This week’s Contestant/Zonk Contestants of the Week will be merged w/ Contestant/Zonk Contestants of the Month, and honorable/dishonorable mentions will be skipped.
Matt Amodio is your Contestant of the Week & Month, not only becoming the first contestant going into next week to play under three different hosts but also proving himself worthy among the show’s all-time greats. He has swept the week & is going into the weekend w/ a whopping 8-day total of $291,200, far eclipsing previous regular-play season-leader Brian Chang ($165,904), put together the second highest individual Coryat score of all time ($39,000; $200 off of Ken Jennings’ record), fifth highest two-day combined individual Coryat ($70K; Jul. 29-30), this season’s highest single-day total ($74K) & his buzzer speed has been compared to that of Ken Jennings’, and that’s not all! If he can keep it going then he may just earn a spot in The Chase if he’s interested. Fans on Twitter apparently aren’t happy about this fact, however.
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Patrick Pearce is your Zonk Contestant of the Week & Month. Matt Amodio wasn’t the only one to make history on Jeopardy! this week as Patrick Pearce also wrote his name into the history books, though for all the wrong reasons. He was $200 in the red after the Jeopardy! round, but the Double Jeopardy! round was where things really took a turn for the worse… he had more incorrect responses than correct responses (10 R, 11 W), wagered $2,000 from $1,000 in the hole but unfortunately tripled that hole, and he never recovered. The snowball didn’t stop rolling & that eventually ended w/ him ultimately missing Final Jeopardy! and breaking Stephanie Hull’s record for lowest score of all-time with -$7,400, though Joan Kantor from Season 1 w/ -$5,100 would still hold the outright record (-$10,200) taking doubled dollar values into account.
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