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Jeopardy! criticisms by three-time champion lead to divided reactions

Yogesh Raut.
Yogesh Raut. Photo by JEOPARDY!/TWITTER /TORONTO SUN

This three-time Jeopardy! champion has been known to call it “a glorified reality show.”

Who is Yogesh Raut?

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Raut, who won three games and earned $96,403 in episodes that aired earlier in January, has gone on multiple Facebook ranks about the show, according to HuffPost.

He wrote that despite his other achievements he received “the most attention, praise, congratulations and nasty trolling from strangers” and earned the biggest paycheck in his quizzing career for beating two guys on TV.

“This is also not an insult to Jeopardy! which is a TV show designed for entertainment, and a reasonably good one,” Raut wrote on Facebook.

“It is entertaining to watch but it bears the same relationship to real quizzing that ‘Holey Moley’ does to golf. There never has been, and never will be, any justification for treating Jeopardy! as the Olympics of quizzing.”

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Raut’s remarks, however, did not go over well with Jeopardy! success story James Holzhauer, who’s won $2.4 million on the quiz show.

Holzhauer wants the show to take action against Raut, writing: “Anyone who’s ever used social media to criticize Jeopardy! or its producers should get a lifetime ban from the show.”

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Jeopardy! executive producer Michael Davies, however, sees no need for any lifetime ban.

“We’re not beyond criticism,” Davies said on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast.

“You don’t have to come on Jeopardy! and say lovely things about the game.”