The 2024 Tournament of Champions
Jeopardy.com reported on 11 March 2024 that Ben Chan, Yogesh Raut and Troy Meyer had advanced to the final of that year's Tournament of Champions. On 19 March the show reported that Raut had won it.
The tournament is the programme's annual reckoning. It assembles the strongest champions of the preceding season and removes the structural advantage that produces streaks in the first place: every opponent is a champion, everyone knows the buzzer, and the field has all beaten the same game.
Masters, and then Masters again
Masters sits above the Tournament of Champions. It is a small invitational field of the show's elite players, and its top prize is $500,000. The research record behind this page has Raut as runner-up in the 2024 edition and winner in 2025.
The show's own account goes further. On 14 September 2026, Jeopardy.com published a special edition of Inside Jeopardy!, hosted by Sarah Whitcomb Foss, interviewing Raut shortly after a Masters season four win, and described him there as a two-time Masters champion. That confirms a second title; the year of the first comes from the research record rather than from the interview page.
What winning both means
Very few players hold the Tournament of Champions and Masters at once. The two events test different things: the tournament rewards surviving a bracket against a season's best, while Masters is a round-robin among a handful of the show's strongest players, where a single weak session is difficult to recover from.
A player who wins the tournament earns the Masters invitation; a player who wins Masters twice has held his place against that field across two separate years. Raut's record covers both, which puts him among the small group the programme treats as its elite rather than as its champions.
What the sources do not carry
The Inside Jeopardy! page used for this profile is built around video rather than text. It confirms the titles and the interview, and it does not carry his occupation, his home city, his quiz background outside the programme, prize figures or any direct quotation.
That absence is worth stating, because a great deal circulates about Raut online, particularly about his views on the show and on quizzing generally. None of it is corroborated by the two dispatches used here, and none of it appears above.
What is documented and what is not
Documented by Jeopardy.com: that he advanced to the 2024 Tournament of Champions final with Ben Chan and Troy Meyer on 11 March 2024, that he won the tournament on 19 March 2024, and that by September 2026 the show described him as a two-time Masters champion, interviewed after a season four Masters win.
Not documented in these sources: his age or date of birth, his occupation, his home city, his education, his winnings, the years of his Masters titles, and his results outside the programme. The 2025 Masters title and $500,000 top prize, and the 2024 Masters runner-up finish, come from the research record. No IQ figure appears in this file.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Won the 2024 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, reported 19 March 2024
- Reached that final alongside Ben Chan and Troy Meyer, reported 11 March 2024
- Described by Jeopardy.com as a two-time Masters champion on 14 September 2026, after a season four Masters win
- Interviewed on Inside Jeopardy! by Sarah Whitcomb Foss
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- The years of his Masters titles and the $500,000 top prize come from the research record, not the cited pages
- The Inside Jeopardy! page is a video article and carries no occupation, home city or quotation
- No age, date of birth, education or winnings total appears in these sources
Questions people ask about Yogesh Raut
What is Yogesh Raut known for?
Winning the 2024 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, and for being described by the show in September 2026 as a two-time Jeopardy! Masters champion.
How many Masters titles has Yogesh Raut won?
Two, according to Jeopardy.com in September 2026. The research record gives 2025 as one of them and a runner-up finish in 2024.
Who did he beat in the Tournament of Champions?
He reached the 2024 final alongside Ben Chan and Troy Meyer, and won the tournament on 19 March 2024.
How much is the Masters top prize?
$500,000, according to the research record behind this page.
How old is Yogesh Raut?
No age or date of birth appears in any source used for this page.
What does Yogesh Raut do for a living?
Neither source used for this page states his occupation, and this page does not guess.
What is the difference between the Tournament of Champions and Masters?
The Tournament of Champions is the annual bracket for a season's strongest regular champions. Masters is a smaller invitational of the show's elite players, with a $500,000 top prize.
Is Yogesh Raut on Wikipedia?
He appears in the encyclopedic record of Jeopardy! tournaments. No standalone English Wikipedia article for him is recorded here.
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Sources
- Yogesh Raut Wins the 2024 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions — Jeopardy.com (J!Buzz), 2024-03-19
- Who is Jeopardy! Masters Champion Yogesh Raut? | Inside Jeopardy! — Jeopardy.com (J!Buzz), 2026-09-14
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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