Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time

The tournament began on January 7, 2020, and each match consisted of two games. Each game was played as normal with the Jeopardy! and Double Jeopardy! rounds followed by Final Jeopardy!; the exception was that the scores were in points and not dollars. The contestant with the highest combined score from the two games would win the match, and the first one to three match wins won the tournament.[4]

• Ken Jennings:
  Jennings first appeared on the program in 2004 and set two Jeopardy! records that he still holds. He won 74 consecutive matches, and his total of $2,522,700 is a record for non-tournament winnings.[7] Entering the tournament, his total Jeopardy! winnings totaled $3,372,700, which was second-highest behind fellow competitor Rutter.[8][9] Jennings said he took part in the competition reluctantly, fearing that because of his age and repeated tournament losses to Rutter (Rutter having won every head-to-head matchup between the two except the IBM Challenge), he was past his peak as a Jeopardy! contestant; he agreed to compete largely out of respect for Alex Trebek and because it would be "almost certainly [Jennings'] last time" as a contestant.[10][11]
• Brad Rutter:
  Rutter was the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time entering the tournament. He first appeared on Jeopardy! in October 2000, during the era of the program where contestants were retired after winning five consecutive matches and before the show doubled its question values. After winning $55,102 in his initial run, Rutter qualified for and won the 2001 Tournament of Champions, which at the time was played for $100,000. He was invited back in 2002 for the special Million Dollar Masters Tournament with several past champions, and emerged victorious again to become the first Jeopardy! contestant to win over $1 million. Shortly after Jennings’s run as champion ended, Rutter was one of the many former champions invited back for the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, where two of the former champions in the field would face Jennings in the final match for $2 million; Rutter defeated Jennings and Jerome Vered in the final to win the tournament, and the prize money made him the new all-time American game show winnings leader. He later defeated Jennings and Roger Craig in the 2014 Battle of the Decades tournament, winning an additional $1,000,000 and reclaiming his spot at the top of the all-time winnings list from Jennings, who had retaken it in 2009. Rutter still holds the record as the highest-earning contestant (primarily from special tournament events) on Jeopardy! with a total of $4,688,436 entering the tournament. Rutter entered the tournament having never lost a normal match and having only come up short in an exhibition match featuring him and Jennings taking on Watson in Jeopardy!: The IBM Challenge in 2011.[12][8][9][13][4]
• James Holzhauer:
  Holzhauer entered the tournament the third-highest-earning Jeopardy! contestant of all time, behind Rutter and Jennings. He had won $2,712,216 entering the tournament, with $2,462,216 of that won in 33 matches in 2019; Holzhauer is the only other contestant besides Jennings to win over $1 million in regular play. He also won the 2019 Tournament of Champions several weeks before this tournament was announced, taking home an additional $250,000.[8][9][7] Holzhauer is second behind Jennings in total winnings during regular play and most consecutive wins; with 32, he is the only other contestant besides Jennings to win more than 30 consecutive times and is one of only two other contestants (Julia Collins is the other) to record at least 20 consecutive wins. Holzhauer’s aggressive wagering on clues allowed him to set several new single-day winning records; he is the only contestant to win $100,000 in a single game, doing so six times, and also holds the top 16 single-game scores in program history.[14] [8][7] Jennings and Rutter said they had to mimic Holzhauer's aggressive style of play to stand a chance.[11]

On November 18, 2019, ABC announced that the three highest-earning Jeopardy! contestants of all time—Jennings, Rutter, and Holzhauer—would compete in a best-of-seven prime-time tournament, Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time. The first contestant to win three matches receives the title and a grand prize of $1 million; the others receive $250,000 each.[15] The series was produced by Sony Pictures Television, with Harry Friedman executive producing and Alex Trebek hosting.[16] This is the first time Jeopardy! has aired on network television instead of in syndication since ABC carried 1990's Super Jeopardy! tournament.[4] ABC Owned Television Stations group has been the lead broadcaster of the syndicated version for most of its run.[3] In addition to ABC, the tournament was broadcast in Canada on Yes TV and two of its partner stations, CHEK and NTV, all of which also carry the syndicated version.[17][18][19] The series began taping on December 10, 2019.[20]

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