Seems that Brad is pretty good at this game. I felt bad for Dan...when he and I talked prior to the taping, we guessed that either he or I was going to have to play Brad, and he drew that straw. (Not literally...I don't really know how they choose the matchups, but it doesn't involve drawing straws! But we figured that they wouldn't put Ken or Roger or Colby against him in the first round, so that left us.) Dan gave a valiant effort, and if just one of those Daily Doubles had gone a different way, the outcome could've been quite different. [Dan's the person I spent the most time hanging out with at these tapings, and he's just a great guy all-around, funny and sharp.] But there's also a reason that Brad's never lost (to a human).
Dan is still technically in the running for a wild-card spot, though, and stranger things have happened before!
Current wild-card standings:
Leszek $15,000
Pam $14,798
Tom N $2,400
Dan $399
The fourth quarterfinal features the other player that everybody knows: 74-time champion and twitter gadfly Ken Jennings. He faces off against Tom Cubbage, the only player ever to win both the College Championship and the Tournament of Champions (and, as I found out at the taping, we're fraternity brothers), and Rachael Schwartz, winner of the 1994 ToC. Will Ken dominate as he always seems to, or will one of the others pull off the upset?
