Jeopardy!Champion Matearoch looks back on winning streak

Matearoch always knew her record-breaking reign Jeopardy! The podium is over.

Successive Canadian champions have said her success at the show depends as much luck as her trivia skills.

“I felt a bit, why am I angry with this?” She said in a telephone interview before the episode that ended her run aired on Friday.

“Obviously, I should have won. But I always intended to lose in the end, and most people lose their first game. 23 I’m lucky to win.”

Given that the episode was filmed on February 15, she had months to handle the loss.

“I feel like I’ve analyzed the previous game from every possible angle, a week after I applied the tape.”

Roach has come to the conclusion that the situation could end in another way if the strategy is fine-tuned, but she chooses not to stick to it. She said she was lucky “many times” rather than bad luck.

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And after a few weeks of media attention on both sides of the border, she’s ready to take a breather. This is even easier given the prize pool of $ 560,983.This is the fifth largest haul of athletes Jeopardy! Regular season.

A law school tutor will become a law school student in the fall. She got her first acceptance while recording the show and still decides where to register, but until then she plans to ease it.

“Maybe I won’t work more than part-time between now and then,” Roach said. “And I just enjoy last year’s Freedom Summer.”

“I’m relatively young, so I have a lot of things I haven’t done in my life yet,” she said. “I haven’t traveled for a long time. I think I have money now. If you want to go, you can go to the place.”

She is also looking forward to thinking about things other than television and trivia.

“Before Jeopardy! I was in a place in my life where there wasn’t really any positive movement, “she said. “And now I have, for both related and unrelated reasons, Jeopardy!, That is no longer true. “

This report by Canadian Press was first published on May 7, 2022.