Mattea Roach at all times knew her record-breaking reign on the Jeopardy! podium would come to an finish.
The all-time Canadian champion mentioned her success on the present was as a lot about luck because it was trivia prowess.
“I simply type of felt like, why would I probably be upset about this?” she mentioned in a telephone interview earlier than the episode that ended her run aired on Friday.
“Clearly I might have most popular to have gained. However I used to be at all times going to lose ultimately, and most of the people lose their first recreation. I’m fortunate I received to win 23.”
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She’s additionally had months to course of the loss, on condition that the episode was filmed on Feb. 15.
“Any doable angle I may have dissected my final recreation from, I really feel like I did within the week after I taped it.”
Roach got here to the conclusion that issues may have ended in another way had she tweaked her technique, however she’s opting to not dwell on it. She was fortunate “so many extra occasions” than she was unfortunate, she mentioned.
And after weeks of media consideration on either side of the border, she’s able to take a breath — one thing that’s gotten simpler, given her US$560,983 in winnings. It’s the fifth largest haul of any contestant in Jeopardy!’s common season.
The regulation college tutor will flip regulation college scholar within the fall. She received her first acceptance whereas taping the present and continues to be deciding the place to enroll, however till then, she plans to take it straightforward.
“Perhaps I simply gained’t actually work greater than half time between from time to time,” Roach mentioned. “And I’ll simply take pleasure in a final summer time of freedom.”
“There’s a lot stuff that I’ve not performed in my life but, as a result of I’m comparatively younger,” she mentioned. “I haven’t traveled in a very long time. I’ve cash now, I suppose. I can go locations if I need to.”
She’s additionally wanting ahead to interested by issues apart from TV and trivia.
“Earlier than Jeopardy! I used to be in a spot in my life the place there wasn’t actually ahead movement,” she mentioned. “And now I really feel like, for causes each associated to and unrelated to Jeopardy!, that’s not true anymore.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Might 7, 2022.
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