Rounds: Here.
Richard asks about Mark's sporting activities tonight; Mark notes that, coming from England as he does, the sport in question is football (the soccer variety). He has played indoor soccer for eleven years, and outdoor for seven. He has coached and refereed junior soccer for a year, and also refereed indoor soccer; it's not clear if this last is at the junior level or not.
Challenging Mark tonight is legal secretary Kerin White. Back in year twelve she won a book voucher as a prize for maths and used it to buy a dictionary. As you might imagine, this endears her immensely to David. In fact, the dictionary was a first edition of the Macquarie so that ties in nicely to the show.
It's a pretty good game from both contestants, with some decent finds in the letters rounds and nice close results in the numbers. Kerin gets a bit of a break in rounds five and six, but Mark gets some of it back on the final numbers round. Either contestant can win it going into the conundrum but it's Kerin who solves it, and takes the victory 55 to 40.
I had a good game too, with my solo score outpointing the David & Lily combination for the first time in a long while (courtesy of a missed numbers solution from Lily). The two longer words that David found were not ones I would necessarily have risked (I saw one of them, in fact), so I'm pretty satisfied with this result.
As usual, details after the jump.
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Thursday, 5 January 2012
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Ep 352: Sebastian Ham, Mark Arnold (January 3, 2012)
Rounds: Here.
Sebastian has visited 66 different countries, which seems like a lot to me. Richard asks if there was any region that he particularly enjoyed; Sebastian responds that he likes bits and pieces from everywhere, but he would love to get back to Nepal and the Himalayas, and maybe trek into Tibet.
Tonight's challenger is Mark Arnold, a maintenance fitter and sports enthusiast. But we're not going to talk about either of those things (although Richard mentions in passing that Mark has been a coach and referee in the past), but about what Richard calls Mark's "deep dark passion". Which is... carpentry. Mark says that his main job is using metals, but at home he likes to use wood. His current project is making his own (self-designed) wardrobe doors, and in the past he has made coffee tables, bookcases, and a magazine rack (and possibly other unmentioned items, of course).
It's a relatively close match tonight, with the letters performances being a bit above average (although both contestants fall victim to an invalid eight in one round); Mark has the better of them, but his early stumble in the numbers keeps Sebastian in contention until the final numbers round, where Sebastian is too far away and Mark takes the unassailable lead going into the conundrum. He needed it, too, as Sebastian does very well to solve a tough conundrum. Mark just barely takes the victory, 47 to 45.
I'm pretty happy with my perforance tonight -- finding a nine will do that. Two letters rounds could have gone better, but I might not have risked those words even if I'd seen them. The conundrum, on the other hand, eluded me for the first time in a long while. An unanswered nine is always a commanding advantage, though, and I ran out a comfortable winner once more.
As usual, details after the jump.
Sebastian has visited 66 different countries, which seems like a lot to me. Richard asks if there was any region that he particularly enjoyed; Sebastian responds that he likes bits and pieces from everywhere, but he would love to get back to Nepal and the Himalayas, and maybe trek into Tibet.
Tonight's challenger is Mark Arnold, a maintenance fitter and sports enthusiast. But we're not going to talk about either of those things (although Richard mentions in passing that Mark has been a coach and referee in the past), but about what Richard calls Mark's "deep dark passion". Which is... carpentry. Mark says that his main job is using metals, but at home he likes to use wood. His current project is making his own (self-designed) wardrobe doors, and in the past he has made coffee tables, bookcases, and a magazine rack (and possibly other unmentioned items, of course).
It's a relatively close match tonight, with the letters performances being a bit above average (although both contestants fall victim to an invalid eight in one round); Mark has the better of them, but his early stumble in the numbers keeps Sebastian in contention until the final numbers round, where Sebastian is too far away and Mark takes the unassailable lead going into the conundrum. He needed it, too, as Sebastian does very well to solve a tough conundrum. Mark just barely takes the victory, 47 to 45.
I'm pretty happy with my perforance tonight -- finding a nine will do that. Two letters rounds could have gone better, but I might not have risked those words even if I'd seen them. The conundrum, on the other hand, eluded me for the first time in a long while. An unanswered nine is always a commanding advantage, though, and I ran out a comfortable winner once more.
As usual, details after the jump.
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