CCCWC June competition voters’ comments
Clue no. 37: Skilful players from overseas have hosts losing heart
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| This was a fun challenge and it was good to see so much imagination going into creating clues with a World Cup theme. Everyone seems to have stuck to the rules, though I felt that adding a link word between the extra word and the rest of the clue (8 and 31), or other superfluity (26?) was a yellow card offence. My favourite clues combined a recognisable World Cup reference with a fluent surface. The best three were 37, 45 (great definition) and 46, followed by 15 (how come I never thought of TESTES?!), 32 and 48 (any vuvuzela clue had an immediate advantage). I also liked 7, 9, 13, 19, 23 and 40. |
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It is amazing that so many people can't obey simple instructions. After wondering whether or not it really mattered, I eventually discarded all clues that weren't in the correct format (give or take a colon or a semi-colon). My votes eventually (a good lot of clues I felt) were
1st (3.5 points): 20
2nd (2.5 points): 21
3rd (2 points): 37
4th (1.5 points]: 23
5th (1 point): 36
6th= (0.5 points each): 3, 7, 10, 12, 16, 22, 39, 45, 49 |
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Part of the challenge was that the clue should have a footballing surface. In my view, it was not enough simply to introduce the name of a character associated with football, but in a non-footballing context (eg, 10 or even 41), let alone simply to mention a World Cup venue in this way (eg, 6, 8). Beyond that, I gave more credit to surfaces dealing with actual events (especially events associated with the World Cup) than to those involving (as far as I can discover – my apologies if this is down to my ignorance of the game) purely imaginary incidents (1, 3, 12, 33 and 50) or vague generalizations (2, 23, 25, 40, 42). Unfortunately, quite a few of the clues that met these criteria were seriously flawed (eg, 5 – indirect anagram – 20 – I don’t think “Rob Green’s last” can mean “Green after last has been taken away” – 26 – “who” plays no valid part – 31 – “by” ditto – 35 – “no longer” ditto – 46 – “heads” does NOT mean “heads of” – 34 and 44 – “set back” and “setback” are NOT the same thing). 24, 32 and 49 also sailed fairly close to the wind wrt soundness (much as I liked other aspects of 24 and 49 especially). In the economical 9, a “can” and a “potty” may have the same purpose, but they are not, unfortunately, the same thing. In 16 and 19, the definitions made dubious sense in the context of the surface, while 17, though it had an excellent definition, was rendered very stilted by the need to include “team”.
My votes as follows:
2 points each: 15, 21, 37
1.5 points each: 22, 24, 29, 43
1 point each: 7 32 49 |
