Jeopardy! All-Star Games

The Jeopardy! All Star Games is a special tournament to celebrate the syndicated show's 35th anniversary. In this Tournament, 18 former contestants came back but in members of teams.

Rule

• There were six teams in this tournament.
• Three different players from each team play the Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy, and Final Jeopardy. There were four matches in this tournament, in all of the matches, there were two games, and the scores from Day 1 and Day 2 are added.
• The first two matches were three teams facing off, with two teams that won in the regular match each becoming a finalist. Three teams were wildcards (the high scorers among non-winners), while one team got eliminated and splits an equal share of $50,000.
• The third match was a wildcard match, where the one wildcard team advances to the finals, while the two losing wildcard teams each split an equal share of $75,000.
• The final match have three teams that advance to the finals, and the winning team of the tournament splits an equal share of $1,000,000, the second place team splits an equal share of $300,000, and the third place team splits an equal share of $100,000. The tournament ran from February 20-March 5, 2019.

Team Members

Team Brad (winner, $1,000,000)

• Brad Rutter - winner of four Jeopardy! tournaments prior to the All-Star Games, all-time cash winnings leader ($4,370,103), has never lost to a human opponent
• Larissa Kelly (6th draft) - First female to win more than 5 games, 2009 ToC first runner-up
• David Madden (7th): 19-day champion, third longest streak and second highest regular play winnings at the time, 2006 ToC semifinalist

Team Ken (2nd place, $300,000)

• Ken Jennings - 74-day champion, finalist in every tournament since, IBM Challenge first runner-up
• Matt Jackson (3rd) - 13-day champion, 4th longest streak and 4th highest regular play winnings at the time, 2015 ToC first runner-up
• Monica Thieu (10th) - 2012 College Championship winner, beat Ken Jennings on 500 Questions

Team Colby (3rd place, $100,000)

• Colby Burnett - Winner of 2012 Teachers Tournament and 2013 Tournament of Champions (only person to win both), Battle of the Decades semifinalist
• Pam Mueller (5th) - 2000 College Championship winner, semifinalist in every tournament since
• Alan Lin (8th) - 6-day champion, 2017 ToC first runner-up

Team Austin

• Austin Rogers: 12-day champion, tied for sixth longest streak at the time, first person to have two of the top 10 spots for regular season winnings, 2017 ToC second runner-up
• Roger Craig (2nd) - 6-day champion, one-day record holder at the time ($77,000), 2011 Tournament of Champions winner, Battle of the Decades finalist
• Leonard Cooper (11th) - 2013 Teen Tournament champion, held the joint record for highest Daily Double wager ever at the time ($18,000)

Team Buzzy

• Buzzy Cohen: 9-day champion, 2017 Tournament of Champions winner
• Alex Jacob (1st) - 6-day champion, 2015 Tournament of Champions winner, had performance in ToC referred to by Alex Trebek as “the most dominant performance by anyone in any of our tournaments”
• Jennifer Giles (12th) - 2015 Teachers Tournament winner

Team Julia (5th place, $50,000)

• Julia Collins - 20-day champion, first female ultrachampion, held numerous records for females until Amy Schneider’s streak, 2014 Tournament of Champions second runner-up
• Ben Ingram (4th) - 8-day champion, 2014 Tournament of Champions winner
• Seth Wilson (9th) - 12-day champion

Result

• Qualifying Match #1: #1 / #2 / #3
• Qualifying Match #2: #1 / #2 / #3
• Wildcard Match: #1 / #2
• Finals: #1 / #2

Trivia

• With the exception of Team Ken, one member of the team has won a ToC. Winners of other tournaments also participated, among which Leonard was invited as the first teen winner in 14 years after the Ultimate Tournament of Champions.
• Seth suffered the bad luck of being eliminated first in this tournament after being eliminated from the preliminary round at the ToC.
• On the other hand, in the case of Alan and Matt, they took second place once again following the ToC, and in the case of Alan in particular, it is even more valuable because it was achieved amongst the strange champions with 10 consecutive wins.
• With this win, Brad maintained his place as the champion in human duels, and in the case of Larissa and David, it indirectly breaks the jinx that the strange female champion with 6 consecutive wins cannot win the Tournament and that the champion with 10 or more wins cannot win the Tournament. became The latter was then officially broken by James Holzhauer, who appeared in 2019.
• After this competition, talented people who succeeded them continued to appear. A month after it aired, James Holzhauer smashed his 32nd straight winning streak, breaking the all-time personal highest prize money, and a month after his departure, Jason Zuffranieri joined the long-running champions with a 19-game winning streak. Two years later, Matt Amodio joined another millionaire with a 38-game winning streak, followed by Jonathan Fisher's 11-game winning streak and Amy Schneider's 40-game winning streak a month later, setting the second-longest winning streak ever. Accordingly, viewers are expecting that the most famous scenes of all time will come out when this special feature is reopened.
• A negative score at the end of Double Jeopardy! hadn't been acknowledged on the air.