DISCONNECTED: The Champion of Champions Grand Final

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • The three players who've already won come back to the tower for one final battle. One of them will leave the Champion of Champions: and two will be Disconnected.
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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  4 года назад +2781

    And that's our show! Thanks very much to all the players, and all the crew who helped put it together. Pull down the description for all their details!

    • @mynameislg8549
      @mynameislg8549 4 года назад +67

      Tom Scott I really liked this series! I’d happily watch another run of it!

    • @yuakka
      @yuakka 4 года назад +4

      Pog.

    • @js0988
      @js0988 4 года назад +7

      Bring back Lateral.

    • @pincerprithu
      @pincerprithu 4 года назад +1

      Hey Tom I love your content and please do more on the basics series!

    • @zedzedveryhuman
      @zedzedveryhuman 4 года назад +3

      lmao how

  • @aziztcf
    @aziztcf 4 года назад +2124

    "Do you want flowers or body parts" You really gotta work with your pickup lines Tom

    • @Mikall_
      @Mikall_ 3 года назад +86

      Alright this joke deserves a crap ton of likes

    • @legosans926
      @legosans926 3 года назад +20

      @@Mikall_ ikr this is severely underrated

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 3 года назад +8

      @@Mikall_ THE DAH-LEK EM-PIRE HAS SPO-KEN

    • @6023barath
      @6023barath 3 года назад +1

      @2C (02) Chan Kwan Yu Oh my god...good one!

    • @tomvandongen8075
      @tomvandongen8075 3 года назад +4

      You say that but Tom Scott gets dates like a pillarbox gets post

  • @cosmicbun11
    @cosmicbun11 4 года назад +451

    I love how in every single advertisement shots Tom is stepping outside the fence

    • @mbainrot
      @mbainrot 4 года назад +12

      If it where real, well, lets just say Tom's shirt would do a great job of covering up some of the mess, at the bottom of the tower :)

  • @flavoredchin
    @flavoredchin 4 года назад +263

    Tom's true goal is to somehow get Victoria Coren-Mitchell on as "revenge" for only connect.

  • @faketp6429
    @faketp6429 4 года назад +21

    This is my single favourite show. All youtubers that we all know, the best host, and amazing tech.

  • @onionbot2
    @onionbot2 4 года назад +102

    we need a special with the techdif lads

    • @HMJ66
      @HMJ66 4 года назад +32

      "Your categories are Yorkshire and Victorian History"

    • @mytube001
      @mytube001 4 года назад +10

      @@HMJ66 Gary would win that without even trying...

    • @masansr
      @masansr 4 года назад +15

      Chris would own everyone on Classic Literature and Making Stuff Up, while Matt would laugh a lot and win at Things That Soft Serve

    • @AllieWhoops
      @AllieWhoops 4 года назад

      This would be fantastic

    • @AFrogInTheStars
      @AFrogInTheStars 4 года назад +2

      Christmas Special

  • @DavidGlendinning
    @DavidGlendinning 3 года назад +1

    ~ 6:01 If this had been Citation Needed, I would have expected one of the lads to come up with "Ya dim sum, you lose sum..." «groan»

  • @pampoovey6722
    @pampoovey6722 4 года назад

    This has been such a fantastic series. Loved all the players and the bants.

  • @Slaarduk
    @Slaarduk 9 месяцев назад

    This was perhaps the most dramatic final round I have seen in a long time.

  • @rickpolar
    @rickpolar 4 года назад

    I get way too excited when I get notifications for new episodes of Disconnected! Love the format

  • @upstagedbyadog
    @upstagedbyadog 4 года назад

    Another brilliant concept; and classic Tom Scott! Excellent use of technology and superb production!

  • @CaesarIII
    @CaesarIII 4 года назад +5

    it's outsidextra as the youtube channel for ellen. The link is broken/wrong
    That said, don't stop doing those, they are great!

  • @slimeherohd1321
    @slimeherohd1321 4 года назад +1

    I Hope this is going to be a Show on BBC

  • @simongreve
    @simongreve 4 года назад +1

    I don't know if White Light offered the stage for free for the filming of this or how the deal was made. but however it was, they got one hell of a sales pitch out of the deal.

    • @mplsmike4023
      @mplsmike4023 4 года назад

      Except what % of viewers have the need and financial resources to hire them?

  • @platinummyrr
    @platinummyrr 4 года назад

    This entire series was awesome, I'd love to see more stuff done with this tech!

  • @mojosbigsticks
    @mojosbigsticks 4 года назад

    I've enjoyed those. Thank you.

  • @XanCrews
    @XanCrews 4 года назад

    I love knowing that I was subscribed to only one person in each round before this so I had someone to root for and that they're all here in the finals.

  • @poofa4009
    @poofa4009 4 года назад +2

    So three episodes, then a champion of champions. If the pattern continued, episode 13 would be very, very, interesting.
    The champion of champion of champions.

  • @emperorleachicus2199
    @emperorleachicus2199 3 года назад

    The Rockstar/Take Two thing really surprised me, since in 2018 GTAV alone was announced as the most profitable entertainment product of all time.

  • @MontyD
    @MontyD 3 года назад

    I've got another strategy if this ever returns: bluff bluffing on correct answers. When you 100% know it just either pretend you don't or bluff badly

  • @-DSet
    @-DSet 4 года назад

    A right answer should give you a bar.

  • @biochemicalracketeering3018
    @biochemicalracketeering3018 4 года назад

    Please make more of this

  • @BlitzTD
    @BlitzTD 3 года назад +1

    Alec: The guesser
    Ellen: The challenger
    Vanessa: The trickster

  • @FuncleChuck
    @FuncleChuck 4 года назад

    I can see Tom Scott hosting a show like Jeopardy!

  • @paulofthebailey
    @paulofthebailey 4 года назад +2

    Oh come onnnn Vanessa looking down at her phone, reading off Google 😤

  • @MasonJarGaming
    @MasonJarGaming 4 года назад +3

    I’m disappointed no one said Minnesota, mining, and manufacturing (3M). Probably would’ve tripped up their opponent seeing the full name like that too.

    • @ZanHecht
      @ZanHecht 4 года назад +4

      They would've gotten it wrong. 3M legally changed their name to just "3M Company" in 2002. Like BAE, BP, CERN, TLC, and ADT, their official names are now just letters that don't officially or legally stand for anything.

    • @eDoc2020
      @eDoc2020 4 года назад +1

      @@ZanHecht Another commenter mentioned they shouldn't allow Google as an answer because now it's owned by Alphabet. If they're OK with Google they're probably OK with Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, too.

  • @craftsmanwoodturner
    @craftsmanwoodturner 4 года назад

    Suggestion: the successful challenger gains the bar of signal lost by the challenged. This would make the show longer - which is no bad thing. Most such shows on TV last for 30 minutes, including commercials...

  • @eduardoarellano1616
    @eduardoarellano1616 3 года назад +1

    Vanessa looking on the phone for the last question

  • @sebastienpautot
    @sebastienpautot 4 года назад

    Cointreau comes from where I am standing and where I was born, Angers, in France. Tom you should come here, it's a nice city :)

  • @ca-ke9493
    @ca-ke9493 4 года назад

    That Dim sum question was diabolical. I'm Chinese and I didnt even think of Dim Sum until they talked about it. Then I was like duhhh 点心, but I wouldn't literally translate that as touch heart, if you split up the characters they translate as dot heart, and together they are so ubiquitious as snacks that I would have never translated it as touch heart. But a quick google search refutes my thoughts so...

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat 4 года назад

    Triple sec and Cointreau are not really separate liqueurs. Cointreau is a brand of triple sec. Triple sec is much older than Cointreau, and the original brand name was "Curaçao Blanco Triple Sec."

  • @calebprouty288
    @calebprouty288 4 года назад

    That was cool hearing her mention Blizzard and Rockstar, sadly it’s not surprising they aren’t on the list

  • @zcamt
    @zcamt 4 года назад

    You better make another season! :(

  • @Aleksandrus12
    @Aleksandrus12 3 года назад

    It's brilliant idea for a board game or multiplayer internet quiz! I want to see this as boardgame to play with friends. Is really nobody thought of implementing bluffing into quiz game or I just didn't heard of it?

  • @teddymasters1347
    @teddymasters1347 4 года назад

    Times like these are when I wish the park bench was still a thing

  • @HumanTypewriter
    @HumanTypewriter 4 года назад

    Season 2 PLEASE

  • @emmylu1996
    @emmylu1996 4 года назад

    This was so neat! I'd love to be on this show.

  • @fuoser
    @fuoser 2 года назад

    i love how the smart stage is cool and all, but the design gives me late 80s public television german tv trauma

  • @aadirimal8081
    @aadirimal8081 4 года назад

    We want more disconnected!!!!

  • @person7587
    @person7587 2 года назад

    Petitions for disconnected season 2

  • @TrulySpeechless
    @TrulySpeechless 4 года назад +1

    This was really cool!

  • @girishgh9793
    @girishgh9793 4 года назад

    Keep this series running pls it's asw

  • @hominidan
    @hominidan 4 года назад

    The second hunger games but mostly friendly talk

  • @Jacob-qr8pl
    @Jacob-qr8pl 4 года назад

    Vanessa's place looks scarily similar to my studio apartment.

  • @mattb4721
    @mattb4721 4 года назад

    Alec got the hardest topics. Only a Chinese bartender could have done well with that selection.

  • @Micter
    @Micter 3 года назад

    We need Hank back for season 2 😂

  • @krevetka9744
    @krevetka9744 4 года назад

    Rockstar are known for their confrlicting nature but this conflict just came out of nowhere.

  • @SynVT_
    @SynVT_ 4 года назад +3

    Wait, why did Vanessa start with two bars after the break?

    • @celene_moon
      @celene_moon 4 года назад +1

      In every episode during the final round they have to start at 2 bars

  • @chrischristen8904
    @chrischristen8904 4 года назад

    Glad to see robby rotten making a full recovery

  • @hexeddecimals
    @hexeddecimals 4 года назад

    Tom kept saying that the winner will have defeated 8 people, but isn't it only 4?

  • @Zavstar
    @Zavstar 4 года назад +1

    MAKE 5 BARS OF SIGNALS

  • @theharryoloibe
    @theharryoloibe 4 года назад +9

    In the second half, how did Vanessa get an extra bar?

    • @Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa
      @Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa 4 года назад +5

      Watch the previous episodes. Everyone starts off at 2 bars for the last challenge.

    • @shirou9790
      @shirou9790 4 года назад +3

      The final always begin with two bars each, whatever number of bars they had at the end of round 1.

    • @morpheusft7633
      @morpheusft7633 4 года назад

      Was wondering the same thing

    • @theharryoloibe
      @theharryoloibe 4 года назад

      @@shirou9790 Oh, okay
      Thanks

    • @mattjw16
      @mattjw16 4 года назад

      Round 2 starts with everybody getting two bars.

  • @ominusomega7803
    @ominusomega7803 4 года назад

    Ok.... Im a bit shocked that noone noticed the fact that Vanessa said dianxin for the chinese food question since that was the chinese name for dimsum.... Alec just barely dodged that bullet.

  • @Mogrey69
    @Mogrey69 4 года назад +4

    9:55 Aaaaand googling commences. Too bad Vanessa can't play fair and ruined such a fun game show concept.

  • @darthbee18
    @darthbee18 4 года назад +6

    30 secs in - I AM SPEED
    😜😜😜😜😜😜

  • @607
    @607 4 года назад

    I didn't think video game companies would be up there; glad to know I got something right, for once! ;) Edit: Someone else pointed out that Nintendo is actually on the list! So I _was_ wrong. :P

  • @Jaydee-wd7wr
    @Jaydee-wd7wr 4 года назад

    To be honest from the thumbnail I thought it would be staring a spaceman and Darth Vader.

  • @kittenclaws5775
    @kittenclaws5775 4 года назад

    Congrats to Vanessa!

  • @asteroidsonsteroids271
    @asteroidsonsteroids271 4 года назад +3087

    Alec's channel is now called Technology Disconnections

  • @hungmale7
    @hungmale7 4 года назад +3128

    so amazed your microphone doesn't pick up the wind up there!

    • @karina-ww9pp
      @karina-ww9pp 4 года назад +72

      Yes, it is quite amazing

    • @jankkhvej434
      @jankkhvej434 4 года назад +97

      cant wait to woooosh someone

    • @SahilSingh-ov6qt
      @SahilSingh-ov6qt 4 года назад +56

      "OmG bUt ItS a ViRtUaL sEt"

    • @Finat0
      @Finat0 4 года назад +82

      jankkhvej was that a pun?

    • @harrycahill
      @harrycahill 4 года назад +13

      Theres no wind because it's a green screen. They're not actually on a tower

  • @braincraft
    @braincraft 4 года назад +1729

    AHHHHHH! This was SO fun - thank you for being a delightful quizmaster Tom, and continued apologies to everyone for the weirdness of my gaze, I kept taking notes on a notepad next to my computer 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @elonmusk352
      @elonmusk352 4 года назад +26

      Can you craft my Brain?

    • @inactiveytchannel
      @inactiveytchannel 4 года назад +12

      Congrats Braincraft!

    • @Halo_Legend
      @Halo_Legend 4 года назад +3

      Meh

    • @uremailingalex
      @uremailingalex 4 года назад +12

      Congrats Vanessa! Yours has been an under-rated channel for years! I loved the Sleeping With Friends series! Fantastic work on your channel!

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 4 года назад +16

      "Weirdness of my gaze"
      No, the gaze was the best part.

  • @BlazingshadeLetsPlay
    @BlazingshadeLetsPlay 4 года назад +1286

    Really well done in all. I almost wish they had 4 or 5 lives so they stick around a little longer or make comebacks. Also having a fourth contestant would be interesting, because it would allow for another "round" with a different ruleset. That might make the show too long unless Tom Scott channels his inner Alex Trebek to move along the episode. Hoping for a season 2 in general sometime!!

    • @peterknutsen3070
      @peterknutsen3070 4 года назад +125

      I think 3 contestants is fine, but I’ve also previously thought that 4 bars would make it less random, less arbitrary.
      You can “die” *real* fast in this game, and it’s *very* dependent on whether you get good or bad question categories. Giving everyone 1 extra bar would even out the randomness by a lot.

    • @mukrifachri
      @mukrifachri 4 года назад +13

      Probably for the special TechDif version.
      I'm craving for TechDif now, can't tell why XD

    • @harriehausenman8623
      @harriehausenman8623 4 года назад +10

      One more life please!!!

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 4 года назад +7

      Ooh, and having four players means we'd see _16_ RUclipsrs per season instead of nine!

    • @moontiger6393
      @moontiger6393 4 года назад

      +

  • @simonas_video
    @simonas_video 4 года назад +1063

    Cool subtitles! They are colour coded with the frame of each contestant!

    • @seancallaghan54
      @seancallaghan54 4 года назад +127

      This is actually a great idea for the audio impaired because it shows who is taking if they are off screen!

    • @TheR00ndar
      @TheR00ndar 4 года назад +71

      @@seancallaghan54 I believe Tom mentioned that it's the BBC's style of subtitles in the comments under an earlier episode.

    • @barmanitan
      @barmanitan 4 года назад +58

      And yet, RUclips are removing the ability to do this. What a brilliant idea!

    • @over5224
      @over5224 4 года назад +20

      simonasvideo you made hundreds of people turn on subtitles to see this, including me!

    • @nokyan
      @nokyan 4 года назад +1

      But doesn't that make it harder to differentiate different people talking for people who are audio-impaired and some sort of color blind?

  • @xureality
    @xureality 4 года назад +1640

    For the record, there's one game company on the list: Nintendo.

    • @hexeddecimals
      @hexeddecimals 4 года назад +18

      You looked up the list?

    • @gingernytemare
      @gingernytemare 4 года назад +120

      by that logic, so is Sony and Microsoft

    • @stevepatterson1092
      @stevepatterson1092 4 года назад +343

      @@gingernytemare Sony and Microsoft both have massive branches of their companies unrelated to video games. Nintendo dabbles in a few other things, but they really are the only purely games company up there

    • @klaxoncow
      @klaxoncow 4 года назад +185

      @@stevepatterson1092 Well done for saying "games company" and not "video games company", as Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made card games.
      Yes, Nintendo, as a company, was already more than 90 years old before it even released the Nintendo Entertainment System!

    • @TheFerrett3
      @TheFerrett3 4 года назад +7

      No EA?

  • @Eira_
    @Eira_ 4 года назад +535

    "Do you want flowers or body parts" is a question that would be very concerning if this werent a quiz show

    • @weshard1
      @weshard1 4 года назад +55

      I’ll have two-lips.

    • @hellterminator
      @hellterminator 4 года назад +30

      Sounds like a reasonable thing to ask your girlfriend. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @polishka7529
      @polishka7529 4 года назад +23

      @@hellterminator when you're both struggling but the romance is still alive

    • @Shadow81989
      @Shadow81989 4 года назад +1

      @@weshard1 get out! xD

    • @makarabaduk1754
      @makarabaduk1754 4 года назад +16

      Tom Scott bringing the smoothest chat-up lines.

  • @thePrplMonkey
    @thePrplMonkey 4 года назад +325

    I realize this is all a glorified ad for SmartStage, but I am now obsessed with this game show and insist on another season

  • @danieltaber4924
    @danieltaber4924 4 года назад +924

    Alec's challenge on the Vasco de Gama question was wrong-headed.
    If the answer was wrong and neither player challenged, Alec has a 50/50 of making it to the next round.
    If the answer was wrong and Alec challenged, the gain is not worth the risk of it being right.

    • @juillotine
      @juillotine 4 года назад +140

      Agreed. It's a waiting and bluffing game where you have to bluff even if you're not the one who's being asked questions. If you're skilled enough, you could even trick the other person to challenge a correct answer and lose points.

    • @iansmith8016
      @iansmith8016 4 года назад +141

      Not enough game theory has been used this series

    • @ZanHecht
      @ZanHecht 4 года назад +105

      Yes, but it was karma for him somehow getting away with passing off
      the obviously English/Germanic word "dumpling" as Cantonese.

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson 4 года назад +33

      But a number of those late 1400s Iberian explorers were not from the country they were working for. Columbus was from Genoa, not Spanish. I think there were a few others like that too.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 4 года назад +23

      @@Dave_Sisson Very good point that I forgot about. It was mostly Spain and Portugal that made discoveries, the Britts then moved i with they superior fleet once there was a map they could steal. (Yes, I know this is probably not correct, but it is a good story.) And the Dutch traded.

  • @OrangeC7
    @OrangeC7 4 года назад +394

    "How Much Consumerism Can You Remember?" sounds like a whole game show in itself

    • @eDoc2020
      @eDoc2020 4 года назад +9

      Or a board game. I've played "The Logo Board Game."

    • @flubba86
      @flubba86 4 года назад +5

      Watch the Australian TV Show "The Gruen transfer", its basically that.

    • @EpicJailbreakMan
      @EpicJailbreakMan 4 года назад +7

      I mean, ever heard of The Price Is Right?

    • @mutantgeralt
      @mutantgeralt 3 года назад

      Or the QuizUp game

    • @mutantgeralt
      @mutantgeralt 3 года назад +2

      @@EpicJailbreakMan well America IS the face of consumerism and capitalism so there's that. And no I hadn't heard of the show before I saw your comment

  • @_zoey.17
    @_zoey.17 4 года назад +427

    This is the only game show where I'm equally excited about the product placement and the actual content

    • @kathrinehmunk
      @kathrinehmunk 4 года назад +3

      Yes me too

    • @BertGrink
      @BertGrink 4 года назад +38

      Those ads are excellent, because not only do they promote products/companies, but they are educational as well.
      But to be honest, I wouldn't expect anything less from Tom. ;)

    • @juillotine
      @juillotine 4 года назад +4

      @@BertGrink ads? I come here for those.

  • @Bobberation
    @Bobberation 4 года назад +267

    Question about the technology:
    What do the players see on their end of the call? It was mentioned in a previous episode that this could be rendered in real time - are they seeing the same shot we are, with Tom onstage talking to them, or is there a way to hide a camera in the LED wall so that you can more or less make direct eye contact?

    • @DarkNexarius
      @DarkNexarius 4 года назад +41

      Probably the same view we see. Direct eye contact would only work with Tom and not with the other players.

    • @kirkupxp
      @kirkupxp 4 года назад +29

      Correct - they see the stream live from the stages main camera.

  • @CGaboL
    @CGaboL 4 года назад +206

    I'm somewhat surprised neither said Disney in the final round

    • @m.b.4165
      @m.b.4165 4 года назад +8

      I'm surprised no one named AMD, GM or Intel

    • @gametrashstuff2312
      @gametrashstuff2312 4 года назад +6

      @@m.b.4165 Or any of the car companies for that matter (save Ford).

    • @alex0589
      @alex0589 4 года назад +23

      That’s because disney owns all of the companies named, they own you. Look behind you.

    • @m.b.4165
      @m.b.4165 4 года назад +1

      @@gametrashstuff2312 Well... I'm from Europe so I don't know if the car companies we're having here are based in the USA too. GM is the only one I know which is definitelly based in the USA.

    • @falconJB
      @falconJB 4 года назад +7

      @@m.b.4165 I'm not sure AMD would be on that list, I know its nowhere close to the top 100 for revenue.

  • @MiseFreisin
    @MiseFreisin 4 года назад +233

    "Would you like flowers or body parts?" - me in February trying to suss out if my girlfriend is a mad scientist who reanimates corpses.

    • @PhoenixClank
      @PhoenixClank 4 года назад +14

      oh, I thought you were gonna make an innuendo involving a certain body part you would "gift" to your girlfriend instead of flowers.

    • @photonicpizza1466
      @photonicpizza1466 4 года назад +7

      Two people replied with the exact same joke at almost the exact same time. When a joke is dead obvious, you know it's good.

    • @alex0589
      @alex0589 4 года назад +2

      From it’s alive to it’s alone

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 4 года назад +2

      Just give her a hand, mate

  • @ArsyaUtomo
    @ArsyaUtomo 4 года назад +324

    Technical Difficulties: Disconnected edition

  • @paradonym
    @paradonym 4 года назад +193

    Others: "thinking"
    Alec: "Instant answer"

    •  4 года назад +6

      Didn't work for him though

    • @iamthinking2252_
      @iamthinking2252_ 4 года назад

      Doing the bluff quite well

  • @Papierflugzeug95
    @Papierflugzeug95 4 года назад +56

    Ellen is such a wholesome person. Always amazing to see her.

    •  4 года назад +6

      She's great

  • @toaj868
    @toaj868 4 года назад +88

    All the contestants have such a good awareness of their “surroundings”.

  • @IguitarVreakI
    @IguitarVreakI 4 года назад +31

    Was it always a rule that the contestants get points back, when they make it to the final round? Vanessa went into the final with 1 bar left, but after the break had 2. Perhaps I missed it in previous episodes.

    • @islilyyagirl
      @islilyyagirl 4 года назад +1

      i'm almost completely sure not, however that situation didn't occur in earlier episodes

    • @leilasalminen8398
      @leilasalminen8398 4 года назад +35

      Yes, both players always start the second round with 2 bars.

    • @marcsidanparker2373
      @marcsidanparker2373 4 года назад +12

      They do, on Ellen's episode the same thing happened

  • @mog398
    @mog398 4 года назад +66

    We lost the technology connection to Technology Connections :(

  • @tj_kendon
    @tj_kendon 4 года назад +69

    Tom Scott, game shows either recorded in a garden shed or the most computationally powerful studio in the world.

  • @alaiterg
    @alaiterg 4 года назад +111

    The septenium one sas simple because im Mexico we call a president's term a sexenium, as they last 6 years instead of 4

    • @lmao4982
      @lmao4982 4 года назад +7

      Even just decennium

    • @bigdog91paper
      @bigdog91paper 4 года назад +4

      Huh, here in the US we don't really use specific terms for how long the serve. Whether it's the president's four years, the Senate's 6 we just call it their term.

    • @elifia
      @elifia 4 года назад +3

      I just went with the etymology. Septem = 7, annus = year, therefore septennium = 7 years. Millennium is 1000 years because mille = 1000

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 4 года назад +2

      @@elifia Ellen was close, it is not an easy thing as is well known, even of a lot of people know it. Ellen is still among the 10% that get the number 7 out of it.

    • @Blade.5786
      @Blade.5786 4 года назад +6

      @@57thorns bro anyone with a basic education can get the seven easily. but the rest is hard if you aren't thinking in Latin. For some reason I got 7 million years lmao

  • @henriquejambu
    @henriquejambu 4 года назад +31

    Vasco da Gama’s nationality was the only question from this whole show I knew the answer of 😂

  • @AngryKittens
    @AngryKittens 4 года назад +282

    "Is dumpling even a Cantonese word?"
    Bruh. It's English.

    • @bigdog91paper
      @bigdog91paper 4 года назад +34

      Haven't you heard of Dump Ling?

    • @hammerth1421
      @hammerth1421 4 года назад +12

      I mean, ketchup comes from kê-chiap which means "fish brine" in the Amoy dialect.

    • @Aquillyne
      @Aquillyne 4 года назад +3

      This was so dense...

    • @HatchetHaro
      @HatchetHaro 4 года назад +9

      @@hammerth1421 Now, in Cantonese, it is pronounced "ke tsup", which means "tomato juice". I find that similarity in pronunciation for such different things quite a fantastic coincidence.

    • @Menon9767
      @Menon9767 4 года назад +1

      @@HatchetHaro On that one I would say Cantonese adapted Ketchup

  • @rubycon9158
    @rubycon9158 4 года назад +25

    Can we have Matt Gray, Gary and Chris Joel in this show please?

    • @Shadow81989
      @Shadow81989 4 года назад +15

      By "Gary" you mean everybody's favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan? I second that!

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 4 года назад +3

      What about Toast?

    • @GumSkyloard
      @GumSkyloard 4 года назад +5

      @@nitehawk86 Never happened.

    • @bjorn_joseph
      @bjorn_joseph 4 года назад +4

      Is it the Chris Joel who reads books?

  • @awkweird_panda
    @awkweird_panda 4 года назад +84

    "Follower numbers and talent dont have the strongest relationship sometimes" Lmao Vanessa taking shots at the Kardashians 🤣

    • @eDoc2020
      @eDoc2020 4 года назад +5

      I'm sure the statement is equally applicable to others on the list, too.

    • @ultimateagent1784
      @ultimateagent1784 4 года назад +1

      abhi verma Travis Scott also

  • @saltag
    @saltag 4 года назад +26

    點心 as "touch heart" is a bit of a precarious literal translation, "point heart" probably makes more sense since it's a noun

    • @warbler1984
      @warbler1984 4 года назад +2

      Okay let's throw Tom off the tower

    • @whythehecknot5038
      @whythehecknot5038 3 года назад

      @@warbler1984 *chants "Do It!" repeatedly*

    • @josir1994
      @josir1994 3 года назад

      I think they mistaken it from 掂

    • @bubbleteaichooseyou
      @bubbleteaichooseyou 3 года назад

      It's chinese it doesn't matter just one of their word means a myriad things

  • @Twisol
    @Twisol 4 года назад +19

    "I do know what the word is in Mandarin."
    "Do we *believe* that?"
    🤣 They don't know this madman speaks Mandarin!

  • @Laittth
    @Laittth 4 года назад +151

    I can use spetennium in a sentence; "there have been too many GTA V rereleases this septennium"

    • @Seawolf.Gaming
      @Seawolf.Gaming 4 года назад +9

      I think you mean "There have been too many Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim rereleases this septennium"

    • @Atomguy112
      @Atomguy112 4 года назад +3

      @@Seawolf.Gaming @Bad Username Creator ... Both, both of these.

    • @Laittth
      @Laittth 4 года назад

      @@Seawolf.Gaming yes that too

    • @penumbra0182
      @penumbra0182 4 года назад +1

      No, there have been too many bad Pokemon games this septennium.

    • @namewarvergeben
      @namewarvergeben 4 года назад +1

      That's Rockstar trying to get on that last list mentioned in this show

  • @jonoliahjohn6800
    @jonoliahjohn6800 4 года назад +17

    I've always been suspicious as to why Vanessa constantly looks down, but I know that it's just my trust issues resurfacing.

  • @grickum
    @grickum 4 года назад +9

    Vanessa looks like shes looking up the answers on her computer for some reason no cap

  • @_zoey.17
    @_zoey.17 4 года назад +47

    12:24 Tom is absolutely right, the look in her face, unbelievably funny 😂😂 LMAO

  • @simplylinn
    @simplylinn 4 года назад +185

    Okay, this was a very fun show! I liked it a lot!
    But in the future, when you do things like the category where people are supposed to list them, may I suggest putting the category on screen somewhere as a graphical overlay? Because my (diagnosed) ADHD brain has a hard time paying full attention, so I kinda zone out during the chit-chat section and then I come back when the tension gets back on. And suddenly they're listing things from a category I completely missed, so I have to rewind and try to figure out what the category was and I think putting a graphic on screen would really help me keeping track of what's going on.

    • @robert-andreiionita2827
      @robert-andreiionita2827 4 года назад +16

      An interesting accessability feature. Maybe it should be implemented indeed...
      I wish there will be a season 2! And even more for that matter. There are many youtubers to choose from.

    • @kf10147
      @kf10147 4 года назад +23

      I would also suggest putting a link to the answer list in the description bc now I need to know if what I was thinking is right.

    • @slep1654
      @slep1654 4 года назад +3

      Yea I had to rewind for all three this episode

    • @moontiger6393
      @moontiger6393 4 года назад

      +

    • @blueandpurple5467
      @blueandpurple5467 4 года назад +6

      don't have ADHD but I also did zone out during those sections and then had to rewind(

  • @DurianFruit
    @DurianFruit 4 года назад +42

    I loved this series, it was different than your usual content while still being very "Tom Scott". Hope you do more things like this in the future!

  • @rudymartin8583
    @rudymartin8583 4 года назад +28

    "Unfortunately, video game companies have not made it up there yet"
    A moment of silence for this loss on the part of our fellow gamer

    •  4 года назад +1

      Rip Ellen

  • @lockyourdoors5886
    @lockyourdoors5886 4 года назад +191

    "Which Chinese food translates literally from Cantonese as 'touch-heart'"
    Okay, so in Chinese, it's actually 点心, with [点] meaning 'dot', and [心] obviously meaning 'heart'. Even looks like one. In Cantonese it'd be pronounced 'dim sum'. In Chinese, it'd be dian(3) xin(1). You can Google Translate the pronunciation if you'd like.
    However, when you ask a Chinese-speaker what [点] means, we wouldn't think it means 'touch'. See, the thing is that Chinese words sometimes carry a more complicated meaning with them that can't be translated exactly one-to-one.
    In Chinese, we usually provide tenses (past/present/future) with extra words rather than changing individual word forms (下雨了/正在下雨/将会下雨 instead of rained/raining/will rain). With some extra words (and thus context), [点] would mean 'to touch gently to form a dot'. Or it could also mean 'to dip', or 'to create a small divot'. Thus, we can see that the word has some intent to it in that a small _something_ is formed, which again ties back to how just the word [点] means 'dot'.
    It doesn't _just_ mean 'touch'. This is more an explanation of the nature of translation rather than a criticism--how the intrinsically different natures of languages can cause problems in understanding. What I _would_ like to point out is that Tom didn't need to say "translates literally from Cantonese" because the script for [点心] is the same in both languages anyway.

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 4 года назад +12

      This is something that I love about language in general, but it's so nice to see the history of words inside of the characters that form them especially in languages that use the Chinese writing system

    • @LaplacianFourier
      @LaplacianFourier 4 года назад +4

      Dafuq

    • @jadefalcon001
      @jadefalcon001 4 года назад +4

      Today I learned!

    • @juillotine
      @juillotine 4 года назад +6

      TIL. That is very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

    • @candiestorie176
      @candiestorie176 4 года назад +5

      Okay, I was going to try to explain that, but you did it much better than I would have, so thank you

  • @Vodhin
    @Vodhin 4 года назад +14

    Poor Alec. He's going to have to make a new channel: _Technology Disconnections_

  • @christeebs
    @christeebs 4 года назад +115

    Please tell us what the Formula 1 question was, I'd love to know

    • @Ataku-B
      @Ataku-B 4 года назад +1

      Yes!

    • @yiply42
      @yiply42 4 года назад +24

      As soon as I heard that one I got so hyped but it was not to be :(

    • @AnnDVine
      @AnnDVine 4 года назад +16

      how many formulas are there

    • @s3mp3rfi
      @s3mp3rfi 4 года назад +9

      ​@@AnnDVine at least four hundred and nine

    • @jadefalcon001
      @jadefalcon001 4 года назад +4

      @@s3mp3rfi Well played

  • @ТомасАндерсон-в1е
    @ТомасАндерсон-в1е 4 года назад +236

    It didn't make sense for Alec to challenge purely from the game theory PoV.
    There were 4 situations, 1 of them improves his relative standing slightly (correct challenge), 1 of them would have been neutral (correct lack of challenge),1 of them led to a tiebreak or improved his position (incorrect lack of challenge), 1 of them led to a game over (incorrect challenge). It didn't make sense for him to challenge.
    Also, this is probably why I'm never invited to game shows.

    • @abelimandau
      @abelimandau 4 года назад +8

      thought the same thing when that happened!

    • @arbitraryending6489
      @arbitraryending6489 4 года назад +13

      An incorrect lack of challenge causes him to lose also though

    • @pizzaivlife
      @pizzaivlife 4 года назад +54

      @@arbitraryending6489 I think Tom said that would go to a tie break because two people have to make it to the final

    • @sharp252
      @sharp252 4 года назад

      Lmao but good logic

    • @dramforever
      @dramforever 4 года назад +2

      The problem with what you've said is that you'd have to factor in how likely the answer was correct. For example, there are quite a few more than one major countries in the world at the time, so a random guess would be more likely be incorrect. If you figured that the other person was probably bluffing/unsure, there's a good chance you'll get a correct challenge, and you'd have to reweight your four scenarios.
      Edit: Okay I never got to see the tiebreaker so didn't quite get how it would work (not familiar with this kind of stuff...). I'd say the scenarios are still not equal but I agree that not challenging is safer.

  • @subashrammohan8890
    @subashrammohan8890 4 года назад +20

    Indian here, shouting "Portuguese" for the Vasco Da Gama Question.

    • @alanv1233
      @alanv1233 4 года назад

      So?

    • @vibsh625
      @vibsh625 4 года назад +3

      @@alanv1233 So now I like OP's comment and tell you to stop asking dumb questions.

    • @alanv1233
      @alanv1233 4 года назад

      @@vibsh625 me asking why should I care is a dumb question?

    • @vibsh625
      @vibsh625 4 года назад +2

      @@alanv1233 Yes, you can simply ignore and find other comments to fuss over. No one invited you to care. Stuck up ьiтсн.

    • @GumSkyloard
      @GumSkyloard 3 года назад

      Portuguese here, doing the same thing.

  • @300blackcats
    @300blackcats 4 года назад +55

    As a Cantonese speaker, I hate that ABCs put the false information of dim sum = touch heart out there, I mean, yes, if you take the two words apart, it can mean touch and heart respectively, but dim sum itself is ONE word that means snack in chinese, and the whole "touch heart" thing is bogus

    • @mattcelder
      @mattcelder 4 года назад +31

      It's like if someone said "did you know the English word for firework literally means 'set your employer ablaze'?"

    • @candiestorie176
      @candiestorie176 4 года назад +1

      I thought that sounded a bit wrong as well! But I wasn't sure if I should say anything, since I only speak Mandarin and not Cantonese...

    • @basicallycroft946
      @basicallycroft946 4 года назад +1

      Honestly i dont think its that big a deal, esl people are fine, people dont fully understand cantonese are fine. Its for fun and people dont always understand other languages

    • @proevomen90
      @proevomen90 4 года назад +3

      I think [and I am well aware that I'm merely a learner of Mandarin, not even Cantonese - and certainly not a native of either] that it is sort of implicit in the question that it isn't the actual used meaning of the words, just their technically correct meanings when separated.
      If you asked: "Which city is [literally] known in Mandarin as Eastern Capital?" then it's clear it is splitting the words apart, and not actually worried that Tokyo (as it's Japanese/English name) does not really have any connection to the 'literal meaning' [now, could you argue the same with Beijing and Nanjing? That's slightly different because they're both used in both languages to mean the same thing but dim sum has taken on the status of a Proper Noun in English but dim and sum are not English nouns]

    • @jacklogansmith7646
      @jacklogansmith7646 4 года назад +2

      I thought that Tom said "Touch hard", but I might have misheard.

  • @ChristopherJackson1
    @ChristopherJackson1 4 года назад +13

    "Follower numbers and talent don't have the strongest relationship." - Brilliant!