Jeopardy! Masters | |
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Genre | Game show |
Created by | Merv Griffin |
Directed by |
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Presented by | Ken Jennings |
Narrated by | Johnny Gilbert |
Ending theme | "Think!" |
Composers | John Hoke (Bleeding Fingers Music) Chris Bell Music & Sound Design Original theme composed by Merv Griffin |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Michael Davies |
Running time | 42 minutes |
Production company | Sony Pictures Television [lower-alpha 1] |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | May 8, 2023 – present |
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Jeopardy! |
Jeopardy! Masters is an American quiz show hosted by Ken Jennings on ABC. Its first season featured six recent notable Jeopardy! champions competing against each other in a "Champions League-style" format. [1] It premiered on May 8, 2023. [2] In a slight change to the Jeopardy! format, each round begins with the revelation to the television audience of the location of that round's Daily Double(s). In February 2024, it was announced that the show would be renewed for a second season which is set to premiere on May 1, 2024. [3] [4]
The following six contestants, listed below in order of finish, competed in the first Jeopardy! Masters competition:
As the top three finalists, Holzhauer, Roach, and Amodio all received invitations to the next Masters competition.
The contestants for season 2 will consist of season 1 finalists Holzhauer, Roach, and Amodio, as well as: [4] [7]
The tournament features six former Jeopardy! champions competing round-robin style, with the first season consisting of ten hour-long episodes featuring two games each, for a total of twenty games. [11] [12] [13]
Unlike traditional Jeopardy!, which is scored in dollars, all of the games in this tournament are scored in points, just like in Super Jeopardy!, the first two seasons of Rock & Roll Jeopardy! , Sports Jeopardy! and Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time .
The second season will consist of nine hour-long episodes of two games each (eighteen games total); other aspects of the tournament format for the second season have not yet been confirmed. [4] The remainder of this section describes the format in place for the first season.
The quarterfinals consist of seven round-robin matches of two games each; in each round, three of the contestants play each other in the first game, and the remaining three play in the second game. The winner of each game receives three match points, the runner-up receives one match point, and the third player receives no match points. The second game of each round except for the first pairs up the winners from the previous round against another randomly-selected contestant who has not already played against both winners.
After seven rounds, the match points are totaled; the top four contestants advance to the semifinals, while the other two are eliminated from the competition.
The four remaining contestants play each other round-robin over four games, with each player sitting out one game. Each player's match points total is reset to zero, and, as in the quarterfinals, the winner of each game receives three match points, second place receives one, and last place receives none. The three highest-ranked players move on to the finals, while the lowest-ranked player is eliminated.
The three remaining players play each other in a two-game match, as is standard in the final round of most Jeopardy! tournaments. The player with the highest combined score over the two games is declared champion. Furthermore, the three players will be automatically qualified in next year's tournament.
Should either the quarterfinals or semifinals end in a tie for match points, the following tie-breaking criteria are used, in order:
Ranking | Contestant | Match points | Tiebreakers | Result | |||
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Games won | Correct responses (including FJ!) | Score (excluding FJ! & DD) | Score (excluding FJ!) | ||||
1st | James Holzhauer | 18 | 6 | 193 | 152,600 | 247,805 | Qualified for semifinals |
2nd | Andrew He | 13 | 3 | 131 | 107,000 | 121,800 | |
3rd | Matt Amodio | 9 | 3 | 115 | 88,800 | 112,800 | |
4th | Mattea Roach | 8 | 2 | 112 | 75,000 | 86,400 | |
5th | Amy Schneider | 5 | 0 | 95 | 66,800 | 70,800 | 5th place |
6th | Sam Buttrey | 3 | 0 | 115 | 70,000 | 80,600 | 6th place |
Ranking | Contestant | Match points | Tiebreakers | Result [14] | |||
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Games won | Correct responses (including FJ!) | Score (excluding FJ! & DD) | Score (excluding FJ!) | ||||
1st | James Holzhauer | 9 | 3 | 72 | 51,400 | 70,000 | Qualified for finals & Jeopardy! Masters season 2 |
2nd | Matt Amodio | 3 | 1 | 44 | 36,200 | 46,200 | |
3rd | Mattea Roach | 2 | 0 | 50 | 35,000 | 44,400 | |
4th | Andrew He | 2 | 0 | 45 | 33,400 | 37,600 | 4th place |
Contestant | Game 1 Score | Game 2 Score | Total Score | Result |
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James Holzhauer | 34,315 | 9,481 | 43,795 | Champion |
Mattea Roach | 24,800 | 16,885 | 41,685 | Runner-up |
Matt Amodio | 12,000 | 3,200 | 15,200 | 3rd place |
The winner of each game and the final is highlighted in bold.
No. | Title [15] [14] | Contestant 1 (score) | Contestant 2 (score) | Contestant 3 (score) | Original air date [15] | U.S. viewers (millions) | Rating (18–49) |
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1 | "Game 1" | Schneider (28,200) | Amodio (14,201) | He (28,401) | May 8, 2023 | 5.78 [16] | 0.6 [16] |
"Game 2" | Holzhauer (30,988) | Roach (6,199) | Buttrey (18,401) | ||||
2 | "Game 3" | Buttrey (2,399) | Schneider (17,700) | Roach (22,401) | May 9, 2023 | 5.49 [17] | 0.5 [17] |
"Game 4" | He (9,600) | Holzhauer (0) | Amodio (27,400) | ||||
3 | "Game 5" | Holzhauer (44,681) | Schneider (9,121) | Buttrey (20,600) | May 10, 2023 | 5.45 [18] | 0.5 [18] |
"Game 6" | He (20,700) | Roach (30,401) | Amodio (15,201) | ||||
4 | "Game 7" | He (37,600) | Buttrey (0) | Schneider (9,800) | May 12, 2023 | 5.20 [19] | 0.4 [19] |
"Game 8" | Holzhauer (23,678) | Roach (5,958) | Amodio (-2,000) [lower-alpha 4] | ||||
5 | "Game 9" | Roach (13,599) | Amodio (16,799) | Schneider (16,401) | May 15, 2023 | 5.80 [20] | 0.7 [20] |
"Game 10" | Holzhauer (23,999) | He (8,800) | Buttrey (0) | ||||
6 | "Game 11" | He (15,100) | Roach (11,201) | Buttrey (2,799) | May 16, 2023 | 5.65 [21] | 0.6 [21] |
"Game 12" | Holzhauer (29,890) | Amodio (5,599) | Schneider (13,000) | ||||
7 | "Game 13" | Roach (6,799) | Amodio (31,000) | Buttrey (14,000) | May 17, 2023 | 5.66 [22] | 0.5 [22] |
"Game 14" | Holzhauer (21,392) | He (9,600) | Schneider (3,000) | ||||
8 | "Semifinals 1" | Holzhauer (30,401) | He (22,000) | Amodio (15,201) | May 22, 2023 | 5.81 [23] | 0.5 [23] |
"Semifinals 2" | Holzhauer (24,700) | He (12,484) | Roach (15,999) | ||||
9 | "Semifinals 3" | Holzhauer (24,292) | Roach (10,886) | Amodio (0) | May 23, 2023 | 5.91 [24] | 0.6 [24] |
"Semifinals 4" | Roach (5,799) | He (15,199) | Amodio (32,800) | ||||
10 | "The Finals [lower-alpha 5] " | Holzhauer (34,314 + 9,481 = 43,795) | Amodio (12,000 + 3,200 = 15,200) | Roach (24,800 + 16,885 = 41,685) | May 24, 2023 | 6.47 [25] | 0.6 [25] |
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