2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Contestants[]

Rank	Season	Name	Wins	TW	Results
C	32	Sam Deutsch	A	$100,000
T	32	Jason Sterlacci			★
C	33	Lilly Chin			★
T	33	David Clemmons
1	34	Austin Rogers ($ S34)	12	$413,000	★
2	33	Seth Wilson ($ S33)	12	$267,002
3	32	Buzzy Cohen	9	$166,603	★
4	33	Tim Aten	7	$109,499	★
5	32	Andrew Pau	6	$172,202	★
6	32	Hunter Appler		$147,603
7	33	Lisa Schlitt		$141,100	★
8	32	Pranjal Vachaspati		$139,088	★
9	33	Alan Lin		$125,600	★
10		Justin Vossler	5	$112,000
11		Jon Eisenman	5	$105,902

Game	Air Date	Name	Score	Name	Score	Name	Score	Detail
QF #1	November 6, 2017	Buzzy Cohen	$30,000	Hunter Appler	$1,400	Pranjal Vachaspati	$16,401	#
QF #2	November 7, 2017	Tim Aten	$11,500	Lilly Chin	$12,000	Jason Sterlacci	$23,000	#
QF #3	November 8, 2017	Austin Rogers	$16,000	Alan Lin	$19,610	David Clemmons	$0 ($1,400)	#
QF #4	November 9, 2017	Seth Wilson	$5,399	Lisa Schlitt	$15,400	Sam Deutsch	$8,200	#
QF #5	November 10, 2017	Andrew Pau	$29,000	Justin Vossler	$9,000	Jon Eisenman	$0 ($3,800)	#
SF #1	November 13, 2017	Andrew Pau	$10,399	Austin Rogers	$14,500	Lilly Chin	$800	#
SF #2	November 14, 2017	Buzzy Cohen	$31,601	Jason Sterlacci	$1	Lisa Schlitt	$0	#
SF #3	November 15, 2017	Alan Lin	$24,401	Pranjal Vachaspati	$12,200	Tim Aten	$3,187	#
Final	November 16, 2017	Buzzy Cohen	$0	Alan Lin	$8,800	Austin Rogers	$6,500	#
	November 17, 2017		$24,299		$400		$200	#
	Total		$24,299		$9,200		$6,700

Eligibility lasted from November 23, 2015 to November 3, 2017.
This is the first and currently only ToC under the "sky's the limit rule" where every competitor won 5 or more games.
In addition, the majority of competitors won more than 5 games (nine competitors).
All participants earned more than $100,000 in prize money in regular games.
All regular-play participants placed second in their last game.
Starting with this season, the Tournament of Champions is presented by Consumer Cellular.
At this ToC, all participants wore blue ribbons to commemorate Cindy Stowell, who died of cancer.
For the second time since the 2014 ToC, there are multiple super-champions who participated in the ToC.
This is the first and only 2-game total point affair in a ToC final in which nobody came up with correct response in Final Jeopardy.
Two years later, the finalists of the ToC competition are Jeopardy! All-Star Games Wildcard Match, as part of a team, they played against themselves, Alan's team won and finished third.
Both this ToC and the ones after were presented by Consumer Cellular.
Starting this season, ToC winners will be awarded a separate championship belt.

6-time champion Cindy Stowell passed away prior to the airing of her Jeopardy! appearance; she qualified for, and would have appeared in, this Tournament of Champions. The participating contestants wore dark blue ribbons (the color of colon cancer awareness) in Cindy's honor; Jason Sterlacci conceived of that most appropriate tribute.
Seth Wilson, who won 12 games, became the first super-champion to not advance to the semifinals.
Lilly and Jason are the first cases in ToC where players from other tournaments competed in the same quarterfinal^[1].
Buzzy is the only player to pull off a come from behind ToC win despite earning $0 in the first round in the first game of a ToC Final, and it is the case that 3rd place in the first round came from behind after Dave Abbott, the winner of the 1999 ToC.^[2]

↑ There is also the case of Jessica and Sam in S39, but Second Chance is difficult to include because it has strong characteristics of revival.
↑ What's so great about this record is that even when it extends to the entire tournament, the only time to win for $0 in the first place is Meryl Federman, who won the 2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games.

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