2 Minute Drill - Tournament

Tournament

Each player in 2 Minute Drill was part of a tournament. After all the first round were played, the winners plus the highest scoring non-winner advanced to the quarterfinals, with $15,000 and another ESPN Experience going to the winner, with a chance to double it to $30,000 in the bonus round. The six winners of the quarterfinal advanced to the semifinals, with another Experience and $30,000 with a chance to double it to $60,000 given to the winners. The finals involved the two semifinal winners and one wild card entrant. The winner received another ESPN Experience and $50,000, with a final shot to double their earnings to $100,000 in the bonus round. Regardless of the outcome, the Grand Champion also receives a trophy.

When the rules were changed to just a two-player game, the wild-card rules were eliminated.

A player played until they were defeated, which meant that a player could conceivably win more than one tournament. That's exactly what happened, as Willy Gibson of Columbus, Ohio won the first two 2 Minute Drill tournaments. He nearly got into the finals of the third, but was eliminated on a tiebreaker by the eventual runner-up of the tournament. All in all, he won 9 ESPN Experiences and $220,000 in cash; nearly all of which was main game winnings, as he always struggled with his Questions of Great Significance about Eddie George or Deion Sanders. Gibson's second tournament championship aired on September 11, 2001. The third and final season premiered on September 17, 2001, however the show was banished to late night in the middle of its run; it was won by Syracuse University student and current ESPN The Magazine writer Adesina Koiki.