will give losing contestants from the show’s 37th season a second chance instead of featuring new contestants. The winners will advance to a Season 37 and Season 38 champions wild card.
“I believe, principally, that it would not be fair to have new contestants making their first appearance on the Alex Trebek stage, doing it with non-original material or… a combination of non-original material and material that was written pre-strike,” Davies said. “So we decided that really, we needed to invite back and give a second chance in general to players who probably thought that their chance to come back and play on the Alex Trebek stage had gone forever.