Jeopardy! Masters’ Amy Schneider reveals how she feels about James Holzhauer after getting knocked out of tournament

JEOPARDY! Masters’ Amy Schneider has revealed how she feels about her fellow contestant, James Holzhauer.

She was eliminated from the tournament on May 17, finishing in fifth place.

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James posted to Twitter after Amy was eliminated saying how much he enjoyed playing with her.

“No-kayfabe. When my wife asked @Jeopardamy to participate in our fundraiser last year, Amy jumped at the chance to pay her own way to Las Vegas and volunteer,” he wrote.

“It was my honor to share the Masters stage with an inspiration, a phenomenal Jeopardy player and an even better human.”

Amy quote-tweeted his tweet and gave her feelings on James.

“James may play a villain on tv, but in real life he’s a great guy, as enjoyable to be around as he is frustrating to play against,” she tweeted.

“And I mean that; if I didn’t actually like him, I just wouldn’t say anything about him at all.”

Fan praised Amy and the other contestants for their sportsmanship and chemistry.

JAMES’ TAKE

Last week, James revealed more feelings on Amy and their competitor, Sam Buttrey.

Sam, 68, and Mattea, 24, were eliminated during the quarterfinal matches of the Masters tournament.

The self-proclaimed “game show villain” went against his staged nature and shared his personal experiences with the contestants online.

James, 38, kickstarted the series of tweets: “When my wife asked @Jeopardamy to participate in our fundraiser last year, Amy jumped at the chance to pay her own way to Las Vegas and volunteer. 

“It was my honor to share the Masters’ stage with an inspiration, a phenomenal Jeopardy player, and an even better human.”

The Jeopardy! Masters star continued: “I had only briefly met @sam_buttrey prior to these tapings, but his charm and wit were immediately evident. 

“When he wasn’t busy winning America’s hearts, he was the only Masters’ contestant to outperform me on the signaling device head-to-head (check the box scores!)”

He also promoted and shared the links to Amy’s book, In the Form of a Question, and Sam’s how-to guide called A Data Scientist’s Guide to Acquiring, Cleaning, and Managing Data in R.

Amy reshared his tweet and wrote: “James may play a villain on TV, but in real life, he’s a great guy, as enjoyable to be around as he is frustrating to play against. 

“And I mean that; if I didn’t actually like him, I just wouldn’t say anything about him at all.”

‘NOTHING AT STAKE’

After losing Jeopardy! Masters, Amy took to Twitter to share her displeasure.

The 40-time winner and 2022 Tournament of Champions victor went into her last quarterfinals match of the special “knowing she couldn’t advance.”

Jeopardy! Masters – which has invited back six-fan favorite contestants for a three-week throwdown to be remembered – finished out its second week on Wednesday.

Hosted by Ken Jennings, 48, the titans-only tournament sees the six elite players duking it out for an eventual $500,000 grand prize.

Each night, permutations of the popular players face off in two sets in one-hour-long episodes on ABC and Hulu at 8pm ET.

The Semifinals – which start this Monday – were decided based on the checkmark system, and the two lowest-ranking players were eliminated.

In the last quarterfinal matches, Matt Amodio won against Sam and Mattea Roach. Sam was ranked lowest and he and Matt sweetly shared a hug.

In the second match, self-described game show villain James Holzhauer trounced Amy and Andrew He.

However, Amy, who was ranked fifth going in, had no chance of advancing when she took the stage with the second group.

‘NOTHING WAS AT STAKE’

Amy tweeted after the match: “To the best of my knowledge, only two games of Jeopardy! have ever aired in which nothing was at stake, and I played in both of them. So that’s something.”

The star was seemingly referring to her 2022 Tournament of Champions “just for fun” exhibition game on Election Day– and her last Masters match.

The special is based on a checkmark system where a match’s winner gets 3 points and second place gets 1.

Since Matt- who was also on the elimination cusp with Amy- won, Amy was left four “match points” away from escaping the bottom two.

This meant even if she won the second match of the night and got three points, she wasn’t going to advance- and had to compete knowing as much.

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