Yogesh Raut, winner of the 2024 ‘Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions’.Photo:Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
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Jeopardy!has crowned its newest Tournament of Champions winner!
The tournament’s finals kicked off on Tuesday with three contenders in the running: Yogesh Raut from Vancouver, Washington; Troy Meyer from Tampa, Florida; and Ben Chan from Green Bay, Wisconsin. However, only one could walk away with the coveted “champion” title.
Raut ended up being the winner, questioning his way through six finals rounds before being crowned with the coveted title. He earned a whopping $250,000 for his efforts.
“Jeopardy! is inherently a challenging game to play,” Raut said in an interview, perThe Seattle Times. “There’s a lot of luck involved, and over and over again I benefited from the bad luck of other contestants.”
Raut added, “Even though so much of [the game] requires skill, to win, you also need luck on your side. It’s impossible to win without both of those things.”
Along with winning the $250,000 prize, Raut earned himself a spot in theJeopardy! Mastersprime-time tournament set to air in May on ABC.
Before a winner eventually emerged, the 2024 edition ofJeopardy!Tournament of Champions had seen its fair share of twists and turns.
Reddit users did adeep diveinto data storage, and most agreed the question was “confusing” because tech standards are constantly changing. “It’s confusing because the accepted definition has changed over the decades,” wrote one Reddit user. “I’ve been working in IT for 35+ years, and it wasn’t untilrelativelyrecently that there were distinctions made between MB and MiB.”
Another viewer responded, “Poorly worded clue. A clue where ‘1000’ is a correct response is boring.”
Others were confident thatJeopardy!got it right. “As an IT guy since the 70s, I’ve always differentiated between memory and storage. I feel the show got it correct,“ one fan said.
Another fan favoritewas eliminatedfrom the competition last week.Mindy ProjectalumIke Barinholtzwas the firstCelebrity Jeopardy!contestant to make it to the big race, but he lost on a Final Jeopardy question with one fateful, all-in wager.
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source: people.com
