Amy Schneider Had A Feeling 'I Won't Be Coming Back' Before 'Crushing' 'Jeopardy!' Match

Former "Jeopardy!" champion Amy Schneider is finally opening up about her "crushing" defeat.

She posted a long post to Twitter where she described how the mental fatigue was finally starting to set in after winning 40 games in a row!

Amy began by telling her followers that she "had a feeling all day that it was my last day. I can't explain it, and it wasn't really justified by my recent results, but I could just feel that something was missing."

"When they'd said that morning that there would be a two-week break from taping, I'd been excited, but some part of my brain was like 'I won't be coming back,'" she continued.

"There were a few reasons for that," Amy explained. "The biggest was simply mental fatigue; flying from Oakland to LA, long, mentally draining taping days, all while trying to keep the rest of my life running, really added up. The game itself was always fun, but everything else was wearing thin."

"And after Matt's streak, Ken's was still so far away that I couldn't imagine it," she added. "If I'd beaten Rhone, won two more games that day, come back and won ten more, come back again and won ten more, and come back yet *again* and won ten more, I'd still be short of his record!"

Host Ken Jennings set a record of 74 games in a row back in 2004! Amy had beaten Matt Amodio's second-now-third place record of 38 games last week.

"I tried to motivate myself about passing Matt Amodio in total winnings, but the money milestones (except to some extent the million-dollar mark) just couldn't motivate me the same way, because I couldn't predict exactly when I'd reach them," she wrote.

"And finally, I could feel myself getting complacent," Amy went on. "I'd tried really hard to avoid that during my run, but after you win 30+ games in a row, it gets really hard to convince your brain that you might not win the next one."

"So, I'd lost my edge," she admitted. "It was minor, just a slight shift in mindset, but it just takes one slipup to end a streak. As I was about to see!"

The game was not a runaway for Amy. "I couldn't even remember the last time that happened, and I was unprepared for the pressure of the moment," she continued. "The category was revealed, and I couldn't have picked a better one for myself, but my brain refused to be comforted."

"And ultimately, that's what it came down to. The clue came up and I thought 'I'll definitely get this,' but when it didn't come to me in the first few seconds, I started panicking in a totally unproductive way."

"I was trying to mentally hop around the globe, but a part of my brain was screaming 'NOOOOO' which made it hard," she added. "The most frustrating thing is that I was *right there,* my brain went 'India? Pakistan? Nepal?' and then just jumped to another part of the world."

"So, since there's nothing even to guess there, given that there's only one country ending in 'H', I was left with a blank screen," she wrote. "My only hope was that Rhone had missed, but Ken said 'Bangladesh,' and I knew it was over."

"Ngl, it was crushing," Amy continued. "I know I'd been thinking my streak would end, but that doesn't mean I wanted it to!"

"But I had to put my best face on, and make sure that I didn't pull any focus from Rhone, it was a great, well-deserved moment for him and he deserved to enjoy it to the full!" she continued.

"After that, we had our credits chat with Ken, and for the first time in months, when they said 'Ok, the champ can go change,' they weren't talking to me," she realized. "My streak was over. Oh well."

Amy continued, "Thanks to Rhone and Janice; I've already talked about Rhone, but I also had a good, healing talk with Janice that afternoon, just exactly what I needed. Some of my 82 competitors have faded a bit from my mind, sadly, but I'll remember that day with Rhone and Janet my whole life."

"And that's it for game threads until the ToC!" she concluded. "Thank you for reading my insanely detailed game recaps! They were more work than I anticipated, but they were a lot of fun, and while I know they weren't for everyone, the people that were into them were *really* into them, thanks!"

"There will still be plenty of content on here; in the short term I have more thoughts to share about the remainder of that taping day, and various scattered anecdotes that got overlooked in the relevant game threads," she continued. "What's after that isn't certain, but I'm not going anywhere!"

However,  she couldn't help but sign off by lamenting her very last miss. "...god D--- it I should have gotten Bangladesh though!"

Hopefully, Amy will brush up on her geography before the Tournament of Champions begins!