Current Events > I researched all 5+ Jeopardy champions since "sky's the limit" rule

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In 2003, Jeopardy changed their rule limiting champions to 5 successive wins, so that they could keep coming back as long as they kept winning. That made me wonder: how many 5+ champs have we seen since then? I perused the J! Archive website and came up with the following numbers:

5-Time: 51
6-Time: 23
7-Time: 12
8-Time: 7
9-Time: 3
11-Time: 2
12-Time: 2
13-Time: 1
19-Time: 2
20-Time: 1
32-Time: 1
38-Time: 1
40-Time: 1
74-Time: 1

TOTAL: 108

As you can see, an interesting pattern arose in which each bracket had roughly half the number of champions as the previous bracket. Once people get in the range of 20-ish games, however, all bets are off.

Jeopardy is rigged.

jeffhardyb0yz posted...

Who is the only beast to conquer 19 and beyond? Is it ken Jennings? holy shit how is the gap that far?

No that "1" is each person at that level.

James won 32
Matt won 38
Amy is currently at 40, will be at 41 if she wins today