Ep 385: Christopher Piggott-McKellar, Donna McDaid (February 17, 2012)

Christopher's hobby is cross-stitch; he finds it a great way to unwind.  During the AFL season there's nothing he likes more than watching or playing a game of AFL and then going home to unwind with a bit of embroidery.  It's what he likes to call "going from the pitch to the stitch".  He has been doing it for probably around ten years now (it was noted yesterday that he is 23); his mother first got him into it when he was "a young whippersnapper".

Tonight's challenger is Donna McDaid, an accounts assistant and keen traveller.  She has been in Australia for a year and a half now, but before that she travelled a lot.  When she first left England she went to South America: Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina.  At Machu Picchu she learned to never climb another mountain.  Heh.


I'm afraid that Donna isn't able to show her best form tonight; she only manages four valid answers during the game.  Christopher had two more valid answers which is a considerable advantage, but it was the final numbers round that was most significant.  He was eight points ahead going into that, so if things went well for Donna she could have taken a lead into the conundrum.  The result went the other way, however, with Christopher finding a good solution to take an unbeatable lead and eventually the game, 36 to 18.

I wasn't really in bad form today, but I wasn't hitting the high notes.  I stumbled in the last numbers round where a solution was tough but findable, but finished in positive fashion by solving the conundrum.  That lifted my score into the 60's yet again, for a fairly consistent week.

As usual, details after the jump.