DANGER! Star Mattea Roach nearly beat James Holzhauer within the second sport of Monday’s Masters semifinals – however he simply couldn’t.
It was a surprising sight to see Mattea main till Ultimate Jeopardy and dropping once they had been the one ones mistaken.
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Hazard! Masters — the sport present’s three-week elite particular — is sort of achieved with the ultimate three episodes. The semi-finals began on Monday Might twenty second.
After two weeks of unmissable quarterfinals, Andrew He, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach and self-proclaimed sport present villain James Holzhauer emerged as the highest 4 titans.
Sadly, widespread fan favourite Sam Buttrey and 40-time winner Amy Schneider had been eradicated as the 2 weakest gamers who simply couldn’t make it within the quarterfinals.
Within the first bout of Monday’s hour-long semifinals, James narrowly beat Matt and Andrew – the latter kindly citing his highschool Spanish trainer to the viewers.
However within the second match of the evening, James confronted Mattea and Andrew – issues weren’t that clear and dry both.
“MATTEA OUTPERFORMS JAMES!?”
Whereas James was third in Match 1, he turned the tables within the Double Jeopardy Spherical – Match 2 was completely different.
Mattea placed on his sport face and grabbed the primary day by day double within the second spherical, then they grabbed the final remaining one for 8000 factors and out of the blue had an enormous lead.
At Ultimate Jeopardy, Mattea maintained that lead with 26,800 factors and James with 18,800 factors, whereas Andrew had 6,400 factors.
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Even Ken needed to level out that the villainous James was “a full 8000” behind Mattea, who was “bursting into tears”.
“Ohhhhh sh**,” tweeted one fan.
“Take a look at how Mattea makes this sport fascinating!” wrote one other.
“Mattea outperforms James. These day by day doubles are at all times necessary,” wrote a 3rd.
‘DARN’
“Ultimate Jeopardy” was within the Historic Ships class, and James stretched out as if he’d completed writing early.
James knew it was “Golden Hind” however Mattea didn’t know and misplaced the sport by a stake of 10,801 factors.
Followers had been devastated when the 24-year-old Canadian writer and podcaster completed fourth within the quarterfinals, with many individuals wishing for an indignant W for them.
“Wow… what an ending to Jeopardy Masters… Mattea nailed it,” lamented one other on Twitter.
“Mattea was sturdy tonight! It’s a disgrace they couldn’t maintain the win with the FJ, however they nonetheless performed an excellent sport immediately.”
“Effectively that was fairly disappointing,” wrote one other, “rattling.”
“Demise taxes and James,” one other wrote, and a sixth, “awwww.”
Nevertheless, with a match level for second place, Mattea is poised to put within the finals and in that case, be again for subsequent yr’s Masters as properly.
ALL BETS ARE OFF
As host Ken Jennings, 48, defined on stage, the semi-final means the scores of the 4 gamers on their podium finishes will probably be reset – so all bets will probably be void.
Three “match factors” go to the winner of a sport, one to the runner-up.
The 2 semi-final episodes will see one participant eradicated per sport and all 4 combos will face off earlier than one other participant is eradicated.
Then on Wednesday within the ultimate there are two video games with the three finalists and $500,000 in addition to a “Trebek Trophy” as a reward.
Hazard! The brainchild of latest Government Producer Michael Davies, Masters would be the first champion-chosen event since 2020’s $1M GOAT event.
The schedule is as follows:
- Wednesday, Might 17: The final two quarter-final video games
- Monday 22 Might: 2 semi-final matches
- Tuesday twenty third Might: 2 semi-finals with one other champion eradicated
- Wednesday 24 Might: 2 finals
The competitors with the very best scores will probably be held yearly and will probably be one belt greater than the Event of Champions (which solely consists of rivals from the earlier season).
James gained all however certainly one of his quarterfinals, making him the clear chief.
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