'Jeopardy!' to Bring Back Former Teen Contestants for New High School Reunion Tournament

Mar. 15, 2025

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Jeopardy!fans, rejoice! A new competition is headed to television screens in 2023.

On Monday, the game show announced its new High School Reunion Tournament, set to air from February 20 to March 9.

Over the 14-day special event, 27 former teen contestants will face off for a chance to win a $100,000 grand prize and a spot in the 2023 Tournament of Champions.

“We didn’t want to lose that sort of college energy [this season],” executive producer Michael Davies said in a statement. “We knew we had these 27 players who are all of college age who come from our existingJeopardy!community, so this was a great opportunity to bring them back.”

The upcomingJeopardy!Tournamentwill consist of nine quarterfinal games, three semifinals, and a two-day, total-point affair final.

The broadcast schedule includes quarterfinal games beginning Monday, February 20 through Friday, February 24. The following week will feature the quarterfinals.

The semifinals are scheduled to start on Friday, March 3 and continue from Monday, March 6 to Tuesday, March 7. The finals are set to take place on Wednesday, March 8, and Thursday, March 9.

Mayim Bialik.Jeopardy/Instagram

The competition will bring together Teen Tournament I Champion Claire Sattler, who is now a senior at Yale University, and Teen Tournament II Champion Avi Gupta, who is now a senior at Stanford University.

The tournament will also feature Justin Bolsen, a freshman at Brown University; Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida; Tim Cho, a senior at Columbia University in New York; 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; Rohit Kataria, a junior at Vanderbilt University; Rotimi Kukoyi, a freshman at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Sreekar Madabushi, a junior at Georgia Tech; Anish Maddipoti, a junior at the University of Texas at Austin; Lucas Miner, a junior at Yale University in New Haven; and Hannah Nekritz, a senior at Brandeis University.

Also competing is Teagan O’Sullivan, a freshman at American University; Dan Oxman, a senior at the University of Maryland; Isabella Pagano, a freshman at CalTech; Stephanie Pierson, a junior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Alison Purcell, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin; Caleb Richmond, a sophomore at Georgetown University; Audrey Sarin, a senior at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo; Audrey Satchivi, a senior at Indiana University; Autumn Shelton, a junior at Princeton University; Rhea Sinha, a recent graduate at Cornell University; Eesha Sohail, a recent graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles; Maya Wright, a senior at Emory University; and Shriya Yarlagadda, a sophomore at Harvard University.

News of the new competition comes afterAmy SchneiderwonJeopardy!’s Tournament of Champions last month.

Amy Schneider.Courtesy Jeopardy Productions, Inc.

Theformer software engineering manager, from Oakland, Calif.,won the $250,000 grand prizeafter being the first competitor to win three games against her opponents.

Schneider became the most successful female contestant inJeopardy!history with arecord-breaking 40-game winning streak, which came to an end on Jan. 26. She holds the No. 2 spot on the all-time consecutive wins list behind Ken Jennings who has a total of 74 wins.

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source: people.com