The 2024 Jeopardy! Champions Wildcard is a tournament for wildcard players who will compete for a berth at the Tournament of Champions. The champions whose has won 1 or 2 games, along with the Second Chance winners of the season will face off, and the winner will be given the right to participate in the ToC, which will be played in the post season.
26 of the participants have competed with ToC entrants before in their original appearance:
Emmett Stanton - Martha
David Sibley - Michael
Cris Pannullo - Xanni, Matt, and Andy Tirrell (who ended Cris' 21-game streak)
Sean McShane - Matthew
Ray Lalonde - Lloyd
Yogesh Raut - Connor and Katie
Troy Meyer - Erin
Jake DeArruda - Patti
Matthew Marcus - Patti and Dan
Stephen Webb - Kendra, Long, and Kelly
Melissa Klapper - Kelly and Alec
Brian Henegar - Crystal and Rachel
Kevin Belle - Eric
Hannah Wilson - Juveria
Ben Chan - Kat and Lynn
Jared Watson - Ilhana
Suresh Krishnan - Holly
Ben Goldstein - Suzanne and Donna
This tournament, which it have two groups, which it will be not have four groups to have each group of contestants are represented by a card suit symbol, like last year’s Champion Wildcard Tournament, but it will not be likely every time.
In this CWC, three contestants were selected through Play-in, and were not broadcast separately.
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↑Martha Bath won $40 when she was on Jeopardy! in 1972. 50 years later, she went on to win an additional $30,800.