The winner of the tournament will take home $250,000, the runner-up will win $100,000 and the third-place finisher $50,000.

Holzhauer’s strategy became a subject of widespread fascination over his streak, which stretched over two months during the spring. Each game, he went for the high-value clues first, hunted for the Daily Doubles, and when he found them, bet everything he had. During his streak he won an average of $77,000 per game, more than double Jennings’s rate. He credited his ability to stomach large wagers to his career as a sports bettor in Las Vegas.

But then Boettcher, 27, picked up the buzzer and knocked Holzhauer off his throne, beating him by about $22,000. Boettcher was a fastidious “Jeopardy!” student, playing the game from home with a makeshift buzzer and calculating her rate of accuracy in a notebook.

After beating Holzhauer, Boettcher won the next two games and lost on the third, leaving with $97,002 plus a $1,000 consolation prize for the loss. “Jeopardy!” fans debated online over whether Boettcher should have qualified for the Tournament of Champions: some said that her winnings weren’t enough for her to qualify, while others felt that beating Holzhauer was evidence that she deserved to be there.

Holzhauer’s statistics far exceed those of the other 14 contestants on the Tournament of Champions roster. The contestant with the second-highest winnings made $163,721 over seven games.