Super Jeopardy! aired Saturday nights on ABC in summer 1990 (from June 16 to September 8). It featured 35 former champions from the first six seasons of the current version plus Burns Cameron, a former champion from the Art Fleming era; this tournament awarded a $250,000 top cash prize to the winner and was hence referred to as "The $250,000 Challenge" (worded as "The Quarter-of-a-Million-Dollar Challenge").
As usual, the players played for points, though with increased values (200-1,000 in the Jeopardy round, 500-2,500 in the Double Jeopardy round; the only time where the second round values were not double the first), and there were four contestants in each quarterfinal match; the semifinals and final itself had the usual three. For the quarterfinals and semifinals themselves, there were no wild card spots for the high-scorers among non-winners; it was "win or go home".
32 years later, the same number competed in the National College Championship. However, here, as before, the three-person system was conducted, and the fourth place among the semi-finalists was eliminated.
So far, the only upset occurred in a major tournament where a champion who had won four times in a row, and who had not even advanced to the ToC semifinals, won.
