![]() ![]() I'll go for it."Ĭraig is a longtime a fan of the show - auditioning three seperate times for the show before making the cut. He even auditioned for the Teen Tournament a few years back, but didn’t make the cut, said Fancast. Roger won the Tournament of Champions in 2011 and faced off in the finals of the Battle of the Decades in 2014 against Brad Rutter & Ken. "I knew that I had a chance to set the new record going into Final Jeopardy! so I thought what the heck. Seventh on the all-time Jeopardy winnings list, Roger was the Jeopardy single game record holder from 2010 to 2019 when some guy named James Holzhauer came along. "Breaking Ken Jennings' record is simply amazing," Craig told Fancast. ![]() But on Friday, another contestant, Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. Tuesday, beating the previous record of 77,000 from Roger Craig on September 19, 2010. In the end he still tacked on an extra $30,000 in earnings, taking his measley $47,000 and upgrading it to $77,000. Holzhauer’s 32-game run put his face (with his trademark strained smile) all over the Jeopardy hall of fame. Jeopardy contestant sets new record of 110,914 single-game cash win. At first, Craig had some trouble spelling "Kwai" on his "Bridge on the River Kwai" Final Jeopardy! answer, but that didn't matter. The Newark native set a new record on Tuesday, when he earned an astonishing $77,000, breaking the six-year single-day record of $75,000. In 2015, Craig took home 77,000, beating Ken's one-day record. ![]() Roger Craigs presentation on how he used statistics, programming, and knowledge tracking to optimize his jeopardy knowledge and gameplay. Heck, the guy even has a facebook fan page! Via Jeopardy Roger Craig falls behind Jason Zuffranieri by only 2,000 The computer scientist won over half a million dollars competing on the hit game show and went on to beat Ken Jennings' one-day winnings records when he appeared on the show for the first time. Biggest Badass in Jeopardy history - Roger Craig. But one can’t help but root for Roger Craig, the 33-year-old computer science graduate student from the University of Delaware. Roger's record lasted eight and a half years, until James Holzhauer broke it with a 110,914 finish in his fourth game (7967, aired ). He wagered everything both times (known as a true daily double) and won. It’s only normal to watch an episode of Jeopardy! and hate on the person throwing out answers like it’s no big deal. During the Double Jeopardy round at the 2011 Tournament of Champions Final (game 1, aired ), Roger Craig found both Daily Doubles in back-to-back succession. ![]()
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