First Tournament of Champions to use the 2013-2024 set.
Eligibility lasted from February 27, 2013 to July 18, 2014 (last regular play game of Season 30).
After this ToC ended, the tiebreaker round went became effective during regular-play games in the event of two or all three players finished Final Jeopardy! tied for the lead.
This disestablished co-champions (which only applies to champions who were unable to return), and the first tiebreaker round in regular-play games didn't occur until March 1, 2018.
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For first time, there are two 10-times+ champions who participated in the ToC.
5-time champion Jerry Slowik was excluded from the tournament due to legal issues pending at the time invitations were extended. 4-time champion Mark Japinga, the next eligible player, took his place.
Arthur Chu and Julia Collins became the first super champions to make it to the ToC Finals. Additionally, this is the only case so far where two or more Super champions advanced to the Finals.
Drew was the first contestant among champions with 6 or more consecutive wins to be eliminated before solving the FJ Question.
ToC winner Ben is 12 straight correct by FJ!, from first appearance to ToC Final #1. He is also fourth and last ToC winner to win one game as co-champion. It's also the third time, like Jerry Frankel (S2) and Dan Melia (S14), won the game despite not finding any Daily Doubles from finals.
What is special is that the top 3 of the ToC all advanced to the finals, and the positions of 1st and 3rd were swapped.
Ben Ingram and Julia Collins, the winner and 2nd-runner-up of this tournament respectively, teamed up with Seth Wilson in the 2019 All-star games.
Starting from this season, there has been at least one super champion advance to the ToC.
