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...complaining, along with his helicopter parents about his final answer (or question) being ruled incorrect on the children's episode...
I'm a big Jeopardy! fan, so I saw the show and the kid's (Thomas Hurley) hangdog pouting after the ruling. The answer was "Emancipation Proclamation," and he wrote, "Emanciptation Proclamation," misspelling the response. The other kids spelled it correctly and, BTW, the placements wouldn't have changed had he been ruled correct. He and his parents also sniffed something about Trebek's "rudeness."
Rules are rules, and they shouldn't be changed for kids' episodes/tournaments. Wait until this kid goes to college, since we all know that demonstrating proficiency in written communications is not the prerequisite it once was.
Personally, I didn't know it was a requirement that you had to spell the answer correctly. Numerous times I have not been able to even read what the contestants wrote.
I saw a couple of episodes of the juniors Jeopardy last week. Those kids were awesome but seems the judging for the kids was a bit more serious than for the adults. Just an observation.
Rules are rules, and they shouldn't be changed for kids' episodes/tournaments. Wait until this kid goes to college, since we all know that demonstrating proficiency in written communications is not the prerequisite it once was.
Over the years "Jeopardy!" hasn't been entirely consistent with their rulings on misspelled words in Final Jeopardy. I've seen misspellings being accepted, and seen them disallowed. I can't understand why that would be the case. The best I can figure is that if the misspelling greatly changes the pronunciation, it is ruled against, but if it's something like using the wrong vowel to represent the "schwa" sound, the misspelling is accepted.
I'd really like to see the exact guidelines for this as used by the "Jeopardy!" judges.
This kid and his parents are being ridiculous. Even if he spelled it right, he still would have only gotten the $2K since he came in second place. The kid who won was so far ahead of him that even if he bet all his money, he couldn't have won.
The payoff for the players is that the winner gets all their money and second/third place get $2K and $1K respectively.
I'm not sure what this kid/his parents are complaining about?
Over the years "Jeopardy!" hasn't been entirely consistent with their rulings on misspelled words in Final Jeopardy. I've seen misspellings being accepted, and seen them disallowed. I can't understand why that would be the case. The best I can figure is that if the misspelling greatly changes the pronunciation, it is ruled against, but if it's something like using the wrong vowel to represent the "schwa" sound, the misspelling is accepted.
I'd really like to see the exact guidelines for this as used by the "Jeopardy!" judges.
I would, too. I've seen so many "wrong" things on Jeopardy that they let slip.
He probably would have been better off leaving out a letter or using an incorrect letter rather than adding a "t". I think if he spelled it "emansipation" they may not have judged it incorrectly. It's one thing to misspell a word but when you add extra letters then that's just changing the entire word.
He probably would have been better off leaving out a letter or using an incorrect letter rather than adding a "t". I think if he spelled it "emansipation" they may not have judged it incorrectly. It's one thing to misspell a word but when you add extra letters then that's just changing the entire word.
Yeah, I'm guessing if you misspell the word in a way that makes it clear that you were attempting to use the correct word it's no problem.
But if you misspell it in a way that makes it unclear that you even knew the correct word then they won't accept it.
They might not have been sure if he really thought "Emancipitation" was a word.
Either way the kid's parents deserve a smack for allowing his little public snitfest.
I was more sympathetic about it before he started publicly whining about it. It's a game, it didn't change your placement. Get over it.
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