The 2024 Honors are here.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jNIeZtfGy/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==This is a show that doesn't need to give out additional awards for minor accomplishments. You wanna be remembered? Go on a winning streak. Set a record. Win the ToC, and even some of those winners have fallen into relative obscurity.
Even some of the awards are duplicative of the accomplishment that warranted the award. Juveria Zaheer is Breakout Player of the Year. You know what else punctuates that she became a breakout player? She won $100,000 and a tourney bid. That's the trophy. The Wild Card was done in order to pick out a deserving player from the middle of the pack who could hang with tougher competition.
These awards punctuate the problem that I have with the podcast, the long tournaments and the like- Jeopardy creates peronalities through those who accomplish in a major way. This isn't any shade to those who won awards- get your trophy. But there is no need to manufacture new personalities on a show where 2/3 of its players, by design, immediately fall into the ether each day.
I can totally recognize that I'm on one today. But it's frustrating to watch this show do so much while accomplishing nothing.
