Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy!
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The Importance of Diversity in Jeopardy
Diversity is a big area of emphasis right now because historically japanese had a very hard time getting a contested mix that looks like america for many years our problem was getting women to try out for the show um and it wasn't had nothing to do with skill level. We solved that problem largely by going to online auditions you know by taking away the performative aspect and just saying hey go to our website and just for funzies trial for jeopardy. If you're gonna treat this as a sport with playoffs and stuff you're gonna need a pipeline of great players or the game failsNothing's worse on jeopardy than three people who can't answer the clues so jeopardy is never trying
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