Jeopardy! followers had been shocked to see Amy Schneider eradicated within the quarterfinals of this yr’s Jeopardy! Invitational Match, however is she prepared to hold up the towel after the shocking loss?
The previous champion, who famously received 40 consecutive video games in 2021 and 2022, tells TV Insider she “definitely” sees herself returning to the present sooner or later. “It’s type of a vicious cycle the place it’s both like, I win and need to return and win once more, or I don’t and need to return and do higher subsequent time,” she explains. “Maybe I’ll retire in some unspecified time in the future, however I don’t suppose that point is but, so long as they hold calling me again.”
After a giant wager and incorrect guess within the closing Jeopardy! of the JIT quarterfinals, Schneider misplaced to Luigi de Guzman and Avi Gupta. She praised Guzman’s efficiency on X (previously Twitter) afterward, writing, “Nothing I can do however tip my cap to
@ouij on that one. I imply, come on, he efficiently buzzed in on 31/60 clues! Simply sheer dominance.”
Nonetheless, she says being sluggish on the buzzer wasn’t her solely downfall. Actually, Schneider, who launched her e book Who Is Amy Schneider? earlier this month, is ready to pinpoint the rationale she could have carried out higher in 2021 and 2022 (she additionally received the Match of Champions that yr) than she has extra not too long ago.
“It’s truly actually only a completely different setting within the studio than my run,” she explains. “After I was on, it was throughout Covid and there was quarantine and social distancing, and now it’s again to the way in which it has been for almost all of the historical past of the present, the place all of the contestants are hanging out collectively within the inexperienced room the entire time. I spotted this previous event that it type of modified my type of psychological preparation. I used to be used to being in a nook on my own on sport days as a result of all of us needed to be sitting in corners by ourselves. So, determining how you can type of change my psychological method in a distinct bodily setting is a part of it.”
When she’s not behind the rostrum herself, Schneider is admittedly maintaining with Jeopardy! “much less often” than up to now. “[Before I was on,] it was all the time partly learning to be on the present, and now that I’ve executed that, it doesn’t occupy fairly the identical place in my life that it did,” she shares. “I’ve nonetheless obtained my eye on it on a regular basis. I test in right here and there, whether or not there’s attention-grabbing storylines or issues occurring that I need to watch, or people who I do know [playing].”
She says she is aware of “a pair individuals” personally who might be on the present quickly and “can’t wait” to tune in for these episodes. Plus, she’s nonetheless very immersed within the Jeopardy! world, as she provides, “There’s some Jeopardy! group chats that I’m a part of and retaining in contact with the people who I met by way of it.”
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