And anyway, there were so many different categories on all types of subjects over the course of her run, I don’t know how anyone can try to lessen the achievement. Some people say the categories were easy or picked just for her. For Julia to beat 40 people and get through 260 categories and come out on top over the course of 20 days is impressive. If some people don’t seem as smart, I think it comes down more to buzzer technique, variables of categories, able to stay calm, etc. *Anyone* who gets on Jeopardy has to be pretty smart to pass the test and get through the whole process, so any competitor would be pretty smart. Why do you hold Julia to a different standard? She beat 40 people. Yet no one seems to think that he didn’t have good competitors. During Ken’s games, he rang in on almost every question and his competitors barely answered. I just don’t get how you can *know* that these people were subpar. Do you base it on the fact that they didn’t ring in that much? That could be due to not knowing the question, or more likely, not being quickest on the buzzer. How can you tell that? You don’t know those people. I don’t understand why people think Julia’s competitors were unusually weak. That (R) after the winnings means she had a runaway going into Final Jeopardy! She also got the $1,000 third place prize in the last game. Here is a table with quick statistics on Julia’s 19 wins. Her biggest FJ bet was $11,700 on May 1st and her smallest was $0 on May 28th. Her biggest one-day haul was $35,000 on May 27th. She has racked up 12 runaway games altogether. In her 19th game, she lost $1,200 on a DD in the first round, and in her last game, she got a TDD in the first round for $1,8800. In her 17th game, she made her second TDD, risking $3,200. Julia never made a True Daily Double bet until her 13th game and all she had to risk was $400. Nice work if you can get it, as the saying goes! Her 20-day winnings of $428,100 came out to an average of approximately $20,385 per appearance. Julia’s streak came to an end on when she was defeated by Brian Loughnane. Julia won her 19th game on, putting her in a tie with Dave Madden for second most games won, and on Friday,, Julia won her 20th game! With that $314,900, Julia became the third highest money winner in regular Jeopardy! games, knocking Arthur Chu down to No. On, she won her 15th game and with $314,900, surpassed Chu’s Jeopardy earnings of $297,200. In her 11th game on 5/19/14, Julia not only tied Arthur Chu for number of games won, she also broke Larissa Kelly’s record ($222,597) as the highest-winning female contestant. We did it for Arthur Chu and we’re doing it for Julia Collins, too.
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