The latest Tournament of Champions on Jeopardy! has delivered many shocking moments.
Tuesday’s new episode was another for the books after Ben Chan comfortably beat out fellow champions Justin Bolsen and Emmett Stanton.
At the beginning of the high-octane installment, host Ken Jennings discussed how the 2024 Tournament of Champions has been the most “dramatic in history.”
Going into the episode, Chan was seen as a strong competitor, with nine initial wins. Still, given that many strong competitors had already lost their spot in the tournament, nothing was off the table.
From the jump, Chan had a comfortable lead, snagging a Daily Double at $7,000.
By the time we got to Double Jeopardy!, he had banked $11,400, compared to Bolsen’s $1,600 and Stanton’s $3,200.
Ben Chan’s victory was imminent
By the Final Jeopardy!, he had amassed $29,800, so it was inevitable he would be leaving with the win and advance to the semifinals.
Tuesday’s new episode was another for the books after Ben Chan comfortably beat out fellow champions Justin Bolsen and Emmett Stanton.
At the beginning of the high-octane installment, host Ken Jennings discussed how the 2024 Tournament of Champions has been the most “dramatic in history.”
Going into the episode, Chan was seen as a strong competitor, with nine initial wins. Still, given that many strong competitors had already lost their spot in the tournament, nothing was off the table.
From the jump, Chan had a comfortable lead, snagging a Daily Double at $7,000.
By the time we got to Double Jeopardy!, he had banked $11,400, compared to Bolsen’s $1,600 and Stanton’s $3,200.
Ben Chan’s victory was imminent
By the Final Jeopardy!, he had amassed $29,800, so it was inevitable he would be leaving with the win and advance to the semifinals.
- 3/6/2024
- by Paul Dailly
- Monsters and Critics
Order has been restored to Jeopardy!‘s 2024 Tournament of Champions thanks to fan favorite Ben Chan, who won Tuesday night’s (March 5) episode in dominant fashion. Chan, who won nine consecutive games in Season 39 before a controversial wrong-letter ruling knocked him out, entered the Toc as one of the front-runners. However, so far, this has been a cursed competition for the favorites, turning into the Tournament of Death with Cris Pannullo, Hannah Wilson, Juveria Zaheer, and Ray Lalonde all losing their quarter-final games. The philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin, broke the curse on Tuesday as he faced off against Emmett Stanton, a freelance writer from Baltimore, Maryland, and Justin Bolsen, a public policy economics student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia, who won last year’s High School Reunion Tournament. Chan set the pace right from the off when he clinched a true Daily Double and took an early lead with six correct clues.
- 3/6/2024
- TV Insider
Jeopardy!‘s strike-delayed Tournament of Champions is getting celebritized.
Sony announced Tuesday that this year’s contest — which kicks off Friday, Feb. 23 — will feature among its contestants Celebrity Jeopardy! breakout Ike Barinholtz. This will be the first time ToC will welcome a champion from ABC’s starry primetime spinoff.
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Barinholtz,...
Sony announced Tuesday that this year’s contest — which kicks off Friday, Feb. 23 — will feature among its contestants Celebrity Jeopardy! breakout Ike Barinholtz. This will be the first time ToC will welcome a champion from ABC’s starry primetime spinoff.
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- 2/20/2024
- by Michael Ausiello and Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Jeopardy! has revealed all the details of its upcoming Champions Wildcard tournament, and it gives fans further insight into who will participate in the 2023 Tournament of Champions, plus when regular Jeopardy! will return with new contestants. The Champions Wildcard, which kicks off on Monday, October 2, will feature brief winners from Season 37 and Season 38, as well as the three winners from the currently airing Second Chance tournament. The series will culminate in December with four overall winners, each earning a spot in the 2023 Toc. This would bring the current total of Toc players up to 17. We already know 11 of the four-plus game champions from Season 39 will be taking part. Also competing will be High School reunion champ Justin Bolsen and Celebrity Jeopardy! winner Ike Barinholtz. A fan on the Jeopardy! Reddit ...
- 9/27/2023
- TV Insider
One thing Jeopardy! and college basketball have in common this year: both have high-stakes tournaments played by college students. Jeopardy! concluded its first-ever High School Reunion Tournament on March 9. The tourney, which featured current college students and recent grads, included a March Madness category in honor of the impending tipoff of March Madness 2023 on March 14. The tournament welcomed back contestants and winners from the 2018 and 2019 Teen Tournaments. Five years after their first appearances, the players competed for the new winning title, a $100,000 grand prize, and a guaranteed spot in the next Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. In the end, Justin Bolsen, a freshman-year student at Brown University, walked away victorious, with Jackson Jones, a junior at Vanderbilt University, coming in second, and Maya Wright, a senior at Emory University, placing third. College basketball’s yearly alliterative championship tournament will continue through early April, with the Sweet 16 games taking place March 23 and...
- 3/18/2023
- TV Insider
Jeopardy! watchers saw a rare goof on March 9 when the final scores of contestants in the High School Reunion Tournament were shown during host Mayim Bialik’s opening monologue. And there wasn’t even a spoiler alert.
Now Jeopardy! executive producer Michael Davies has explained what went wrong, and has offered his apologies to viewers.
“Right off the bat, apologies to our entire audience,” Davies says on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast. “We totally blew it at the top of the show. We made a horrible error where we revealed the final scores at the end in the opening cutaway shot during Mayim’s monologue.”
According to Davies, the opening monologue in which the host welcomes the players and sets the stage for that episode’s competition is occasionally re-shot post-game and inserted into the final tape. The reshoots might be necessitated by a misstated factual error or a performance issue during the initial monologue.
Now Jeopardy! executive producer Michael Davies has explained what went wrong, and has offered his apologies to viewers.
“Right off the bat, apologies to our entire audience,” Davies says on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast. “We totally blew it at the top of the show. We made a horrible error where we revealed the final scores at the end in the opening cutaway shot during Mayim’s monologue.”
According to Davies, the opening monologue in which the host welcomes the players and sets the stage for that episode’s competition is occasionally re-shot post-game and inserted into the final tape. The reshoots might be necessitated by a misstated factual error or a performance issue during the initial monologue.
- 3/16/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Justin Bolsen, a freshman-year student at Brown University, has walked away the Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament champion in the March 9 episode of the trivia game show. Following a two-day final, Bolsen came out ahead of Jackson Jones, a junior at Vanderbilt University, and Maya Wright, a senior at Emory University. Alongside his champion status, Bolden won the grand prize of $100,000 and secured a spot in the next Tournament of Champions. Jones claimed $50,000 for second place, and Wright took home $25,000 for third. “It feels really good,” said Bolsen. “It feels like all the Quiz Bowl stuff I’ve done, all the coaching I had – I had really great middle school and high school Quiz Bowl coaches – I owe a lot of this to them. I go to Brown, which is a really open, collaborative environment, so I had a lot of friends who helped me study too, which was nice.
- 3/10/2023
- TV Insider
If you wanted to know how Wednesday’s episode of Jeopardy! ended, you only needed to watch the first two minutes.
As noted by an eagle-eyed fan on social media Wednesday night, the contestants’ final scores for the evening were accidentally shown at the top of the episode, as host Mayim Bialik congratulated the trio on reaching the finals of Jeopardy!‘s High School Reunion Tournament.
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As noted by an eagle-eyed fan on social media Wednesday night, the contestants’ final scores for the evening were accidentally shown at the top of the episode, as host Mayim Bialik congratulated the trio on reaching the finals of Jeopardy!‘s High School Reunion Tournament.
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- 3/9/2023
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
Wednesday night’s “Jeopardy!” spoiled its results before the competition even began.
As host Mayim Bialik congratulated the finalists in the High School Reunion Tournament and announced how the competition would progress after the match, the game show cut to the contestants with their final financial tallies showing.
Jackson Jones’ winning $24,000, Justin Bolsen’s $13,570 and Maya Wright’s $3,370 proved to be their final totals at the end of the episode. The finalists in the High School Reunion tournament still have another game to go to determine the winner, combining the two total scores.
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The High School Reunion Tournament began Monday, Feb. 20, featuring 27 “alumni” teen competitors who have previously been on the game show. The three alumni champions are left competing for $100,000 and a spot in the Tournament of Champions.
You can watch the glitch above at the top of this post.
As host Mayim Bialik congratulated the finalists in the High School Reunion Tournament and announced how the competition would progress after the match, the game show cut to the contestants with their final financial tallies showing.
Jackson Jones’ winning $24,000, Justin Bolsen’s $13,570 and Maya Wright’s $3,370 proved to be their final totals at the end of the episode. The finalists in the High School Reunion tournament still have another game to go to determine the winner, combining the two total scores.
Also Read:
‘Jeopardy! Masters’ Is Coming to ABC With Host Ken Jennings
The High School Reunion Tournament began Monday, Feb. 20, featuring 27 “alumni” teen competitors who have previously been on the game show. The three alumni champions are left competing for $100,000 and a spot in the Tournament of Champions.
You can watch the glitch above at the top of this post.
- 3/9/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the March 8 episode of Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament.] Jeopardy! suffered a rare but major snafu during the High School Reunion Tournament on Wednesday, March 8. During the first few minutes of night one of the two-night finals, the player’s final dollar amounts were showed on screen, spoiling the ending for viewers. The moment came as host Mayim Bialik explained the stakes of the finals, which are “a $100,000 grand prize and a guaranteed spot in the next Tournament of Champions.” The camera cut to the players directly after, their podiums revealing their winnings instead of being blank. The mistake was immediately noticed by fans, and the end of the episode made clear that the numbers on their podiums weren’t just random mistakes, rather their actual final results. Jackson Jones from Louisville, Kentucky won the game with $24,000. Justin Bolsen from Canton, Georgia placed second with $13,570. And Maya Wright from Peachtree City, Georgia placed ...
- 3/9/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the March 6 episode of Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament.] The March 6 episode of Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament proves that it can all come down to how much you wager in the end. In fact, since the three contestants — Claire Sattler, Stephanie Pierson, and Justin Bolsen — all got it wrong, it determined who moved on to the finals. Double Jeopardy! was filled with a few misses as well as, for Stephanie, almost correct answers in two clues under Pivotal Women. First, for the $1600 clue, “After inspiring millions to join a global climate strike in 2019, this Swedish activist was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year,” Stephanie said “Who is Greta Thurnberg,” instead of “Greta Thunberg.” Then for the $2000 clue, “Depicted in the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ and described as one of NASA’s ‘human computers,’ this mathematician overcame institutional racism and sexism doing the complex calculations that put America’s first astronauts into ...
- 3/7/2023
- TV Insider
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Jeopardy!‘s February 23, 2023 episode.] Day 4 of Jeopardy!‘s High School Reunion Tournament delivered some exciting gameplay as one big bet helped land one hopeful competitor a spot in the semifinals. The episode airing Thursday, February 23 saw first-year Brown University student Justin Bolsen, Harvard University Sophomore Shriya Yarlagadda, and first-year American University student Teagan O’Sullivan face off for a chance to move on in this first-of-its-kind tournament. The players who made a splash in previous teen tournaments are gunning for a winning spot in this tournament which will ultimately give them a space in the next Tournament of Champions. In this evening’s episode, Justin proved to make the smartest move during Double Jeopardy! When he selected the game’s third Daily Double from the “Astronomy & Space” category, which presented the answer, “With perihelion on July 28, it will be seen again from Earth in 2061, when all of you are ...
- 2/24/2023
- TV Insider
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