Rounds: Here.
Jayanthi Viswanathan has her third game tonight, and we find out that she is a huge crime fiction enthusiast. Jayanthi's favourite way to relax is with some Agatha Christie -- "a little bit of murder, a little bit of intrigue", as she puts it.
Tonight's challenger is Peter Stegelman, an accountant who loves travelling, watching cricket and football, and enjoys baking. Peter very much enjoys getting in the kitchen and whipping up a cake or a slice; he says that what he does best is probably chocolate cake, and I have to say that is a fine thing to be proficient in.
Jayanthi started well in the letters, getting a good early lead, but Peter pegged some of it back in the first numbers round. Jayanthi extended her lead again in the next letters round, then an invalid declaration cost her points. Two shared rounds followed, and then Peter capitalised on Jayanthi's weakness in the numbers to take the lead going into the conundrum. He solved it first in any case, getting a 49 to 34 point win.
I missed a few words I would have liked to have found, but it was still a reasonable performance. I solved the conundrum quickly, although in part that was due to buzzing in with the wrong answer in mind but correcting that within time. Once more I avoided the trap of a tempting invalid word, and finished with quite a comfortable victory.
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Friday, 21 September 2012
Ep 55: Jayanthi Viswanathan, Keith De La Rue (September 21, 2012; originally aired Otober 15, 2010)
Rounds: Here.
Jayanthi Viswanathan is back, getting her first turn in the champion's seat. Richard mentions that Jayanthi loves to travel and asks her about her favourite destination. Jayanthi responds that the place she has been to most is India; the more she goes, the more she discovers about the country and where she came from, and she thinks that is really important.
Tonight's challenger is Keith De La Rue, a knowledge management consultant with a degree in applied science. Keith travels the world as a keynote speaker, but Richard wants to know what knowledge management is. Keith explains that organisations depend a lot on what people know, and knowledge management is about enabling that knowledge to be shared so that the whole organisation can benefit from it.
Jayanthi got out to an early lead, outdoing Keith in the first three rounds to be ahead by twenty points at the first break. That was too much to overcome, in the end; Keith managed to match her in the second third of the game, but the final letters round ensured her victory. Keith got the consolation prize of solving the conundrum, but Jayanthi got the win, 56 to 39.
I was in rather spotty form, struggling with a few letters rounds. Twice I saw the best option with only a second left on the clock and not enough time to get it written down; that was frustrating. The words were in my grasp, but not quite fast enough. There was a minor consolation in finding one longer word than David, and aside from the first two rounds it was a pretty satisfactory game.
Jayanthi Viswanathan is back, getting her first turn in the champion's seat. Richard mentions that Jayanthi loves to travel and asks her about her favourite destination. Jayanthi responds that the place she has been to most is India; the more she goes, the more she discovers about the country and where she came from, and she thinks that is really important.
Tonight's challenger is Keith De La Rue, a knowledge management consultant with a degree in applied science. Keith travels the world as a keynote speaker, but Richard wants to know what knowledge management is. Keith explains that organisations depend a lot on what people know, and knowledge management is about enabling that knowledge to be shared so that the whole organisation can benefit from it.
Jayanthi got out to an early lead, outdoing Keith in the first three rounds to be ahead by twenty points at the first break. That was too much to overcome, in the end; Keith managed to match her in the second third of the game, but the final letters round ensured her victory. Keith got the consolation prize of solving the conundrum, but Jayanthi got the win, 56 to 39.
I was in rather spotty form, struggling with a few letters rounds. Twice I saw the best option with only a second left on the clock and not enough time to get it written down; that was frustrating. The words were in my grasp, but not quite fast enough. There was a minor consolation in finding one longer word than David, and aside from the first two rounds it was a pretty satisfactory game.
Ep 54: Bassem Abousaid, Jayanthi Viswanathan (September 20, 2012; originally aired October 14, 2010)
Rounds: Here.
There are two new contestants tonight since Liam successfully retired yesterday. Taking the champion's position is Bassem Abousaid, an I.T. professional who loves professional wrestling and even commentates at wrestling events. Bassem has been interested in wrestling since it was televised in the 80's and has been commentating for it since 2004.
(I remember the professional wrestling back then! I used to sneak out of bed on Tuesday nights after my parents had gone to bed and stay up all night watching television; the wrestling was one of the shows in the lineup.)
Taking the challenger's position is Jayanthi Viswanathan, a secondary school mathematics teacher who is the author of a textbook on introductory calculus. Her aim is to make calculus accessible and fun; Richard asks how she manages that, and Jayanthi responds that she tries to take the jargon out of it and introduce calculus to students in a way that makes sense and builds upon what they have learned in previous years.
Bassem fell victim to a phantom letter in the first round, and never really made much progress after that. He managed to match Jayanthi twice in letters rounds, but had another invalid answer that left him trailing significantly. Neither contestant really dealt that well with the numbers but Jayanthi had the better of it, and she finished it all off by solving the conundrum for a 50 to 12 victory.
I had a decent game tonight, twice beaten by David but managing to outdo Lily in one numbers round to end up just ahead on the solo aggregate. That's always a result to be happy about, and I got my second score in the 80's this week thanks to a reasonably straightforward full monty.
There are two new contestants tonight since Liam successfully retired yesterday. Taking the champion's position is Bassem Abousaid, an I.T. professional who loves professional wrestling and even commentates at wrestling events. Bassem has been interested in wrestling since it was televised in the 80's and has been commentating for it since 2004.
(I remember the professional wrestling back then! I used to sneak out of bed on Tuesday nights after my parents had gone to bed and stay up all night watching television; the wrestling was one of the shows in the lineup.)
Taking the challenger's position is Jayanthi Viswanathan, a secondary school mathematics teacher who is the author of a textbook on introductory calculus. Her aim is to make calculus accessible and fun; Richard asks how she manages that, and Jayanthi responds that she tries to take the jargon out of it and introduce calculus to students in a way that makes sense and builds upon what they have learned in previous years.
Bassem fell victim to a phantom letter in the first round, and never really made much progress after that. He managed to match Jayanthi twice in letters rounds, but had another invalid answer that left him trailing significantly. Neither contestant really dealt that well with the numbers but Jayanthi had the better of it, and she finished it all off by solving the conundrum for a 50 to 12 victory.
I had a decent game tonight, twice beaten by David but managing to outdo Lily in one numbers round to end up just ahead on the solo aggregate. That's always a result to be happy about, and I got my second score in the 80's this week thanks to a reasonably straightforward full monty.
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