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‘Jeopardy!’ announces new tournament with former contestants

“Jeopardy!” fans will get to watch a new competition in 2023 — featuring some familiar faces.

The show announced its former Teen Tournament contestants will be returning for a High School Reunion Tournament.

The tournament will reunite 27 former competitors from past Teen Tournaments for a new twist on the College Championship format. 

The young contestants — who are now undergraduates or recent college graduates — will compete in a 14-day event for a $100,000 grand prize and a spot in the Tournament of Champions. 

The format will have nine quarterfinal games, three semifinals and a two-day total point affair final.

Ken Jennings
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“We didn’t want to lose that sort of college energy [this season],” executive producer Michael Davies announced on the Monday episode of its “Inside Jeopardy!” podcast. “We knew we had these 27 players who are all of college age who come from our existing ‘Jeopardy!’ community, so this was a great opportunity to bring them back.”

Some former contestants set to compete include Season 35’s Teen Tournament I Champion Claire Sattler, now a senior at Yale University, and Teen Tournament II Champion Avi Gupta, now a senior at Stanford University.

Other contestants include Justin Bolsen, a freshman at Brown University; Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida; Tim Cho, a senior at Columbia University; Jack Izzo, a senior at Northwestern University; Jackson Jones, a junior at Vanderbilt University; Rohan Kapileshwari, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin; and Shriya Yarlagadda, a sophomore at Harvard University.

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The news comes after “Jeopardy!” named Amy Schneider the winner of the Tournament of Champions on Nov. 21. She is the first openly transgender contestant to compete in the tournament and won the $250,000 grand prize.

The “Jeopardy!” High School Reunion Tournament is set to air from February 20 to March 9.