Ep 340: Megan Marks, Jimmy Driscoll (December 16, 2011)

Rounds: Here.


On Megan's second night we find out that she loves to study; apparently the tally reaches 19 years!  She has four degrees: Two arts, one science, and one computer science; it is not stated what level those were taken to.

Megan's challenger tonight is recruiting coordinator Jimmy Driscoll, who finds footballers for the North Melbourne Football Club.  This involves finding new prospects, interviewing them, getting them into the club and working out their contracts.

(The above is essentially all the content of both chats.  It feels like those have been getting very short recently; are the contestants not having much to say about the topics, or being cut short for time reasons?)


It's an extremely close match, with equal lengths being declared in every letters round and the numbers being far too easy.  But a stumble from Megan on the final numbers round sees Jimmy taking a ten point lead into the conundrum; Megan manages to solve it first, and we have the first double conundrum of the series.  This results in a new high total game for the series.  (As a participant in the previous record holder, I'm mildly put out about that second conundrum which allowed them to overtake this record.)  Megan wins, 71 to 61.

I started badly, missing some easy longer words in the first round and being undone by the Macquarie not listing my word in the second round.  That put me in poor position, and the next many rounds offered little scope for advancement over the contestants.  I finally nudged into a one-point lead going into the conundrum, but I never like it coming down to that.  As it turns out I solved both of them in a second (they were each pretty apposite to the show), and scraped home with the win.

As usual, details after the jump.