Ep 335: Toby Baldwin, Richard Stevens (December 9, 2011)

Rounds: Here.


Richard asks Toby for his review of memorable moments of the episodes so far.  Toby notes that there have been several themes -- some of them his own generation -- and remarks with mild amusement that he has been trying to make David's life difficult when trying to match words to themes.  From my perspective, only episode 333 really delivered in terms of a running theme for the show, but it did so very well.

Tonight's challenger is... another Richard.  I'm going to avoid having to clarify which Richard I mean by not referring to Richard Morecroft again for the rest of this post.

Anyway, Richard Stevens is up; he is the managing director of a medical device distribution company who plays keyboards for a rock band.  There's been quite a few musicians recently!  His band is called Bang Shang a Lang and they play 70's and 80's covers at corporate events, and at pubs and clubs around Sydney.


It's yet another close game tonight, in part because the numbers once again pose stumbling blocks for the contestants -- a whopping five out of six declarations are invalid.  They mostly match on the letters rounds, having the same word three of the five times, and the scores are tied going into the conundrum.  Toby finds the solution seven seconds in to win the game 44 to 34, and becomes the second retiring champion of the series.

I almost had a very good game tonight; just some confusion over the final numbers stopped that.  Once again I missed a full monty, but I'm not that upset about it this time -- it would have been good to find it, but icing on the cake.

As usual, details after the jump.