Peril! Champions Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer now face the real mental battlefield: Twitter

Well, it finally happened: at the very moment when we had called Cardi B's fight against Nicki, or the quarrel between Kanye West, and everyone else, the collective will of the internet seems to have provoked an online rivalry between and current Peril! champions Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer. Several weeks after the beginning of the series Holzhauer, the two masters of the quiz have finally started to address directly on social networks, and even if we would certainly not call for the moment an intellectual vendetta, well, we can only hope:

What's most interesting about this little friendly fight is who seems to have chosen it: the social media team from Peril! himself, who has published a video on the theme of the game (probably as a nod to Holzhauer's daily work) which ends with a pointed reminder that he has 53 games left to play before beat the legacy of Jenning. (In terms of length, at least, if not won, where he could outperform relatively Jennings, a more conservative party.) Both men were apparently defeated and waged a very soft war against the most cerebral battlefield – Twitter – has now started.

Do not worry: both men have already talked a lot about their admiration for each other, Jennings expressing his fascination with Holzhauer's aggressive wagering style and his mastery of the ring, and Holzhauer recounting Newsweek"I am impressed by the achievements of Ken Jennings, like all Peril! the fans are. "Of course, he also retweeted an article a few weeks ago calling for a confrontation between the two men in the studio, so he felt maybe a little more competitive than those words of veneration …