Former "Jeopardy!" Fields boycott the champions tournament - here is why
Players are starters for the tournament, but they plan to joint with WGA.
Season 39 of Danger! arrive at its end This week, which means that dedicated fans will look at the reruns while the show is on a break. Viewers are looking forward to September, when season 40 should start with the Champions Tournament (COT): the steep competition that comes up to 21 players against each other - who won at least five consecutive games in the previous season. But for there to be a cot, you need champions to participate - and the situation becomes complicated, like the old Danger! Fields says they plan to boycott the competition. Read more to find out why these recent winners are withdrawing this year.
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The WGA strike shows no end sign soon.
In May, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) made the strike , pressing a break in most television shows. Danger! To his own team of writers responsible for these difficult issues in Trivia - and although all the content of season 39 was completed before the WGA strike, it cannot be said of season 40. With the strike which continues potentially in the fall, fans are worried about the fate of the show in 2023.
Executive producer Michael Davies explored options for the show if the press strike, with a strategy being to Reuse old questions To film new episodes. This approach, however, has the potential to anger fans who support the strike, TV Insider reported.
The TOC is the first in the file to be filmed, but to solidarize with the writers, the former champions confirmed that they did not intend to cross the picking line.
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One of the big winners of season 39 was the first to express themselves.
On Reddit, Danger! Champions take up position and call on others to join them.
"I would like to break my usual avoidance of social media and contact the Broad Jeopardy community! If I can", season 39 Danger! champion Ray Lalonde Written on Reddit last week. "There are now credible reports according to which producers make emergency plans to start filming the next season of the show with old and / or recycled equipment if the WGA strike remains unresolved."
Lalonde, who won 13 consecutive games this season, said he was a "fan of the game" of the game game "and noted that competition in OCD" is beyond a dream that has become reality. "However, that does not change his position on strike.
"I believe that the screenwriters of the show are an essential element of the show and they are justified to take their measures to obtain a fair contract for themselves and their colleagues member of the WGA," continued Lalonde. "As a supporter of the union movement, the son of a member of the union and I a proud member of the union, I informed the producers of the show that if the strike remains unresolved, I will not cross a picking line to play in the Champions Tournament."
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Four of the other best players in season 39 promised their support.
Lalonde said he had taken a public position to "perhaps influence a future decision to proceed without the writers and to encourage other members of the community who feel the same way of also expressing themselves".
And talk to yourself, they have done so: several other champions have since presented themselves to say that they do not plan to compete.
"As I have already said personally to Ray, although all like all of us, I am a big fan of Jeopardy and that it was a dream of appearing in the series, I fully agree with his position and I will not participate in games made up of recycled indices while the WGA strike is in force", "21 days Pannullo cries wrote in response to Reddit.
Another reditor identified as eight -day champion Hannah Wilson Written: "I will be with you, Ray! A TOC with all the recycled clues does not seem very fun to play, anyway."
Ben Chan also sounded, adding: "Ray, thank you for taking this position. If you have come out, I am absent" Troy Meyer wrote: "I stand with Ray!"
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Another former winner suggested an alternative championship.
But an old Danger! The winners go even further when it comes to supporting writers. Also on Reddit, champion of a day last season Dan Wohl suggested the possibility of an alternative tournament as an opportunity to collect funds.
"If the strike ends up torpedoing the playoffs (including the Wild Card champions for which I was ecstatic to qualify, but will certainly never cross the picking line), we can perhaps organize a sort of alternative online Trivia competition / event with as many S39 champions as possible and in a way in making a fundraising fund for WGA", he wrote.
In response, Reddit users were enthusiastic, with a person answering: "It's a very good idea!"
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We don't know what future Danger! is in 2023.
On Twitter, a user wrote that Lalonde, Pannullo, Wilson, Chan and Meyer Make up five of the The first six seeds For the TOC competition, with Stephen Webb Accounting of the remaining place. According to the tweet, fans are still waiting for a webb statement, which won eight games earlier this year. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
But beyond competitors, there are also concerns about hosts Danger! The two current co-hosts of the show, Ken Jennings And Mayim Bialik are members of the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of TV artists and radio (SAG -AFTRA), which is now Also on strike .
Bialik has already chosen not to welcome the last week of season 39 to stay in solidarity with the WGA, with Jennings taking over to finish shooting. We do not know what will happen in the future, but if the strike continues, TV Insider reports that viewers will probably watch the reruns instead of new episodes this fall.
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