Background Season 40 kicks off with the Second Chance Tournament, where previous non-champions compete for a spot in the upcoming Champion Wildcards Tournament. The contestants are no entirely from Season 39, and there are going to be 3 weeks of play crowning 3 second-chance winners, who will be moving on to face the former non-5-day …
Champion Elliott Kim takes on challengers Kate Campolieta and Chuck Beem. Jeopardy Round Once Kate takes control of the board after answering correctly on the second clue of the round, she proceeds ultra-aggressively in selecting the $1000 clues in the “Lady’A’”, “Where’s My Food?”, “Westminster-Winning Dog Breeds” categories, getting them right one after another. Only …
Champion Ilena Di Toro takes on challengers Elliott Kim and Sara Daily. Jeopardy! Round Elliott is impressive in this opening round, answering correctly 18 of the 30 clues given, and having at least one correct response in each category. He further gains separation when getting the 28th clue correct, allowing him to pick the daily …
