Jeopardy! Masters 2025: Meet all the contestants from season 3

Jeopardy! Master's season 3 is soon to make a debut. Nine of the most successful players from past tournaments or who have set records will compete in a primetime, points-based knockout format for a grand prize of half a million dollars. Ken Jennings will host the event, which will run on ABC on April 30, 2025, and be accessible on Hulu the next day. Rivals will be both experienced professionals from previous Masters events and rising young players from the 2025 Invitational and the event of Champions.

All the contestants from season 3 of Jeopardy! Masters 2025

In a point-driven, high-stakes contest, elite Jeopardy! Masters winners meet again in the primetime spin-off series. Ending with a multi-game final to name the winner with weekly head-to-head matches with points rolling over, Season 3 follows the same elimination style as Season 2; the big prize of half a million dollars goes to the victor. Ken Jennings, the show's main host since 2022, returns to the Alex Trebek stage to guide the contenders.

Every episode has two "knockout" games with three participants. Winners get three points, runners-up one, and third-place finishers get none. The top three from each group go to a two-game total-score final, and the top six proceed to the semifinals after all nine players have completed elimination rounds. You may see this season on ABC from April 30th to June 4th, 2025; the following day, you can catch the episodes on Hulu.

Contestants:

The new season presents Victoria Groce, having beaten Yogesh Raut and James Holzhauer in a two-game final in Season 2, she is a winner of the Trebek Trophy and the $500,000 award. Groce is a quizzer and Pittsburgh-based author. Winning her first game in 2005, she went on to win the 2024 Jeopardy! invitational Tournament, so qualifying her for Masters Season 2; her overall Jeopardy! total win is $623,801.

Yogesh Raut of Springfield, Illinois, a freelance writer, podcast host, and blogger, won the 2024 Tournament of Champions. Raut came in second on Jeopardy! Master's Season 2. With 45,910, his overall Jeopardy! the score was $598,403 for coming in second in the season two finals.

Neilesh Vinjamuri qualified by way of his victory in the 2025 Tournament of Champions. Being one of the top-tier challengers to enter Masters Season 3, he plans to surprise the experienced players. His three regular-season wins total $306,099 in earnings.

With 38, Matt Amodio, who took home the 2025 Jeopardy! The Invitational Tournament is third all-time for most consecutive wins. He has a total of 1,879,601 in awards. A New York-based quantitative researcher renowned for his lightning-fast reflexes and great recall, he qualified for the Masters and won the event in February.

Virginia citizen and applied scientist Roger Craig won the 2011 Tournament of Champions and established a record for one-day winnings of $77,000. His total Jeopardy! earnings are $606,200; he co-ran in the 2025 Invitational Tournament.

Juveria Zaheer of Whitby, Ontario, was the first competitor to win the Second Chance and Champions Wildcard to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. She came in second in 2025. Bringing $191,000 in Jeopardy! awards to the stage, she is only the second Canadian to ever compete in the Masters.

In her 15 appearances as a regular player, Adriana Hämmerer earned $426,600 and came in second in the 2025 Tournament of Champions.

Isaac Hirsch has won nine regular-play games and placed second in the 2025 Tournament of Champions with $293,390 in Jeopardy! prizes.

Brad Rutter, who finished the 2000 regular season with five wins unblemished, went on to win five significant Jeopardy! tournaments, including the Ultimate Tournament of Champions and the Million-Dollar Masters. With over $5 million in winnings, he is the all-time highest-earning player of the program.

Season 3 of Jeopardy! Masters gathers together champions from many Jeopardy! events joining the present Masters champions with new winners from the 2025 Invitational and Tournament of Champions. As these nine elite quizzers fight for points and the half-million-dollar award, viewers can expect fierce competition and the kind of great trivia moments that have come to define the Masters.

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