Tournament of Champions

I love Jeopardy.

Tournament of Champions.

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some really obscure Big Bob effect appear.

What's Left is the beginning of telling the stories or the marginalized stories that exist in restaurants all the time.

You and I have spent a season together on Tournament of Champions, and we have seen behind the curtain more than enough times.

You with MasterChef, me with Chopped and Top Chef, and it's endless.

I, and I think that when you begin to do enough of these shows, you can really see the machine work.

Well, we got our postseason coming up in a few months.

So leading up to the Tournament of Champions, we have five super champs back from last year.

And I think a lot of viewers will remember Jamie Ding, who won 31 games.

His long-awaited return to the Alex Trebek stage coming up in a few months.

So that should be a very exciting Tournament of Champions.

And Jennings knows a thing or two about long winning streaks.

Before becoming host, he won a record 74 consecutive games.

Congratulations.

I assume you continue to bask in the glow of your Tournament of Champions trivia title from our 10th anniversary.

How you doing?

I am doing very well.

Are you, are you generally...

You obviously boldly took the title.

You did not get a question wrong in our trivia Tournament of Champions.

Mm-hmm.

Good morning.

What's more exciting for you, the chance to win $100, the bragging rights, the invitation back to the Ali Knows the News Tournament of Champions?

The money.

The money.

Thanks for the honesty.

Greatly appreciate that.

And we've never done the Tournament of Champions.

We talk about it.

I think... it's it's cyclical but like what you've seen on a linear tv side has actually created and opened up opportunities because you you'll see this on on line like people will long for being like oh i wish i could have been a studio audience participant for emerald in the 90s and like What's the energy to that? And right now, that exists more with creators than it does on linear TV.

And it's not to say that I don't enjoy a Top Chef or a Tournament of Champions or even a Triple Ds.

It's that when I really want to learn a skill or get better at something or where I'm going to feel the deepest relationship is in that kind of edutainment kind of format where I'm getting something from this creator or I'm in this world or I'm like it's opening up a palette to me that I would not normally know how to do or how to experience.

Definitely.

nerve-wracking.

This was probably one of the hardest challenges, you know, besides, like, Tournament of Champions that I've had to do because...

This is such an incredible concept that Bobby came up with where we are his home team, myself, Claudette Zepeda, and Michael Jenkins.

And every week we take on a visiting team.