I kept all currency values in American dollars... maybe this means I'm not too far gone?
Fifth Challenge - Jeopardy!: Otaku Jeopardy Desu Yo!
Buzzers?: YES
Activity Type: This a Semi-Live challenge. Each group is expected to schedule a playing time and play their portion of the game live. Play By Post is not an option for this challenge. Simultaneous sets will not be run.
Privacy Type: This is a Private challenge. Each group will receive their own private channel for playing the challenge. All results will be publicized at the end of the challenge.
Like Jeopardy, but it’s all weeb shit. Three randomly selected groups of 3 (though special consideration may be taken to group time zones with like time zones if scheduling conflicts would make the games difficult to play). Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy, and Final Jeopardy are included. Some categories may be the same over the three games, but the specific clues will never be repeated. There are no Daily Double clues.
Jeopardy has six categories with five clues each, with clues in a category having a cash value assigned ranging from $100 to $500. A contestant is chosen at random to select a clue from one of the categories. (Example: I’ll take Potent Potables for 100.) The clue for that cash value is revealed and players must buzz in and attempt to answer the clue in the form of a question. (Example: If the clue was “This person is the host of GoGS”, your answer would be “Who is KnightsofCydonia?”) The contestant who correctly answers the clue gets the cash value added to their score and gets to select the next clue. If nobody answers the clue correctly or at all, the contestant who selected that clue retains control of the board. Contestants who incorrectly answer a clue or buzz in and then don’t answer within two minutes have the clue’s cash value subtracted from their scores (because of this, negative scores are possible). This continues on until there are no clues left to answer. Double Jeopardy is the same as Jeopardy, except there are six new categories and all cash values are doubled.
Final Jeopardy has a single harder-than-usual clue that players can take four minutes to DM me an answer for. The passing of the time will be indicated by playing the GUMI song Coward Mont Blanc; when the music stops, your time is up. Included with their answer is a wager of all or part of their score (players who feel confident in their answers might wager all or half of their score, while a player who isn’t confident might wager $1000 or even $0). When the four minutes are up, the players publicly reveal their answers and wagers in turn and their wagers are added or subtracted from their score based on whether their answers are correct or incorrect. Jeopardy score + Double Jeopardy score ± Final Jeopardy score = Total Score.
The contestant with the lowest total score is a candidate for elimination and must select another contestant to go up against in a vote. Ties for ranking and for candidacy are both broken by who answered the least number of questions in Double Jeopardy. The three contestants with the highest scores in their respective trios cannot be chosen as elimination candidates.
