Jeopardy!: guaranteed minimums in two-day total-point affairs

From Seasons 3 to 38, in multiple-game tournament finals, the payouts to the finalists were "minimum guarantees"; if the player's two-day aggregate score exceeded a predetermined amount for their finishing position, they received that amount. I've compiled here all the instances where players surpassed those minimums, and aggregated data about them.

No guaranteed minimum was exceeded in any of the Teachers or Professors Tournaments.

As always, many thanks to J! Archive for compiling such an extensive record of the show's history.

Aggregate, current clue values (60 tournaments)

Season	1st	2nd	3rd
$1,000,000	0/1
$250,000	0/13
$100,000	0/28	0/12
$75,000	1/12
$50,000	1/6	1/30	0/12
$30,000		0/2
$25,000		9/13	2/30
$20,000		2/2	0/2
$15,000		1/1	11/15
$10,000			0/1

Aggregate, original clue values (57 tournaments)*

Season	1st	2nd	3rd
$100,000	0/15
$50,000	0/5
$25,000	15/36
$15,000		5/13
$10,000		33/41	3/13
$7,500			26/41
$5,000		1/3	1/3

* The 10th Anniversary Tournament had guaranteed minimums for second and third place; but not for the champion, who received his two-day total score plus $25,000.

Tournament of Champions

Season	Year	Player	Place	Total	Minimum
4	1987	Dave Traini	2nd	$16,000	$10,000
4	1987	Eugene Finerman	3rd	$11,600	$7,500
5	1988	Bruce Naegeli	2nd	$18,799	$10,000
5	1988	Sandra Gore	3rd	$13,000	$7,500
6	1989	Rich Lerner	2nd	$15,500	$10,000
8	1991	Steve Robin	2nd	$12,600	$10,000
8	1991	Lou Pryor	3rd	$9,700	$7,500
10	1993	Bev Schwartzberg	2nd	$19,100	$10,000
10	1993	Marilyn Kneeland	3rd	$11,500	$7,500
11	1994	Jeff Schwartz	2nd	$20,800	$10,000
12	1995	David Siegel	2nd	$24,600	$10,000
12	1995	Isaac Segal	3rd	$16,600	$7,500
13	1996	Bob Scarpone	2nd	$11,000	$10,000
13	1996	Michael Daunt	3rd	$8,200	$7,500
15	1999	J.J. Todor	2nd	$20,600	$15,000
19	2003	Brian Weikle	2nd	$56,601	$50,000

Teen Tournament

Season	Date	Player	Place	Total	Minimum
3	1987	Mitch Epner	2nd	$13,800	$5,000
4	1988	David Javerbaum	2nd	$21,400	$10,000
4	1988	David Graham	3rd	$14,300	$7,500
5	1989	Eric Newhouse	1st	$28,100	$25,000
		Stan Wu	2nd	$15,700	$10,000
		Elena Whitley	3rd	$13,400	$7,500
6	1990	Jamie Weiss	1st	$26,000	$25,000
		Andrew McGeorge	2nd	$15,400	$10,000
		Richard Morris	3rd	$11,799	$7,500
7	1991	Dana Bacon	2nd	$17,400	$10,000
7	1991	Julie Knauer	3rd	$13,992	$7,500
8	1992	Cori Van Noy	2nd	$10,600	$10,000
9	1993	Fraser Woodford	1st	$28,999	$25,000
		Jesse Roach	2nd	$12,600	$10,000
		Mit Robertson	3rd	$8,400	$7,500
10	1994	Matt Morris	1st	$29,601	$25,000
		Peter Steffen	2nd	$22,999	$10,000
		Paul Loeffler	3rd	$13,200	$7,500
11	1995	Matt Zielinski	1st	$42,300	$25,000
		Susannah Batko-Yovino	2nd	$26,200	$10,000
		Deborah Sager	3rd	$17,300	$7,500
12	1996	Amanda Goad	1st	$31,200	$25,000
		Derek Bridges	2nd	$31,200	$10,000
		Joe Gurski	3rd	$24,800	$7,500
13	Feb 1997	Justin Powell	2nd	$17,125	$10,000
14	Nov 1997	Sahir Islam	1st	$26,300	$25,000
		Enos Williams	2nd	$20,800	$10,000
		Kristen Stuckey	3rd	$14,400	$7,500
15	Mar 1999	Trish Ranney	2nd	$17,600	$15,000
16	Nov 1999	Kristi Jones	3rd	$10,700	$10,000
18	2002	George Nelson	2nd	$29,497	$20,000
18	2002	Seth Disner	3rd	$28,900	$15,000
19	2003	Tyler Allard	2nd	$28,400	$20,000
19	2003	Anthony Valente	3rd	$24,799	$15,000
21	2005	Wes Kovarik	2nd	$30,000	$25,000
21	2005	Anne Shivers	3rd	$18,000	$15,000
23	Feb 2007	Ben Schenkel	2nd	$42,800	$25,000
	Feb 2007	Stephen Fritz	3rd	$25,460	$15,000
	Jul 2007	Greg Peterson	2nd	$38,600	$25,000
	Jul 2007	Kyle Neblett	3rd	$36,400	$15,000
24	Feb 2008	Zia Choudhury	3rd	$18,000	$15,000
25	Nov 2008	Bradley Silverman	2nd	$44,600	$25,000
25	Nov 2008	Audrey Hosford	3rd	$26,400	$15,000
26	2009	Will Dantzler	2nd	$31,600	$25,000
27	2011	Kailyn LaPorte	2nd	$42,600	$25,000
27	2011	Raya Elias-Pushett	3rd	$20,851	$15,000
28	2012	Elyse Mancuso	1st	$79,600	$75,000
		Rose Schaefer	2nd	$36,000	$25,000
		Catherine Briley	3rd	$31,000	$15,000
29	2013	Barrett Block	2nd	$35,600	$25,000
29	2013	Nilai Sarda	3rd	$26,400	$15,000
30	2014	Alan Koolik	2nd	$54,200	$25,000
30	2014	Cooper Lair	3rd	$31,200	$15,000

College Championship

Season	Date	Player	Place	Total	Minimum
5	1989	Tom Cubbage	1st	$26,600	$25,000
5	1989	Alex Yang	2nd	$24,601	$10,000
7	1991	Scott Gillispie	1st	$27,400	$25,000
7	1991	Andre DuVoisin	2nd	$10,600	$10,000
8	1992	Billy Baxter	1st	$26,200	$25,000
		Stephanie Leveene	2nd	$16,800	$10,000
		Nick Jungman	3rd	$16,800	$7,500
9	1993	Phoebe Juel	1st	$28,000	$25,000
		Eric Biber	2nd	$19,100	$10,000
		John van DeWeert	3rd	$16,800	$7,500
10	1994	Dave Goldsmith	2nd	$19,160	$10,000
10	1994	Keri Ellis	3rd	$7,600	$7,500
11	1995	Rebekah Reeves	2nd	$13,800	$10,000
11	1995	Steve Smith	3rd	$13,400	$7,500
12	1996	Shane Whitlock	1st	$32,800	$25,000
		Vandana Madhavan	2nd	$21,000	$10,000
		Bryan Fagan	3rd	$13,199	$7,500
14	1998	Alex Weathers	2nd	$16,199	$15,000
15	1999	Josh Levy	3rd	$12,295	$10,000
16	Feb 2000	Adam Center	2nd	$17,299	$15,000
18	2001	Matt Schnippert	2nd	$19,801	$15,000
18	2001	Thomas Zamora	3rd	$14,100	$10,000
19	2002	Kyle Hale	1st	$51,300	$50,000
19	2002	Mark Kehres	2nd	$49,200	$15,000
25	2009	Laura Myers	3rd	$29,900	$25,000
26	Feb 2010	Surya Sabhapathy	3rd	$26,600	$25,000

Senior Tournament

Season	Date	Player	Place	Total	Minimum
3	1987	Lee Saunders	2nd	$7,800	$5,000
4	1988	Louise Rayburn Dice	2nd	$22,200	$10,000
4	1988	Joan Erickson	3rd	$10,000	$7,500
6	1990	Bernard Kiernan	2nd	$18,100	$10,000
6	1990	Hank D'Angelo	3rd	$10,000	$7,500
7	1991	Lou Pryor	1st	$26,601	$25,000
		Bob Olsen	2nd	$26,600	$10,000
		Mary Webster	3rd	$10,800	$7,500
8	1992	Hansford Epes	2nd	$11,100	$10,000
8	1992	Carolyn Meek	3rd	$9,500	$7,500
11	Jul 1995	Susan Schubert	3rd	$9,400	$7,500
12	Dec 1995	David Cuneo	1st	$28,000	$25,000
		Jerry Platzman	2nd	$14,000	$10,000
		Phyllis Clark	3rd	$10,300	$7,500

Others

Season	Date & Event	Player	Place	Total	Minimum
10	1993 10th Anniv.	Tom Nosek	2nd	$13,600	$10,000
13	1997 International	Michael Daunt	1st	$35,000	$25,000
13	1997 International	Per Gunnar Hillesoy	2nd	$22,000	$10,000

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