2015 Teachers Tournament, Finals, Day One
| 2015 Teachers Tournament | |||||||||
| By the Numbers: The difficulty of predicting wild cards | |||||||||
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
I’m in the mood for gambling on this Thursday night – because I’m in Vegas. Are our three finalists?
Wow – a great game. All three players have big scores, and are within 600 points of each other.
In the video, I explain why this Final Wager is a bit like gambling – you’re trying to maximize expected value. Like the category? Wager big! Hate the category? Wager small!
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Adam Elkana-Hale |
Cathy Farrell |
Jennifer Giles |
| 13,000 | 13,600 | 13,400 |
They’ll roll the dice (or not) on this category:
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY |
It was so painful to see Adam nearly collapse after time ran out on his light pen.
More to follow tomorrow.
What actually happened
Tomorrow’s slide will look like this
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| WORLD GEOGRAPHY |
| NOT IN THE 10 LONGEST, THIS 1,560-MILE RIVER IN A FERTILE BASIN FLOWS BY 29 CITIES OF OVER 100,000 PEOPLE |
[spoiler]What is the Ganges?[/spoiler]
| 2015 Teachers Tournament | |||||||||
| By the Numbers: The difficulty of predicting wild cards | |||||||||
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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