9 of Jeopardy!‘s most interesting gamers are all coming collectively to compete for Jeopardy! Masters Season 3, which premieres on ABC this Wednesday (April 30) night time with its first hour-long episode.
Competing for the title of Jeopardy! Grasp (and the $500,000 money prize) this season are: Biggest of All Time contender Brad Rutter, Masters Season 2 winner Victoria Groce and finalist Yogesh Raut, 2025 Jeopardy! Event of Champions winner Neilesh Vinjamuri and finalists Adriana Harmeyer and Isaac Hirsch, and 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Event champion Matt Amodio and finalists Roger Craig and Juveria Zaheer.
For Rutter, who hasn’t performed since 2020’s G.O.A.T. occasion, it’s going to be a bit odd to play with G.O.A.T. winner Ken Jennings as host. Within the above-embedded unique sneak peek on the new season, he admits, “You understand, often, if I used to be on this stage and I heard Ken’s voice, it was dangerous information as a result of it meant he buzzed in in entrance of me.” It’s an opportunity, although, for Rutter to increase his present lead because the winningest contestant within the sport present’s historical past (he at the moment boasts $4,938,436 over Jennings’ $4,370,700). “All information are supposed to be damaged, so I’m positive I’ll must fake to graciously congratulate any individual passing me considered one of today,” he says within the clip. Maybe a Masters win may put that break day a bit extra.
Groce, in the meantime, needs to show her spectacular “remaining boss” Season 2 win was no accident. “Oh, I’m so excited. That is a lot enjoyable to do — nerve-wracking enjoyable, however enjoyable,” she says within the featurette. “This 12 months, I wish to show that it’s not a fluke that I acquired by means of final 12 months.”
“These are skilled gamers. They’ve been down earlier than. They’re not going to get panicked or skittish,” Jennings predicts of the video games. “Half one million {dollars} for the winner, the Trebek Trophy, after all, however greater than that within the Jeopardy! world, it’s realizing you possibly can play the perfect of the perfect.”
Nonetheless, a few of the contestants word the challenges they’ll face within the competitors. “I feel the problem of Masters goes up towards Masters,” mentioned Harmeyer. “I feel with Masters, the data required to do effectively on this sport is so deep,” Zaheer provides. “You actually have to concentrate to just about each e book you learn, each commentary you make to know one thing that would present up in Jeopardy! Masters,” Vinjamuri additionally says.
For Raut, the chance to be again for an additional Masters spherical is an opportunity to make new associates within the Jeopardy! all-timers circle: “Dropping three folks after simply enjoying two video games is gonna be tough, but it surely’s good to see all of those folks, a few of them I solely noticed on TV, now you already know you get to truly get to know them,” he says.
Watch the complete video above to see what else the contestants needed to say in regards to the season forward, and tune in Wednesday night time for the primary two knockout episodes of Jeopardy! Masters Season 3, that includes Groce, Raut, and Rutter going face to face, then Amodio, Craig, and Zaheer.
Jeopardy! Masters, Season 3 premiere, April 30, 8/7c, ABC