Dammit, Iran, we warned you about pre-empting Jeopardy!'s GOAT..

[danny burstein]

Jeopardy! is broadcasting the first in their
"Greatest Of All Time" championship series
tonight (Monday) 8 pm.

Damn you, Iran.

And Ditto to NBC's Blue Network for pre-empting

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[Jim Ellwanger]

I don’t know how to tell you this, but it’s Tuesday.

And “Jeopardy!” aired as scheduled in the Pacific time zone.

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> On Jan 7, 2020, at 5:08 PM, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Jeopardy! is broadcasting the first in their

[Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)]

BTW, you probably shouldn't count the number of days scheduled for this tournament, if you've heard the rules
(you *might* be able to get a handle on who will win, applying a principle that I believe Jack Sheahan has
mentioned :-)).

-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)
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> On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 12:43:49 AM EST, Jim Ellwanger <trai...@ellwanger.tv> wrote:

> I don’t know how to tell you this, but it’s Tuesday.

> And “Jeopardy!” aired as scheduled in the Pacific time zone.

[Jim Ellwanger]

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu) <dre1...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> BTW, you probably shouldn't count the number of days scheduled for this tournament, if you've heard the rules
> (you *might* be able to get a handle on who will win, applying a principle that I believe Jack Sheahan has
> mentioned :-)).

I suspect that ABC is handling the program listings for this in the same way they do the NBA finals — on the nights on which the later games would take place, temporarily slotting in sitcom reruns or other programming until it becomes known that the later games will take place.

[Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)]

I expect you're right.  When I first checked the IPG, it was only showing 3 nights (which seemed to imply, in a "winner is first to three matches" tournament, that somebody sweeps).  But after last night's game, where that is now impossible, I see that the IPG has been updated to _7_ nights, which is the most matches possible.  They probably should have gone with the World Series system, i.e. for games 5-9, "Game 5, if necessary" :-)

-Doug "Sorry for the error" Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)