Only Connect - @PaddyP17 is in the final tonight (p3)

Well done @PaddyP17. I have just watched it on recording and even pausing to give myself as much time as I needed couldn't get half those answers.  Brilliant.  

Never in doubt !

What a team ! What a captain ! 

Your Dad must be SO proud of you xx

Well done Paddy, congrats!

Top work Mr P

Absolutely brilliant Paddy, well done!

It seemed like a big step up in difficulty for the final. The only round I ever do OK on is the missing vowels, but I didn't get one of them, they were all so fiendish.

FIFA peace prize next?

Well done. The next Bamber Gascoigne

PaddyP17 said:

Stig said:

Absolutely brilliant Paddy, well done!

It seemed like a big step up in difficulty for the final. The only round I ever do OK on is the missing vowels, but I didn't get one of them, they were all so fiendish.

The absolute standout was Tom on "Celsius Two Hundred and Thirty Three" - he got it immediately in the studio. Absolutely mind-blowing buzz but thankfully we weren't so impressed that we laid down for the rest of the round.

Really pleased we held it together even after I negged; teams can definitely panic at that stage. Was a great final really. I am proud of my buzz on the music, even if I have fairly been accused of bottling it after identifying the connection straight away!

If anyone here is thinking of applying at all, please, please do. It was a wonderful experience with a fabulous production team that couldn't have made things go any better.

Couple of questions Paddy

In the missing vowels round, do they add a bit of a time gap on what we see, to give the viewers a chance to have  look/guess

And do you see the other team do the wall as sometimes feel there are clues from the first wall that would help in the second wall

MrOneLung said:

PaddyP17 said:

Stig said:

Absolutely brilliant Paddy, well done!

It seemed like a big step up in difficulty for the final. The only round I ever do OK on is the missing vowels, but I didn't get one of them, they were all so fiendish.

The absolute standout was Tom on "Celsius Two Hundred and Thirty Three" - he got it immediately in the studio. Absolutely mind-blowing buzz but thankfully we weren't so impressed that we laid down for the rest of the round.

Really pleased we held it together even after I negged; teams can definitely panic at that stage. Was a great final really. I am proud of my buzz on the music, even if I have fairly been accused of bottling it after identifying the connection straight away!

If anyone here is thinking of applying at all, please, please do. It was a wonderful experience with a fabulous production team that couldn't have made things go any better.

Couple of questions Paddy

In the missing vowels round, do they add a bit of a time gap on what we see, to give the viewers a chance to have  look/guess

And do you see the other team do the wall as sometimes feel there are clues from the first wall that would help in the second wall

Hello!

1) Yes, there is a gap added. The audience at home gets to see the vowels before the contestants do. The trick to telling when we have the vowels released to us is when the big table we are sat at goes back to either blue or magenta (depends what side you're on in the studio). When you buzz, it goes white, and things are "frozen out". 

2) You don't see the other team do the wall. I think when they are thematically linked, which is often the case, going second would absolutely give an advantage in the solve. The team seeing that wall is the only team to see it before broadcast. It was a real joy to do that final Wall - Dan Peake wrote two absolutely beautiful walls and it was so much fun to see the second one for the first time on Monday.

Is VCM as lovely as she appears? My Mrs can't stand her but I wholeheartedly approve.

guinnessaddick said:

aliwibble said:

Paddy posted a photo of her with his team on his twitter feed. She's tiny!

So is Dolly Parton.

That’s not the ‘only connect(ion)’ I can see 😉😆

PaddyP17 said:

MrOneLung said:

PaddyP17 said:

Stig said:

Absolutely brilliant Paddy, well done!

It seemed like a big step up in difficulty for the final. The only round I ever do OK on is the missing vowels, but I didn't get one of them, they were all so fiendish.

The absolute standout was Tom on "Celsius Two Hundred and Thirty Three" - he got it immediately in the studio. Absolutely mind-blowing buzz but thankfully we weren't so impressed that we laid down for the rest of the round.

Really pleased we held it together even after I negged; teams can definitely panic at that stage. Was a great final really. I am proud of my buzz on the music, even if I have fairly been accused of bottling it after identifying the connection straight away!

If anyone here is thinking of applying at all, please, please do. It was a wonderful experience with a fabulous production team that couldn't have made things go any better.

Couple of questions Paddy

In the missing vowels round, do they add a bit of a time gap on what we see, to give the viewers a chance to have  look/guess

And do you see the other team do the wall as sometimes feel there are clues from the first wall that would help in the second wall

Hello!

1) Yes, there is a gap added. The audience at home gets to see the vowels before the contestants do. The trick to telling when we have the vowels released to us is when the big table we are sat at goes back to either blue or magenta (depends what side you're on in the studio). When you buzz, it goes white, and things are "frozen out". 

2) You don't see the other team do the wall. I think when they are thematically linked, which is often the case, going second would absolutely give an advantage in the solve. The team seeing that wall is the only team to see it before broadcast. It was a real joy to do that final Wall - Dan Peake wrote two absolutely beautiful walls and it was so much fun to see the second one for the first time on Monday.

Would you have done a decent job on the other wall as well?

guinnessaddick said:

Chippycafc said:

What day was the show on TV. is it on catch up.

Monday.

Thanks