Jeopardy’s Greatest of All Time tournament is also a battle to determine the most likable.
—a feature that, in retrospect, may not have endeared him further to the averagefan—it suggested his sartorial swagger may be to blame for “the Twitter venom.” Rutter himself, when he hopped on Reddit for an Ask Me Anything session, set his username as “CockySmugDBag.” “So, you’ve won the last three mega-tournaments, and are by any reasonable metric the greatest Jeopardy! Player ever. And yet, Ken Jennings remains the best-known Jeopardy champion by far.
“In the social media age, you do tend to see players who are mugging a bit for the camera, and they often become fan favorites,” Ken Jenningstournament. Going into the first match, Jennings joked about his previous losses to Rutter, and it seemed conceivable Rutter, not Jennings, would be a spoiler to Holzhauer’s dominance, still fresh in many fans’ minds. It hasn’t turned out that way. Rutter, and he sputtered out in one game so badly he finished in the red and didn’t make Final Jeopardy.
If it had gone another way, would Rutter have risen up to the mythic status of his competitors, or would he still have remained a Wikipedia stat in the mind of the casualcelebrity may have been drawn many years ago, when producers decided to do away with the five-game rule and created the conditions that eventually bore this tournament. Besides, even if Jennings wins the tournament, he won’t eclipse Rutter’s total earnings to date.
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