Current Champion
Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
47 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.23% in first on buzzer (47/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,300
To win:
3 games: 68.027%
4: 46.277%
5: 31.481%
6: 21.415%
7: 14.568%
Avg. streak: 4.128 games.
(Next game: September 14)
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Upcoming Encore Presentations
August 12: S42 E98 (January 21, 2026)
August 13: S42 E99 (January 22, 2026)
August 14: S42 E100 (January 23, 2026)
August 15-16: S41 E141 (March 24, 2025)
August 17: S42 E101 (January 26, 2026)
August 18: S42 E105 (January 30, 2026)
August 19: S42 E102 (January 27, 2026)
August 20: S42 E103 (January 28, 2026)
August 21: S42 E104 (January 29, 2026)
August 22-23: S41 E142 (March 25, 2025)
August 24: S42 E106 (February 2, 2026)
August 25: S42 E107 (February 3, 2026)
August 26: S42 E108 (February 4, 2026)
August 27: S42 E109 (February 5, 2026)
August 28: S42 E110 (February 6, 2026)
August 29-30: S41 E143 (March 26, 2025)
(Source: Bell Fibe TV program guide)
All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,098,403
7. Mattea Roach $897,983
8. Jamie Ding $885,605
9. David Madden $785,733
10. Victoria Groce $773,801
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Larissa Kelly $671,930
14. Matt Jackson $623,612
15. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
16. Andrew He $534,365
17. Scott Riccardi $533,000
18. Jerome Vered $499,102
19. Julia Collins $495,767
20. Austin Rogers $493,000
21. Ben Ingram $449,201
22. Paolo Pasco $448,717
23. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
24. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
25. Juveria Zaheer $441,000
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I have to say, I wasn’t particularly a fan of how few people got to participate in last season’s postseason play, especially considering that there were 28 one-day champions who were left out.
What if I told you that there was a very easy way to see 46 champions make it to the postseason instead of the 32 we saw last season?
The following postseason schedule assumes that there is going to be three weeks of Second Chance play instead of the two we saw last season (a happening that has been hinted at numerous times over the past few months.)
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Stage 1: Second Chance
27 players are invited to Second Chance, in three weeks of 9, with each week’s winner advancing to Champions Wildcard. (This hasn’t changed much from past seasons, with the exception of there being an extra week.)
Stage 2: Champions Wildcard
Here, you invite 30 champions along with the 3 Second Chance winners, competing in three groups of 11. Six episodes are taped during each “week”—the first being a qualifier destined for TuneIn Radio (or potentially the streaming services) with the bottom three seeds in each group of 11, and the winner advancing to the main week, set up as three semifinals and a two-game total-point final, and each week’s winner advancing to the Tournament of Champions.
Stage 3: Tournament of Champions
The top 16 players join the 3 Champions Wildcard winners, as well as Lisa Ann Walter and W. Kamau Bell, in the Tournament of Champions. As with some of the past tournaments, the top 3 seeds would receive byes to the semifinals, with their exhibition game going to TuneIn, similarly to past seasons.
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Advantages (and Disadvantages?)
I would say that the largest advantage here is the increase in the number of returning players from 30 to 46. (By way of example, fan favorite Harvey Silikovitz goes from a 0% chance of qualifying under the old system to 58.96% in the proposed expansion.). A second major advantage to single elimination in Champions Wildcard is that it removes the extremely anticlimactic Final Jeopardy rounds that we saw last season in the quarterfinals, with players betting extremely small amounts in Final due to their spots in the semifinals being all but sewn up. Additionally, having three 9-player tournaments airing on television (instead of, say, a single 27-player tournament) ensures that each mini-competition is wrapped up in a single week, and also avoids having the Tournament of Champions begin in the middle of a week, giving both the fanbase and the show the weekend as a lead-up to build up hype for the event. This also continues to promote the show’s ongoing partnership with TuneIn Radio, providing a number of games to that service.
Certainly, a disadvantage to my above proposal would be an increase in the number of postseason games that will certainly draw the ire of some pockets of the Internet. (That said, in my editorial opinion, I believe those voices can and should be summarily ignored.)
In Conclusion
Certainly, I as a Jeopardy! fan would like to see more returning champions in postseason play, and I believe a lot of others would as well!
I hope everyone enjoys the next few weeks of play as we determine the last few postseason qualifiers!
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