Rounds: Here.
Rolli Pick is back, and he enjoys the travel opportunities that his job provides him (as a reminder, he is a part-time travel sales and product manager). Rolli has travelled quite extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. One of his favourite places in the world is Canada, and particularly southern Alberta where the Rocky Mountains meet the US border. He says it is called "Big Sky Country" (I gather that is slightly more accurately a term for Montana), and that it is just stunning -- wilderness, side of a lake, mountainside... just beautiful.
Tonight's challenger is Yolanda Sztarr, a research and development tax consultant with a double degree in chemical engineering and science. Yolanda also keeps busy with what she calls "home-based chemical engineering". When she was young she loved baking cakes and experimenting with such things, and she sees chemical engineering as an outgrowth of that. More recently she decided that she should put her years of study to use and has been making her own moisturisers and cleaning products and such.
The contestants started with a couple of matched rounds, but then an error from Rolli in the first numbers round let Yolanda take the lead. Yolanda extended her lead in the next round but Rolli gained some of the ground back on the second numbers round. The last letters round was shared and a final impossible numbers target proved to be too difficult for the contestants to get close to/ The game came down to the conundrum but when neither could solve it Yolanda was the victor, 38 points to 31.
I had a good game, just dropping the one maximum towards the end. The conundrum took me a while but I got there just short of halfway through to round it out, and it's nice to have put together two good games in a row.
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Thursday, 27 September 2012
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Ep 57: Peter Stegelman, Rolli Pick (September 25, 2012; originally aired October 19, 2010)
Rounds: Here.
SBS has switched how the online video is delivered yet again, resulting in somewhat glitchy viewing for me. Fortunately it only impacted the game seriously once, costing me about five seconds in a round where I found a best answer early.
Peter Stegelman gets his turn in the champion's seat, and Richard informs us that Peter is a keen traveller. Peter likes visiting other cultures and seeing other places around the world. He also likes to watch the football (soccer) where possible; he has been to a few games in Australia and also some in the English Premier League, which he says was quite an experience -- they have to segregate the crowds and such.
Challenging Peter is Rolli Pick, a financial services student and part-time travel sales and product manager. Rolli wants to own a bookkeeping business; this is because his son Max (six years old at time of filming) has Asperger's Syndrome and a love of numbers. Rolli would really love for Max -- assuming that he is interested! -- to be able to walk into a family business when he is old enough.
The game opened with a very helpful mix that neither contestant made much use of but which Rolli handled slightly better. Several of the remaining rounds were shared, but the general trend was that Rolli did a touch better in the letters and Peter managed to stay in touch thanks to the numbers rounds. Rolli was ahead but not safe going into the conundrum; Peter buzzed in first but without a valid answer, and Rolli was not able to solve it either but won the game, 39 to 33.
I had quite a good game tonight, just dropping the one letters maximum. I was pretty sure the longer answer was available but it took me a while after time to find it. My conundrum speed was a bit slower than I would have liked but still decent, and I managed to find a good solution to a numbers round that eluded Lily, meaning that my solo total was better than David and Lily's; that is always treasured.
SBS has switched how the online video is delivered yet again, resulting in somewhat glitchy viewing for me. Fortunately it only impacted the game seriously once, costing me about five seconds in a round where I found a best answer early.
Peter Stegelman gets his turn in the champion's seat, and Richard informs us that Peter is a keen traveller. Peter likes visiting other cultures and seeing other places around the world. He also likes to watch the football (soccer) where possible; he has been to a few games in Australia and also some in the English Premier League, which he says was quite an experience -- they have to segregate the crowds and such.
Challenging Peter is Rolli Pick, a financial services student and part-time travel sales and product manager. Rolli wants to own a bookkeeping business; this is because his son Max (six years old at time of filming) has Asperger's Syndrome and a love of numbers. Rolli would really love for Max -- assuming that he is interested! -- to be able to walk into a family business when he is old enough.
The game opened with a very helpful mix that neither contestant made much use of but which Rolli handled slightly better. Several of the remaining rounds were shared, but the general trend was that Rolli did a touch better in the letters and Peter managed to stay in touch thanks to the numbers rounds. Rolli was ahead but not safe going into the conundrum; Peter buzzed in first but without a valid answer, and Rolli was not able to solve it either but won the game, 39 to 33.
I had quite a good game tonight, just dropping the one letters maximum. I was pretty sure the longer answer was available but it took me a while after time to find it. My conundrum speed was a bit slower than I would have liked but still decent, and I managed to find a good solution to a numbers round that eluded Lily, meaning that my solo total was better than David and Lily's; that is always treasured.
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