Changes are coming to Jeopardy! Masters, whose third season premieres on ABC on April 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM Eastern, as announced today.
The biggest change is that nine players will be competing instead of six. Joining returnees Victoria Groce and Yogesh Raut are the three finalists from the 2025 Tournament of Champions (Adriana Harmeyer, Isaac Hirsch, and Neilesh Vinjamuri), the three finalists from the 2025 Jeopardy Invitational Tournament (Matt Amodio, Juveria Zaheer, and Roger Craig), and Brad Rutter, making his first appearance on the Alex Trebek Stage since the 2020 Greatest of All Time tournament.
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The Format
This season of Jeopardy! Masters will be contested over nine hour-long episodes. Three players will be eliminated after a 3-episode “knockout round”, two more after a 3-episode “quarter-final” round, which will bring us to 4 players in a 2-episode semifinal round and a 3-player 2-game total-point final similar to Seasons 1 & 2. According to The Futon Critic, the series will be airing weekly on Wednesdays.
Editorially, I think I have to come out in favor of this updated format. It will force the overall winner of the event to be consistently strong over the nine weeks—a cold start could leave a player in danger of being eliminated early. Moreover, I think it will cause players to emphasize winning games again and betting aggressively in Final Jeopardy to win games, with there being fewer games to recover from a loss.
The Schedule
According to ABC’s press release, the opening episode on April 30 will feature Victoria Groce, Yogesh Raut, and Brad Rutter in Game 1 with Matt Amodio, Roger Craig, and Juveria Zaheer in Game 2. This presumably leaves Neilesh Vinjamuri, Isaac Hirsch, and Adriana Harmeyer to compete in Game 3 on May 7.
According to the Unified Prediction Model here on the site: Game 1 gives Victoria a 40% chance of winning, Yogesh 32%, and Brad 28%. Game 2 gives Matt a 36% chance of winning, Roger 35%, and Juveria 29%, while Game 3 has Neilesh with a 40% chance of winning, Isaac 32%, and Adriana 28%.
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Player Rankings
Here is how the Unified Prediction Model ranks the nine players in the field, by Adjusted Performance Mean:
- Victoria Groce, 21489
- Yogesh Raut, 19658
- Matt Amodio, 17153
- Brad Rutter, 16304
- Roger Craig, 15521
- Neilesh Vinjamuri, 14418
- Juveria Zaheer, 13892
- Isaac Hirsch, 13033
- Adriana Harmeyer, 12240
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Schedule update. Six weeks, not nine; episodes on Wednesdays the first three weeks, and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays the following three. (April 30; May 7, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28; June 3, 4.) Re-confirms the time change to 9 pm EDT.
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Matt!
Just saw your post.
Thanks for the update.
I am very glad that the tournament is more condensed.