VOTE FOR ERIN NOW!!!

  1. Vote for Erin at www.jeopardy.com/minisites/battleofthedecades00s
  2. Vote for Erin on Jeopardy's Facebook page
  3. Tweet "Erin #JeopardyVote"
Remember, you can vote three times each day --
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URI GRAD STUDENT AND DANVERS NATIVE LAUNCHES
SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO RETURN TO
JEOPARDY


Danvers, MA - It was the lifelong dream of Danvers, Mass. native Erin McLean to appear on the long-running television game show Jeopardy. And when her dream became reality as an undergraduate student at Boston University, McLean brought home the top prize in the show's 2010 Jeopardy College Championship: $100,000.00.

McLean has since returned to the show to appear in the 2012 Tournament of Champions, where she was a semi-finalist against other contests much older and more experienced than she. But she now has an opportunity to compete on Jeopardy for a third time, this time for a grand prize of $1 million in the Battle of the Decades Tournament in celebration of host Alex Trebek's 30-year anniversary with the show.

Vote for Erin McLean for Jeopardy!"I want the opportunity to compete in this Decades Tournament because I have something to prove," says a determined McLean, 21, who is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Rhode Island College of the Environment and Life Sciences in Kingston. "The college champs may get an automatic bid into the Tournament of Champions, but fans and contestants normally count them out. They're too young. They haven't learned enough. They don't have as much life experience. Their questions were too easy. I'm here to defy all those objections."

To appear in the Battle of the Decades Tournament, McLean has to enlist the support of her fans. Fifteen people from each of the past three decades will face off for $1 million. Fourteen of the contestants from each decade have already secured their berth in the tournament, chosen by the show's producers who also selected five people from each decade to vie for the final entry slot through a unique social media contest. McLean is one of those wildcard candidates selected from the 2000s.

"I loved everything about my Jeopardy experiences: the competition, the people, and the knowledge," explains McLean, who was the first Boston University student to ever win the show's College Championship. "Winning the College Championship was great, but I wanted more. Being on the Tournament of Champions quenched that thirst, but only for a little while."
Fans can lend their support to McLean's bid by casting their vote on the web at www.jeopardy.com/minisites/battleofthedecades00s, on Jeopardy's Facebook page, or by tweeting "Erin #JeopardyVote." Votes may be cast once per day on each of the three sites for each day, commencing at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 and concluding at 9:59 a.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 21.
"I accepted that I'd probably go through the rest of my life wanting to go back," McLean admits, "but this Decades Tournament gives me the opportunity to do it all again and to do it right. I may be an underdog because I'm just a college champ, but I can win this."

VOTE FOR ERIN NOW!!!

  1. Vote for Erin at www.jeopardy.com/minisites/battleofthedecades00s
  2. Vote for Erin on Jeopardy's Facebook page
  3. Tweet "Erin #JeopardyVote"
Remember, you can vote three times each day --
once via each outlet!

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