[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the March 25 episode of Jeopardy!] Amy Schneider was “very hard to beat,” as host Ken Jennings put it, in the latest Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament game, and already fans think that her win is foreshadowing the outcome of the entire tournament. The writer who was a 40-game champion, won the 2022 Tournament of Champions, and previously finished in fifth in the Jeopardy Masters faced off against 12-game champion Austin Rogers, a bar owner who was the 2017 Tournament of Champions second runner-up and All-Star Games participant, and five-game champion Celeste Dinucci, an arts strategist who was the 2007 Tournament of Champions winner and Battle of the Decades participant. Players are competing to win $100,000 and an invitation to compete in the 2024 Jeopardy Masters tournament. Jennings was right, that it was hard to beat and even “hard to catch” Schneider with her score. She led at every break and found two of the three Daily Doubles. (Rogers found the ...
- 3/25/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy!‘s 2007 Tournament of Champions winner, Celeste Dinucci, will return to the Alex Trebek Stage today for the first time in a decade. Dinucci, a music presenter for the nonprofit organization Ars Nova Workshop, first appeared on the iconic game show in 2006, where she went on a five-game winning streak, bagging herself $84,601. This landed her a spot in the 2007 Toc, which she went on to win, beating out tough opponents in Cliff Galiher and Doug Hicton. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania native last appeared on Jeopardy! in 2014, where she competed in the Battle of the Decades competition. Despite her previous success, Dinucci said she never expected to receive an invite to the currently airing Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament. “It’s not like I’d been keeping up with things,” Dinucci told The Inquirer. “I went to the Jeopardy! archives and just started playing a bunch of old games, just to get back into...
- 3/25/2024
- TV Insider
After weeks of twists and turns, Jeopardy! has finally crowned the winner of the 2024 Tournament of Champions.
Yogesh Raut towered above the competition throughout the finals, and his third victory allowed him to take the overall win.
Tuesday’s shocking episode featured the power going back and forth between him and Troy Meyer.
Ben Chan, who turned in another strong showing throughout the Tournament of Champions, struggled to keep up the pace.
Ultimately, Raut’s win came after he pulled ahead of Meyer when his opponent got the answer wrong at the start of Final Jeopardy!
Raut’s win secured him a healthy $250,000 prize and an entry in the upcoming Jeopardy! Masters tournament.
Changes are on the horizon for Jeopardy!
Yes, the show is all about tournaments these days and recycling competitors, but that will change very soon.
Raut, Chan, and Meyer recently felt the ire of Taylor Swift fans...
Yogesh Raut towered above the competition throughout the finals, and his third victory allowed him to take the overall win.
Tuesday’s shocking episode featured the power going back and forth between him and Troy Meyer.
Ben Chan, who turned in another strong showing throughout the Tournament of Champions, struggled to keep up the pace.
Ultimately, Raut’s win came after he pulled ahead of Meyer when his opponent got the answer wrong at the start of Final Jeopardy!
Raut’s win secured him a healthy $250,000 prize and an entry in the upcoming Jeopardy! Masters tournament.
Changes are on the horizon for Jeopardy!
Yes, the show is all about tournaments these days and recycling competitors, but that will change very soon.
Raut, Chan, and Meyer recently felt the ire of Taylor Swift fans...
- 3/20/2024
- by Paul Dailly
- Monsters and Critics
Is there such a thing as too much Jeopardy? We don’t think so.
As the current Tournament of Champions approaches the finish line, we already have confirmation on what’s on tap for the rest of the month.
As expected, more alums will return to the show before we meet new faces in April.
The producers’ aim is for the new players to have original questions that haven’t previously been used on the show.
Next up, we’re getting fan favorites back on the show for the first-ever invitational tournament.
Austin Rogers, who gained many fans during his initial stint on Jeopardy, will return alongside Andrew He, Amy Schneider, and Sam Buttrey.
The Jeopardy! invitational tournament has some big names
The cast also includes Brandon Blackwell, Colby Burnett, Lily Chin, Arthur Chu, Leonard Cooper, Celeste Dinucci, Chuck Forrest, Dhruv Gaur, Victoria Groce, and Ben Ingram.
Matt Jackson, Alex Jacob,...
As the current Tournament of Champions approaches the finish line, we already have confirmation on what’s on tap for the rest of the month.
As expected, more alums will return to the show before we meet new faces in April.
The producers’ aim is for the new players to have original questions that haven’t previously been used on the show.
Next up, we’re getting fan favorites back on the show for the first-ever invitational tournament.
Austin Rogers, who gained many fans during his initial stint on Jeopardy, will return alongside Andrew He, Amy Schneider, and Sam Buttrey.
The Jeopardy! invitational tournament has some big names
The cast also includes Brandon Blackwell, Colby Burnett, Lily Chin, Arthur Chu, Leonard Cooper, Celeste Dinucci, Chuck Forrest, Dhruv Gaur, Victoria Groce, and Ben Ingram.
Matt Jackson, Alex Jacob,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Paul Dailly
- Monsters and Critics
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