To: bvw
I loved the show as a kid during the Art Fleming years. Trebeck turned me off, and the game got weird. That mormon guy who mastered the button timing showed a flaw in the game.
I got to meet Art Fleming a couple of years before he died. A real down to earth guy. Later I got the chance to be on Jeopardy! Alex Trebek not so much.
As for mastering the button timing--that's not a flaw in the game. You have to actually know the answer or getting the timing down doesn't help you much. The returning champion may have an initial advantage in being used to the rhythm. It's a lot easier to shout out the answers from your living room than it is to do it under pressure in the studio. But if you are the type of person who freezes up under this kind of pressure, you aren't likely to even make it past the interview portion of the tryouts no matter how much trivia you know.
15 posted on
04/23/2009 10:14:10 AM PDT by
drjimmy
To: drjimmy
19 posted on
04/23/2009 10:25:37 AM PDT by
JillValentine
(Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
To: drjimmy
Well, the button timing did help the big champ — he knew the answers but so did his opponents many time. I seem to recollect reading some blog at the time that described the button operation and after that I did watch to see the how the master used it to his advantage. True, his trivia knowledge seemed photographic and massive, but the button kept him safe from some strong challengers — so it seemed to me and the blog that mentioned it.
20 posted on
04/23/2009 10:28:08 AM PDT by
bvw
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