From Ryan Long to Ken Jennings, the Ten Best-Scoring Coryats from the Ten Longest Streaks
I teamed up with special guest MasterDoge987 to talk about the highest Coryat scores given by the ten longest-running players in regular gameplay.
Wait a second, who’s the other person?
B: Hey y’all, Bella here. In today’s article, we have a special guest joining us to do most of the commentary. He pitched the idea of the players with the ten longest streaks and their best accompanying Coryat scores, which is a player’s raw score without the inclusion of Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardy! scores, right or wrong.
So if a player were to miss their Daily Double, it wouldn’t affect their raw score at all, whereas if they were to get it correct it would be equivalent to the same value as the original clue’s worth. An example of this: wagering $5,000 on a Daily Double for a clue that was originally worth $1,600. Subtract the remainder ($3,400) from the player’s score to get their raw score.
Today (6/10/2023) is the 19-year anniversary of Ken Jennings scoring the highest Coryat in the show’s history, which we will get to last. With that explanation out of the way, here’s our guest!
M: Heyo! My name is MasterDoge987 (@masterdoge_ on twitter). I asked Bella if I could do a guest post on a topic I was interested in, and thankfully, she said yes! I figured I should get the introduction out of the way first, because my writing style probably differs significantly from Bella’s. Anyhow…
Overview
M: Jeopardy! is a tricky game. In every episode, you have to go up against two contestants who are just as hungry for a victory as you. You have to focus on your scores. You have to make sure the other two aren’t creeping up on you. You have to focus on Ken’s (or Mayim’s) speech patterns, or the lights on the side of the board, to know when to safely ring in. You have to keep a clear mind whenever you hit a potentially game-changing Daily Double. You have to know how much to wager in Final Jeopardy. Jeopardy! is one big juggling act - and you might not know how to juggle.
That said, some contestants have been able to turn it into a science to not just win multiple games, but absolutely thrash their competitors. Oftentimes, these long-running players also rack up some of the all-time great performances.
Today, we’re looking into the best performances - in terms of Coryat - of the top ten longest streakers in the game’s history.
#10 - Ryan Long (16 games)
M: If there was ever a player definition of “trust your gut”, it might be Season 38’s Ryan Long. The Philadelphia rideshare driver has said that he did not rely on any specific strategy to play the game, instead just going with what he felt was right. Winning 10+ games of Jeopardy! is already impressive enough, but winning 10+ games of Jeopardy! with absolutely no pre-planned strategy? That’s nothing short of mind-blowing. However, Ryan also proved that he can thrash his competition when he needs to, his best performance coming in Game #13.
Going into this game, against Kenny Liew and Carissa Faroughi, Ryan was a 12-day champion with winnings of $226,300. The game started slowly, with all three players at $0 or below until clue 7. However, Ryan turned the game on its head by running MUSICIANS SELLING MUSIC right before the break, and would go on to ride that momentum to finish the first round with 15 correct and $9,600. The dominance continued in Double Jeopardy!, with Ryan picking up another 16 correct, plus the second Daily Double, to finish Double! with $28,400 and over quadruple second-placed Kenny’s $6,800. Although he missed Final, he lost just $2,000 to finish with $26,400 and a 13-day total of $252,700.
Ryan’s Coryat in this game? $26,600. Additionally, he became only the second player in Season 38 (Amy Schneider being the other) to run three categories in one game - those being MUSICIANS SELLING MUSIC, MEDIEVAL TIMES, and SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM.
B: With all of the iconic runs of season 38, I feel as though Ryan is often overlooked, especially given his underwhelming ToC performance against Megan Wachspress and Maureen O’Neil. I would say, myself, that I don’t find him to be particularly dominant most of the time. However, yeah, he really turned up the heat in this game. His buzzer speed was particularly fast in this game, getting in first over 80% of the time he tried to buzz in. I do often wonder how he would have done against Megan Wachspress in regular play if he had defeated Eric Ahasic. It was a truly unique season for seasoned players like these three. As well as some of these later entries…
#9B - David Madden (19 games)
(Note: There is a tie for the ninth spot, held by David and Jason Zuffranieri [who’s coming up very shortly]; I’m breaking the tie and giving the #9A spot to Jason due to having more overall success during his streak.)
M: Though he is seldom remembered in comparison to other great champions nowadays, David Madden was one of the first all-time greats. He first appeared in the closing weeks of Season 21 and went on a 19-day run, and would have been first in literally every single show statistic had it not been for some guy named Ken Jennings a year earlier!
After four days, Dave stood at $94,400, and was considered a strong-but-not-amazing contestant. In Game #5, he faced Annemarie Gallagher and Jessica Schreader. Dave started running away with the game almost immediately, picking up the Daily Double on Clue #2 and ending the round with 18 correct responses and $11,000. Indicative of how dominant Dave was on the buzzer, Annemarie’s first buzz saw her exclaim “I didn’t think I’d get in; I’m blank”. Jessica managed to reel him in by running the Joel Schumacher category in Double Jeopardy!; however, David rolled off another 17 correct, including both Daily Doubles, to have a commanding lead going into Final, $32,000 to $14,200. He got Final correct as well, but only added another $100; regardless, that bumped his total up to $126,500.
David’s Coryat this game was $33,000 - which brings up a topic I wanted to discuss. Obviously, players are allowed to play the game in any way they want, and I have the utmost respect for anyone who makes it onto the stage. That said, if you go 4-for-4 on the betting clues and your final score is still less than your Coryat - both of the Double Jeopardy! Daily Doubles were only worth $900 - that’s a point of concern. David mentioned that his hunting for Daily Doubles was part of why he did so well in his ToC bio, but why hunt for them if you aren’t going to take advantage?
B: It’s quite interesting how this feels like an outlier in David’s original run, honestly. From the games I’ve rewatched him in, he actually seems to have issues with the buzzer, for he’d usually rely on his knowledge base, which is some of the strongest out of any player in the show’s history.
Another thing about his conservative betting here is that getting it out of his opponent’s hands really prevents them from being able to make any kind of major move against him. It is interesting how conservative he goes though, given that out of all players who have won at least 10 games, he has the best Daily Double average of them all, only missing two his entire run. In his benefit, that makes his runaways even more impressive.
Notably, he bet way less conservatively in the 2019 All-Star Games as a member of Team Brad, wagering $20,000 and $13,200 in his two Final Jeopardy! appearances in the tournament. He probably would have bet big if he had gotten more Daily Doubles. Anywho, I look forward to the next sole game David plays on his own, whether that’s JIT or Masters.
#9A - Jason Zuffranieri (19 games)
Jason was the first big streaker after the incredible run of James Holzhauer, and put up a very strong 19-game run in his own right! These were split between 6 games in Season 35 and 13 in Season 36 (14, including his loss). Given James’ incredible success, Jason had a lot to live up to, and he certainly delivered!
His strongest performance came in his 11th game, against Tabitha Walker and Jack Gutshall. Jason had won 10 games and $273,843 at that point, and it was clear he was someone to be feared; he picked up 11 correct and $10,000 by the first break! While the challengers did slightly better, Jason picked up 19 correct throughout the entire round and finished with almost $13,000. He picked up another 19 in Double Jeopardy! to finish with 38 correct in total. He was no slouch on the Daily Doubles, either, sweeping all three of them for a collective $15,800 en route to having an incredible $44,400 going into Final. He got Final correct as well to finish with an amazing $58,400, which was the 5th highest one-day total ever when not counting scores belonging to James Holzhauer. $40,000 going into Final would also not be replicated until Matt Amodio did so in his 7th game, almost two years later - but he’s coming up a little bit later on this list!
Jason’s Coryat this day? $33,200. (This also made him one of few people to have two games with $30,000+ Coryats in a row!)
B: Jason is another player that seems overlooked, along with David. They have very mirrored careers, both winning 19 games and finishing their respective ToCs in the semifinals. Jason started out as a very strong champion, capping off season 35 with 6 wins and $137,300; however, once James’s games began running during the taping of those games, Jason had the opportunity to catch the rest of his run and get a taste of his strategy, which upped his game a TON. This game capped off the first week of season 36, of which he was already demonstrating a drastic case of improvement with James’s strategy.
$58,400 is a slight victory over Arthur Chu’s top score of $58,200. Jason displayed here that not only was he a fantastic player, but he was quickly becoming one of the very best at that point. While I’m not sure how his gameplay holds up now, given the slightly disappointing ToC performance, we can look back at this game with great admiration.
#7 - Julia Collins (20 games)
M: Of all the champions on this list, Julia Collins was actually the first one I ever watched! As a result, naturally, I’m very excited to cover her games. Only three people had ever won more than 10 games at this point, with Ken Jennings, David Madden, and earlier in Season 30, Arthur Chu.
Julia’s best performance Coryat-wise came in her sixteenth game, against Simone Chavoor and Steve Martinez. Interestingly, Steve was not the first Martinez to appear on the show; his daughter, coincidentally also named Julia, appeared on Kids Week in 2012 and won her game in a lock, pocketing $26,800. Unfortunately for Steve, his hopes of replicating his daughter’s win were lessened by the fact that there was a 15-day champion in his game.
It was a rather archetypical Julia Collins game, with her picking up 14 correct in the first round and 15 in Double Jeopardy. The reason her Coryat was as high as it was, though - out of her 15 in Double Jeopardy, 12 of them came at the $1,200, $1,600, and $2,000 rows. This meant that Julia had a whopping $31,400 going into Final, while Steve had $9,200 and Simone just $6,600. To his credit, Steve was the only person to respond correctly in Final, however, Julia’s miss was immaterial and she still won handily, pocketing $22,800 to bring her haul to $337,700.
Her Coryat in this game - $28,600.
B: It was really frustrating browsing forums surrounding the quiz show at this time, for a lot of people were doubting Julia’s ability after her first thirteen wins or so. A lot of people were claiming that she was luckier than most, even though at this point only two players were able to do what she was doing at this time, which was winning at least 15 games. Not even Arthur Chu, whose gameplay was put into higher regard at this time, was able to do that. By her 15th game, the tide was already beginning to kind of shift as she had gotten 37 correct answers in this game, winning $30,800 and scoring a $28,200 Coryat.
After this three-piece of incredible games from 15 to 17, Julia went on to win three more games, becoming only the second player ever to win at least 20 games following Ken Jennings. Julia set a major benchmark for women at this point in the show’s history that would only be replicated by very few more.
#6 - Cris Pannullo (21 games)
The most recent addition to the Top 10 list, Cris was the first big streaker of Season 39, emulating James Holzhauer’s strategies to the absolute fullest en route to winning nearly a million dollars in just 21 games! His run was split up 11/10 by the 2022 Second Chance Competition and the Tournament of Champions, with his best performance coming the day before the postseason began.
Cris had already won 10 games and $333,723 going into this game. He quickly racked up an impressive total of $8,600 - off 11 correct responses - going into the first break. In a rarity for his games, he did not find the first Daily Double - challenger Rhianan Thomas did, but only bet $400 of the $1,000 she could have.
Cris picked up the two Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy! on back-to-back clues, and the game was pretty much over after the second one brought him to $20,000. However, he didn’t stop there, picking up another $15,200 to bring his total for the game to an impressive $35,200! Among his 36 correct were runs of POKER HANDS and ISLAND COUNTRIES, leading to a Coryat score of $34,000. Though he dropped $12,221 in Final, he still finished with $22,979 to bring his total over 11 games to $356,702.
His run would go on hiatus for the postseason, with him returning on November 22 and winning another 10 games. In those 10 games, he more than doubled his previous total, en route to a total of $748,286. He’s definitely the favorite going into his ToC, but knowing the other competition, this is still gonna be a very interesting event!
B: Some people have critiqued me for putting Cris Pannullo in the second tier of all-time Jeopardy! greats, but it’s hard to really argue against it when he puts up performances like this. It’s pretty incredible how despite this being his highest Coryat game, it actually ended up being one of his lowest-scoring games. For reference, his lowest Coryat game was in his 17th game, where he posted a $12,400 Coryat, but won with $44,000 with the help of a True Daily Double and a correct Final Jeopardy! response.
I think moments like this show the versatility of a very strong player and what they’re capable of doing, even in the face of tough competition. I imagine he’s going to be the toughest player to face in the ToC, though I could see players like Ben Chan, Troy Meyer, and Hannah Wilson competing at his level. It’ll be compelling to see how his gameplay ages with time.
#5 - Mattea Roach (23 games)
The youngest 10+ game winner at just 23 years old at the time of their streak, Mattea quickly proved they were a force to be reckoned with after just two wins. While their attempt numbers were rather average for a champion - 38.58 - they shined on the buzzer, getting in an incredible 72% of the time when attempting to buzz in. Of their performances, the most dominant came in the last week of their run.
After having cracked the half-million mark in total winnings the previous game, they faced Jaime Sisson and Kelly Flynn in their twenty-second game. Both contestants managed to keep Mattea to just $7,000 after the Jeopardy round, with all three experiencing some levels of success. Then, as was rather typical in a Mattea game, they found another gear in Double Jeopardy!, picking up $20,000 in Coryat in just that round! Naturally, they entered Final Jeopardy! with a dominating runaway at $28,400, while Jaime had but $6,600. (As someone who lives in Exeter, you can imagine my disappointment when Kelly took one too many negs to keep her on the plus side going into Final!)
Mattea’s Coryat this game - $27,000. They also put up one of their best single-day buzzer performances, getting in on 79% of their attempts!
B: At such a young age, Mattea is a player who can only improve more and more with time. It’s already kind of incredible that they were able to put up a run this great near the end of their run, but even following this game, they put up amazing performances against some of the best players of all time, those of which will be talked about in the following columns.
A lot of people were reluctant to call them one of the Masters, but with performances like this and the one they put up in Masters, it was fairly obvious to see. At this point in their run, they were so seasoned with how to control the buzzer and the rest of the board that they were pretty uncatchable by this point. It certainly didn’t look like they would be finished by the end of the week, but that is what happened after winning the next game. Still, of all players, Mattea was quite consistent and grew to be more dominant by the end.
#4 - James Holzhauer (32 games)
Say the name “James Holzhauer” to any Jeopardy! fan and you’re bound to get, well… some reaction one way or another. But for the most part, that name is synonymous with Jeopardy! mastery (literally, too, with his victory in the 2023 Masters Tournament). James is known for his high-octane style of play, his general dominance, and of course, his ridiculously high scores. His highest single-game payday is $131,127… and he holds the next eleven spots in that category, too!
But you can’t put up the scores James put up just off of the betting clues alone; you’ve gotta know your stuff. And James’ best performance showed that he really knows his stuff.
In his twentieth game, against Imar DaCunha and Kate Jay Zweifer - herself the daughter of a former contestant, Season 7 player Roz Jay -, James actually got off to a bit of a slow start, trailing Imar for the first few clues. However, he gained control after doubling up his $4,600 total on clue 11 and having nearly $10,000 at the first break. After the break, there was more of James dominating, with him picking up 19 correct and $13,800 by Double Jeopardy!
If James was dominant in the first round, he was ridiculously dominant in Double Jeopardy. Of the 30 clues in the round, James picked up an incredible TWENTY-THREE CORRECT. Naturally, he found both Daily Doubles - picking up over $10,000 on both of them - and had a gigantic $60,898 going into Final (which, by the way, was only his fifth-highest pre-Final score of his run so far!) It didn’t stop there, either; James was historically nearly blemish-free in Final Jeopardy (not counting the Masters), so he got Final correct as well to pick up another $40,784 to finish with his fifth of six six-digit days and another $101,682. He did not neg a single time THE ENTIRE GAME, going 43-for-43 when attempting to answer.
James’ Coryat score today? $38,200. At the time, it was the best performance of anybody not named Ken Jennings. This also gave him complete control over the top 10 single-day winnings spots, a title he has not relinquished since. He also set the record for highest combined Coryat score over two combined days ($76,000), and the only reason this wasn’t the record for most correct responses in a perfect game was because he had already set that record (with 44 correct) the day earlier!
B: Yeah, it’s James. Not much else to really say that M hasn’t said already. This is just one of James’s 12 best games, and one of several where he breaks $100,000, something that has not been done by any other player.
His average amount of money won per game actually matched that of the holder of the previous one-day record of $77,000, Roger Craig.
The only player to score above just $80,000 is Matt Amodio, Jeopardy! Masters 2nd runner-up and 38-time champion. Speaking of which…
#3 - Matt Amodio (38 games)
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that Matt Amodio quite literally saved Jeopardy!; under Mike Richards, the show was headed towards disaster, and Matt managed to keep attention on his streak and away from Mike long enough for him to be shown the door within a month of accepting the permanent host role! But of course, you don’t win 38 games without putting up some darn good performances, and this was exactly that.
Matt had already proved he was one to watch out for after racking up $194,800 over the previous six days of his streak - at the time, the fifth-highest six day total - but just cemented that reputation further in his seventh game. He started the game by immediately dominating, picking up 11 correct responses and over $11,000 going into the first break. The back half of the first round was mostly the same, with Matt picking up another 10 to stand at 21 correct after the first half. Then, Double Jeopardy came, and Matt put up a Holzhauerian performance - picking up 22 correct and $28,000 of Coryat in just that round! This led him to enter Final with $44,400, more than ten times Dana Rosner’s score of $4,400; Bryan Cracchiolo finished $1,200 in the red and didn’t play Final. Matt picked up Final Jeopardy!, as well, and added another $30,000; this brought his total to the game to $74,000, which was the third highest score of anyone not named James Holzhauer at the time. This was also the highest single-day donation to any charity of the guest host era, with $77,000 being donated to LeVar Burton’s charity, Reading is Fundamental.
Matt’s Coryat in this game - an incredible $39,000.
Incredibly, Matt picked up three incorrect this game, two of which were in the bottom two rows of the first round! That begs the question - how high could he have gone? As it stands, though, Matt did enough to cement the second-place spot for highest single-game Coryat, a position that still stands now almost two years later.
B: It’s actually pretty incredible how close this was to being the highest single-game Coryat, given how he missed two bottom row clues in the first round. If there’s any player who I think could have matched up to Ken and James in just regular gameplay, it’s probably Matt.
By his last 10 games, he was consistently averaging $30,000+ Coryats and legitimately looked like he could surpass both Ken and James at the rate he was going. Ironically, it took another 10+ game winner in Jonathan Fisher, as well as eventual ToC qualifier + 2022 Second Chance Competition winner Jessica Stephens, to beat him.
While his ToC performance didn’t live up to prior expectations, having lost his semifinal to fellow Master Sam Buttrey, he put up a great performance in Masters, earning third place and $150,000 more. Ironically, his $39,000 Coryat game was set in his 7th game, the same game that Ken Jennings set his highest Coryat game. More on that later…
#2 - Amy Schneider (40 games)
The reigning ToC Grand Champion - at least, assuming you are reading this before November 2023 (in which case, did Cris win? Was my prediction correct?) - Amy was very lucky to escape with one win, given how the champion she beat, fellow ToC finalist Andrew He, was on the path to a very strong run, so Amy barely managed to clinch her first win. What followed was one of the most dominant win streaks the show has ever seen, not stopping until she had won 40 games and just under $1,400,000. And as I’ve said many times, you don’t win that many games without putting up some dominant performances, and Amy did just that, with her best game coming up in game #37.
It was a rather typical Amy game to start, with her getting 16 correct and $10,800 at the end of the round, plus $2,000 on the Daily Double. Then, as is now a common theme in these games, Amy turned on another gear in Double Jeopardy, picking up a mind-boggling 23 correct responses! She also found both Daily Doubles, picking up $5,000 on both of them, en route to $27,600 in just that round! Needless to say, she had a completely insurmountable $46,400 going into Final, while Patrick Lackey had just $3,000 and Brittany Love got as many answers wrong as she did right and ended up $2,800 in the red. Final Jeopardy was notably one of Amy’s strengths, and she got this one correct to add another $25,000 to her total! Her final winnings this day came out at $71,400, then the fifth-highest total not belonging to James Holzhauer. Shockingly, Amy’s buzzer performance in this game was little more than average - getting in “only” 56.14% of the time - but going 40-for-40 on attempted clues led to her having as high a score as she did.
Her Coryat this game - $37,400. This was the 9th highest one-day Coryat ever, as well as still being the highest one-day Coryat by a woman.
B: I think, of any regular game streak, there’s probably not one that made a bigger impact on me as a trans woman than this one by Amy. In a time where LGBTQ+ rights are in more danger than ever, and with anti-trans bills being at the forefront of hot button political topics, it’s imperative that we had some good representation on a show about facts and knowledge such as this one.
This was Amy’s best game ever, and further cemented her as one of the best players of any era, ever. By this point, she was only one game away from tying Matt’s streak and it really showed how ready she was to take his place for second-longest streak, which she proceeded to do in her next two games, winning one more after that before losing to Rhone Talsma in her 41st game.
#1 - Ken Jennings (74 games)
To the surprise of literally nobody, the best single-day Coryat score of all time belongs to Ken Jennings.
There isn’t much to say about Ken that hasn’t already said, but if you’re new to Jeopardy!, I’ll keep it brief - Ken won a record-breaking 74 games in a row in 2004, then finished as first runner-up in four straight tournaments before finally claiming a tournament victory in 2020’s Greatest of All Time, then joined the show as a consultant producer later that year before eventually being minted one of two permanent hosts of the show in 2021.
Ken was actually the first player to put up three $30,000+ Coryats in his first five games, but he was still only able to turn three of those into runaways, and he won each of his first six games with very strong but not all-time great performances. His seventh game, however…
The high-water mark for Ken’s opposition that day was when Laura Adomunas found the first Daily Double and took a $1,800 lead over Ken on Clue #9. Overall, Ken was off and running, getting 18 correct and $9,600 after the first round.
The clue in WOULD YOU LIKE A BEVERAGE? $1,000: Perrier's "475 parts per million total dissolved solids" makes it this type of water. (What is mineral water?) This was the only correct response Susan Gress was able to give the entire game.
But this wouldn’t be at the top of the list if it weren’t for something crazy happening in Double Jeopardy, and something crazy happened in Double Jeopardy. In quite possibly the best round of Jeopardy! ever played by one person, Ken put up a mind-boggling TWENTY-FIVE CORRECT in Double Jeopardy. Laura was only able to get four correct responses, and poor Susan; she took a neg on her only buzz of the round and was too deep in the hole to make it to Final. Ken’s conservative Daily Double wagers were a mere footnote in his complete dominance of the game, and the outcome was really never in doubt, with Ken having $40,600 going into Final.
Ken would pick up another $9,400 in Final to finish the day at $50,000. This, at the time, was tied for the second-highest one-day total, along with Myron Meyer (and Brian Weikle holding the record, at $52,000). Ken also became the first person to ever run four categories in a single game, being VERB FIRST NAMES, YOU’RE 21 TODAY, THE MIND, and OBSERVATIONS AND CELEBRATIONS. Ken would repeat this feat three more times during his run; however, since then, running four categories in a single game has only been achieved by Andrew Pau on April 19, 2016 (for what it’s worth, Andrew’s category runs were BRIT NAMES FOR VEGGIES, EXTINCT CREATURES, CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS, and SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST LINES).
Ken’s Coryat this game has yet to be matched in the 19 years since - $39,200.
B: There’s no one more fitting for the #1 spot here than Ken. Longest streak, highest cash earnings in regular play, highest Coryat of all-time. At the time of this run, only one other player had ever been able to win 7 games, that being Tom Walsh with $184,900. By this point, Ken Jennings had won $181,000 in 6 games. To make a baseball analogy, Tom’s streak was to Ken’s as Gavvy Cravath was to Babe Ruth.
With the 5-day limit being lifted just 9 months prior, no one had any true precedent to set until Ken did here. And boy, what a precedent he set, getting the highest Coryat score ever in this game. Winning $50,000 this game, he pretty handily surpassed Walsh’s 7-day total, having $231,000 to his name. And then he just… never stopped until his 75th game.
M: And need I remind you; Ken almost lost his first game! His lead going into Final Jeopardy was only $1,400, and he simply wrote “Jones” in response to a clue looking for Marion Jones. Had the judges gone the other way, Ken simply would have been another one-and-done, albeit remembered as a strong player who just got unlucky. But they chose to accept his answer… and the rest is history.
Bella here. I’m not even going to put Ken’s full stats here, because it’s simply too long to fit here. If you want a more extensive list of all the 10+ game winners and their stats, go check out my spreadsheet of them in my document showing the all-time Jeopardy! winners. Thank you all for reading, and thank you MasterDoge987 for your contribution!
Those near-40k coryats really blow me away; i average barely a bit over half that playing from home where i can pretend i have a 100% buzzer rate, so the idea that one person who's actually playing against opponents could manage to get nearly 80% of the money on the board is amazing.
Also i haven't looked into it much yet but i think Amy's 37th game might be a record for best ratio between individual and combined coryat? Her opponents very nearly cancelled each other out with +3,000 and -2,800, so the combined score was only 200 more than her own.