Attention: This is the game recap page for the 2025 Touranment of Champions Exhibition Game airing on TuneIn at 7:00 PM Eastern on Jeopardy! Radio. If you are looking for the page for Game 2 of the Champions Wildcard final, you can find that here.
Here’s this game’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Mythology):
On an early book of Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator’s maps, an image of this Titan holding the world was used
Your Tournament of Champions Exhbition Game contestants:
Drew Basile, a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan
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Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California
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Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Andy’s Pre-Game Thoughts:
Much like the 30th Tournament of Champions in the fall of 2022, Jeopardy! wanted to give its three seeded players an opportunity to play a game alongside the quarterfinalists, so that everyone had the same opportunity on the signalling device prior to the semifinals. Thus, Adriana Harmeyer, Isaac Hirsch, and Drew Basile have been given an exhibition game, which is airing tonight exclusively on TuneIn’s Jeopardy! Radio channel at 7:00 PM Eastern. (Or, you can listen to the channel here on The Jeopardy! Fan as well.) If you missed the episode and are looking to listen to it on demand, you can find the episode on TuneIn as well.
The prediction model here has Isaac as a slight favorite to take victory, but being that everyone is playing to get used to Jeopardy! again, I would certainly take any predictions here with a very large amount of salt.
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Correct response: Who is Atlas?
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won the Tournament of Champions exhbition game? Here’s the game by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Sounds Like An Actor’s Name; They Drive On The Left Side Of The Road; Newspaper Terms; “Ime” On It; The Vice Presidency: America Decides; Give Me Some Backup)
After Adriana missed the Daily Double, Isaac picked up 8 correct to lead after 15 clues. After 15 clues, the scores were Isaac $3,600 Adriana $2,400 Drew $1,600.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Isaac 8 correct 1 incorrect
Adriana 4 correct 1 incorrect
Drew 2 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Drew got a lot of heat in his first appearance for thinking Michigan State was the Trojans.
Isaac regrets losing on a wagering error and had to relearn subtraction on paper.
Adriana bought a new pair of more comfortable shoes before returning.
Isaac picked up another 8 correct to continue to lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Isaac 16 correct 2 incorrect
Adriana 7 correct 1 incorrect
Drew 5 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Isaac $8,200
Adriana $3,200
Drew $3,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Conversational Esperanto; Bird “E”s; Authors & Their Characters; Sports Movies; Anagrammed Bible People; Let’s Talk About Six, Baby)
Drew successfully converted a pair of True Daily Double to hop from third to first going into Final. Isaac sat second and Adriana third.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Drew 13 correct 1 incorrect
Isaac 26 correct 4 incorrect
Adriana 15 correct 3 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Drew $19,200
Isaac $15,000
Adriana $10,800
All three players got this Final correct; Drew went all in in Final and took victory.
Tonight’s results:
Adriana $10,800 + $10,000 = $20,800 (Who is Atlas?)
Isaac $15,000 + $6,600 = $21,600 (Who is Atlas?)
Drew $19,200 + $19,200 = $38,400 (Who is Atlas?) (Winner)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR’S NAME $600 (clue #2)
Adriana 400 -1000 (Isaac 0 Drew 0)
2) AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $1600 (clue #1)
Drew 3000 +3000 (Adriana 3200 Isaac 8200)
3) BIRD “E”s $1200 (clue #13, $16000 left on board)
Drew 8400 +8400 (Adriana 7600 Isaac 8600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 100
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Adriana 2 3*
Isaac
Drew
DJ! Round:
Adriana 3 4 5 3 4 4 5
Isaac 3 4
Drew 4* 3 5† 3*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Drew 3.75
Isaac 3.50
Adriana 3.67
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
#DIV/0!
Game Stats:
Drew $10,600 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Isaac $15,000 Coryat, 26 correct, 4 incorrect, 50.88% in first on buzzer (29/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Adriana $11,800 Coryat, 15 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $37,400
Lach Trash: $7,400 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,200
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Adriana Harmeyer, career statistics:
376 correct, 43 incorrect
21/24 on rebound attempts (on 63 rebound opportunities)
37.23% in first on buzzer (360/967)
12/18 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $18,000)
14/17 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,094
Isaac Hirsch, career statistics:
299 correct, 51 incorrect
16/21 on rebound attempts (on 45 rebound opportunities)
47.60% in first on buzzer (298/626)
14/20 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $9,800)
8/11 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,909
Drew Basile, career statistics:
198 correct, 41 incorrect
10/15 on rebound attempts (on 45 rebound opportunities)
38.72% in first on buzzer (199/514)
11/16 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $37,400)
4/9 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,111
Andy’s Thoughts:
- It’s almost as if the show completely forgot everything from last year’s audio games. This game was almost completely impossible to follow. When you are audio only, contestants need to be required to say the full category and clue value. Quotation marks need to be explicitly given. And we need score updates at the Daily Doubles and at each break. This should be non-negotiable and it is a complete travesty that this episode did not have that. This is unacceptable for Jeopardy fans and the show needs to do better.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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What I’m interested in seeing when it comes to this exhibition game is whether the contestants, knowing this game counts for absolutely nothing, will treat it with the same silliness that Amy, Matt, and Mattea treated their exhibition game. I could see that – especially considering Drew and Isaac’s occasionally goofy nature – and I could just as easily see them playing it as though it were an actual game of Jeopardy.
Just because I can, I decided to compare the exhibition match in the 2022 ToC to both Masters matches that featured The Big Three, stats wise. This probably isn’t useful for anything, but I’m doing it anyway because I find numbers fun. 🙂
(Note: the first number in every metric is for the exhibition game, the second is for Quarterfinal #9 of the 2023 edition of Masters, and the third is for Quarterfinal #7 of the 2024 edition. See if you can tell which game had the silliness factor to it.)
Combined Score (entering Final): $28,600 / $50,800 / $52,400
Combined Coryat: $26,000 / $45,800 / $36,400
Total Correct Responses (main game): 51 / 55 / 53
Total Incorrect Answers (main game): 18 / 5 / 7
Coryat Lost To Incorrect Responses: $19,800 / $5,200 / $6,000
At the very least, though, this game should be some rather fun Jeopardy. 😀
Beyond what Andy already mentioned, there was no way to know when contestants were getting video clues other than when Ken mentioned it once in passing. The Esperanto category was not good for this format; very frustrating not to be able to see the words written out. I imagine others might feel the same way about the anagrams category.
I would have loved to have gotten that Heartbreakers question in an exhibition game. Would’ve answered “Johnny Thunders” without hesitation.