[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the March 16 episode of Jeopardy!]
Going into the March 16 episode of Jeopardy!, Stephen Webb had a few streaks going: He was a seven-day champ who had so far received $175,282, and he hadn’t discovered a Daily Double within the final three video games. So how did he do when it got here to each?
Well, even host Ken Jennings remarked on Stephen’s woes when it got here to Daily Doubles at the beginning of the present. “Although our champion Stephen Webb is performing very well here on the Alex Trebek Stage, his skill at tracking down Daily Doubles does not seem to be quite at the same level of mastery,” he stated. “Consider this: In his last three games, Stephen has not managed to find a single one of the Daily Doubles available. And yet, he won each of those games very convincingly, so take heart, Andrew and Sarah, he’s good, he’s very good, but the key to defeating him may lie in the three Daily Doubles in the game ahead.”
And the newest episode grew to become the fourth straight recreation for Stephen with out discovering one. Instead, it was one of many new contestants, Sarah Mathews, who discovered all three (and received all of them appropriate); she broke a tie with Stephen with the primary and ended the Jeopardy! spherical in first.
Though Sarah received each Daily Doubles appropriate in Double Jeopardy!, Stephen nonetheless ended it in first, with $22,4000 over Sarah’s $17,600, whereas Andrew Brady was out since he was within the purple, with -$2,000. (Jennings once more remarked on Stephen’s lack of Daily Doubles whereas commenting on his rating with, “he did it the hard way, didn’t find a single Daily Double again, for the fourth day in a row.”)
Both Stephen and Sarah received the Final Jeopardy! query, within the class Eighties Movies — “A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, ‘only it takes place in the ’30s’” — fallacious. (The appropriate reply was Raiders of the Lost Ark.) But Sarah’s wager of $15,000 dropped her to $2,600, whereas Stephen ended the sport with $9,599. His eight-day complete is now $184,881.
Following the episode, Stephen went on Reddit to share his response to the streak he desires to place an finish to, beginning with a GIF from Futurama, I’m so bored with partying, so very drained” from Slurms MacKenzie. “How I felt after my fourth straight game without a Daily Double, which has to be some kind of record,” he wrote.
One viewer famous, “[Stephen] needs to be more aggressive in the DD finding Stat! If he ever needs to extend his win,” with one other including, “this was an incredibly frustrating game to watch! Players (especially Stephen) starting at the top of columns or going back to the previous DD category instead of DD hunting.”
But one other fan had a special perspective: “It’s pretty cool to see a champ continue winning without getting any boosts from Daily Doubles though. There’s a novelty factor to it that I think is pretty fascinating.”
Viewers on Twitter have additionally shared their reactions to Stephen’s troubles with Daily Doubles and Jennings’ responses.
why does ken preserve coming for stephen throughout each intro? 😭 #jeopardy
— ami | hole the sequence (@lalisasyves) March 16, 2023
Grudge match between Stephen and Sarah, particularly after that consecutive category-run then Daily Double. #Jeopardy #mkt343 #DailyDouble
— Henry (@hjwthinks) March 16, 2023
Also on Reddit, in reply to a query about how his efficiency traces as much as his expectations forward of his run on Jeopardy!, Stephen shared, “I played a game of ‘what would I do with the winnings from these scenarios,’ and I sorta stopped at 2 days and about $40k in winnings, if that tells you anything. I did not come into it thinking I’d be one of the higher seeds in the Tournament of Champions.”
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