A Jeopardy! contestant got candid about their appearance on the game show in a Reddit thread. Kyle Compton-Troesch and Kelly Gates faced three-time winner Rishabh Wuppalapati
A Jeopardy! contestant has opened up about their time on the show.
On the Friday, October 18 episode of Jeopardy!, Kyle Compton-Troesch, a Cincinnati, Ohio civil engineer, and Kelly Gates, a Medford, Massachusetts librarian, faced the three-time game winner, Rishabh Wuppalapati, an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania from Vernon Hills, Illinois.
In a Reddit discussion thread about the episode, Kelly wrote a lengthy post about her appearance on the show and thanked viewers for tuning in. She expressed how she was “looking forward to watching” the episode and that “the fugue state is real.”
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She wrote: “I don’t think I could name more than 2 or 3 categories from my game. Getting on the show was a dream come true, and it was an absolute blast. One of the best parts was meeting so many fantastic people and sharing that experience together (yay, Zoe, so happy to see you posting here!).”
Kelly continued: “I’ll post more after the watch party tonight, but wanted to say how happy I am to be part of such a great group of folks!”
Viewers at home saw Kelly beat Rishabh and Kyle in the Final Jeopardy round. The category was “Literary Geography” with the clue being: “A N.Y. Times article recognized Sands Point & Kings Point as the Real ‘old-money’ & ‘nouveau Riche’ settings in this novel.” The answer was: “What is ‘The Great Gatsby’?” All three players got the category correct, but she beat Rishabh by $1.
Many congratulated Kelly on her win. One person wrote: “You played great Kelly, congrats!” Another person wrote: “Loved watching you play today, Kelly!! Congratulations!!”
Kelly’s comment on “fugue state being real” comes after a former Jeopardy! contestant posted on Reddit if there was such thing as “post Jeopardy! syndrome.” They wrote: “I was recently on the show and I’m still reeling. I can’t stop going over some boneheaded mistakes I made, even though I did OK and the whole experience was incredible. It seems to be a known phenomenon. How did you deal with it? How long will it last? And how did you avoid reading about yourself on social media?”
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