Due to his earlier success, Basile got to skip the first round of the ongoing tournament along with Adriana Harmeyer and Isaac Hirsch, with all three players advancing straight in

The winner and runner-up of the 2025 Champions Wildcard competition, Mehal Shah and Drew Goins, will also compete in the Tournament of Champions. Here is everything you need to know about the 2025 “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions, from the schedule to the prize pot:

Let the 2025 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions begin! The most impressive Jeopardy! contestants of the past year will face-off in the prestigious event beginning on Monday, January 27.

After a historic 15-day run in 2024, Huntington native and Marshall graduate Adriana Harmeyer has returned to the Alex Trebek stage and is just one step away from winning the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

Heading into Final Jeopardy, Adriana had 22,000 against Ryan’s 12,000, which meant this game wasn’t a runaway, but certainly close heading into the final round. The category was “Countries of the World,” with the clue reading, “About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that country’s 14 neighbors.”

A Purdue University professor was back to her winning ways Tuesday night on "Jeopardy!" Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist for university history at Purdue, returned to the "Jeopardy!" stage for the Tournament of Champions.