Canadian Risk! star Mattea Roach will return to television screens this fall for the League of Champions.
The Nova Scotia-born girl won 23 straight games during the spring broadcast season, which ended with a total of $560,983 – or just over $720,000 in Canadian currency. .
Roach also has both the fifth-longest streak in the show’s history and the fifth-highest wins in regular games of the season. When she lost the 24th game, on May 6, she lost only $1.
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She’ll be back on the popular quiz show soon with seed champions like Matt Amodio and Amy Schneider.
18 other champions will face off in quarterfinals start on October 31while the three seeded champions skip straight to Risk! semi-finals next week.
Roach is the only Canadian named in this Tournament of Champions season.
Image released by Sony Pictures Television shows Mattea Roach, a 23-year-old Canadian contestant on the game show “Jeopardy!” PRESS CANADIAN / AP-HO, Sony Pictures Television, Tyler Golden.
She’s from Halifax, but worked as an LSAT tutor in Toronto before winning. She told the Canadian Press in June that she was planning to attend law school this year, and received her first acceptance while filming for the show. At the time, Roach was still deciding where to enroll, but she said she would work a little less and enjoy her summer.
According to her Twitter, she also started hosting a podcast about Canadian politics.
– With files from Alex Cooke and The Canadian Press.
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