Posting in the wrong order …

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Welcome to Dave Perry and Simon Hanson, our newest bloggers, both with slots on the rotation for writing about jumbo puzzles. Thanks to Simon for prompt work on the Prelim 2 puzzles – it seemed appropriate to have them covered by someone who did them during the championship. Biographies for both of them will be up shortly on the “About this blog” page.

Copying Tony Sever’s summary of how the Times Two Race the Clockers got on, here are the people in the grand final whose names have ever appeared on this blog:

1 Mark Goodliffe (i_am_magoo) – former blogger
5 Peter Biddlecombe – blogger
8 Tony Sever – blogger elsewhere, commenter here
10 John Henderson – setter elsewhere, one-time blogger here
13 Hilary Seidman – occasional commenter here
15 Simon Hanson – new blogger
17= Shane Shabankareh – occasional commenter

Others who didn’t make the grand final from Prelim 1 were:

19 Jane Teather (jetdoc) – commenter and “championship virgin”, so watch this space
22 Tim Hall (topicaltim) – blogger
42 Neil Talbott (talbinho) – blogger (3rd hand up but with one pesky mistake)

and from Prelim 2:

16 Angus Walker – commenter
21 John Marshall – commenter
34 Mark Thakkar – commenter

There may be others I haven’t spotted, and one finalist said that he reads us but doesn’t comment as he’s a setter for another paper. With Andy Wallace and Richard Grafen back for 2010, upping our finalists count from 7 to 10 should be possible.

2 comments on “Posting in the wrong order …”

  1. Getting too incestuous for me.
    I think I’ll drop out of this forum.
    Seems to be mostly for insiders.
    1. That’s not the intention. I thought of you as an “insider” for the last few months. Why? Because you participated by talking about the puzzles and your solving experiences – and that’s all it takes. Participation in the championships isn’t compulsory, neither is admiration of a skill with little practical application (Mrs B made the odd wry comment about the contrast with a national ploughing championship which was held the same weekend). Once the last three prelims are blogged, we’ll be back to normality – or as close as we ever get round here …

      Edited at 2009-10-14 07:22 am (UTC)

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