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Did Ruth lose?Andy Platt wrote:That guy was pretty good. Sure-fire octo. Would take a 1600 player or over on Apterous to beat him.
Grant Waters wore a tie during the Series 67 finals, though not sure about prelims.Tony Atkins wrote:Sad to see Ruth beaten in her third game by someone called Cliff as I know the feeeling!
Is he the first tie-wearer since Roger Edwards?
In the first numbers I saw Rachel's way first, then (100+10-8)x(7-1)+8 as an alt.
VOMITED as one of the alts to VENOMED.
I stupidly missed the 9, sticking on ATOMISER/ATOMISED, so lost by 3 points on the conundrum.
I am approx 1400 on aterous so maybe he's not 1600, but Mr Lee should win a few.
Afraid so, 116-66. Although, in fairness this Cliff guy is very, very impressive. As AP says, barring a mental breakdown, octochampdom beckonsEdward McCullagh wrote:Did Ruth lose?Andy Platt wrote:That guy was pretty good. Sure-fire octo. Would take a 1600 player or over on Apterous to beat him.
I wouldn't say it was a certainty, as we've seen people make impressive starts and disappoint before. If he keeps playing like this, he's got a great chance, though. Very impressive debut performance and it'll take a good player to stop him.Andy Platt wrote:That guy was pretty good. Sure-fire octo. Would take a 1600 player or over on Apterous to beat him.
Yeah, I was stunned he picked 6 small after missing 7*100-8*10. Even my daughter looked at me as if to say "do you think I'm fucking stupid or something?" within about half a second when I told her to have a go at it. I've noticed in the last few days that Rachel seems to be showing some slightly more complex solutions - I do think she should always go with the simplest available (I mean, I know sometimes you miss the simpler ones if you start off on a certain route, but I doubt that was the case). I think it's better for people to see they could have probably got it, rather than thinking "oh, you had to go up to 3750, I never would have got that".Philip Wilson wrote:Never thought that guy would do so well when he missed 700 - 80 in the first numbers! Luckily for me his body language told me there was an easy way to get to 521.
Yep. Maybe RR doesn't always see the simpler solutions but like you say she seems to be going the complicated way rather a lot recently, so I imagine she does more than it appears. As Tony wrote, in this case there was another way to do the 620 by adding a 2 [10-8] to the 100 before multiplying by the 6 [7-1] which led to the correct answer, which was really just a modification of what the contestants did, and in these sort of circumstances I think it would be good for RR to mention what they could have done by just a slight adjustment. As she never does, maybe she is told not to, but I think it would help.Jon Corby wrote:Yeah, I was stunned he picked 6 small after missing 7*100-8*10. Even my daughter looked at me as if to say "do you think I'm fucking stupid or something?" within about half a second when I told her to have a go at it. I've noticed in the last few days that Rachel seems to be showing some slightly more complex solutions - I do think she should always go with the simplest available (I mean, I know sometimes you miss the simpler ones if you start off on a certain route, but I doubt that was the case). I think it's better for people to see they could have probably got it, rather than thinking "oh, you had to go up to 3750, I never would have got that".Philip Wilson wrote:Never thought that guy would do so well when he missed 700 - 80 in the first numbers! Luckily for me his body language told me there was an easy way to get to 521.
He was solid but didn't pull out loads of brilliant spots and still missed quite a bit. I know I'm not the most reliable yardstick, but I still beat him quite comfortably, so although he racked up the points, I'd say the jury's still out.Jack Worsley wrote:I wouldn't say it was a certainty, as we've seen people make impressive starts and disappoint before. If he keeps playing like this, he's got a great chance, though. Very impressive debut performance and it'll take a good player to stop him.Andy Platt wrote:That guy was pretty good. Sure-fire octo. Would take a 1600 player or over on Apterous to beat him.