This Is Jeopardy: Do Super Champions Get Tired, Part 2

The Post-Trebek Era

In the last five years 11 players have reached super-champion status winning 11 games or more. Amy Schneider and Matt Amodio, numbers 2 and 3 in consecutive games won respectively gave no real sign that they were running on empty at any point prior to their defeats. For Matt he finally ran into a super-champion of his own; for Amy Rhone Talsma played just well enough to beat her.

So let’s look at the others.

Jonathan Fisher, 11 Wins, 2021

With Jonathan its very difficult to tell whether exhaustion played a role in his defeat as in so many of his games he either was playing just well enough to win or his opponents were just as good as him. On his eleventh game Jonathan managed 27 correct responses and three incorrect ones but two of those were Daily Doubles he missed. When he finally lost to Nancy Donehower he got 21 correct responses but six incorrect ones.

I can’t say one way or the other about Jonathan.

Mattea Roach, 23 wins, 2022

In Mattea’s case I do think they were starting to flag a little by the end. On…