Ep 251: Martin Gabor, Emma Watson (February 2, 2015; originally aired August 15, 2011)

Finally we get some re-runs of unblogged episodes again!  For people's convenience, here's a link to the Past Episodes page on the SBS website.  (This episode is erroneously labelled S4 Ep1 by them, but it's actually episode 251, or S3 Ep51 under that nomenclature.)  The comment page is broken at the moment, however, and I doubt that they will be bothered to fix it.

It might take me a while to settle back into the episode blogging format; please bear with me.  As a new feature for posterity after the videos are no longer available again, I'm including links to the rounds as done in the "new game" format.

Rounds: Here.

Disclaimer: I watched this episode when it first aired, and although I did not recall any of it I cannot rule out memory being a factor.


The carryover champion is Martin Gabor, a sports journalism student.  This is his second night, and already Richard's question has devolved into Martin's preference for letters or numbers.  Did Martin not come prepared with the required interesting facts about himself?  Anyway, Martin says that he used to favour the letters, coming as he did from a humanities background, but thanks to learning tweaking skills from Lily he now prefers the numbers.

In the challenger seat is Emma Watson (no, not that one), a sports management student.  Richard points out the similarity in occupations between the two contestants, and asks Emma what sort of skills are needed to manage sports people.  Emma responds that there is a lot to do with public relations -- she gestures towards Martin -- and also sorting out contracts, media, endorsements, and still making sure that they have the time to perform and put in the effort on the field.


There's a bit each way in the letter rounds today, with Martin ending up slightly on the better end of that.  But in keeping with his pre-game comments, it's the numbers that bring him comfortably home; he solves all three rounds while Emma only solves the first, and takes an unassailable lead into the conundrum.  It proves to be a tough one, and with neither solving it Martin wins 58 to 31.

It was interesting watching the show again, with both a sense of comforting familiarity about affairs but also a bit of pressure that has not been there in the non-show games.  I can't say that I really miss the timer music!  Anyway, I had a reasonable game, but I'm disappointed to miss the conundrum; I saw the key features but failed to unravel it within time.  There was not much leeway to get away from Martin, who found solid results throughout, and I was ahead but not safe at the conundrm.  With no-one solving it, I scraped home with the win.

As usual, details after the jump.