Spoilers for Tuesday June 2nd 2015 (S72 P93)

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Spoilers for Tuesday June 2nd 2015 (S72 P93)

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James Judge, the man with the alliterative name, is a two time champ. Can he get a third win and carry over those 3 wins into next series?

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No beaters today - PERMUTED as an alt to DRUPELET in R5.

Looking forward to the finals...
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Tony Atkins wrote:No beaters today - PERMUTED as an alt to DRUPELET in R5.

Looking forward to the finals...
Yeah, completely missed MAXIMISER in round 4 though, while I was in the audience!! Thought it didn't stand me in good stead for watching the finals later...... :P :lol:
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So what's happened to Jonny Rye?
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Fred Mumford wrote:So what's happened to Jonny Rye?
Dunno, but he sounded sad on the radio.
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Fred Mumford wrote:So what's happened to Jonny Rye?
Normally when a contestant returns due to a mistake from the production team, they wait until an uber-player is in the champions chair. When this happens the unfortunate returnee will lose to someone with a 2000+apterous rating (or similar).

I'm not sure of the logic behind this but maybe the producers don't want someone who lost because of a mistake to come back and become an octochamp because it would make the production team lose credibility (this is of course pure speculation).

I suspect Jonny may be back when Matt Bayfield, Josh Hurst or Transude Transude is the reigning champion?
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Andy McGurn wrote:
Fred Mumford wrote:So what's happened to Jonny Rye?
Normally when a contestant returns due to a mistake from the production team, they wait until an uber-player is in the champions chair. When this happens the unfortunate returnee will lose to someone with a 2000+apterous rating (or similar).

I'm not sure of the logic behind this but maybe the producers don't want someone who lost because of a mistake to come back and become an octochamp because it would make the production team lose credibility (this is of course pure speculation).

I suspect Jonny may be back when Matt Bayfield, Josh Hurst or Transude Transude is the reigning champion?
That's interesting - what examples were you thinking of?
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Andy McGurn wrote:
Fred Mumford wrote:So what's happened to Jonny Rye?
Normally when a contestant returns due to a mistake from the production team, they wait until an uber-player is in the champions chair. When this happens the unfortunate returnee will lose to someone with a 2000+apterous rating (or similar).

I'm not sure of the logic behind this but maybe the producers don't want someone who lost because of a mistake to come back and become an octochamp because it would make the production team lose credibility (this is of course pure speculation).

I suspect Jonny may be back when Matt Bayfield, Josh Hurst or Transude Transude is the reigning champion?
Jonny appeared on aptochat after his third and last game saying he probably wouldn't take an opportunity to go on again. I think it was still offered to him, though.

Anyway, I find it hard to believe that contestants who return in this way are deliberately put up against high-rated players. You have to ask what the production team would have to gain from doing it, and I don't understand the idea that they would somehow lose credibility if a returning contestant did well.

Occasionally these returners have ended up in what turned out to be someone's octorun, but this is more likely to be because high-rated players tend to win more games and therefore are on for longer, so it's more likely a random contestant will play them. For example, in a series with, say, 100 non-finals games in it, which ends up with six octochamps, the probability that a contestant introduced at a random point in the series will play one is nearly half.
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Andy McGurn wrote:
Fred Mumford wrote:So what's happened to Jonny Rye?
Normally when a contestant returns due to a mistake from the production team, they wait until an uber-player is in the champions chair. When this happens the unfortunate returnee will lose to someone with a 2000+apterous rating (or similar).

I'm not sure of the logic behind this but maybe the producers don't want someone who lost because of a mistake to come back and become an octochamp because it would make the production team lose credibility (this is of course pure speculation).

I suspect Jonny may be back when Matt Bayfield, Josh Hurst or Transude Transude is the reigning champion?
I remember that with Andrew Mossford v Tom Rowell when Susie allowed an incorrect word, Andrew later returned in S64 he was unfortunate to come up against Edward McCullagh in his 6th game.
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