Jan
17
Full Kit W*nker
In last week's post, I discussed the idea of having UC contestants returning for multiple series, which would
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2025-26
Jan
12
The College Sports Piece
It's too late to say Happy New Year, so I'm not going to do that. Instead,
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Dec
24
Deck the Halls With Queries of Power
Every so often, you come across a game-changing data analysis tool (this is a theme I'm sure is
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Dec
15
Ancient DNA
Edinburgh and Trinity have played only once in UC history, with Edinburgh winning a quarter-final match in 2022. Trinity came
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Dec
08
Creativity Death Spiral
Posting this on Reddit to try and boost my readership, I thought I'd check out my analytics to
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Dec
01
Stitch Incoming
Two things happened this week which made me feel old.
First, I was jumping up and down in my kitchen
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Nov
12
A Steely Performance
After last week's debacle in which my 2-seed Magdalen got knocked off by my 16-seed Darwin, let'
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Nov
09
Predictably Poor Punditry
Last year, I wrote a post about how pundits have a free pass for all of the terrible predictions they
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Nov
02
Septuple Negatives
November is National Novel Writing Month. Or at least it was, before the NaNoWriMo organisation crashed and burned at the
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Oct
22
Not So Neighbourhood Watch
SOAS played UCL in their first round match, and I estimated their proximity to be among the highest of all
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