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In a news cycle that is pretty much "Secondly" at this point, any mention of a publishing timespan in a periodical name seems somewhat anachronistic... as does paper publishing itself. I give them about another two years until they go the way of... wait, I'm thinking of a good category theme for the...

You might have to battle Keith Williams over claim to that one.

I was surprised when they put up the tracker in the first place; I always assumed that they had never had one in the past (a) because it requires costly human-power to keep updated and (b) it would make a liar of itself the moment the producers decided to do something unorthodox or some external eve...

Bah, I knew it was one of those Nazis who escaped to Argentina but went with Mengele. The interesting thing about Mengele (from a trivia perspective) is that he was never captured (after being released in the immediate postwar period by U.S. forces unaware of his significance). At at few different ...

I not before E?

Ironhorse wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 18, 2019 5:15 pm

(not intended to be ranked within each tier):
Gold - James

Maybe with one exception?

I had to look it up and I was surprised. The only answer that would've been better: Doc Golightly, the Ebsen character from Breakfast at Tiffany's.

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 18, 2019 1:38 pm

WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1000 is marked for being the 375,000th clue in the Archive.

Hooray! What a milestone! Thanks to all who have helped that number.

At least all the clues were revealed. Richard did OK in the end.

The Archive's "algorithm" (a big tree of IF statements) was constructed ad hoc as new wagering scenarios were identified, so it's far from flawless. One day I'll re-write it from scratch to be more generalized, but that day has not yet come. For whatever reason, the wagering logic considers that in ...

No one has yet cogently explained why any "ethics" arguments are not moot. I suppose the best argument that can be made is that the bumped future contender will in turn be bumping a hopeful, but the removal starts to make the would-have-been guarantee tenuous. One extra Teachers Tournament or Colleg...

Since Fran had the higher score by both the "end of J! Round" method and the "rewind the game clue-by-clue method", her 2nd place award is unambiguous. As discussed in this thread , it gets trickier when the awarding of the consolation prizes would be different by different methods, and the last tim...

FWIW I don't think there is "meanness" involved in suggesting there are some unwritten ethical rules to accepting "unearned" invites ("unearned" by the historical standards). However, as anyone who reads this thread can grasp, any such criticism is simply not applicable in the present instance, beca...

Is there a high chance they'd pair James and Emma in the same QF to make sure the rematch does in fact happen? There's no guarantee if they wait for a later round. Always a chance, but I'm going to predict we'll see Emma in QF1 (whether that's a Monday or a Wednesday) and that we'll see James in th...

GettysburgPhillyFan wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:24 pm

now that tonight's result is in the books...

Very cool. And--that ought to be the end of any qualms and cavils, right?

GoodStrategy wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:04 pm

Robert K S wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 10, 2019 5:18 pm

I was surprised to be reminded how soon after the M$M the BotD was held (less than three years).

I think you mean the UToC (2005) and not the BotD (2014).

Yes, edited to correct

For reference I compiled a "long list" (more inclusive) and a "short list" (limited to invitations of only U.S. regular play winners) of special invitational events. Dividing the number of years elapsed since the first special tournament ( Super Jeopardy! in 1990) by the number of events on the shor...

I think the show thinks of special invitation tournaments as like a five-year thing, so let's keep our eyes peeled for Season 40 in 2023...

Is this the earliest we've ever learned of the ToC field? I think in most years we don't officially hear about the field until very close to the airdates.

While feeling bad for whoever got bumped, thrilled that we'll get to see Emma back behind the lecterns.

My memory is jogged sufficiently that I am totally sure I did the screencap of him at the same time I did Charles Kaufman and I must have been working from a tape of the show, which I am not sure how I had.