establish a clear number 1 seed.”
‘BE NICE…’
One fan replied: “THE CHAMP IS HERE.”
Another wrote: “Be nice…” though a third write it’s not game over just yet: “Andrew He about to become Andrew HIM when he stomps you and takes the strap, brother.
A fourth wrote: “James, I think you’re great; you make the show exciting to watch; it blows my mind how many things you know. And I know you’re a ‘nice’ guy too.”
And a fifth wrote: “Greatest villain ever!”
However, James then went on to call Amy a ‘Phenomenal human” and Sam a formidable foe in a subsequent Twitter post also plugging their upcoming projects – and hinting he was breaking character in his caption.
MASTER OF TROLLING
James won his huge-margin 32 episodes in 2019 and finished $58,484 short of the all-time winnings record set by now-host Ken in 74 wins in 2004.
Jeopardy! Masters is James’ first time back since losing to Ken (but beating Brad Rutter) in the famed three-legend 2020 GOAT tournament – and he’s lived up to the hype.
James has trash-talked his way to the top making for some hilarious TV.
During one game, fellow contestant Matt Amodio answered a prompt incorrectly, the clue was read as: “The Detroit Free Press said ‘The Mummy’ was ‘vintage’ this novelist; ‘elegantly erotic and full of enchanting terror.'”
Ken then quipped: “I also refer to James as “elegantly erotic but full of enchanting terror.”
Before he could move on, James responded: “Keep it in your pants, Ken.”
A fan tweeted: “Uh… inappropriate…” others however quite enjoyed it.
“We actually had to pause taping so Ken could take a cold shower,” James then tweeted.
In another game, James, who was wearing a championship belt, was criticized by Andrew He for having little money after he hit an early Daily Double.
Andrew said “I’ll bet all of it plus James’ points.”
Andrew bet his $2,000 and was joking about James still having $0 at the time.
“I think James’ score is still on there actually,” GOAT winner Ken joked- referring to a joke James made about Brad having $0 during the 2020 GOAT tournament.
James didn’t take the shade sitting down, however, he went over to Andrew and pretended to hit him with his Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions belt.
‘IS THERE NO ONE ELSE?
James has also written down multiple joke Final Jeopardy answers maintaining such huge leads that he just wanted to flex.
In one instance, James wrote down: “Stop ducking a rematch, Ken,” causing the host to laugh out loud.
“You know how much work I had to go to to get all the way over at this lectern and avoid having to play you again, James?” Ken replied.
James then quipped that he was a victim of “autocorrect,” hinting that the word “ducking” was actually intended to be something else.
Hosts aren’t allowed to compete per Jeopardy! rules, but it was quite the call-out.
Another game saw James channel Brad Pitt in the movie Troy – he wrote “Is there no one else!?” as he waved his hands across the stage-implying there wasn’t much competition.
“Humble as always,” Ken shaded.
Each night of its three weeks, permutations of the popular players face off in two sets of three in 1-hour long episodes on ABC and Hulu at 8 p.m. ET.
DOWN TO THE WIRE!
The Semifinals – which start this Monday – were decided based on the checkmark system, and the two lowest-ranking players were eliminated.
Sam was ranked lowest and he and Matt sweetly shared a hug before the enjoyable professor got the chop.
Then, 2022 Tournament of Champions winner Amy Schneider was shockingly eliminated as well.
The standings are now as follows:
1st: James Holzhauer (15 points, 4 wins)
2nd: Andrew He (12 points, 2 wins)
3rd: Matt Amodio (9 points, 3 wins)
4th: Mattea Roach (9 points, 2 wins)
Eliminated: Amy Schneider (5 points, 0 wins)
Eliminated: Sam Buttrey (3 points, 0 wins)
The remaining schedule is as follows:
Monday, May 22: 2 Semi-finals matches
Tuesday, May 23: 2 Semi-finals matches with one more champ eliminated
Wednesday, May 24: Finals
When Masters returns on Monday, May 22, the checkmarks will all be reset to zero and fans can’t wait to see which of the four (facing off in sets of three) will make it to the end.
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James’ WWE persona – seen here ‘hitting’ rival Andrew He – has made for great TVCredit: ABC
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He’s won by such big margins that he called out host Ken Jennings for a ‘rematch’Credit: ABC
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And channeled his inner Brad Pitt in Troy- though the semi-finals will see the leaderboard be reset so anything can happenCredit: ABC
