God rest indeed. This comment needs more likes.

It was also the first time

​@@futuremovieactor we love you Alex

You are wrong

Jessie Lin great idea

That would be perfect!

Let’s first try and picture Jeopardy without Alex

Hey now Jessie, that's the best idea I've heard in a long time.

DanielleGeeGee why not?

Same here man. I'm already having a tough time adjusting to regular Jeopardy after this epic tourney. Wish it lasted 7 days instead of just 4!!!

Brad was out of his league.

True. Regular Jeopardy is a bit of a let-down after this - indeed, after watching anything with even one of these guys.

@@WeFreestyleForever This time.

jeopardy! the greatest or all time is returning for a rerun starting on may 4th! (featuring ken jennings's first and last jeopardy! game!)

and he took back the title of Most Winnings On American Game Shows away from Brad who held that title for years.

Yeah, apparently the quarter million was guaranteed no matter what. In an interview, Ken joked about how he could have stayed home and earned $250,000 for doing nothing.

The Official Andy Saenz Exactly and they are all winners regardless! Great game and match!

And he FINALLY won a tournament.

@@Jotinko But he's not Jeopardy's highest winning, because Brad didn't do multiple game shows like Ken did.

While Brad unable to repeat the success in Battle Of The Decade His first loss to human

its the look of finally after centuries of waiting i am THE KING!!!!!

And now, he's hosting the show!

Agreed, the fact they didn't award him his 0 points was outrageous.

Yeah, he got a life 250,000 credit

DP30 God blessed him with Cancer. Fuck God.

​@@yabbaguy Brad didn't wager none

Or it meant Brad was way out of his league and over his head. This was a 2 horse race and I'm glad Ken won but would have easily gotten to 2-2 if James had answered final jeopardy correctly. We needed a 5th game!

Huh? Ken won 3 not 4. That was the rule. First who wins 3 games.

@@SummerRain368 won within 4 matches was what I was trying to say

@@SummerRain368 First match James and Ken. Second match James and James. Third match Ken and Ken. So after 3 days, Ken and James won 3 games each. Fourth match Ken and Ken. So 5 games to 3. The only thing certain is Brad's off his game. Watch his games from 10 and 15 years ago, he beat Ken every.single.time and many times.

riley h i watched him since his first game as well and i was so proud of him finally getting what he deserved the right of greatest jeopardy player as well as most famous player which he obviously has always had.

Ken's knowledge base is incredible. He is probably the only person on Earth who could beat James three times.

Well this comment didn't age well...

@@aaronromano261 why? What happened?

@@gameoftradez4526 The commenter said, “We’ll probably never see contestants like this again,” and just from the last two seasons have risen seven new super champions.

@@aaronromano261 ah didn’t know. Haven’t heard anything about them

*** Grand Slam

It's funny tho, Ken's the highest earner in game shows, but Brad's still the highest earner in Jeopardy

​@@mrbow50001 million dollars Ken good job

@@mrbow50001It’s because he played in other shows

Nah, he's the real GOAT for that one. Brad got ROASTED.

All in good fun. If Brad can make fun of himself "I'm not even trying, Wait til Round 4 and I'll take the game" why can't James have some fun too? It's not like he's seriously trying to insult or put Brad down. I like that kind of competitive humor.

@@randmiller88 "real GOAT"??? I didn't see him with the trophy at the end. SUCKER!!!!

2nd and 3rd get 250k. It doesn't matter what the amount is.

I was thinking that too.

Just a shame that Brad got utterly smoked here.

@@NickTheEnlightened - True dat. Blows my mind that these guys can go through that caliber of questions, answer so quickly, and miss so few. The amount of knowledge and retention is mind boggling

@@NickTheEnlightened yep. He was so dominant in the past, even against Ken. He's lost a step, so to speak. And those Daily Doubles just absolutely killed him every game.

@@Cyborg-zt3co It's a shame too, you can tell that he really was trying to catch up and implementing James's strategy much like how Ken was, but it sadly ended up being a case of not being able to teach an old dog new tricks.

@@Cyborg-zt3co Up yours.

Absolutely! No arguments there.

@Luigi Turiano I was also 8 (soon to be 9) during the time of his streak. I've been waiting all this time to see Ken finally win a tournament and finally snap Brad's undefeated streak of 19 years.

@Luigi Turiano i was 8-9 during his run man it seems just like yesterday wed rush hoe from the pizza joint to watch this legendary ken guy win again. my favorite game was when he won the then record 75,000 in july anyone remember?

@Luigi Turiano Oh james!

considering what would happen in 9 months, yeah. the last time we’d see alex in the presence of the 3 greatest players of all time, and seeing ken finally win that tournament (the biggest one)… this has to be the greatest jeopardy moment ever.

Yes, at age 45 he is much slower on the buzzer, and his recall is not as good as in previous years.

@@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023 You two are acting like 45 year old is is old, ha ha. He's not a doddering 75+ year old man, you don't lose any mental faculties at that age. If anything, Ken has gotten more wisdom and knowledge since he last appeared on the show.

Most mental sports such as chess, poker, and memory competitions are dominated by people in their 20s and 30s, just as in physical sports. It is rare for someone in their 40s to regularly beat the younger players. Brad is not nearly the player he was ten years ago.

@@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023 Brad just won a tournament like 2 years ago. His mind is fine. He did so poorly because A: these were an entirely different level of clues than they usually use and B: he couldn't adapt to James's fast on the buzzer and huge daily double style of play as well as Ken did. You could see him in the first game of each episode frantically trying to buzz in and almost never getting it. You could also see him basically giving up during each second game because what was the point when he was guaranteed a quarter million for showing up and it was a clear two man race. Remember that he came in last when he and Ken played Watson, mostly because Watson was great on the buzzer. My point A above is, I think, the real reason why Ken didn't seem as sharp as usual.

@@seanfennel4845 I'd just like to add that Brad only won that tournament because of Larissa Kelly. He got utterly smoked by Alex Jacob which in hindsight should have hinted already that at that point he had missed a step or two and was past his prime.

I could see that happen.

lol, I doubt they are going to choose a white male. Not in the SJW era.

Paul Davis But yeah they are though

He said he doesn’t want the job because it would mean severing friendships with past, present, and future Jeopardy contestants in the name of fairness. I think LeVar Burton would be perfect.

@@pauldavis5665 you my want to check again the white male is the legendary ken jennings.

riley h you mean brad took all of the daily doubles and ken got one here and there. James was close to ken without doubling his score

@@PawpiChoolo both James and Ken got Daily Doubles throughout the competition. It's not just attributed to luck, it's also dependent on who has control of the board. Even without the DDs Ken had the higher overall coryat so if this was a straight up Trivia battle and no DDs, Ken still would have won!

riley h james got barely any DD and a few that he did get was early on. brad took so many of them and did nothing with them and it ensured james couldnt. ken got 30k or something off one I think? it was shitty

riley h Jeopardy wanted Ken to win so bad and you can see it in the trivia questions, most of them about Shakespeare and books which favors ken tremendously and not a single sports catagory. The fact that James could steamroll any other player with half the knowledge is amazing. Props to ken but we all know who the best is.

@@ZbagdoesMC you're just being sour grapes and making excuses because your favourite player lost. There actually was a sports category first of all, so you obviously weren't paying attention. Secondly, Shakespeare is a MAJOR category that appears often. If James isn't good at Shakespeare that's kind of a red flag because that's one of the things you really should know before coming on the show. Lastly, a really good Jeopardy player should be well-versed in all categories not just a select few. We do know who the best is and it's Ken. Accept it and move on.

NicksCoolLife Do you think Ken or James could succeed Alex?

@@nilesayer3046 I think Ken could. He's the most famous jeopardy contestant ever and I think he has a good voice and presence.

@@coled82595 I agree. If anyone could do jeopardy justice as a successor to Alex, it's Ken.

Ken would be an interesting new host. However, this show like all broadcast television had a soon expiration date, and maybe it will find a way to survive in a streaming service or online with ads, but they might have to change the dollar values of the answers. Who wants to be a millionaire managed to find a way to survive in daytime by changing the values and rules to make winning extremely hard.

@@nilesayer3046 I've heard it can't happen.

Ken was able to do something that he never had the guts to do in his 74 game winning streak- go all-in like James, throughout this tournament. He got inspired by the man himself, to have him win the Tournament. Hard work certainly does pay off, when you listen and watch closely to all positive details.

Yep, I definitely gotta hand it to Ken on this one. I may think the dude's a total asshole, but there's no doubt that his level of intelligence is unspeakably amazing.

NicksCoolLife what is ahole about him?

Chris Finch more like he didn't feel like he had to against average players.

Chris Finch You could say that James is the king of strategy while Ken is the king of actual knowledge

Fully agreed.

They are not equal Ken is simply better

@@joeplaneta905 oh wait, Joe disagrees. I must me wrong.

@@easterlake the results speak for themselves he won three out of four deal with it

By your mentality, same can be said for you: "oh wait, luna said they're equal. He must be right" My opinion of them is mixed, so I'm not taking any sides, but your sarcastic argument is just out of place

We love you Alex

I thought it was Horatio as well. I haven't read Othello yet

In a "Champs Talk" video called "Setting the Record Straight", James said that even though he is not a huge Shakespeare Guy, he knew that Hamlet is the longest play. What happened was that James went down the wrong path, by trying to figure out who was the Major Secondary Character in a Hamlet play, instead of who was the Major Secondary Character in a Shakespeare play, which was Iago, not Horatio.

Yes indeed good job

I wouldn't mind seeing different combinations of tournament of champions winners and/or Hall of Famers going up against each other.

James is Kobe to Ken's MJ

Taarak Ramamurthy we know, this guy was just making a stataement

Yeah Ken congratulations

I don't see Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialyk with swords trying to take each other's heads for both the Quickening and the Prize, in their case to be the sole Jeopardy! host

He's the host now!

@@Angie2343 called it 😏

Actually Brad destroyed Ken head-to-head in two of his five victorious tournaments. His brain just didn't age as well, as he was a much better player ten years ago. Also, he had to retire after five days back when he played, and probably would have won at least 20 straight matches.

Well done Ken woo

Agreed 100% with your comment, and indeed judging by comments from the two of them, it seems they have become great friends.

Yahoo Ken

john blaze you could be right.

He is in Jeopardy

He clearly wants to continue. He loves hosting. How dare you act like you know better than he does?

There's rumors and speculation that this was Ken's audition for the position after Alex. I hate to lose Alex, but I'd rather see him go looking good and keeping his pride. I'd really hate to watch his health decline in near real time. He's a decent man and I wish him only the best.

OK, to SAY that the show should just end because of Alex retiring is JUST WRONG. Look at the Price is Right. When Bob retired, did THEY stop? NO. Drew took over and is still solid good.

I'm pretty sure Ken beat him in the IBM challenge (of course they both lost to Watson).

Alex just didn't think of saying that.

Who should be the host?

Ally Brooke.

Brad rutter

I would said Matt will stand no chance against both even he is good

Ken Jennings can’t play again since he is hosting. There should be a GOAT rematch with Brad, James, Matt Amodio, and possibly Amy Schneider as well with Ken as host.

Yahoo

All right Ken woo we love you

Is Kobe a bad example? Should I have used Scottie Pippen instead?

@@gt_mustang_markwho commented he was a bad example? And he’s dead now so he can’t do it

@@fable9159 I don't remember, dude, that was years ago, lol.

I think Ken knew that James would bet everything, so it was actually a smart choice. Because even if Ken and James doubled their score, James would've won overall. So all Ken could do was make sure that he doesn't lose money by betting nothing and hope James gets it wrong. It ended up working.

Not really. It's the same strategy James used in his losing game to Emma, where Ken was counting on James answering wrong since he knew he could not catch James by doubling up normally.