Previous Jeopardy! winners and fan-favorites have been invited to compete within the first-ever Jeopardy! Invitational Event, aka “JIT.” The video games started on Wednesday, March 20, following Yogesh Raut’s Event of Champions victory on March 19. And followers have been desirous to see the primary lineup of returning gamers within the new invitational.
On the road for each participant on this tourney is a $100,000 grand and an invite to compete within the subsequent Jeopardy Masters. Competing on March 20 have been Andrew He, Dan Pawson, and Pam Mueller. He’s the freshest participant on followers’ recollections from this group, as he final was seen on the sport present in 2023 and his opponents final appeared years in the past.
He’s a Season 38 five-game champion, 2022 Event of Champions first runner-up and 2023 “Jeopardy! Masters” fourth place finisher, and stay-at-home dad from Harmony, California. Pawson is Season 24 nine-game champion, 2009 Event of Champions winner, and Battle of the Many years quarterfinalist, and a world well being marketing consultant from Arlington, Virginia.
Mueller is a 2000 School Championship winner, 2001 Event of Champions semifinalist, 2005 Final Event of Champions Candy Six finisher, Battle of the Many years semifinalist, All-Star Video games second runner-up (as a part of Crew Colby), and a justice researcher initially from Chicago, Illinois.
Issues weren’t trying nice for He after he was trailing in third place for the primary two rounds of gameplay. His rating on the first break was 0, and that solely elevated to 600 by the second break. It was in Double Jeopardy that he staged a giant comeback with the assistance of two key Every day Double wins and excessive wagers. Mueller stopped He from scoring a runaway sport by managing to get her rating as much as precisely half of his. If she wager all of it in Ultimate Jeopardy, which she did, she might have received.
The scores going into the ultimate spherical have been Andrew at 33,600, Pam with 16,800 and Dan at 6,400. Sadly, each Mueller and Pawson gave incorrect solutions to the ultimate immediate. Each risked all of their earnings to attempt to beat He, however they each ended with 0. He performed it protected by wagering $1, leaving his last rating at 33,601, making him the champion of the primary JIT and advancing him to the subsequent spherical of the match. He congratulated and applauded his opponents for the nice sport on the finish.
That’s one sport down, many extra to go! Subsequent up are 2013 Teen Event winner Leonard Cooper, 19-time champion Jason Zuffranieri, and 2009 Event of Champions first runner-up Larissa Kelly, and later within the match we’ll see favorites Amy Schneider, Sam Buttrey, Sam Kavanaugh, and extra return for extra trivia thrills.
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