matches were played, the winners plus the highest-scoring nonwinner advanced to the quarterfinals, with $15,000 and another ESPN Experience going to the winner, and a chance to double it to $30,000 in the bonus round. The six winners of the quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals, with another ESPN 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 the contestant who had the highest score among nonwinners (i.e. a wild card). The winner received another ESPN Experience and $50,000, with a final shot to double their earnings to $100,000 in the bonus round, thus making total winnings a possible $200,000 in the event players get all their specialty category questions correct. Regardless of the outcome, the grand champion also received a trophy. In seasons two and three, the tournament was changed to a two-player game; the rules involving wild cards were eliminated as a result. A second round (awarding $10,000 to each winner, with a chance to double it to $20,000) was added between the $5,000 matches and the quarterfinals, with the ESPN Experiences only being awarded from this round onward; thus, the maximum cash total the Grand Champion could win was raised to $220,000. As long as a player kept winning matches, he/she could continue to play— meaning that, if a contestant was a good enough player, they could potentially win more than one tournament. In fact, Willy Gibson from Columbus, Ohio, did exactly that; he won the first and second 2 Minute Drill season championships, and was eliminated on a tiebreaker after winning two games during the third season. All in all, he won 9 ESPN Experiences and $220,000 in cash. Nearly all of Gibson's winnings were from match victories, as he tended to struggle with his Questions of Great Significance (Gibson chose individual subjects, Deion Sanders and Eddie George, instead of past teams, thus was given questions with more obscure information). Gibson's second tournament championship aired on September 11, 2001. The third season premiered on September 18, 2001, in its normal primetime slot, but was moved to late nights later on in the run. The final tournament was won by Syracuse University student and ESPN The Magazine writer Adesina Koiki. References External links 2 Minute Drill @ IMDb ESPN game shows ESPN Classic original programming 2000s American game shows 2000 American television series debuts