tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post7786701451180768612..comments2024-03-12T12:54:32.926-07:00Comments on Life After Mastermind: Mastermind 2019 Heat 12Londiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-32156095670999190092019-05-09T04:28:02.731-07:002019-05-09T04:28:02.731-07:00it’s nice to see all 4 contenders obviously having...it’s nice to see all 4 contenders obviously having put the time and effort into preparing for their specialists well. Kudos to all for that. <a href="https://www.exactinside.com/DP-200-exactdumps.html" rel="nofollow">DP-200 dumps</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-2204026716946313212019-01-26T23:41:48.298-08:002019-01-26T23:41:48.298-08:00Or, as he’s now known, The Numberwang Kid.Or, as he’s now known, The Numberwang Kid.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13838851618718856932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-71605559478569362772019-01-20T02:59:00.518-08:002019-01-20T02:59:00.518-08:00Sanjoy Sen got a respectable score in Brain of Bri...Sanjoy Sen got a respectable score in Brain of Britain last year, but he was up against the formidable Jack Bennett and came second equal. By the way, Jack Bennett is one to watch in the coming years.Mycoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521510701724149106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-74345512168134760262019-01-16T01:31:55.544-08:002019-01-16T01:31:55.544-08:00As someone who has lived a total of 14 months in t...As someone who has lived a total of 14 months in the UK (September 2017-November 2018), and in that time was a contestant on two quiz shows (UC and Mastermind), I can speak to how much of a disadvantage not being from the UK can be, particularly on Mastermind. The major impact is to totally invalidate the question setters' idea of how easy or difficult a round is. Each Mastermind GK round contains questions at varying levels of difficulty, including quite a few that are clearly intended to be "gimmes" that no contender would get wrong. Most rounds start with one of these. <br />Well, if you're not from the UK, quite a few of these supposedly obvious answers aren't that obvious at all. I had a few questions in my Mastermind GK rounds that I suspect every other person in the room, and 99% of those watching at home, would have got right; but not me. Conversely, questions that are intended as difficult about India/South Asia and the United States are very easy for me – since I have lived in those countries.<br />I knew this going in, of course, which meant I couldn't be embarrassed about the ones I got wrong (and my accent would give the game away to those watching). But what I found is that, compared to a British contestant, I experience a much greater variance in the number of answers I know on Mastermind GK. There are rounds where I might know 18 or 19, and rounds where I know as few as 4 or 5. It all depends on the ratio and nature of the UK-specific questions. <br />One implication of what I'm saying is that it's very difficult for the producers to anticipate a round like Devin's. Things can go smoothly at audition, and you can just be caught out by the wrong set of questions. And, of course, it's very different to tell at audition how the person will handle the pressure of the black chair. Keshavahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08751128323232023896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-26655083429021420712019-01-12T00:45:10.230-08:002019-01-12T00:45:10.230-08:00That doesn't surprise me Dan. You have to be a...That doesn't surprise me Dan. You have to be a quizzer to display that breadth of knowledge, in my opinion. <br />I honestly don't know about the casting. As I've said before, it certainly isn't all about how good your General Knowledge might be. I sincerely doubt that I would have even been auditioned for 2007 after appearing in 2006 if I'd still been living in London for example. It's perfectly understandable that the production team want a range of contestants that represent the range of society in Britain in the 2010s, and there's nothing wrong with that in my opinion. However I do think that on a show as intense as Mastermind, with such a high risk of falling flat on your face, there is a duty of care that must be considered. If you have any reason to suspect that a contender might have such as 'mare as, well, let's call a spade a spade, as Devin did in her GK round last night, then I'm afraid that I don't think it's right to put them in a position which gives them such an opportunity to do so, however willing they might be. A good friend of mine who did very well in Brain of Britain a few years ago told me that in his heat there was a lady who did very badly only answering one or two questions all evening. Trying to make polite conversation with her in the green room he found that she never did quizzes, never listened to Brain of Britain, and did so badly because she didn't know the answers, not because she was nervous. She'd been put up to applying by her daughter, a big fan of the show. She was extremely upset by the whole experience. She shouldn't have been put in that position by being put on the show in my opinion. Coming back to Devin last night, of course, as I said we don't know if there was any indication that this might happen when she auditioned. If there was though . . . Londiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-65341624775345240232019-01-11T23:20:23.083-08:002019-01-11T23:20:23.083-08:00Sanjoy is the first person so far in the contest w...Sanjoy is the first person so far in the contest who I know (QLL) - suspect the casting has changed a bit.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13838851618718856932noreply@blogger.com