2018-19 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions
The lineup for the next Tournament of Champions has been announced and the event is scheduled for November 2019. Here is a list of contestants who qualify, with the surprise addition of 3x winner Emma Boettcher.
Tournaments:
$100,000 – Francois Barcomb, 2019 Teachers Tournament Winner
$100,000 – Dhruv Gaur, 2018 College Championship Winner
Regular play:
$2,462,216 – James Holzhauer (32x)
$163,721 – Josh Hill (7x)
$156,497 – Ryan Fenster (7x)
$145,403 – Kyle Jones (7x)
$133,900 – Rob Worman (6x)
$120,802 – Alan Dunn (5x)
$115,501 – Steven Grade (5x)
$84,201 – Gilbert Collins (5x)
$75,999 – Rachel Lindgren (5x)
$105,602 – Eric R. Backes (4x)
$104,497 – Anneke Garcia (4x)
$101,002 – Lindsey Shultz (4x)
$97,002 – Emma Boettcher (3x)
Obviously, Emma was chosen for her distinction as the player who beat James Holzhauer. When announcing that she got the 15th spot in the video, Clue Crew Jimmy said: “anyone who could have qualified for this TOC will be held over for eligibility in the next edition.” Let’s assume, right now, that refers to everyone they skipped over to include her:
$107,049 – Ryan Bilger (4x)
$100,102 – Dave Leffler (4x)
$93,301 – Jonathan Dinerstein (4x)
$92,880 – Alex Schmidt (4x)
$92,200 – John Presloid (4x)
$87,089 – Jackie Fuchs (4x)
$86,500 – Mary Ann Borer (4x)
$63,802 – Kyle Becker (4x)
Here are the rest of the players in Seasons 34 and 35 who won 3 games:
$78,401 – Scott McFadden (3x)
$77,400 – Dave Mattingly (3x)
$70,601 – Will Dawson (3x)
$69,400 – Bif Reiser (3x)
$67,801 – Ali Hasan (3x)
$66,802 – Erik Agard (3x)
$66,700 – E.J. Wolborsky (3x)
$65,900 – Marty Cunningham (3x)
$64,002 – Dana Wayne (3x)
$63,601 – Suzanne Koppelman (3x)
$62,503 – Emily Frey (3x)
$62,300 – Jeffrey Schwarz (3x)
$61,800 – Kate O’Connor (3x)
$60,000 – Rick Terpstra (3x)
$52,799 – Doug Dodson (3x)
$51,196 – Wes Hazard (3x)
$46,693 – Michelle Cabral (3x)
$45,001 – Emily Milan (3x)
HONORABLE MENTION: $100,000 – Larry Martin, 2018 Teachers Tournament Winner – REST IN PEACE
Buzzy Cohen was the winner of the 2017 Tournament of Champions, which ran from 11/6 to 11/18/2017. These links are to the Final Jeopardy questions in Week 1 (the quarterfinals) and Week 2 (semi and finals).
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Here’s my prediction for the QF match-ups:
Group #1 (Monday)
competitor #1: Ryan Fenster
competitor #2: Steven Grade
competitor #3: Anneke Garcia
Group #2 (Tuesday)
competitor #1: Gilbert Collins
competitor #2: Emma Boettcher
competitor #3: Rachel Lindgren
Group #3 (Wednesday)
competitor #1: Dhruv Gaur
competitor #2: Josh Hill
competitor #3: James Holzhauer
Group #4 (Thursday)
competitor #1: Kyle Jones
competitor #2: Alan Dunn
competitor #3: Lindsey Shultz
Group #5 (Friday)
competitor #1: Francois Barcomb
competitor #2: Eric R. Backes
competitor #3: Rob Worman
Nice try.
Only 420 contestants earned a spot and only 27 are the “Champion of Champions”.
My opinion for the Tournament of Champions is this:
Rachel Lindgren: $250,000
Anneke Garcia: $100,000
Lindsey Shultz: $50,000
Semifinalists:
Emma Boettcher
Gilbert Collins
Ryan Fenster
Dhruv Gaur
Josh Hill
Kyle Jones
Quarterfinalists
Eric R. Backes
Francois Barcomb
Alan Dunn
Steven Grade
James Holzhauer
Rob Worman
Ryan won 4 games in a row from july 4 to july 10 and has a 4-day total with $107,049, so why is he not on this year’s tournament of champions?
If you read the post, it answers your question, Elan. They skipped over numerous players to get a possible James / Emma rematch.
There’s no way everyone they skipped over will be in the next ToC, imo. Most of them would not have been in this one anyway. The holdover possibilities appear to be Ryan Bilger and Dave Leffler.
This tournament will air on November 4-15, 2019.
Here are the rest of the players in Season 35 is actually both Seasons 34 and 35 combined.
Your nitpicking is getting annoying Patrick
@VJ Yeah. And this sounds like the four game curse wasn’t really a curse. Anneke, Lindsey, & Eric are not included in that video.
I am so sorry, VJ.
Okay, well, you just need to realize that most of the time, I can’t fix something till late in the evening, or in the case of adding someone to this list, I prefer to do it at the end of the week (esp when it is a 3x winner who has little chance of being in the ToC under ordinary circumstances).
Also, it would be nice if you contributed something to the board other than pointing out mistakes!
VJ, I would usually wait.
Emma Boettcher is really out of the running for the November 2019 ToC. She only won three games.
I am going to like this tournament I really hope james will take it all the way to the finals but this should be great competition. Let’s hope we get a woman winning the tournament as well VJ.
Let the best player win. That’s my opinion.
I hope James Holzhauer will win the Tournament of Champions when he was the biggest winner of the 2018-19 season.
@Elan Xu I don’t know, something tells me I’m not gonna like this in November.
Me too, Elan! If he does win, he will have $2,712,216. Then he will need $658,484 to tie Ken Jennings’ all time winnings of $3,370,700 and $1,976,220 to tie Brad Rutter’s all time winnings of $4,688,436.
@VJ Well, what can I say? I hope no one gets higher than this current top 15 list. Let’s hope either Anneke, Rachel, Lindsey, or Emma win. We haven’t had a woman won this tournament ever since Celeste DiNucci redeemed the family name for her brother Dennis.
E.J. Wolborsky’s reign is done.
Emma Boettcher’s reign is over.
Do they actually win the dollars in each game if they win in addition to moving to the next level?
@Sharon, yes, they each won the amount shown from their winning games. They also got an additional $1K or $2K, depending on whether they finished 2nd or 3rd in the game they lost.
what does the ribbon mean that they are all wearing
@joan a — the ribbons are explained in this recap next to the picture of Cindy Stowell.
Tonight (8/7/18) Buzzy Cohen won Final Jeopardy. While Alex Trebek was talking to Linda (?), Buzzy clapped the middle player on the shoulder and offered his hand with a smile in a sportsmanlike way. All I could see then was the middle player’s index finger coming into the screen pointing at Buzzy, who pulled back, openmouthed, and backed up to the end of his desk. What was that about?? Was I see4ing things?
@Ruth, Buzzy and Jason actually shook hands before you saw Jason pointing. We can only surmise that Jason said something congratulatory but, if you want, you can ask Buzzy directly on Twitter
I was glancing at your comment on the side of the page, VJ, and I read it as “Ruth Buzzy and Jason LOL.
LOL rhonda! I did the EXACT same thing! I was like, “Wow! I didn’t know Ruth Buzzy (I think it’s actually spelled Buzzi?!) was still around!” 🙂
Reminds me of that recent clue on the punctuation book Eats, Shoots and Leaves
So funny that you read it that way, too, JJ! You’re right, it is spelled Buzzi.
LOL Rhonda!! That’s so funny!!