once again, another round of ketchup.

Sorry that this has happened again. . We did, however, have two pretty awesome games. One of them stayed close and one of them might have stayed close, but something happened that threw the game wide open..

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We are playing catch up, so the data card had to be referenced heavily I can remember the capital of all 50 states, all of the Canadian provinces, and how silly putty was invented, but I cannot keep up with six contestants, six daily devils, two scorecards, etc. Basically if it involves numbers, I'm screwed .Second disclaimerThe Bob rule is in effect for the second portion of this episode . This episode .We're playing catch up today. Yesterday's game and today's game because unless you totally ignore your podcast feed most days, you probably noticed there wasn't one from this one yesterday. It's a long story that I won't get into here, but I'm catching up now. We had two really close games, and two excellent contenders for best Jeopardy story ever. Two groups of amazing contestants rounded out this whole thing. They worked their rears off. Whether the boards were kind to them or not, they did not get discouraged. I love that.

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this game right here was a lot kinder than some we've seen previously. While others were just straight at brutal, this one mostly allowed the contestants to be their awesome selves.

There were a couple of major ouch moments, but the game itself was not a vindictive little brat like some of the other ones we've seen recently. Also, you'll get my thoughts on the whole learned League thing after my first match. Spoiler alert, I won. I know, shocker. Surprise me when I saw it in the email this morning.

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I feel sorry for every single contestant on that stage today. That board was pure evil. I don't mean it was just a little bit unkind. I mean it was actively sabotaging them.

They were doing their best and those ridiculously difficult tournament of champions level questions kept coming up round after round after round. Not, nice, at, all. Due to that, this is one of the lowest scoring games I've seen in a while, possibly ever. As I've said, many many times, don't blame the contestants. We're all human. We all have weak points. It's not their fault if all of theirs happen to show up on two separate boards. They're doing their best, and we have to understand that.nd

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and The knockout round comes to a close with today's game. We've seen 81 teams in this knockout round. 27 remain.

When we get back to this next week, the really tough competition starts. On the topic of today's game. Though, we had some amazingly awesome teams. They were so much fun to watch, both from a gameplay department and the personality department.s.

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today's board started out being kind to everyone, but then decidedly wasn't starting in double Jeopardy.

One player got the worst of it, which totally sucks. Also pay attention close to the end of the podcast for what getting on Jeopardy actually looks like and why it's not nice to make snide remarks about contestants when they're struggling. That is important and I cannot say it enough. Sadly, I'm probably going to have to repeat that a bazillion more times because people just don't get its.

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this game was just straight up coolness.

First, we had one of the most interesting contestants I've seen in a long time,. We had a theoretical lock type game of the very mild steamroller variety. It wasn't like trying to run over a Hot Wheels car with a steamroller or anything, but those scores were kind of brutal at the end of the game. me

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