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Mar
20
ELIMINATION Stations
Would it be unfair to blame my Aunt's 60th birthday party for the delay in getting this post
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Mar
09
Post Winter Blues, Post Winter Bliss
We had a three-week break from University Challenge due to the Winter Olympics. Only I decided to turn this into
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Feb
08
Absolute Slam Dunks
Imperial and Warwick have played each other three times in University Challenge history. First in the 1996 semi-final, which Imperial
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Feb
02
Reverting to the Time Domain
Darwin vs Sheffield
Darwin made it through to the quarter finals by making a mockery of my round two predictions
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Jan
26
A Farewell to X
I joined Twitter in October 2009 and immediately followed Stephen Fry, Jenson Button, Barack Obama and Jake Humphreys. Not quite
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Jan
17
Full Kit W*nker
In last week's post, I discussed the idea of having UC contestants returning for multiple series, which would
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Jan
12
The College Sports Piece
It's too late to say Happy New Year, so I'm not going to do that. Instead,
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Dec
24
Deck the Halls With Queries of Power
Every so often, you come across a game-changing data analysis tool (this is a theme I'm sure is
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Dec
15
Ancient DNA
Edinburgh and Trinity have played only once in UC history, with Edinburgh winning a quarter-final match in 2022. Trinity came
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Dec
08
Creativity Death Spiral
Posting this on Reddit to try and boost my readership, I thought I'd check out my analytics to
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