‘Jeopardy!’ Is Running A ‘GOAT’ Tournament & I’ll Take “Fuck Me Up” For $600 Thanks Alex

No game show in the history of television has ever done Event TV quite like Jeopardy!, a marvellous show that turns pure nerdism into cutthroat sport that has also managed to produce some of the most gripping viewing ever put to screen. And while the various Tournament of Champions or College Tournament or whathaveyous are all well and good by themselves, producers for the series may have outdone themselves with what could be the the most insane collection of trivia brainpower ever put to air anywhere.

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After James Holzhauer ran through both his regular season run and the recent Tournament of Champions like a buzzsaw, Jeopardy! officials have announced the creation of the very special, one-off Greatest Of All Time tournament that will pit the three winningest players in series history directly against each other.

Holzhauer will be placed up against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in the special tournament which will continue over several nights until one player scores three wins. This means the tournament has indeterminate length, and could last anywhere from three through to seven episodes.

The winner of the tournament scores a casual $1 million, while the two runners up will receive $250,000 each.

Each of the three men holds a unique and likely unbeatable Jeopardy! record. Holzhauer, quite famously, owns all 15 of the highest single-game money totals. Jennings holds the longest winning streak of 74 games. While Rutter has won the most money of any Jeopardy! contestant – or of any game show contestant ever – with a total of USD$4,688,436. Of the three, Rutter is the only one to have never lost to a human opponent; his only Jeopardy! defeat came at the hands of Watson, an IBM computer platform built specifically to compete on Jeopardy!.

The series is scheduled to begin airing on January 7th in the US. There’s no word on whether it’ll become available to Australian viewers online at this stage, however Netflix Australia has been routinely adding various Jeopardy! collections to the local library. Keep an eye out.

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