‘Jeopardy’ Champion Mattea Roach’s 23-Game Win Streak Comes to End
Written by SOURCE on May 7, 2022
Mattea Roach’s Jeopardy win streak has come to an end, bringing her to fifth place in the game show’s all-time earnings and winning streaks.
Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, tapped out at 23 wins when she fell a dollar short to Georgia’s Danielle Maurer on Friday night, after coming in second place at $15,559, behind Maurer’s $15,600.
The final Jeopardy question was “These two mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler,” with answers “William Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson.” Roach, sadly, fell short.
“It feels still kind of like a dream,” Roach shared in a statement. “I really came down here hoping to maybe win one game, and so I still can’t believe it. You know, it’s strange, obviously I didn’t come through in the last one, but I still feel so happy and so lucky to have had this experience.”
The winner has now earned an impressive $560,983 off the show, falling only behind Ken Jennings, James Holzhauzer, Matt Amodio, and Amy Schneider in all-time earnings. Jennings clocked in 73 game wins in a row and took in $2,520,700 in total during his time as a regular-season player. As for Roach, she’ll soon go up against Schneider and Amodio in the Tournament of Champions this fall.
“When I think of the caliber of those four players, I really don’t feel like I deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as them to be honest,” Roach said. “And there’s a noticeable financial gap between my money and theirs, but it’s an amazing accomplishment. Like, I can’t believe it. It’s such a huge honor that I am being spoken of in relation to people like Ken, James, Matt, and Amy. It’s, wow. There’s no words.”
