Friday, November 20, 2015 – ToC2015 Finals #2
Alex Jacob built a huge lead yesterday. But will Matt Jackson or Kerry Greene mount a comeback? It’s the concluding match of the 2015 Tournament of Champions!
Here are our scores heading into Final:
|
Matt Jackson |
Alex Jacob |
Kerry Greene |
|
| Today: | 7,200 | 18,700 | 3,200 |
| Yesterday: | 3,000 | 29,600 | 3,400 |
| Current: | 10,200 | 48,300 | 6,600 |
| Maximum: | 17,400 | 67,000 | 9,800 |
As you can see, Alex can’t lose even if he wagers everything and gets it wrong. And Matt already has more than Kerry could possibly get.
Boring!
What actually happened
| Matt | Alex | Kerry | |||
| 7,200 | 18,700 | 3,200 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 1,500 | |||
| 7,200 | 18,700 | 4,700 | |||
| 3,000 | 29,600 | 3,400 | |||
| 10,200 | 48,300 | 8,100 | |||
| min | max | ||||
| 399 | |||||
Congrats to Alex Jacob, who moves up to #10 all-time in winnings, a shade ahead of Arthur Chu and just behind Ben Ingram. Matt Jackson moves up to fourth, while Kerry Greene sits at #37. Until the next mega-tournament, anyway…
Thanks to all of the contestants for a fantastic tournament!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| PHILOSOPHERS |
| HIS LAST NAME MEANS A TYPE OF BURIAL PLACE AND IN 1855 THAT’S WHERE HE WENT |
[spoiler]Who was Søren Kierkegaard? (his last name means “churchyard”)[/spoiler]
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Has anyone ever had a lock before FJ in one of these tournaments before? I haven’t seen it happen.
Yes, many times before. (Having what Stefan Goodreau calls a “superlock” where your opponents can’t even catch up to your first-day total and thus impossible for you to “Clavin” is rarer, but it is happened at least several times that I recall.)