Rounds: Here.
Luke Warden gets his turn in the champion's seat tonight, and Richard asks what drew him to work at a bowling club. Luke explains that he used to work in telecommunications in Sydney for a number of years, and after that particular company collapsed he decided that it was time to get out of the rat-race and take a more relaxed lifestyle in a more enjoyable environment.
Tonight's challenger is Mike Vitale, a university professor with a PhD in mathematics. Mike is also the director of the Monash Asia Pacific Centre for Science and Wealth Creation, which, as he explains, does research and teaching about commercialisation of research; that is, the process by which a research idea is brought to market in the form of a product. This can cover specific instances of inventions, and also the slightly more nebulous case where someone has discovered something which may turn out to have real-world applications.
After a matched first round, Mike took points in the next three rounds to go twenty-one points ahead of Luke. The game looked in danger of becoming a blowout, but Luke pegged Mike back a little in the fifth round. Mike forged further ahead in round six, although he missed an easy adjustment that would have given him three more points. But a phantom letter on the last letters round on his part kept Luke in the game; Luke was able to capitalise on that with points in the last numbers round, and was still barely in the game going into the conundrum. But it proved too tough for both contestants, and Mike hung on for the win, 34 to 25.
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Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Ep 146: Kannan Sethuraman, Luke Warden (August 1, 2016; originally aired February 21, 2011)
Rounds: Here.
It's the fifth night for Kannan Sethuraman, and a good performance here might see him into the finals. Richard returns to the topic of Kannan's work, noting that Kannan does some very important practical consultative work; for example, with hospitals, to try and make them more efficient. He asks how that works. Kannan gives an example: 60% of operating theatre sessions are typically delayed. So what they do is try to answer the questions: Where are the bottlenecks? Why do they get delayed? How can we ensure that they start on time, and that more patients can be treated in a given period of time?
Tonight's challenger is Luke Warden, operations manager at a bowling club, who has just completed a diploma of hospitality. Luke was also lead singer in a band called TidalBridge, that was around from 2006 to 2008; during that time they wrote twelve or thirteen original songs. Some of those songs they uploaded to a national youth radio network's unsigned internet site, as a result of which they got national exposure and a couple of songs made it into the national charts. The band members are still in contact, and occasionally get together for a jam and to write some new material.
(I can't find full details on that at the moment, but Luke's page on ArtistTrove says that they had songs at numbers 6 and 7 on the October 2007 JJJ Unearthed Pop chart. My guess would be that the songs in question were This Town and Don't Mind Me; both can be listened to here.)
The contestants started off with matched words in round one, then a surprisingly short answer from Luke in round two saw Kannan take the lead. An easy numbers round followed, then the middle third was all Luke -- he scored 24 unanswered points to be a daunting 18 points ahead at the second break. Kannan risked it all in round seven, chancing a nine in the hopes of levelling the scores; it was not valid, and that gave Luke a winning margin. Kannan added to his score in the last numbers game; neither was able to solve the conundrum, resulting in a final scoreline of 47 to 29 in Luke's favour.
It's the fifth night for Kannan Sethuraman, and a good performance here might see him into the finals. Richard returns to the topic of Kannan's work, noting that Kannan does some very important practical consultative work; for example, with hospitals, to try and make them more efficient. He asks how that works. Kannan gives an example: 60% of operating theatre sessions are typically delayed. So what they do is try to answer the questions: Where are the bottlenecks? Why do they get delayed? How can we ensure that they start on time, and that more patients can be treated in a given period of time?
Tonight's challenger is Luke Warden, operations manager at a bowling club, who has just completed a diploma of hospitality. Luke was also lead singer in a band called TidalBridge, that was around from 2006 to 2008; during that time they wrote twelve or thirteen original songs. Some of those songs they uploaded to a national youth radio network's unsigned internet site, as a result of which they got national exposure and a couple of songs made it into the national charts. The band members are still in contact, and occasionally get together for a jam and to write some new material.
(I can't find full details on that at the moment, but Luke's page on ArtistTrove says that they had songs at numbers 6 and 7 on the October 2007 JJJ Unearthed Pop chart. My guess would be that the songs in question were This Town and Don't Mind Me; both can be listened to here.)
The contestants started off with matched words in round one, then a surprisingly short answer from Luke in round two saw Kannan take the lead. An easy numbers round followed, then the middle third was all Luke -- he scored 24 unanswered points to be a daunting 18 points ahead at the second break. Kannan risked it all in round seven, chancing a nine in the hopes of levelling the scores; it was not valid, and that gave Luke a winning margin. Kannan added to his score in the last numbers game; neither was able to solve the conundrum, resulting in a final scoreline of 47 to 29 in Luke's favour.
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