This was in the local paper Friday so I guess they are taping the teen tourney this week. A nice plug for the archive in the article as well.A 16-year-old junior at Spain Park High School in Hoover has been selected to participate in the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament next week in Culver City, Calif.
Jeopardy! officials announced today that Kevin Yang is one of 15 teens chosen from among 20,000 contestants to participate in the tournament at Sony Pictures Studios.
Yang's family plans to leave for California on Sunday. The tournament is scheduled to air on TV April 30-May 11.
Glad to have a local rooting interest in the tournament this year. I live maybe 20 miles or so from where he does.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/02/spa ... for_j.html
1987 Seniors Tournament (Season 3)-Held in May
$6,000 (Lee Saunders)
$5,800 (Jane Weaver)
Only the final game is archived. Wild card information came from KellyJ!'s post.
1988 Seniors Tournament (Season 4)
I do not have enough information about this tournament. None of the games are archived.
1989 Seniors Tournament (Season 5)
I do not have enough information about this tournament. None of the games are archived.
1990 Seniors Tournament (Season 6):
$2,700 (Arnold Yellin)
$2,600 (Cole Andersen)
None of these games are archived, information from KellyJ!
1991 Seniors tournament (Season 7)-Held in July
A fifth wildcard spot was added in this tournament due to the triple-zero finish in QF2. Malcolm Post got the fourth wildcard with $6,000, and Kay Paul picked up the extra spot with $3,000. All of the quarterfinalists in this tournament who did not go on to the semifinals finished with $0; Florence Cannizzo and Pat Van Melle were tied for the highest pre-FJ! score with $5,900 each (and both were contestants in the triple-zero game).
Only final game is archived.
1992 Seniors Tournament (Season 8):
$2,000 (Lois Rosenfeld)
$1,599 (Mag Birge)
None of the games are archived.
1993 Seniors Tournament (Season 9)-Held in July:
$10,010 (Hugh Murphy)
$10,000 (Helen Druva)
Only the last QF game is archived
1994 Seniors Tournament (Season 10):
$400 (Frances Taliaferro)
$300 (Dodge Crockett)
None of the games are archived.
1995A Seniors Tournament (Season 11)-Held in July:
$7,000 (Steve Paquette)
$5,200 (Fran Rothman)
None of the games are archived.
1995B Seniors Tournament (Season 12)-Held in December:
$8,400 (Darryl Adams)
$8,100 (Diane Lilly)
None of the games are archived.
Averages (8 Tournaments):
Average lowest score to get a wild card: $5,314
For averaging purposes, I counted the tournament with the extra wild card as only having four wild cards, with the fourth place person being the lowest qualifier and the fifth place person being the first person out. This differs from KellyJ!'s method.
Average highest score not to get a wild card: $4,575