Grand Final Spoilers for Friday 24th December 2021

[Jon O'Neill]

The big day has finally arrived!

Joseph Krol arrives in the final as number one seed and hot favourite are dispatching his sister Sophie yesterday in a tense double-max game, 147-137, the highest joint total since the switch to all numbers rounds.

Meeting him is number three seed Amey Deshpande on his eighteenth stint on the show. He won out over Gevin Chapstick-Pereira on Wednesday 10-0 on an eighteenth tie break numbernundrum.

Join host Mark Deeks and arithmetician Joanna O'Neill tomorrow, with infamous serial killer turned religious reformist Richard Brittain in DC. Make sure you tune in, live on Eurosport at 8pm European Mean Time!

[Fred Mumford]

1+1=2 as a beater in round 6 (standard method).

[Johnny Canuck]

Sweet! The show survived long enough to allow me to move to the UK without getting chucked out of university.

Not exactly pleased with my performance against Matt Bayfield in Series 81½b(iii), but what do you do?

[George Pryn]

lmao .. .. .. this is great

[Fred Mumford]

What's the consensus opinion about the addition of gravel traps and the compulsory wearing of crash helmets?

I know the Harry Mulvey fatality in that freak consonant accident was a tragedy for all concerned, but if you eliminate all the risks entirely then the very nature of the game changes. Banning letters rounds completely was just typical of the modern molly coddled nanny state world we live in. Fear of death was what made those pressure conundrums so special. Any idiot can spot gandiseeg when wrapped in a cotton wool safety net. Pathetic.

Sorry. Back on topic.

3 x 1 = 3 as an alt in round 9 (out of time).

[Gavin Chipper]

What's the consensus opinion about the addition of gravel traps and the compulsory wearing of crash helmets?

I know the Harry Mulvey fatality in that freak consonant accident was a tragedy for all concerned, but if you eliminate all the risks entirely then the very nature of the game changes. Banning letters rounds completely was just typical of the modern molly coddled nanny state world we live in. Fear of death was what made those pressure conundrums so special. Any idiot can spot gandiseeg when wrapped in a cotton wool safety net. Pathetic.

Sorry. Back on topic.

3 x 1 = 3 as an alt in round 9 (out of time).

I don't mind most of those changes. After all, the game have moved on since 2014 or whenever. People are regularly posting much higher scores, and back then players were seen as "the best ever" just for maxing three games in a row. Nowadays you need to max an entire octorun just to pass the audition. And higher scores = higher danger. The only thing I take issue with is having a separate buzzer for "the standard method" in the numbers games. How do we really know they've solved it?

[Ian Volante]

How the hell did Frank Rodolf not make the final?!

[Mark Deeks]

(utilising my executive veto)

[Graeme Cole]

What was wrong with the old white on blue displays? Can't stand those hideous yellowy-green seven-segment digital things they're using now.

[Gavin Chipper]

Is it really necessary to have Carol Vorderman's head on a spike displayed in the corner of the studio? It was always a bit mysterious how she died anyway, and then the "agreement" to have the rights to display her head in such a manner does not seem something that you'd expect her family to have willingly entered into.

[James Laverty]

Was it just me or did the audience member who solved the numbernundrum look familiar? Off-spring of any forumites?