History Awesome / Jeopardy

* Jonathan Fisher, the winner of Matt's 39th game, turned out to be the first giant-killer to become a superchamp on his own, starting his own win streak with seven out of his eleven games won in lock fashion. He was eventually defeated in his twelfth game, tying with Arthur Chu for the tenth-most games won overall.

* After the Battle of the Decades and Arthur Chu and Julia Collins' runs, the impressive 30th season ends in a tiebreaker at the end of the Teen Tournament, with Jeff Xie pulling off the win. The Tournament of Champions in the following season saw both Arthur Chu and Julia Collins make it all the way to the finals. The winner? [[spoiler:[[DarkHorseVictory Ben Ingram]], using both days' Final Jeopardy to pull an impressive upset.]]

** September 24, 2021: Matt has another runaway game and becomes only the third player in history to earn $1 million in regular season play. Better yet, he did so in 28 games, outpacing Ken Jennings.

* Jonathan Fisher, the winner of Matt's 39th game, turned out to be no slouch either, starting his own win streak with three out of his first five games won in lock fashion.
** After winning his sixth game, Jonathan became the first giant-killer to become superchamp on his own.
** [[spoiler:October 26, 2021: Jonathan's reign ended in his 12th game, with a couple of incorrect Double Jeopardy responses effectively sealing his fate. The winner of that game, Nancy Donehower, herself became the first giant-killer-giant-killer in the show's history.]]

** [[spoiler:October 26, 2021: Jonathan's reign ended in his 12th game, with a couple of incorrect Double Jeopardy responses effectively sealing his fate.]]

** After winning a sixth game, he became the first giant-killer to become superchamp on his own.

* Matt Amodio's incredible run. He very quickly established himself as the most successful post-Alex Trebek superchamp (the previous post-Trebek record was 7 games), and has ''just kept going''.

** To add to the awesome factor to these achievements, Matt started his play during the era of guest hosts and continued his play for the duration of Mike Richards' turbulent run and on to Mayim Bialik's time as host, having to get used to each of their varied game-hosting style. During his run, he played with ''six''.

** After winning a sixth game, he became the first giant-killer to become superchamper on his own.

** October 11, 2021: As remarkable as Matt was, his reign came to an end in his 39th game. It took two very strong players to take him down. One of whom wagered [[{{Bookends}} his entire score to beat Matt.]]

** October 11, 2021: [[spoiler:As remarkable as Matt was, his reign came to an end in his 39th game. It took two very strong players to take him down. One of whom wagered [[{{Bookends}} his entire score to beat Matt.]] ]]
** To add to the awesome factor to these achievements, Matt started his play during the era of guest hosts and continued his play for the duration of Mike Richards' turbulent run and on to Mayim Bialik's time as host, having to get used to each of their varied game-hosting style. To date, he's played with ''six''.

** October 11, 2021: [[spoiler:As remarkable as Matt was, his reign came to an end in his 39th game. It took two very strong players to take him down. One of whom wagered [[{{Bookends}} his entire score to beat Matt.]]

** More amazingly, in over 17 years of post-Jennings play, only two contestants (James Holzhauer and Matt Amodio) have made it past 20 episodes.

** October 11, 2021: [[spoiler:As remarkable as Matt was, his reign came to an end in his 39th game.]]

** October 11, 2021: [[spoiler:As remarkable as Matt was, his reign came to an end in his 38th game.]]

** More amazingly, in over 15 years of post-Jennings play, only two contestants (James Holzhauer and Matt Amodio) have made it past 20 episodes.

** He blew past Julia Collins' 20-game winning streak to claim the second-longest game-winning streak[[spoiler:, a record that stood until Matt Amodio's run]].

** September 30, 2021: [[spoiler: After winning his 32nd game, Matt became the player with the second-most consecutive wins, tying James Holzhauer in this category. The following day, he surpassed James to become the sole player with the second-most consecutive wins. On said day, his total ''also'' made it onto the "All-time top ten winnings" list for American game shows.]]

** By his 23rd game, his '''average''' winnings per day climbed to $77,401, exceeding the aforementioned previous $77,000 one-day record. So in other words, James is winning more money '''on average''' per day than anyone else has ever won in one day '''at all''', something Trebek [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] three games later.

** Notably, as of 2021, ''17'' years after Ken's run ended, he still holds the record of highest Coryat score (the score if all wagering is disregarded) in history, $39,200. He also holds the record for most correct answers per game, 45.

* August 12, 2021: Matt Amodio became the third-highest-earning Jeopardy contestant in regular season play. A few weeks later, on September 15, he became the player with the third-most consecutive wins.
** To add to the awesome factor to these stats, Matt started his play during the era of guest hosts and continued his play for the duration of Mike Richards' turbulent run and on to Mayim Bialik's time as host, having to get used to each of their varied game-hosting style. To date, he's played with ''six''.
** In one game early in his run, Matt managed a Coryat score of $39,000, $200 less from the highest-recorded Coryat in the show's' history. He got ''44'' correct answers in the game including Final Jeopardy, also statistically the second-best in the show's history.

** September 24, 2021: Matt has another runaway game and becomes only the third player in history to earn $1 million in regular season play. Better yet, he did so in 28 games, outpacing Ken Jennings. The look on his face [[https://thejeopardyfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/matt-amodio-jeopardy-winner-september-24-2021-768x642.png says it all]].

** September 30, 2021: [[spoiler: After winning his 32nd game, Matt became the player with the second-most consecutive wins, tying James Holzhauer in this category. The following day, he surpassed James Holzhauer to become the sole player with the second-most consecutive wins.]]

** He blew past Julia Collins' 20-game winning streak to claim the second-longest game-winning streak.

** September 30, 2021: [[spoiler: After winning his 32nd game, Matt became the player with the second-most consecutive wins, tying James Holzhauer in this category.]]

* August 12, 2021: Matt Amodio became the third-highest-earning Jeopardy contestant in regular season play. A few weeks later, on September 15, he became the player with the third-most consecutive wins. In both these categories, he's behind only James Holzhauer and Ken Jennings.

** It took him just ''fourteen'' games to hit the million-dollar mark in winnings. To put this in perspective, it took Ken Jennings "only" thirty games to win a million dollars during his run[[spoiler:, and it took Matt Amodio "only" twenty-eight games to win a million dollars]].

** September 24, 2021: [[spoiler: Matt has another runaway game and becomes only the third player in history to earn $1 million in regular season play. Better yet, he did so in 28 games, outpacing Ken Jennings. The look on his face [[https://thejeopardyfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/matt-amodio-jeopardy-winner-september-24-2021-768x642.png says it all]] ]].

** In one game early in his run, Matt managed a Coryat score (the score if all wagering is disregarded) of $39,000, $200 less from the highest-recorded Coryat in the show's' history. He got ''44'' correct answers in the game including Final Jeopardy, also statistically the second-best in the show's history.

** Early in his run, Matt managed a Coryat score (the score if all wagering is disregarded) of $39,000, $200 less from the highest-recorded Coryat in the show's' history. He got ''44'' correct answers in the game including Final Jeopardy, also statistically the second-best in the show's history.

* April - June 2014: Julia Collins' hot streak of 20 games. By her 11th game, she became the longest-running female champion in the show's history, and just kept rolling. Most of her games have been "locks" as well, but game 20 became even more impressive as she salvaged the win through a narrow lead. Only Ken Jennings had a longer reign as champion, and she easily became Jeopardy!'s top money winner among female contestants before even entering the Tournament of Champions.

** Just in case you aren't impressed enough yet with all of the above, James currently holds '''all''' [[http://thefinalwager.com/2015/04/02/jeopardy-high-scores/ the top 10 one-day totals in Jeopardy!]] and all of them are over $80,000, i.e. more than Roger Craig's former $77,000 one-day record which had remained unbroken for over eight years until James came along, with the top 5 totals also being over ''$100,000''.

** To add to the awesome factor to these stats, Matt started his play during the era of guest hosts and continued his play for the duration of Mike Richards' turbulent run, having to get used to each of their varied game-hosting style. To date, he's played with ''six''.

** September 16, 2021: Matt entered Double Jeopardy in the negative. He then managed to turn it around and won the game in lock fashion, clinching his 22nd win.
** September 24, 2021: Matt has another runaway game and becomes only the third player in history to earn $1 million in regular season play. Better yet, he did so in 28 games, outpacing Ken Jennings. The look on his face [[https://thejeopardyfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/matt-amodio-jeopardy-winner-september-24-2021-768x642.png says it all]].

** It took him just ''fourteen'' games to hit the million-dollar mark in winnings. To put this in perspective, it took Ken Jennings "only" thirty games to win a million dollars during his run.