JEOPARDY! champ Mattea Roach roasted her competition with her 15th straight win Monday, but some fans were feeling the fatigue.
A few Twitter users SLAMMED the 23-year-old Canadian “cocky” amid her historic streak.
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Canadian tutor Mattea continued to “school” the competition on Jeopardy! as she returned for her THIRD week.
As did potential pertinent host Ken Jennings, whom many want to take over for good.
“Oh thank god @KenJennings is still hosting @Jeopardy,” one wrote this evening.
But less unanimous was the fan love for Mattea as she continued her historic streak – now well within the top 10 longest-running players ever, but not before a very dicey game.
Up against Jessie Francis – a Georgia Mental health Therapist – and Michael Graff, a California mascot (the second mascot of the season), at one point in the game even Ken had to point out how close things were.
Before one commercial break and during Double Jeopardy Jessie was beating Mattea with $7000 to her $6400.
“You are giving our champion a run for her money,” Ken noted.
“Jeopardy intense as hell tonight god damn,” one fan wrote as the two were neck and neck.
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“She’s [Jessie] giving Mattea a run for her money. #Jeopardy” wrote another.
But once Mattea wagered $4000 – and won – a Daily Double that was – who would have guessed – about Canada, her hometown, it was all north from there.
Mattea ended the game with $32,700 to Jessie and Michael’s $2000 and $1000 respectively.
Her grand total amid her 15-game streak is now a massive $357K.
However, some fans felt that the tutor was teetering towards “cockiness” as she won yet again.
‘I REALLY LIKED HER AT FIRST’
“I’m so happy Mattea was able to pull through. That was scary #jeopardy,” another Twitter user wrote on the “intense” game that saw Mattea TRAIL for much of it.
However, another Twitter user fumed, “I really liked her at first. She’s getting too cocky.”
Another argued: “When some1 has been winning on #Jeopardy 2 long they get cocky. 10 wins ur done.”
The game famously had a 5-game win limit in the 2000s, after which a champ – like Brad Rutter – would qualify for the Tournament of Champions and exit.
Another clapped back, however, that she’s making for good TV: “Mattea is not cocky. And there’s nothing wrong w being quirky #Jeopardy.”
“I don’t want Mattea to ever lose Jeopardy. She is a treasure,” gushed another.
MATTEA MADNESS
A music fan with a septum piercing and wire-rimmed glasses, Mattea is a hand-wave away from being a household name.
The now ‘super-champ’ as Jeopardy! described, has SEVEN tattoos including two LEG tattoos dedicated to the band The Talking Heads, and when she won her first game two weeks ago exclaimed her “student loans are paid off!”
“I have 7 tattoos! Good for Mattea~~knew I liked her! #Jeopardy,” one fan wrote, relating to her.
She said on tonight’s show that she had tickets for Kraftwerk with her dad – whose ’80s denim jacket she loves.
Critics have noted her “wild hand gestures,” as one fumed, “Mattea quit with the ad libs and awkward hand gestures.”
However, the consensus is the tatted tutor tearing through records deserves a ‘hand’ for her streak – she’s now on a list that longest-streak legacies that include James Holzhauer, Amy Schneider and Ken himself, potential “cockiness” aside.
Mayim and Ken started filling in as temporary hosts after Alex Trebek’s tragic death in 2020.
Ken began with an average of 9.2 million views, surpassing Wheel of Fortune and Mayim, who subbed in soon after and averaged her viewers at 5.7million.
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