Rounds: Here.
Disclaimer: I was a contestant on this episode. Obviously there are some parts I will remember strongly and my scoreline cannot remotely be considered a fair representation. I'll frequently refer to my past self in the third person, to avoid having to clarify all the time whether I mean my current or past performance.
Richard returns to the topic of zookeeping when he talks to Karla. She reveals that she loved visiting the zoo as a child and still does so today. She loves seeing the conservation and preservation efforts.
Challenging Karla tonight is, well, me. I'm described as a software engineer who loves participating in and creating puzzle hunts. I'm asked to explain them a bit better, and give a somewhat garbled explanation -- loosely speaking, events with puzzles designed to be solved by teams, usually over the course of a week. It's common these days for part of the puzzle to be working out what the puzzle is, to have to find and make sense of the hidden structure within the puzzle.
The puzzle hunt I have helped create is the CiSRA Puzzle Hunt, and I've enjoyed teaming up with the CiSRAns to take on the MUMS Puzzle Hunt and the SUMS Puzzle Hunt.
It's a bit of a nervous start for Geoff, as he misses an easy numbers get and mishears a letter to end up with an invalid word. Aside from that, his letters performance was generally better and he managed to solidify a lead by choosing less comfortable numbers selections (the advantage of the challenger), which is just as well as Karla solves the conundrum in double-quick time. Geoff wobbles home victorious, 55 to 37.
Things go much better the second time around, as you would expect. I still won't claim the conundrum because I recalled it so vividly, and Karla was so very fast. It's only by my previous mistakes that I beat myself, which is appropriate enough, although it was possible to do better.
The video player was quite uncooperative at first, but then settled down. Might have been congestion as many people tried to watch at once? I can hardly claim that my fan base is large enough for that. *grins*
... actually, I've had a few problems with it, including it tending to reset after a pause, which is very annoying. *sighs*
As usual, details after the jump.
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Friday, 25 November 2011
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Ep 324: Daniel Chua, Karla Treves (November 24, 2011)
Rounds: Here.
Disclaimer: I attended the filming of this show some months back; obviously this may lead to me recollecting some solutions that eluded me at the time, and my scoreline is not necessarily a fair one.
Win or lose, this will be Daniel's last night (except for the finals series, which he seems likely to make). Richard asks about the highlights for him, and Daniel responds that it has been meeting the contestants, and that they've all been worthy opponents. Particularly Mitchell from last night, in that very close game.
Challenging Daniel is secondary school teacher Karla Treves. She is described as an animal lover, and if she had not become a teacher she might well have chosen zookeeping as a profession. She says that she "loves all creatures, great and small". Richard asks if this extends to both domestic and wild creatures; she remarks that her domestic Jack Russell is pretty wild.
My recollection of Karla is that she was fairly vivacious. She had just come back from France, where some of her schoolkids had been on a two-week (I think) excursion to various places there, although Lourdes is the only one I recall. Field trips have certainly changed since I was in school! She hadn't even had time to go home yet, which suggests that she might have been jetlagged but was bearing up pretty well.
It's yet another close game to finish things off. Daniel drops behind in the first letters round by missing a word he should have seen, but gets some back in the numbers to stay in touch. It's matching performances from each until the final numbers game, where Karla oddly misses and allows Daniel to get 9 points ahead. But she finds the conundrum quickly, and squeaks home with a victory, 53 to 52.
I was mostly on target here; I got thrown by one set of tricky letters in round 2, and beaten to the conundrum, but superior results in other rounds saw me comfortably home.
On another note, it looks like SBS has updated their video player; I hope this one manages to buffer data better, although to be fair I've had much less troubles recently than at times in the past.
As usual, details after the jump.
Disclaimer: I attended the filming of this show some months back; obviously this may lead to me recollecting some solutions that eluded me at the time, and my scoreline is not necessarily a fair one.
Win or lose, this will be Daniel's last night (except for the finals series, which he seems likely to make). Richard asks about the highlights for him, and Daniel responds that it has been meeting the contestants, and that they've all been worthy opponents. Particularly Mitchell from last night, in that very close game.
Challenging Daniel is secondary school teacher Karla Treves. She is described as an animal lover, and if she had not become a teacher she might well have chosen zookeeping as a profession. She says that she "loves all creatures, great and small". Richard asks if this extends to both domestic and wild creatures; she remarks that her domestic Jack Russell is pretty wild.
My recollection of Karla is that she was fairly vivacious. She had just come back from France, where some of her schoolkids had been on a two-week (I think) excursion to various places there, although Lourdes is the only one I recall. Field trips have certainly changed since I was in school! She hadn't even had time to go home yet, which suggests that she might have been jetlagged but was bearing up pretty well.
It's yet another close game to finish things off. Daniel drops behind in the first letters round by missing a word he should have seen, but gets some back in the numbers to stay in touch. It's matching performances from each until the final numbers game, where Karla oddly misses and allows Daniel to get 9 points ahead. But she finds the conundrum quickly, and squeaks home with a victory, 53 to 52.
I was mostly on target here; I got thrown by one set of tricky letters in round 2, and beaten to the conundrum, but superior results in other rounds saw me comfortably home.
On another note, it looks like SBS has updated their video player; I hope this one manages to buffer data better, although to be fair I've had much less troubles recently than at times in the past.
As usual, details after the jump.
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