Jeopardy's tournament month

As the faux tweets have noted, February will be Jeopardy tournament month. The first two weeks see 15 students battle in the college tournament. After the students finish up, the last two weeks bring on, you guessed it, 15 teachers to duke it out in the teachers tournament.

Tournaments on Jeopardy go back forever. YouTube offers a 1968 episode where host Art Fleming mentions the next tournament of champions. The ToC is the granddaddy of all Jeopardy tournaments, of course, where the best of the best face off.

Except for the ToC, which is something of an event in the annual game show calendar, I'm not really the biggest fan of Jeopardy tournaments. I guess they bring some variety to the schedule, but I like plain old Jeopardy, where a contestant can now go on forever (theoretically). It's nice that the show gives a special nod to teachers and students. But, after all, they could compete in regular episodes just like everybody else.

Oh, I'm getting too grumpy. Good luck to the teachers and students next month.