Only Connect 2012/2013 - Quarter Final 3
TEFL Teachers
Saul Jones
Chris Sowton
Emma-Louisa Mutter
vs
Scribes
Dom Tait
Holly Pattendon
Gareth Price
After two high quality Quarter Finals so far, and the show topping the 1 million viewers marks, we enter the penultimate match in this Quarter Final. Already 2 have advanced to the Semi Final and tonight we saw....
Saul Jones
Chris Sowton
Emma-Louisa Mutter
vs
Scribes
Dom Tait
Holly Pattendon
Gareth Price
The third quarter final in this years Only Connect turned out to be a slightly one sided match. Getting to this stage is an achievement in itself but the Scribes continued their first round form to dominate here. The TEFL Teachers showed promise early on but the Scribes were just too good tonight.
The first round started with a rare occurrence in my household, I actually got a question neither team did (the trigonometry question). With the difficulty ramped up in latter rounds that is the last time I expect that to happen this series. The teams soon settled though with the Scribes edging it 6-3 largely due to their continued strategy of buzzing early and not wasting any points. I did hope this was the start of a close game but it was simply a sign of things to come.
Indeed, just like last week, the second round is where it was won. 9-0 the Scribes took this round to earn a 15-3 lead. Easily the hardest round I have seen this series with a couple of questions catching everybody out.
The Teachers needed something big on the wall and needed to hope the Scribes struggled. Only a confusion over Robots stopped them solving the wall nut two lines and 3 connections was probably going to be enough for a win in this match. It just shows how alert you need to be in this round as they seemed to get stuck on the "data" clue being in with the robot connection. The Teachers had a tougher wall but matched the score of the Scribes which was unlikely to be enough.
Into the last round and a very harsh opening penalty for Chris Sowton who just could not get Pistorious out. I imagine this whole round is one of the lowest scoring final rounds of the series far and indeed it was not until Dom Tait went on a run with the Botanists that the scoring started to come.
27-9 it ended with the Scribes always being in control and indeed the Semi Final's are shaping up to be very interesting indeed!
Oh dear... I so agreed with all you wrote until you got to the incorrect apostrophe on Final's which is clearly meant to be plural!
ReplyDeleteI was surprised that it was so one-sided. I realize this is off-topic, but when does Brain of Britain come back on the air?
ReplyDeleteRound Britain Quiz, which is in the slot BOB usually has on Radio 4, has two episodes left so maybe BOB will be back on the 26th?
ReplyDeleteOk, thanks. I wasn't sure if there had been any promotion on any of the BBC channels for when it would be back.
ReplyDeleteSorry , but I can't sit by and let Frederic Khan's comment pass. Mr. Khan - who the hell do you think you are to give a public lecture on punctuation to anyone ? Your comments are impertinent and inappropriate in the context given. If you don't like what Daniel has written then you have a right to express your opinion. You have no right, though to point out what you see as faults in the way it is written. I feel very surprised that you don't see this as unbelievably crass and rude.
ReplyDeleteOh, and you might want to think about your use of ... where a comma, or at most a full stop is required.