JEOPARDY! legend Matt Amodio has given James Holzhauer a piece of his mind on Twitter.
The legendary poker pro threw the first stone by sharing that they both met a fan who didn't know Matt was ever on the game show.
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James, 39, and Matt, 32, reunited last weekend for the first time since May's Jeopardy Masters tournament.
The Jeopardy! antagonist tweeted about his and Matt's interaction with a fan that went awry.
He wrote: "Fan: Can I get a selfie? We watch every Jeopardy! Me: Sure. Do you also want one with my friend here?
"Fan, turning to @AmodioMatt: Oh, have you been on the show as well?"
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"Brutal," one of James' social media followers summarized.
Matt didn't take the shade sitting down and buzzed in a day later.
Matt commented below the tweet: "James has always been liked better by people who don't know him.
In these encounters, they come in a fan but don't leave as one."
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FANS GO WILD OVER MATT'S BUZZ-BACK
Game show fans went wild over the ruthless response as one person commented: "Oooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! "
"Holy shade, Batman!" wrote another, "Touche!" wrote a third.
A fourth sweetly wrote: "My son is married and lives 8 hours from me. We bond over Jeopardy. When you had your run he called me everyday to talk about it! Let's go Matt!"
TOGETHER AGAIN
32-time winner James and 38-time winner Matt reunited for the first time since Masters at Saturday's second annual Game Show Boot Camp, run by the Las Vegas charity Project 150.
The all-day event was spearheaded by Vegas' own James and included a murderer's row of Jeopardy! royalty holding court at the Hampton Inn Tropicana.
40-time winner Amy Schneider, fan-favorite Sam Buttrey, Matt, and 23-win sensation Mattea Roach participated in a "Jeopardy! Masters Panel."
The panel included five of the six contestants from the special-which was won by James.
Other panels included "The State of The Buzzer," "How to be a great contestant," and a meet-and-greet, seemingly where the fan interaction took place.
The day didn't end there; however, James tweeted that the champs went out for a wild karaoke night.
“Just wrapped up karaoke night with Amy Schneider, Sam Buttrey, Jason Zuffranieri, Sam Kavanaugh and [former contestant coordinator] Maggie Speak,” James posted. “My life is cooler than yours.”
MASTERS FINALE
James won the Jeopardy! Masters crown and $500,000 by the thinnest of margins in a fierce finale this spring.
Sensation Mattea Roach, 24, lost by 2100 combined points after James made a slightly savvier Final Jeopardy wager- they were leading up until the very last question.
The 32-time winner and pro gambler was pushed to the brink, all while Mattea was reeling from the sudden loss of their father in their family home while filming.
Mattea went home with $250,000 for second place, and Matt $150,000 for placing third.
'I HAD A ROUGH PATCH'
Matt admitted about Masters on the podcast Inside Jeopardy!: "It was a roller coaster. I had a rough patch.
"It's a lot easier to win games that James isn't in.
"I was having a Dickens of a time trying to buzz in on any game where James was there but when James wasn't there I found my buzzer rhythm."
On the Jeopardy! podcast, executive producer Michael Davies also recently reflected on how Matt's gameplay is just hard to pin down.
Davies stated: "Matt Amodio is the most inconsistent of the Jeopardy! Masters."
"He can soar so high, [but] he can have games where sort of he doesn't really play.
"He’s a really mercurial, interesting player in that respect."
MYSTERIOUS MASTER
Yet out of the six Masters contenders, Matt's statistics were perhaps the most worth eyeballing.
He won four matches in the special, but lost six - he never placed second once in the entire event. He also buzzed in the fewest number of times.
During the quarterfinals of the special, Matt, however, prevailed with in a stunning moment off the back of a $13K Daily Double wager.
Yet, in another, he finished with -2000 having missed a $9.6K Daily Double and did not compete in Final Jeopardy.
After that game, which James won, the self-described game show villain created a meme of Matt morphing into Brad Rutter who famously didn't fare well in the 2020 GOAT Tournament.
That said, Matt was also the one player to notch a win against James during Masters all of its three weeks.
All three Masters finalists are guaranteed slots in next year's special.
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