Risk! Tournament of Champions winner Amy Schneider feels ‘amazing’
Amy Schneider is “Danger!” Winner again. I grabbed “Danger!” Monday’s Tournament of Champions title after defeating rivals Andrew He and Sam Battery for the third time in a first-to-three-win finals.
“I am surprised,” Schneider said in a statement. “Earlier in the finals, I had this sudden moment of seeing myself and being like, ‘I’m on stage in the Tournament of Champions finals,’ and it was crazy. And I won! It feels amazing.”
Going into Monday’s episode, the sixth of a possible seven-match series, Schneider and him are tied at two wins apiece. Battery won its first game on Friday, extending the high-stakes play period. The tournament, which began Oct. 31, has brought together 21 talented contestants who have won at least four games since the 2020 tournament, winners of the College National Tournament, Masters Tournament and First Chance Game Show.
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Schneider is a writer from Oakland, California. He is a software developer in San Francisco; Butry, associate professor of operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School in Pacific Grove, Calif., were the three finalists dreaming of the $250,000 grand prize.
This was the second match between Schneider and her. She ended his five-game hot streak last November before her 40-game domination. Buttry won $100,000 in the Masters tournament in December, a first in the tournament competition.
Before Monday’s Final Jeopardy game! He defaulted to Schneider by a meager $1,400. But it would all depend on the stakes and who knew the correct answer in the “Plays” category: The Washington Evening Star reported on January 12, 1864 a performance of this “smashing comedy” to a “full and delightful house.”
Patry guessed “our mutual friend” incorrectly and bet it all, losing his $8,000 bet. Correctly answering “our American cousin” paid him $17,001. But Schneider knew the answer, too, and her $13,000 bet earned her first place in the tournament and the jackpot. He finished second, winning $100,000, and Patrie finished third, winning $50,000.
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After her win, Schneider held her head in her hands in disbelief and gave a big smile. Earlier this month, she shared her doubts about winning the tournament with USA TODAY.
“I have people all the time like, ‘Oh, you’re going to crush her,’” Schneider said. “And I’m like, ‘This really isn’t helping me, actually. I sure thought I could, but I really didn’t know. (The other two winners, Matt Amodio and Mattia Roach, were eliminated in the earlier rounds of the tournament.)
She prepared the same way she did her first time on the show, Schneider said, “just going into old games and looking up things I didn’t know. I practiced writing down the answers for Final Jeopardy!” Because the act of blogging it got me fired. I was imagining all the scenarios that might happen.”
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Roach shared that the identity of the tournament winner was almost revealed in a hotel bar after registration.
“At one point, he (Schneider) showed up, and everyone applauded, but soon they realized that this might be a concession to whoever was in the area winning the championship,” Roach recalled. “So every subsequent person who got to the table got a huge standing ovation whether they were in the tournament or not.”
Schneider, the tournament’s first transgender winner, said she would “keep going out there and being me. Being in places people like me haven’t been to before, it’s a very powerful thing.”
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