Rounds: Here.
Talking to Megan tonight reveals that she is still very excited about Friday's win. This feels like a waste of getting-to-know-the-contestant time. (Not her fault; she responded to what Richard led with.)
Challenging Megan is Sam Gaffney, an analyst who consults to the retail electricity industry. He remarks that the wholesale electricity market is quite exciting, as the wholesale price (that the retailers are paying to the electricity generators) might average around $35 per megawatt hour (MWh), but can in a short term jump up to $12,500 per MWh! So there's a lot of risk in such a situation, if retailers don't have enough supply contracts, and many of them have gone broke as a result.
Too many six-letter words from Megan tonight, and Sam is good enough to beat them twice. The numbers hold no solace for her -- I'm pretty sure that Sam is better from what little we saw -- and Sam wins convincingly, 51 to 23. With Megan below the 30 points that she needed to knock Brett out of the rankings, she won't be back for the finals.
It was a decent game for me; Lily outdid me in a numbers round and David in the final letters round, but other than that I was mostly on track. With the final numbers round defeating everyone completely, the seventies are out of reach but solving the conundrum pushes me above the sixty mark, to round off a relatively easy win in one of my better games.
As usual, details after the jump.
Showing posts with label Megan Marks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Megan Marks. Show all posts
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Saturday, 17 December 2011
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.
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.
Friday, 16 December 2011
Ep 339: Hiep Do, Megan Marks (December 15, 2011)
Rounds: Here.
Tonight we learn that Hiep attended the United Nations Youth Australia State Conference in March. There was a model UN debate there, and they acted like the General Assembly, debating through an issue. It's possible this may even have been for the Thant-Evatt Trophy; if so, it wasn't made clear.
Challenging Hiep tonight is Megan Marks, an arts program organiser for the Sunshine Coast Council. There's a big emphasis on green projects up there, apparently, and they do a lot of work with ephemeral/transient projects, things with no permanent effect on the environment. She says there are a lot of artists and creativity there, and it's a matter of skilling them up and getting that creativity out there.
There's very little to choose between the contestants on the letters, although they could certainly have done somewhat better on most rounds. Megan has somewhat the better of the numbers, with an error from Hiep in the last numbers round giving her an unbeatable lead going into the conundrum. With just a little more care Hiep could have sent this into conundrum overtime, and I imagine he will be ruing the lost opportunity. Megan wins by 39 to 23.
I had two rounds where I saw better answers in the last second or two of regulation time, which didn't leave enough time to write them down -- somewhat frustrating! Aside from that, there were some issues with my numbers round performance again, which is a worrying trend. I was mostly good in the letters, though, including seeing a tricky nine within time. One more comfortable victory under the belt...
As usual, details after the jump.
Tonight we learn that Hiep attended the United Nations Youth Australia State Conference in March. There was a model UN debate there, and they acted like the General Assembly, debating through an issue. It's possible this may even have been for the Thant-Evatt Trophy; if so, it wasn't made clear.
Challenging Hiep tonight is Megan Marks, an arts program organiser for the Sunshine Coast Council. There's a big emphasis on green projects up there, apparently, and they do a lot of work with ephemeral/transient projects, things with no permanent effect on the environment. She says there are a lot of artists and creativity there, and it's a matter of skilling them up and getting that creativity out there.
There's very little to choose between the contestants on the letters, although they could certainly have done somewhat better on most rounds. Megan has somewhat the better of the numbers, with an error from Hiep in the last numbers round giving her an unbeatable lead going into the conundrum. With just a little more care Hiep could have sent this into conundrum overtime, and I imagine he will be ruing the lost opportunity. Megan wins by 39 to 23.
I had two rounds where I saw better answers in the last second or two of regulation time, which didn't leave enough time to write them down -- somewhat frustrating! Aside from that, there were some issues with my numbers round performance again, which is a worrying trend. I was mostly good in the letters, though, including seeing a tricky nine within time. One more comfortable victory under the belt...
As usual, details after the jump.
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