 College Championship while at Princeton, but was not selected as a contestant at that time.Boettcher was granted a wild-card invitation to the 2019 Tournament of Champions, largely to set up a potential rematch with Holzhauer (which is indeed what eventually occurred) and in part because one of the automatic qualifiers, 2018 Teachers Tournament winner Larry Martin, died before reaching the tournament.The contestants who had won more games and money than Boettcher were placed into the pool for the 2020 Tournament of Champions.