Ep 391: Roman Turkiewicz, Craig Woodward (February 27, 2012)

Rounds: Here.


Richard mentions that Roman has a couple of big ambitions.  The first is that Roman would like to be a chess champion one day.  He's starting from basic levels, apparently, so I'd imagine it would take some time to get there.  Roman's other ambition is to write a symphony.

Tonight's challenger is Craig Woodward, a mathematics and chemistry teacher.  Before he was a teacher he was a religious minister.  Richard describes this as quite a transition, but Craig notes that most of his focus as a minister was on youth and young adults, so he doesn't feel it was that big of a jump to high school teaching.  The same sort of clientele, just teaching them different things.

Over the course of 2009, Craig was interviewed a few times for ABC radio about his teaching.  You can listen to those conversations here.


There's some tricky letter mixes tonight; Roman manages slightly the better of them to gain twelve points there.  Craig has a chance to get some of them back in the numbers rounds, but overlooks an easily-correctable mistake and cannot do so.  Roman is safe going into the conundrum and solves it quickly to increase the margin, winning 57 to 35.

I felt out of form tonight, and made some poor decisions in both letters and numbers rounds.  I was way off the pace on the conundrum, needing almost two minutes before I finally saw the answer.  But I'd done enough to take the win, to my relief.

As usual, details after the jump.