University Challange (1 Viewer)

[pete]

how do universities put together their teams for university challenge?

i think some thumped posters were on challenging times years ago?

 

[MDR]

I thought the final had an awful lot of questions about greek and roman classics etc - even more so than usual.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Say it ain't so, Gail. Say it ain't so.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/02/gail-trimble-university-challenge-team-lose-title

Gail Trimble's University Challenge winners Corpus Christi stripped of title

• Leigh Holmwood
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 March 2009 17.59 GMT

Sam Kay (left) was in the background as Gail Trimble's team won University Challenge but is now the centre of attention. Photograph: John Lawrence/John Lawrence

The winners of University Challenge, Corpus Christie College, Oxford – captained by "intellectual blitzkrieg" Gail Trimble – have been stripped of their 2009 title after one of the team was found to have been ineligible.
Yesterday the Observer revealed that Trimble's Corpus Christi team-mate Sam Kay had actually graduated in June 2008 and was working at an accountancy firm in Reading when the University Challenge final was filmed two months ago.
The BBC said today that, following an investigation conducted with programme producer Granada, it had decided to strip Corpus Christi of its title and hand it to the runners-up in last Monday's BBC2 University Challenge grand final, Manchester University.

 

[whathappen?]

I think they should release a dvd box set of every show. It should also come with a free buzzer so you can play along

 

[Catwoman]

Oh dear.

 

[MDR]

Poor gail - one of the best ever contestants robbed on a technicality. The other team were quite gentlemanly about the whole thing though.

 

[Gambra]

I thought the other team said they didn't want a rematc and were beaten in the final fair and square?

 

[magicbastarder]

well, disqualifying the winning team kinda leaves the BBC with no choice.