As the tournament for Jeopardy! Masters comes to a close, we look ahead to a new tournament that feeds in one player to the next Jeopardy! Masters tournament.
Postscript: Emily F, Yungsheng & Lucy would eventually competed at Champions Wildcard S37/38 but in separate groups. Yungsheng won CWC-Hearts while Lucy finished 2nd to Josh Saak at CWC-Spades but Emily F was quickly eliminated at CWC-Clubs QF.
Larissa and Leonard eventually made it to the JIT. Larissa finished as a semifinalist.
I'd love to see Elise Beraru back; she was a great player and i loved her outfits. Especially considering the inaugural JIT will be in the 40th/60th anniversary season, i hope they can get some really early players like her, or maybe even Barbara Lowe (probably unlikely considering her history with Michael Davies when she was on Millionaire).
I think i remember Elise mentioning somewhere that what threw her off in her later appearances was having to adjust to the buzzer timing, since she played when you could buzz in immediately (they just asked you, apparently on the honor system, to not buzz in "until the answer is fully revealed"). I might be thinking of a different season 1 champ though.
I don't think there's any chance Barbara would ever return lol, but that would be a sight to behold after all these years.
Elise did mention that, yeah. In the Reddit AMA thread for women on Jeopardy! following Amy Schneider's streak, I believe? She's a longshot but it'd be so cool if she got invited back.
Postscript: Emily F, Yungsheng & Lucy would eventually competed at Champions Wildcard S37/38 but in separate groups. Yungsheng won CWC-Hearts while Lucy finished 2nd to Josh Saak at CWC-Spades but Emily F was quickly eliminated at CWC-Clubs QF.
Larissa and Leonard eventually made it to the JIT. Larissa finished as a semifinalist.
I'd love to see Elise Beraru back; she was a great player and i loved her outfits. Especially considering the inaugural JIT will be in the 40th/60th anniversary season, i hope they can get some really early players like her, or maybe even Barbara Lowe (probably unlikely considering her history with Michael Davies when she was on Millionaire).
I think i remember Elise mentioning somewhere that what threw her off in her later appearances was having to adjust to the buzzer timing, since she played when you could buzz in immediately (they just asked you, apparently on the honor system, to not buzz in "until the answer is fully revealed"). I might be thinking of a different season 1 champ though.
I don't think there's any chance Barbara would ever return lol, but that would be a sight to behold after all these years.
Elise did mention that, yeah. In the Reddit AMA thread for women on Jeopardy! following Amy Schneider's streak, I believe? She's a longshot but it'd be so cool if she got invited back.
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