tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post3852314368726121929..comments2024-03-12T12:54:32.926-07:00Comments on Life After Mastermind: TV Watch - University ChallengeLondiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-83470607105405913262010-04-02T02:10:35.841-07:002010-04-02T02:10:35.841-07:00Commiserations this time to the Manchester team, y...Commiserations this time to the Manchester team, your score belied your talent.<br />I noticed that your opponents, Emmanuel, had honed their buzzer skills and that Mr. Guttenplan was trying really hard to hit the button first.<br />Emmanuel have become a formidable team who are obviously serious about winning this years competition, with the brilliant Mr. Guttenplan having a great team around him.<br />His right-hand woman, Ms. Harris, is his equal when it comes to literary and arts subjects, while Mr. Hastings and Mr. Scott may be studying medicine but they have proved to have a much wider knowledge than just that worthy field.<br />Good luck to both them and St. John’s in the final. I‘ll be supporting Oxford in the boat race, however I can’t help but go with the Cambridge team in this competition.Gerepidoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13914692986013057462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-33081648264837411262010-03-31T09:39:00.047-07:002010-03-31T09:39:00.047-07:00Hello Jakob,
I'm so glad that you enjoyed it....Hello Jakob,<br /><br />I'm so glad that you enjoyed it. Being a UC semi finalist is something to be very proud of. 12 0 - well, look at this way - its not so very far behind your winning score of the previous match against Edinburgh. In UC, the buzzer is king, and the force was with Emmanuel , and very good luck to them for that. <br /><br />Thanks for the enjoyment you have given us this series. <br /><br />Hi Des,<br /><br />You have actually made some of the points I was going to bring out in my preview of the final ! I was going to say about Cambridge never havig one since JP's first series, and discuss some of the comparisons which have been made with the excellent Miss Trimble. Actually I probably still will do so. <br /><br />I don't know that I want to puch my luck , having correctly predicted who the semi finalists, and then the finalists will be, by predicting the winners, but doubtless I will - watch this space. Thanks as always or your interesting and enjoyable comments.<br /><br />DaveLondiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-21824679935354342942010-03-31T01:19:54.696-07:002010-03-31T01:19:54.696-07:00This was by far Emmanuel's most remarkable per...This was by far Emmanuel's most remarkable performance yet, and I'm definitely making them the favourites in the final as a consequence.<br /><br />IMO, St John's will definitely have to have their work cut out if they're to contain Guttenplan and co.<br /><br />For the record, AG got 11 starters right on the night, and his tally for the series stands at an astonishing 49. Comparisons with Gail The Great would not be strictly fair, however, as his team have played one match more than hers as of present.<br /><br />If Emmanuel do win the final, not only will they have done so having lost their first-round match - a feat also achieved by Durham ten years ago - but they'll also be the first Cambridge side to be champions since Sean Blanchflower's Trinity in the first series of the Paxman Era in 1994/5.Des Elmeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17386363933499184036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-26576721547906052552010-03-30T14:13:57.177-07:002010-03-30T14:13:57.177-07:00Hi Dave,
Thanks for your support throughout the s...Hi Dave,<br /><br />Thanks for your support throughout the series; we all had a great time. If Emmanuel scraped through into the later stages of the competition, they certainly showed they were a team with form once they were there, just getting stronger and stronger. To be honest, once we were at -5 and almost 100 behind, my main concern was breaking 15, and so avoiding a lowest score ever...<br />Once that was past, we relaxed a bit - I didn't think we were going to pull it back, but I started to enjoy the match. On a day when Guttenplan and Harris were on such good form, I don't think 120 was too bad - there were more than a few starters where we were just fractions of a second behind. But that's what it's about - well played Emmanuel.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01518954013413810262noreply@blogger.com