Rounds: Here.
Carey takes up the champion's position, and Richard asks him about his beer-brewing activities. Carey and a friend like to brew their own beer, as it turns out. They brew all sorts of beers, but they have a particular favourite which is a dark ale. They do the brewing at his friend's house, which is on Batman street in Fitzroy, and consequently they call their dark ale the Dark Knight.
Tonight's challenger is Mark Potter, who is a warehouse manager for a plumbing company. Mark is also fascinated with gardening, and in particular with the gardens of Edna Walling. As he points out, Edna is a very famous landscape gardener who has done a lot of work all around Australia and has an enclave in Mooroolbark in Victoria that is very well-known also. Richard asks what kind of things characterised her gardens; Mark responds that she used lots of English types of trees, and she worked out where to plant them by throwing a potato -- where it landed was where she would plant the tree. This becomes a running joke throughout the night.
At a later point in the show Richard raises the topic of Mark's house. Mark relates that the property had a feel... the garden and the house had a feel of what they'd been looking for for quite a number of years. Mark did quite a bit of investigation and eventually found the garden plans for his house in the Victorian State Library. They were in a section of the library devoted to Edna Walling -- he had managed to acquire one of her gardens! It was a great feeling, as you might imagine.
It was another close game with very little to separate the contestants. Mark gained a lead in the second letters round, only for Carey to level the scores again in the following numbers round. Thereafter they were matched until the final letters round, where a phantom letter saw Carey come undone. He had a chance to get back the lead in the numbers round but made a mistake there also, and Mark was in front going into the conundrum. It proved to be a very awkward mix and neither solved it; that gave Mark the win, 41 to 35... the same scoreline that Carey won with on the previous night.
I very nearly had another optimal game, but was about a second or two short of time in the first round, and arguably the same in the second. Thereafter it went smoothly up until the conundrum. I had an awful time of it but finally saw the answer with three seconds left on the clock. That's three solid nights for me this week, and I'm pretty happy about that.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Ep 427: Steve Hibbert, Carey McManus (April 17, 2012)
Rounds: Here.
Yesterday it was mentioned that Steve is into plane spotting. Richard asks him how he got into that; Steve responds that back in England he used to live near an airfield. So he and others went and spent their weekends at the airport and collect registrations on the planes. Steve is particularly fond of the Tiger Moth and would love to take a joy flight in one of those.
Taking up the challenge tonight is Carey McManus, a building design student. Richard asks why Carey thinks architecture is important; Carey replies that he thinks it affects us so much -- the way light comes into buildings, the way we use spaces... it's very important in our daily lives. He would like to start off with residential work because you get a bit more control over the project, but a lot of the most interesting stuff tends to be done in the public sphere. So he'd love to do things like Federation Square in Melbourne, for instance.
It's another close game, with the lead changing a few times. Honours are pretty evenly split in both facets, but Carey's risky play in the final letters round pays off; that gives him a lead that he carries into the conundrum, and with it proving too tough for both contestants he has the win, 41 to 35.
I started off well, but feeling the pressure to repeat last night's optimal result. Then I found a better answer shortly after time in round 4 and knew that it was no longer possible, which was both disappointing and a relief. The round after that was also challenging, but I was still scoring strongly until the conundrum. I was probably the most lost on this conundrum that I have ever been, eventually giving up after seven fruitless minutes of searching. It was findable, but my mind was not in the right place to see it. Still, a good game overall, and a good start to the week so far.
Yesterday it was mentioned that Steve is into plane spotting. Richard asks him how he got into that; Steve responds that back in England he used to live near an airfield. So he and others went and spent their weekends at the airport and collect registrations on the planes. Steve is particularly fond of the Tiger Moth and would love to take a joy flight in one of those.
Taking up the challenge tonight is Carey McManus, a building design student. Richard asks why Carey thinks architecture is important; Carey replies that he thinks it affects us so much -- the way light comes into buildings, the way we use spaces... it's very important in our daily lives. He would like to start off with residential work because you get a bit more control over the project, but a lot of the most interesting stuff tends to be done in the public sphere. So he'd love to do things like Federation Square in Melbourne, for instance.
It's another close game, with the lead changing a few times. Honours are pretty evenly split in both facets, but Carey's risky play in the final letters round pays off; that gives him a lead that he carries into the conundrum, and with it proving too tough for both contestants he has the win, 41 to 35.
I started off well, but feeling the pressure to repeat last night's optimal result. Then I found a better answer shortly after time in round 4 and knew that it was no longer possible, which was both disappointing and a relief. The round after that was also challenging, but I was still scoring strongly until the conundrum. I was probably the most lost on this conundrum that I have ever been, eventually giving up after seven fruitless minutes of searching. It was findable, but my mind was not in the right place to see it. Still, a good game overall, and a good start to the week so far.
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