Jeopardy! Masters

For the Million Dollar Masters invitational tournament that aired in 2002, see List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events § Million Dollar Masters.

Jeopardy! Masters is an American game show hosted by Ken Jennings on ABC. Each season features recent notable Jeopardy! champions competing against each other in a "Champions League-style" format.^[1] It premiered on May 8, 2023.^[2] In February 2024, the show would be renewed for a second season, which premiered on May 1, 2024.^[3][4] In March 2025, it was announced that the show was renewed for a third season, which premiered on April 30, 2025.^[5]

Jeopardy! Masters
Genre	Game show
Created by	Merv Griffin
Directed by	Russell Norman Lucinda Owens Margolis
Presented by	Ken Jennings
Narrated by	Johnny Gilbert
Ending theme	"Think!"
Composers	John Hoke (Bleeding Fingers Music) Chris Bell Music & Sound Design Original theme composed by Merv Griffin
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producer	Michael Davies
Producer	Ken Jennings
Running time	42 minutes
Production company	Sony Pictures Television[a]
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	May 8, 2023 (2023-05-08) – present
Related
Jeopardy!

Contestants

Season 1 (2023)

The following six contestants, listed in order of finish, competed in the first Jeopardy! Masters competition:

• James Holzhauer: Won 32 straight games between April and June 2019. Won 2019 Tournament of Champions. Runner-up in The Greatest of All Time tournament. Holder of the fourth-longest winning streak and second-largest cash winnings in regular play. Holder of all top ten all-time single-game scores and fastest milestones.^[6] Total winnings of $2,964,216.^[7]
• Mattea Roach: Won 23 straight games between April and May 2022. She is the 1st Canadian to be on Jeopardy Masters. Total winnings of $572,983.^[7]
• Matt Amodio: Won 38 straight games between July and October 2021. Holder of the third-longest winning streak and third highest cash winnings in regular play. Total winnings of $1,529,601.^[7]
• Andrew He: Won 5 straight games before losing to Amy Schneider. 2022 Tournament of Champions runner-up. Total winnings of $259,365.
• Amy Schneider: Won 40 straight games between November 2021 and January 2022. Won 2022 Tournament of Champions. Holder of the second-longest winning streak and fourth-largest cash winnings in regular play. Total winnings of $1,634,800.^[7]
• Sam Buttrey: Won 2021 Professors Tournament. 2022 Tournament of Champions 3rd place finalist. Total winnings of $150,000.

As the three finalists, Holzhauer, Roach, and Amodio all received invitations to the season two Masters competition.

Season 2 (2024)

The following six contestants, listed in order of finish, competed in the second Jeopardy! Masters competition:

• Victoria Groce: Won one game in September 2005, defeating 19-game champion David Madden. Qualified as Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament winner, having been invited in part on the strength of quizzing activities following her Jeopardy! appearance, including as a chaser on The Chase. Total winnings of $623,801.^[8][9]
• Yogesh Raut: Won three straight games in January 2023. Qualified as 2024 Tournament of Champions winner. Total winnings of $598,403.^{[10][better source needed]}
• James Holzhauer: Qualified as 2023 Masters champion. Total winnings of $3,614,216.
• Amy Schneider: Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament runner-up. Qualified as a wildcard contestant, chosen by producers. Total winnings of $1,782,800.^[11]
• Mattea Roach: Qualified as 2023 Masters runner-up. Total winnings of $885,983.
• Matt Amodio: Qualified as 2023 Masters 3rd place finalist. Total winnings of $1,718,601.

As the top two finalists, Groce and Raut both received invitations to the season three Masters competition.

Season 3 (2025)

The following nine contestants are competing in the third Jeopardy! Masters competition:

• Victoria Groce: Qualified as 2024 Masters champion. Total winnings of $623,801.
• Yogesh Raut: Qualified as 2024 Masters runner-up. Total winnings of $598,403.
• Neilesh Vinjamuri: A 3-game champion. Qualified as 2025 Tournament of Champions winner. Total winnings of $306,099.
• Matt Amodio: qualified as 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament winner. Total winnings of $1,879,601.
• Juveria Zaheer: The first contestant to win both the Second Chance competition and Champions Wildcard to advance to the Tournament of Champions. 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament co-runner-up and is the 2nd Canadian after Mattea Roach to appear on Jeopardy Masters. Total winnings of $191,000.
• Roger Craig: Held the highest one-day winnings record of $77,000 between Sep 14, 2010 to Apr 9, 2019. 2011 Tournament of Champions winner, Battle of the Decades 3rd place finalist. 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament co-runner-up. Total winnings of $606,200.
• Isaac Hirsch: A 9-game champion. 2025 Tournament of Champions co-runner-up. Total winnings of $293,390.
• Adriana Harmeyer: A 15-game champion. 2025 Tournament of Champions co-runner-up. Total winnings of $426,600.
• Brad Rutter: All-time highest money winner in Jeopardy! history. Won five regular games and retired undefeated in 2000. Won five Jeopardy! Tournaments—2001 Tournament of Champions, Million Dollar Masters, Ultimate Tournament of Champions, Battle of the Decades, and All-Star Games. Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time 3rd place finalist. Rutter takes the place of James Holzhauer, who qualified for this season as the 2024 Masters 3rd place finalist but opted not to compete for reasons unknown.^[12] Total winnings of $4,953,436.^[13]

Tournament format

The tournament features six former Jeopardy! champions (nine starting in season 3) competing round-robin style, with the first season consisting of 10 hour-long episodes featuring two games each, for a total of 20 games.^[14][15][16] Initially, the producers intended to structure the tournament as a pure round-robin system with every possible combination of three players (${\displaystyle C(6,3)=20}$), without eliminations.^[14] This was adjusted to a three-round structure prior to production. In the second season, the number of episodes was reduced to nine (eighteen games total), with the same overall structure.^[4] In the third season, the tournament was now a four-round structure.

Unlike traditional Jeopardy!, which is scored in dollars, all of the games in this tournament are scored in points, just like in Super Jeopardy!, the first two seasons of Rock & Roll Jeopardy!, Sports Jeopardy!, and Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time.

The producers have also used Jeopardy! Masters to experiment with variations to the Jeopardy! format. In the first season, each round began with the revelation to the television audience of the location of that round's Daily Double(s); this did not continue in subsequent seasons.^[17]

Knockouts

Starting from season 3, the knockouts consist of several round-robin matches of two games each; in each episode, three of the contestants play each other in the first game, and the next three play in the second game. The winner of each game receives three match points, the runner-up receives one match point, and the third place player receives no match points. The second game of each episode, except for the first, pairs up the winners from the previous episode against another randomly-selected contestant who has not already played against both winners. match points carry over into the quarterfinals. Each contestant plays 2 games in the knockouts.

After all knockout episodes, the match points are totaled; the top six contestants advance to the Quarterfinals, while the other three are eliminated from the competition.

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals uses the same format and point structure as the knockouts. The four highest-ranked players move on to the semifinals, while the two lowest-ranked players are eliminated.

There were seven quarterfinal episodes in the first season, six episodes in the second season and three episodes in the third season.

Semifinals

The four remaining contestants play each other round-robin over four games, with each player sitting out one game, but the point structure is the same as the previous rounds. The three highest-ranked players move on to the finals, while the lowest-ranked player is eliminated.

Finals

The three remaining players play each other in a two-game match, as is standard in the final round of most Jeopardy! tournaments. The player with the highest combined score over the two games is declared champion. Furthermore, the three players will be automatically qualified in the next edition of the tournament.

Tiebreakers

Should either the knockouts, quarterfinals or semifinals end in a tie for match points, the following tie-breaking criteria are used, in order:

1. Number of wins
2. Number of total correct responses in that stage (including Final Jeopardy!)
3. Cumulative scores, excluding Daily Double and Final Jeopardy! wagers
4. Cumulative scores, excluding only Final Jeopardy! wagers

Prizes

• First place: $500,000, Trebek Trophy, $100,000 donation for a charity of their choosing, and invitation to the next Masters competition^[18]
• Second place: $250,000 and invitation to the next Masters competition
• Third place: $150,000 and invitation to the next Masters competition
• Fourth place: $100,000^[b]
• Fifth place: $75,000^[c]
• Sixth place: $50,000^[c]
• Seventh, eighth and ninth place: $15,000^[d]

Standings

Season 1 (2023)

Quarterfinals

Ranking	Contestant	Match points	Tiebreakers				Result
			Games won	Correct responses (including FJ!)	Score (excluding FJ! & DD)	Score (excluding FJ!)
1st	James Holzhauer	18	6	193	152,600	247,805	Qualified for semifinals
2nd	Andrew He	13	3	131	107,000	121,800
3rd	Matt Amodio	9	3	115	88,800	112,800
4th	Mattea Roach	8	2	112	75,000	86,400
5th	Amy Schneider	5	0	95	66,800	70,800	5th place
6th	Sam Buttrey	3	0	115	70,000	80,600	6th place

Semifinals

Ranking	Contestant	Match points	Tiebreakers				Result[19]
			Games won	Correct responses (including FJ!)	Score (excluding FJ! & DD)	Score (excluding FJ!)
1st	James Holzhauer	9	3	72	51,400	70,000	Qualified for finals & Jeopardy! Masters season 2
2nd	Matt Amodio	3	1	44	36,200	46,200
3rd	Mattea Roach	2	0	50	35,000	44,400
4th	Andrew He	2	0	45	33,400	37,600	4th place

Finals

Contestant	Game 1 Score	Game 2 Score	Total Score	Result
James Holzhauer	34,315	9,481	43,795	Champion
Mattea Roach	24,800	16,885	41,685	Runner-up
Matt Amodio	12,000	3,200	15,200	3rd place

Season 2 (2024)

Quarterfinals

Ranking	Contestant	Match points	Tiebreakers				Result
			Games won	Correct responses (including FJ!)	Score (excluding FJ! & DD)	Score (excluding FJ!)
1st	Victoria Groce	16	5	150	132,200	190,005	Qualified for semifinals
2nd	Yogesh Raut	10	3	120	94,200	120,395
3rd	James Holzhauer	9	2	127	87,800	127,000
4th	Amy Schneider	6	1	86	59,000	73,400
5th	Mattea Roach	5	1	81	53,200	61,200	5th place
6th	Matt Amodio	2	0	89	50,200	49,800	6th place

Semifinals

Ranking	Contestant	Match points	Tiebreakers				Result[20]
			Games won	Correct responses (including FJ!)	Score (excluding FJ! & DD)	Score (excluding FJ!)
1st	James Holzhauer	7	2	65	47,200	66,400	Qualified for finals[e]
2nd	Yogesh Raut	5	1	56	39,800	62,400	Qualified for finals & Jeopardy! Masters season 3
3rd	Victoria Groce	4	1	63	49,800	56,000
4th	Amy Schneider	0	0	26	6,400	6,400	4th place

Finals

Contestant	Game 1 Score	Game 2 Score	Total Score	Result
Victoria Groce	21,400	34,000	55,400	Champion
Yogesh Raut	19,200	26,710	45,910	Runner-up
James Holzhauer	28,309	9,708	38,017	3rd place

Season 3 (2025)

Knockouts

Ranking	Contestant	Match points	Tiebreakers				Result
			Games won	Correct responses (including FJ!)	Score (excluding FJ! & DD)	Score (excluding FJ!)
1st	Yogesh Raut	6	2	50	42,400	56,500	Qualified for quarterfinals
2nd	Victoria Groce	4	1	49	29,400	41,200
3rd	Roger Craig	4	1	29	12,000	18,000
4th	Juveria Zaheer	3	1	39	24,400	34,800
5th	Isaac Hirsch	3	1	30	19,400	24,400
6th	Matt Amodio	2	0	33	24,600	23,600
7th	Brad Rutter	1	0	29	22,000	22,000	7th place
8th	Adriana Harmeyer	1	0	22	12,800	14,200	8th place
9th	Neilesh Vinjamuri	0	0	25	13,200	13,200	9th place

Quarterfinals

Ranking	Contestant	Match points	Tiebreakers				Result[21]
			Games won	Correct responses (including FJ!)	Score (excluding FJ! & DD)	Score (excluding FJ!)
TBA	Matt Amodio	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	Roger Craig	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	Victoria Groce	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	Isaac Hirsch	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	Yogesh Raut	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	Juveria Zaheer	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Updated to games broadcast through May 14, 2025. Source:^[21]

Episodes

The winner of each game and the final is highlighted in bold.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	10		May 8, 2023 (2023-05-08)	May 24, 2023 (2023-05-24)
2	9		May 1, 2024 (2024-05-01)	May 22, 2024 (2024-05-22)
3	9		April 30, 2025 (2025-04-30)	June 4, 2025 (2025-06-04)

Season 1 (2023)

No. overall	No. in season	Title [22][19]	Contestant 1 (score)	Contestant 2 (score)	Contestant 3 (score)	Original release date [22]	U.S. viewers (millions)	Rating (18–49)
1	1	"Game 1"	Schneider (28,200)	Amodio (14,201)	He (28,401)	May 8, 2023 (2023-05-08)	5.78[23]	0.6[23]
		"Game 2"	Holzhauer (39,988)	Roach (6,199)	Buttrey (18,401)
2	2	"Game 3"	Buttrey (2,399)	Schneider (17,700)	Roach (22,401)	May 9, 2023 (2023-05-09)	5.49[24]	0.5[24]
		"Game 4"	He (9,600)	Holzhauer (0)	Amodio (27,400)
3	3	"Game 5"	Holzhauer (44,681)	Schneider (9,121)	Buttrey (20,600)	May 10, 2023 (2023-05-10)	5.45[25]	0.5[25]
		"Game 6"	He (20,700)	Roach (30,401)	Amodio (15,201)
4	4	"Game 7"	He (37,600)	Buttrey (0)	Schneider (9,800)	May 12, 2023 (2023-05-12)	5.20[26]	0.4[26]
		"Game 8"	Holzhauer (23,678)	Roach (5,958)	Amodio (-2,000)[f]
5	5	"Game 9"	Roach (13,599)	Amodio (16,799)	Schneider (16,401)	May 15, 2023 (2023-05-15)	5.80[27]	0.7[27]
		"Game 10"	Holzhauer (23,999)	He (8,800)	Buttrey (0)
6	6	"Game 11"	He (15,100)	Roach (11,201)	Buttrey (2,799)	May 16, 2023 (2023-05-16)	5.65[28]	0.6[28]
		"Game 12"	Holzhauer (29,890)	Amodio (5,599)	Schneider (13,000)
7	7	"Game 13"	Roach (6,799)	Amodio (31,000)	Buttrey (14,000)	May 17, 2023 (2023-05-17)	5.66[29]	0.5[29]
		"Game 14"	Holzhauer (21,392)	He (9,600)	Schneider (3,000)
8	8	"Semifinals 1"	Holzhauer (30,401)	He (22,000)	Amodio (15,201)	May 22, 2023 (2023-05-22)	5.81[30]	0.5[30]
		"Semifinals 2"	Holzhauer (24,700)	He (12,484)	Roach (15,999)
9	9	"Semifinals 3"	Holzhauer (24,292)	Roach (10,886)	Amodio (0)	May 23, 2023 (2023-05-23)	5.91[31]	0.6[31]
		"Semifinals 4"	Roach (5,799)	He (15,199)	Amodio (32,800)
10	10	"The Finals[g]"	Holzhauer (34,314 + 9,481 = 43,795)	Amodio (12,000 + 3,200 = 15,200)	Roach (24,800 + 16,885 = 41,685)	May 24, 2023 (2023-05-24)	6.47[32]	0.6[32]

Season 2 (2024)

No. overall	No. in season	Title [22][20]	Contestant 1 (score)	Contestant 2 (score)	Contestant 3 (score)	Original release date [22]	U.S. viewers (millions)	Rating (18–49)
11	1	"Game 1"	Roach (7,089)	Amodio (800)	Groce (29,867)	May 1, 2024 (2024-05-01)	4.20[33]	0.4[33]
		"Game 2"	Holzhauer (13,210)	Raut (26,395)	Schneider (7,000)
12	2	"Game 3"	Holzhauer (46,108)	Roach (5,758)	Amodio (19,200)	May 6, 2024 (2024-05-06)	4.32[34]	0.4[34]
		"Game 4"	Groce (32,000)	Raut (20,401)	Schneider (11,801)
13	3	"Game 5"	Raut (36,400)	Amodio (14,400)	Schneider (14,401)	May 8, 2024 (2024-05-08)	4.10[35]	0.4[35]
		"Game 6"	Groce (23,999)	Holzhauer (11,200)	Roach (0)
14	4	"Game 7"	Amodio (16,000)	Schneider (36,001)	Roach (18,000)	May 10, 2024 (2024-05-10)	3.73[36]	0.3[36]
		"Game 8"	Groce (24,000)	Raut (36,001)	Holzhauer (14,732)
15	5	"Game 9"	Groce (50,000)	Holzhauer (31,514)	Amodio (2,200)	May 13, 2024 (2024-05-13)	4.36[37]	0.4[37]
		"Game 10"	Raut (0)	Schneider (2,399)	Roach (6,399)
16	6	"Game 11"	Raut (0)	Holzhauer (25,015)	Amodio (24,800)	May 15, 2024 (2024-05-15)	4.17[38]	0.4[38]
		"Game 12"	Groce (21,005)	Schneider (7,800)	Roach (2,800)
17	7	"Semifinals 1"	Groce (9,999)	Raut (36,001)	Holzhauer (13,098)	May 17, 2024 (2024-05-17)	4.12[39]	0.3[39]
		"Semifinals 2"	Raut (1)	Groce (27,200)	Schneider (-3,000)[f]
18	8	"Semifinals 3"	Groce (10,800)	Holzhauer (20,278)	Schneider (1,200)	May 20, 2024 (2024-05-20)	4.45[40]	0.4[40]
		"Semifinals 4"	Holzhauer (49,601)	Raut (32,001)	Schneider (16,200)
19	9	"The Finals[g]"	Groce (21,400 + 34,000 = 55,400)	Holzhauer (28,309 + 9,708 = 38,017)	Raut (19,200 + 26,710 = 45,910)	May 22, 2024 (2024-05-22)	4.56[41]	0.5[41]

Season 3 (2025)

No. overall	No. in season	Title [22][21]	Contestant 1 (score)	Contestant 2 (score)	Contestant 3 (score)	Original release date [22]	U.S. viewers (millions)	Rating (18–49)
20	1	"Knockout 1"	Groce (14,000)	Raut (30,800)	Rutter (2,178)	April 30, 2025 (2025-04-30)	3.12[42]	0.3[42]
		"Knockout 2"	Amodio (16,001)	Craig (21,201)	Zaheer (16,000)
21	2	"Knockout 3"	Vinjamuri (3,599)	Hirsch (20,000)	Harmeyer (4,400)	May 7, 2025 (2025-05-07)	2.35[43]	0.2[43]
		"Knockout 4"	Raut (15,700)	Hirsch (3,199)	Craig (5,599)
22	3	"Knockout 5"	Groce (27,200)	Amodio (13,601)	Harmeyer (13,300)	May 14, 2025 (2025-05-14)	2.61[44]	0.2[44]
		"Knockout 6"	Vinjamuri (0)	Zaheer (20,800)	Rutter (4,799)
23	4	"Quarterfinals 1"	Raut	Groce	Craig	May 20, 2025 (2025-05-20)	TBD	TBA
		"Quarterfinals 2"	Zaheer	Hirsch	Amodio
24	5	"Quarterfinals 3"	TBD	TBD	TBD	May 21, 2025 (2025-05-21)	TBD	TBA
		"Quarterfinals 4"	TBD	TBD	TBD
25	6	"Quarterfinals 5"	TBD	TBD	TBD	May 27, 2025 (2025-05-27)	TBD	TBA
		"Quarterfinals 6"	TBD	TBD	TBD
26	7	"Semifinals 1"	TBD	TBD	TBD	May 28, 2025 (2025-05-28)	TBD	TBA
		"Semifinals 2"	TBD	TBD	TBD
27	8	"Semifinals 3"	TBD	TBD	TBD	June 3, 2025 (2025-06-03)	TBD	TBA
		"Semifinals 4"	TBD	TBD	TBD
28	9	"The Finals[g]"	TBA (TBA + TBA = TBA)	TBA (TBA + TBA = TBA)	TBA (TBA + TBA = TBA)	June 4, 2025 (2025-06-04)	TBD	TBA

Notes

1. As Sony Pictures Television Studios in season 1
2. Awarded after the semifinals
3. Awarded after the quarterfinals
4. Awarded after the knockouts
5. As a result of being a finalist in season 2, James Holzhauer was invited to participate in season 3, but declined.
6. Eliminated from Final Jeopardy!
7. Final is a Two-legged tie. Scores listed first leg, second leg, total