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Host
Alex Trebek
Contestants
see below
Announcer
Johnny Gilbert
Broadcast
Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions(2)
May 8~19, 2006
Packager
Sony Pictures Television

Contestants[]

Rank Season Name Wins TW Results WC
C 21 Kermin Fleming A $105,000[1]
22 Nico Martinez $100,000
1 21/22 David Madden ($ S22) 19 $432,400
2 22 Tom Kavanaugh 8 $144,602
3 Kevin Marshall 6 $100,201
4 Maria Wenglinsky 5 $124,300
5 21 Kerry Breitenbach $92,400
6 22 Bob Mesko $71,599 Wild Card
7 Jason Richards 4 $101,200
8 Bill MacDonald $76,399
9 21 David Rozenson 3 $77,000
10 22 Vik Vaz $74,002
11 Doug Dorst $67,802
12 Michael Falk $60,403 Wild Card
13 21 Aaron Thompson $58,899

Game Summary[]

Game Air Date Name Score Name Score Name Score Detail
QF #1 May 8, 2006 Doug Dorst $5,999 Kermin Fleming $99 Maria Wenglinsky $6,400 #
QF #2 May 9, 2006 Kevin Marshall $16,402 David Rozenson $6,399 Aaron Thompson $16,401 #
QF #3 May 10, 2006 Kerry Breitenbach $10,799 Jason Richards $11,000 Vik Vaz $26,001 #
QF #4 May 11, 2006 Michael Falk $14,000 David Madden $28,001 Bob Mesko $14,400 #
QF #5 May 12, 2006 Tom Kavanaugh $10,000 Bill MacDonald $18,733 Nico Martinez $0 #
SF #1 May 15, 2006 Vik Vaz $18,000 Aaron Thompson $13,999 Bob Mesko $1,999 #
SF #2 May 16, 2006 David Madden $0 Bill MacDonald $23,199 Kevin Marshall $11,000 #
SF #3 May 17, 2006 Michael Falk $22,001 Jason Richards $6,000 Maria Wenglinsky $22,000 #
Final May 18, 2006 Bill MacDonald $0 Michael Falk $17,400 Vik Vaz $30,800 #
May 19, 2006 $399 $31,801 $0 #
Total $399 $49,201 $30,800

Notes[]

Contest Related[]

  • Eligibility lasted from December 1, 2004 (second game of Nancy Zerg, giant killer of Ken Jennings) to May 5, 2006.
  • For second time, all ToC finalists are not 5-time+ champions.
  • Unlike previous Tournament of Champions tournaments, the champions in the quarterfinals were not in the order of how much money they have won in their initial appearances, but rather the order of their last names. This tradition would last until S28.
  • As of this year's ToC, no S21 champions who participated in the ToC made it to the finals.
  • From this season, 3rd place was paid $50K and 2nd place was paid $100K, and it continues to this season.
  • It is a tournament in which most 3-time champions participated in ToC history, with five. This record would last until 2024, when eight 3-time champions are set to compete.
  • As previously noted, as Ken Jennings got a bye into the UTOC finals, he was guaranteed $250,000, the TOC top prize. The bye required him to give up his seat in this TOC.

Contestant Related[]

  • Kermin participated in the 2005 UToC.
  • For first time, Bill and Vik is the regular-season rematch in a ToC.
  • Madden is the first participant to receive more ToC winning prize money in Regular Game under the system where the ToC winning prize money was changed to $250K.
  • Michael and Vik are first 3-time champions to go into the Finals.
  • Michael Falk is first 3-time champion to win ToC[2]. He also became the lowest prize winner in Regular among all ToC winners[3].
  • Maria Wenglinsky became the first female to go over the 100K mark during her regular games.
  • As an aside, William Lee, who won two consecutive victories, surpasses the record of the winners Michael and Aaron, and Aaron is the smallest prize money among ToC participants since the introduction of the double system. As a result, it became the only case where the winner received more prize money than the ToC winner even though he did not advance to the ToC.
  • As previously noted, as Ken Jennings got a bye into the UTOC finals, he was guaranteed $250,000, the TOC top prize. The bye required him to give up his seat in this TOC.

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References[]

  1. Fleming received $100,000 as the 2004 Jeopardy! College Championship winner and $5,000 as the 2005 Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions round one player.
  2. 18 years later, Yogesh Raut won the ToC for the second time as a three-time winner.
  3. Of course, this does not mean that his skills are inferior to other champions. David, the current champion with 19 consecutive wins, was completely defeated by Bill, the champion with 4 consecutive wins, and considering that most super champions are often eliminated in the semifinals or quarterfinals, winning ToC alone is a great achievement, and especially as a champion with 3 consecutive wins, he is even better than that. It can be said to be an achievement.
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