I’ve spent 15 years expecting the young gunslinger who would arise and put together a long streak like mine, but no one, not even me, could have predicted James Holzhauer.
On any given night, a Jeopardy contestant can go viral by winning big, or giving a funny wrong answer, or sassing Alex Trebek during his or her mini-interview, or mugging for the camera.Īnd a few, of course, become national news. Now many are personalities, with fans and haters.
No longer is the show an endless parade of identical midwestern librarians and Beltway lawyers. The rule change cannily anticipated the social-media era, delivering us a world where a vast community of viewers now often cares passionately about who is winning on Jeopardy. The Jeopardy producers may have envisioned the end of the five-day limit as a minor anniversary gimmick, but it ended up fundamentally changing a show that almost never changes. Read: James Holzhauer prompted a fundamental question about “Jeopardy” That accident of timing, it turned out, changed my life (and paid for my house). I was the first real beneficiary of the policy, having auditioned for Jeopardy months before the new rule was announced, but not getting called up until a few months after it was official. Instead of booting returning champions off the show after five wins, it would allow players to keep going indefinitely, until they lost. In 2004, to mark the 20th anniversary of Alex Trebek’s modern syndicated Jeopardy, the quiz show announced a change to its long-standing contestant policy. In an increasingly uncertain world, we get attached to our Jeopardy champions. “NOOOOO! Please tell me this isn’t true! #JeopardyJames” James Holzhauer, the Jeopardy phenom and reigning 32-game champion, had finally lost. I watched the five stages of grief spread across the internet from east to west, like the sunset.
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