Jeopardy! Tenth Anniversary Tournament
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The Jeopardy! Tenth Anniversary Tournament was a special one-week tournament held in 1993 in honor of the tenth anniversary of the quiz show Jeopardy! Semifinalists and finalists of past Tournament of Champions competitions competed for a winner's prize of a combined two-day final score total plus a $25,000 bonus.
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[edit] Selection of players
Starting with the regular play game aired November 1, 1993, the game's winner drew one name from each of two bowls on stage. Each bowl was filled with the names of Tournament of Champions semifinalists and finalists from a single past season. The winner of the 1993 Tournament of Champions, which began the following week, was given a bye into the Tenth Anniversary Tournament.
[edit] Format
The tournament lasted one week, with three qualifying round matches to determine three finalists who would then go up against each other in a two-game total point match. Eliminated semifinalists received consolation prizes of $5,000, while the second runner-up received a guaranteed minimum of $7,500, the first runner-up received a guaranteed minimum of $10,000, and the winner would earn his or her two-game total plus a $25,000 bonus.[1]
[edit] Results
[edit] Qualifying round
- November 29, 1993: Leslie Frates defeated Roy Holliday and Steve Rogitz
- November 30, 1993: Tom Nosek defeated Mark McDermott and Doug Molitor
- December 1, 1993: Frank Spangenberg defeated Robert Slaven and Lionel Goldbart
Holliday, Rogitz, McDermott, Molitor, Slaven, and Goldbart each received $5,000.
[edit] Finals
- December 2, 1993-December 3, 1993: Spangenberg defeated Nosek and Frates
Spangenberg won the tournament with a two-game score of $16,800 plus a $25,000 bonus for a total of $41,800. Tom Nosek finished second with $13,600, and Leslie Frates won the $7,500 third place prize, which exceeded her score of $4,499.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Early on during the Tournament, host Alex Trebek announced in error that the winner's purse included a $10,000 bonus, not a $25,000 bonus.
[edit] External links
- The official website of Jeopardy!
- Archived Season 10 games of Jeopardy!, including the Tenth Anniversary Tournament
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