Rounds: Here.
Ann returns for her second night, and we find out that she has been to Malta a couple of times, and loves it. She makes mention of the history, the churches, the old buildings... she adds that the people are so friendly and the food is lovely. She'd love to live there, in fact.
Challenging Ann tonight is Sebastian Ham, who is a draftsman for an interior design company and an avid skateboarder and snowboarder. He's been doing the latter for around 25 years, and the main attraction is the speed. Richard asks if Sebastian has had any crashes; Sebastian responds that there has been nothing major on the skateboard, but plenty on the snowboard as that involves going a lot higher and a lot further, with many more obstacles.
It's a pretty even performance from the two contestants on the letters rounds, but Sebastian had by far the better of the numbers. Ann might have tied the scores on the last numbers round but something goes awry somewhere, and Sebastian takes an unbeatable lead into the conundrum. With neither contestant making headway on it, Sebastian wins 39 to 25.
Once again I was in decent form with the letters -- just missing a very findable eight, and being slow on the conundrum again -- but let down by the numbers, where I missed two very findable solutions. Nonetheless, it was enough to cruise to a win by a margin of more than 50 points.
As usual, details after the jump.
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Thursday, 29 December 2011
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Ep 347: James Bell, Ann Vasconcelos (December 27, 2011)
Rounds: Here.
There are two new contestants tonight, after Sam's successful (and possibly high-scoring) retirement. Sitting in the champion's chair is James Bell, a computer forensic scientist and keen tramper. Richard asks for clarification about whether being a tramper is different from being a bushwalker. James explains that there is a difference, as bushwalking is done in Australia and tramping is done in New Zealand. Since he does most of his bushwalking in New Zealand, he has to do tramping.
James has done a couple of "reasonable size" walks -- nothing over a week. (His definition of 'reasonable' clearly differs from mine in this regard.) He says that the Abel Tasman track is up to five days, and he has done the Milford walk as well.
Taking the challenger's chair tonight is Ann Vasconcelos, a strawberry packer. Richard remarks -- and I admit I'd never considered this before -- that it is clearly a skilled job to get them looking so nice in the punnets. How long does it take to learn those skills? Ann has been doing it for about eleven years, at any rate. She says that it is just like doing a jigsaw puzzle: You have to get the right shapes and sizes and weights, and it takes her about thirty seconds to do a punnet.
It is fairly close early on, but Ann does win four of the five letters rounds and the numbers rounds don't give James enough of a chance to catch up. He was perhaps a bit unlucky in that regard, both in having less control over the numbers and that Ann's last word could well have been invalid (and wasn't nearly as solid as she appeared to think it was). That would have kept him within range going into the conundrum; Ann solved it first in any case, winning 48 to 26.
I was much more relaxed over this game, and it started off pretty well. Overall, in fact, there were just two single-letter drops as compared with David and Lily; the scoreline shows a larger difference because Ann did manage to do better on one of those rounds and the conundrum. Aside from once more being too slow to solve the conundrum, this was a good round, and I'm back in winning territory again.
As usual, details after the jump.
There are two new contestants tonight, after Sam's successful (and possibly high-scoring) retirement. Sitting in the champion's chair is James Bell, a computer forensic scientist and keen tramper. Richard asks for clarification about whether being a tramper is different from being a bushwalker. James explains that there is a difference, as bushwalking is done in Australia and tramping is done in New Zealand. Since he does most of his bushwalking in New Zealand, he has to do tramping.
James has done a couple of "reasonable size" walks -- nothing over a week. (His definition of 'reasonable' clearly differs from mine in this regard.) He says that the Abel Tasman track is up to five days, and he has done the Milford walk as well.
Taking the challenger's chair tonight is Ann Vasconcelos, a strawberry packer. Richard remarks -- and I admit I'd never considered this before -- that it is clearly a skilled job to get them looking so nice in the punnets. How long does it take to learn those skills? Ann has been doing it for about eleven years, at any rate. She says that it is just like doing a jigsaw puzzle: You have to get the right shapes and sizes and weights, and it takes her about thirty seconds to do a punnet.
It is fairly close early on, but Ann does win four of the five letters rounds and the numbers rounds don't give James enough of a chance to catch up. He was perhaps a bit unlucky in that regard, both in having less control over the numbers and that Ann's last word could well have been invalid (and wasn't nearly as solid as she appeared to think it was). That would have kept him within range going into the conundrum; Ann solved it first in any case, winning 48 to 26.
I was much more relaxed over this game, and it started off pretty well. Overall, in fact, there were just two single-letter drops as compared with David and Lily; the scoreline shows a larger difference because Ann did manage to do better on one of those rounds and the conundrum. Aside from once more being too slow to solve the conundrum, this was a good round, and I'm back in winning territory again.
As usual, details after the jump.
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