2016-17 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions
Honorable Mention:
$103,803 – Cindy Stowell (6x) Rest in Peace
4x Winners no longer in the Top 15:
$107,000 – Tim Kutz (4x)
$82,403 – Todd Giese (4x)
$72,601 – Rob Liguori (4x)
$65,700 – Fred Vaughn (4x)
$62,401 – Justin Bender (4x)
$49,403 – Kirstin Cutts (4x)
3x Winners:
$96,598 – Philip Tiu (3x)
$78,000 – Laurie MacDougall (3x)
$76,400 – Deborah Elliott (3x)
$76,191 – Jon Groubert (3x)
$69,201 – Grant McSheffrey (3x)
$67,800 – Susan Cole (3x)
$63,500 – Harris Stutman (3x)
$63,401 – Alex Maggio (3x)
$62,700 – Kelly Bayles (3x)
$61,402 – Betsy Knudson (3x)
$58,801 – Steve Belding (3x)
$56,201 – Sam Scovill (3x)
$54,603 – Ragavan Ramsubramani (3x)
$52,999 – Chris Becker (3x)
$50,600 – Lani Gonzalez (3x)
$50,200 – Gavin Borchert (3x)
$45,200 – Kyle Webb (3x)
$43,000 – Amelia Hershberger (3x)
$42,799 – Manny Abell (3x)
$42,699 – Rachel Zoch (3x)
$40,600 – John Avila (3x)
$40,000 – Ellen Corrigan (3x)
$39,403 – Joyce Hshieh (3x)
$36,601 – Nan Bauer (3x)
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Based on the comments I have read I think there was no 2016 tournament of champions, and this is why the 2016 and 2017 champions for both teachers and college are in the 2017 tournament. Can someone please confirm this? Secondly, what system does jeopardy use to group the 15 qualifiers into the five semi-final matches? The same question applies when grouping the five winners and four wild-card qualifiers into the three semi-final matches.
That’s right, John, they didn’t have a tournament of champions in 2016. The last one, in 2015, was going on in November same as this one.
Can’t help you with the second question — I haven’t really looked into how they chose the quarter-final groups this time around . As I recall, In the 2015 ToC, all the players came from the same season and there were some who already played against each other during their season so they didn’t have them in the same game in the quarter-finals. But I don’t think they had that same situation this year.
Quarter-final matchups:
Monday 11/6. Buzzy Cohen vs. Hunter Appler vs. Pranjal Vachaspati.
Tuesday 11/7. Tim Aten vs. Lilly Chin vs. Jason Sterlacci.
Wednesday 11/8. Austin Rogers vs. Alan Lin vs. David Clemmons.
Thursday 11/9. Seth Wilson vs. Lisa Schlitt vs. Sam Deutsch.
Friday 11/10. Andrew Pau vs. Justin Vossler vs. Jon Eisenman.
Do you put 3x Winners and 4x Winners no longer in the Top 15 in the Tournament of Champions Tracker?
They are all on page 2, Brian