University challenge winners DQ'd!!!!!!!!!

[Ron Burgundy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7919830.s...



"The BBC has disqualified University Challenge's winning team for breaking the rules by using a contestant who was no longer a student."

Cant be happy with that!

[cs02rm0]

Ahaha.

[Demolisher 2]

The guy certainly looks eligible to compete in that sort of thing

[Simpo Two]

It wasn't the team's fault - they could simply have deducted the points that the miscreant got - Corpus Christie would still have won.

[TankRizzo]

My god, Trimble will do her nut.

[AlexKP]

I might know someone who was on their university University Challenge team...

[Ron Burgundy]

anonymous said:

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might?

[ewenm]

Typical cheating dark blues

[AndyWoodall]

Manchester can't be that pleased about being given the title in such a way.

Trimble must be pissed, she was quite foxy when she got stroppy.

[AlexKP]

Ron Burgundy said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

might?

Ok, do.

[Jasandjules]

Some you win, some you lose. Some you win, then lose.

Edited by Jasandjules on Monday 2nd March 19:29

[mattley]

From this

BBC said:

Whilst obviously not intending to, Corpus Christi broke this important rule when other universities and colleges taking part adhered to it.

and this

BBC said:

I had honestly believed I was eligible as I had indicated my course dates when I applied.

It looks like a huge BBC cock up, if it's such an important part of the rules and they were aware of the participants course dates and the filming dates they really dropped the ball IMO.

Edited by mattley on Monday 2nd March 19:36

[tinman0]

manchester were going on about a rematch at the weekend, but since they've been awarded they come out with "of course a rematch can't happen".

[Ron Burgundy]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

spill it , how long did they know they were a cheating bunch of s for?

[stuthemong]

Looks to me like at the time of entering the contest, he thought he had a PhD in place which would have made him eligable. The PhD funding couldn't be found, and he then took up the job. He & the team will definitely have known he was no longer eligable. They were winging it IMO. Still a pretty brutal ruling, but rules is rules

[Ferg]

The problem when rules like this are broken is the possibility that any other team might have had students in a similar situation who they might have selected had they not wanted to keep within the rules........

[elster]

stuthemong said:

Looks to me like at the time of entering the contest, he thought he had a PhD in place which would have made him eligable. The PhD funding couldn't be found, and he then took up the job. He & the team will definitely have known he was no longer eligable. They were winging it IMO. Still a pretty brutal ruling, but rules is rules

Pretty sure the BBC would of known too.

[s2art]

And what about all the teams they beat to get to the final.....

[FourWheelDrift]

TankRizzo said:

My god, Trimble will do her nut.

[AlexKP]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Whoops, I think you might have misinterpreted, I can see how my post wasn't very clear.

I was not referring to this current season/story...

I was being more personal...