Ep 360: Trevor Armstrong, Cameron Tyson (January 13, 2012)

Rounds: Here.


In addition to his swimming endeavours, Trevor has played badminton for over forty years; he was also a state and national selector for the sport for some years, helping to select the team to represent Australia.

Tonight's challenger is Cameron Tyson, a screenwriting student.  He's looking at both cinema scripts and television scripts; he enjoys writing comedy the most, and his ideal situation would be to end up writing a sitcom.


Trevor manages to edge out Cameron on a couple of the letters rounds, but otherwise they are mostly matched there.  It's the numbers where this competition could have been cracked wide open, with neither really managing to come to grips with them.  The net result is equal points, and Trevor's letters lead sees him home, a good conundrum solution extending the lead for a 56 to 33 win.

I started well, but then fell away after the first third of the game, missing solutions I should have seen in each of the next five rounds.  A fast solve of the conundrum helped me feel better about it, but this could easily have been a lot better.

As usual, details after the jump.