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The highest scorer of the 2-game final receives the 1st place prize of $250,000, and an entry into the Tournament of Champions, 2nd place receives $100,000 and 3rd place receives $50,000. Unlike the regular College Championship, there are no wild card spots for high-scorers among non-winners; it was "win or go home". [2]
The Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, which began in 1987, was an annual tournament in which 15 high school students between the ages of 13 and 17 competed in a ten-episode tournament structured similarly to the Tournament of Champions. The winner receives $100,000 and entry into the Tournament of Champions.
Terry Thompson, a housewife and alumna of Swarthmore College, was the first Tournament of Champions winner. [1] She won $8,590 over the course of her run on Jeopardy!, including $5,080 during her main run and $3,510 (plus a vacation to the Virgin Islands) in the tournament.
Here's a handy timeline of how the St. Norbert College assistant professor of philosophy has become an 11-game "Jeopardy!" champ, a fan favorite and a local celebrity. champ, a fan favorite and a ...
As Jennings noted, under new rules for the Tournament of Champions, the winner of the $250,000 prize is the first player in the finals to win three games, so it'll continue through at least Wednesday.
Warning: This post contains spoilers. In her first competitive appearance in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, record-breaking contestant Amy Schneider owned the game from the start.. She led ...
Craig won the Tournament of Champions. In the finals, he defeated systems engineer Buddy Wright and writer Tom Nissley (the latter being the show's fourth highest all-time non-tournament money winner), to win the grand prize of $250,000. Craig returned for the Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades tournament on April 1, 2014, as part of the 2000s ...
All-Star Games, with 18 former champions, Jennings was one of six captains, choosing 2015 Tournament of Champions runner-up Matt Jackson and 2012 Jeopardy! College Champion Monica Thieu (who coincidentally eliminated Jennings in a 2016 episode of 500 Questions) to complete his three-person "Team Ken."