Purdue's Adriana Harmeyer wins the first 'Jeopardy!' 32nd Tournament of Champions final thanks to final Jeopardy question.

Let the 2025 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions begin! The most impressive Jeopardy! contestants of the past year will face-off in the prestigious event beginning on Monday, January 27.

Harmeyer's Friday night win brings her one step closer to the $250,000 grand prize, which is awarded to the finalist who first receives three game wins.

The winner and runner-up of the 2025 Champions Wildcard competition, Mehal Shah and Drew Goins, will also compete in the Tournament of Champions. Here is everything you need to know about the 2025 “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions, from the schedule to the prize pot:

Heading into Final Jeopardy, Adriana had 22,000 against Ryan’s 12,000, which meant this game wasn’t a runaway, but certainly close heading into the final round. The category was “Countries of the World,” with the clue reading, “About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that country’s 14 neighbors.”

Wayne County native and Spring Valley High School graduate, Adriana Harmeyer, is back on Jeopardy! for the Tournament of Champions this week.