who won the jeopardy tournament of champions in 2019?
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James" Holzhauer won $250,000 as the winner of the game show's Tournament of Champions against Emma Boettcher and Francois Barcomb. He has now won more than $2.7 million on the show this year.
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Update from Game 2: James Holzhauer handily beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in the second night of “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time,” earning 82,414 points to the latter's 57,000 and 14,000, respectively. To win the tournament, a player must be victorious on three separate nights.
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Jennings played against James Holzhauer and Lancaster County native Brad Rutter. "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek, left, declares Ken Jennings the winner of the "Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time" Tournament. The final episode of the four-match tournament aired Tuesday on ABC.
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Jennings won his third game Tuesday night, defeating James Holzhauer in a tight contest decided in the final minute. Leading after two games by 10,419 points, Jennings correctly answered the Final Jeopardy! answer with “Who is Iago?” and had cautiously wagered no points.
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May 3 (UPI) -- Reigning Jeopardy! champion James Holzhauer has won his 21st game, giving him the second longest winning record in the game show's history. Holzhauer, a 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, won $80,615 on Thursday to bring his total to $1,608,627. His next game is on Friday.
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The long-running quiz show will officially run out of new episodes on Friday following a lengthy production shutdown forced by the coronavirus pandemic. Starting on Monday, encore episodes of Jeopardy! will air in syndication before the rebroadcast of the 2019 Tournament of Champions begins on July 6.
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How Emma Boettcher Beat James Holzhauer on 'Jeopardy!
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Seniority doesn't necessary have its privileges when it comes to the "Jeopardy!" College Championship. University of Minnesota sophomore Nibir Sarma proved that Friday, winning the two-night finale to become the 2020 college champion.
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Highlights from Holzhauer's 32-game winning streak on Jeopardy! Holzhauer appeared on 33 episodes of Season 35 of the American quiz show Jeopardy!, from April 4 to June 3, 2019. ... He is also the first and only player to win $100,000 or more in a single episode, a feat he accomplished six times.
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In June 2019, James Holzhauer won $2,462,216 over his stretch of consecutive victories, which fell just shy of the $2,520,700 Ken Jennings won during his 74-game run. When Holzhauer's 32-game “Jeopardy!” winning streak ended, Seattle Times columnist Matt Calkins spoke with Jennings. “He looked so unbeatable.
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Over the last two months of 2019, Jeopardy averaged 9.8 million viewers each week, peaking at 11.38 million in mid-November with the final rounds of the annual Tournament of Champions (which Holzhauer won).
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James" Holzhauer won $250,000 as the winner of the game show's Tournament of Champions against Emma Boettcher and Francois Barcomb.
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Crowns Its Greatest Champion Of All Time. Ken Jennings is the winner of the "Greatest Of All Time" tournament. He was the the first to win three games against James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter.
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Ken Jennings is the 'Jeopardy! ' GOAT, wins $1 million. NEW YORK — Being bold paid off for new “Jeopardy!” mega-champion Ken Jennings, while it didn't for his opponents. Jennings won his third match in the “Jeopardy!” “Greatest of all Time” contest televised on Tuesday, an event that's been a prime-time hit for ABC.
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DON'T MISS: 'Jeopardy! ' contestant James Holzhauer broke his own single-game record with a perfect game.
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Leaked footage shows that reigning "Jeopardy!" champion James Holzhauer will lose in tonight's episode. The 34-year-old professional sports gambler's loss follows a 32-game winning streak, the second longest in the show's history. Holzhauer has broken nearly every "Jeopardy!" record and raked in $2.4 million so far.
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Jennings defeated James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter to win the contest. In January 2020, he defeated James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter to win the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time tournament and pocketed $1 million …