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.
Rebecca gets her turn in the champion's seat after her tiebreaker win over Judithe last night. Richard effuses about how exciting that game was, then shifts to asking Rebecca when her love of music developed. Rebecca answers that it started when she was very little: She had piano lessons from the age of five or six. Meeting her husband also helped continue that love; he is the biggest music fan she knows, and in particular a huge Beatles fan.
Tonight's challenger is Cameron Begley, a general manager for the CSIRO. Richard notes that the CSIRO engages in a huge range of scientific work, and asks Cameron what sort of things he is involved with. Cameron explains that he is involved on the commercial side, so he gets to work with the wonderful scientists at CSIRO and then take the results out to their customers. (It feels a bit odd to me to think of the CSIRO as having customers, but it does make sense.) There is also an insect collection at the site he operates in Canberra that he is enthusiastic about; additionally, he gets to work with "a whole bunch" of biotechnology scientists.
Rebecca took the lead early as Cameron seemed to struggle to find any form at the start; by the halfway mark she was a daunting 20 points ahead. The remaining letter rounds were too difficult for Rebecca to stretch that lead, however, and Cameron fought his way back into contention with two solves on the numbers rounds. For the third game in a row the scores were tied going into the conundrum, and neither contestant solved it. So once more unto the tiebreaker, and this time it was Cameron who found the solution first to take home the victory, 46 to 36.
I missed a difficult option in the first round, but thereafter I was hitting the best results. The highlight came in round 5 where I outdid David, and the potential for another tie loomed. Alas, the conundrum was extremely difficult -- it took me almost five minutes to solve it -- and so that tie slipped away. The second conundrum was much easier. Another solid win for me, but when compared with David and Lily it is another case of "the one that got away". Maybe next game...
Brief details after the jump (to be fleshed out later).
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Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Monday, 9 February 2015
Ep 256: Judithe Hall, Rebecca Skovron (February 9, 2015; originally aired August 22, 2011)
Rounds: Here.
Disclaimer: I watched this episode when it first aired, and although I did not recall any of the main rounds I cannot rule out memory being a factor. I definitely did recall something about the conundrum, which I'll get to in due course.
On Judithe's third night, Richard reveals that she taught in Hong Kong for a while. Judithe says that she really enjoyed it; the staff and students were wonderful, and the students were voracious readers and very keen to learn. She obviously approved of all that.
Challenging Judithe tonight is Rebecca Skovron, who is studying to be a teacher while running her own theatre company. Richard naturally focuses on that second part, asking her what sort of productions she puts together. Rebecca states that they do exclusively musical theatre; in response to Richard's followup question she clarifies that she does not do any of the singing, expressing her opinion that the audience should be very grateful for that.
It's another close game tonight with the contestants matching each other in most declarations. Judithe slips slightly with an invalid declaration in the first numbers round to give Rebecca an edge, but a risky choice in the last letters round pays off and gets her level again. Both contestants make errors on the last numbers round, and so for the second game in a row Judithe goes into the conundrum on a tied score.
Rebecca is unlucky on the conundrum, buzzing in with what I would have thought was a valid word; however, it is not the answer wanted. She stares at Judithe while the clock ticks down, and perhaps her psychic interference works as Judithe does not find the solution. So, once more we are onto a tiebreaker conundrum. Again time ticks down, and on Judithe's past form Rebecca might be in trouble if the clock gets down to just a few seconds left. But Rebecca gets there first, and takes a hard-fought victory, 53 to 43.
I started off well enough, and hit the high point in round 4 where I managed to outdo David for once. I had dreams of a very rare victory against the combined team, but a poor miss in the next round saw that hope gone. David then found an excellent word in round 7 to take away the consolation prize of a tie. So near, and yet so far. On the plus side again, I had excellent speed on both conundrums; however, I do clearly recall the issue around the first conundrum from when the show originally aired, and that is almost certainly responsible for my unusually good speed on that round. Overall it was a good game, with much to be happy about.
As usual, details after the jump.
Disclaimer: I watched this episode when it first aired, and although I did not recall any of the main rounds I cannot rule out memory being a factor. I definitely did recall something about the conundrum, which I'll get to in due course.
On Judithe's third night, Richard reveals that she taught in Hong Kong for a while. Judithe says that she really enjoyed it; the staff and students were wonderful, and the students were voracious readers and very keen to learn. She obviously approved of all that.
Challenging Judithe tonight is Rebecca Skovron, who is studying to be a teacher while running her own theatre company. Richard naturally focuses on that second part, asking her what sort of productions she puts together. Rebecca states that they do exclusively musical theatre; in response to Richard's followup question she clarifies that she does not do any of the singing, expressing her opinion that the audience should be very grateful for that.
It's another close game tonight with the contestants matching each other in most declarations. Judithe slips slightly with an invalid declaration in the first numbers round to give Rebecca an edge, but a risky choice in the last letters round pays off and gets her level again. Both contestants make errors on the last numbers round, and so for the second game in a row Judithe goes into the conundrum on a tied score.
Rebecca is unlucky on the conundrum, buzzing in with what I would have thought was a valid word; however, it is not the answer wanted. She stares at Judithe while the clock ticks down, and perhaps her psychic interference works as Judithe does not find the solution. So, once more we are onto a tiebreaker conundrum. Again time ticks down, and on Judithe's past form Rebecca might be in trouble if the clock gets down to just a few seconds left. But Rebecca gets there first, and takes a hard-fought victory, 53 to 43.
I started off well enough, and hit the high point in round 4 where I managed to outdo David for once. I had dreams of a very rare victory against the combined team, but a poor miss in the next round saw that hope gone. David then found an excellent word in round 7 to take away the consolation prize of a tie. So near, and yet so far. On the plus side again, I had excellent speed on both conundrums; however, I do clearly recall the issue around the first conundrum from when the show originally aired, and that is almost certainly responsible for my unusually good speed on that round. Overall it was a good game, with much to be happy about.
As usual, details after the jump.
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