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Jeopardy! Needs to Cool It With the Tournaments


It’s exhausting.

Season 40 of the buzzy game show — mercifully now free of Mayim Bialik as co-host — has shifted its focus away from introducing new players at the lecterns to a rotation of increasingly ESPN-esque tournaments to lure back popular contestants and boost ratings: Second Chance, Champions Wildcard, the annual Tournament of Champions, and, in the coming days, Jeopardy! The upcomingInvitational also reads like a dream journal of Jeoplebrities: Amy Schneider, Austin Rogers, Alex Jacob, Larissa Kelly, and original disruptor Chuck Forrest are among those competing for the grand prize. Lucas Partridge, a school counselor from Las Vegas who won three games before the tournament blitz began and has been hanging in a very blue purgatory since summer.

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