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Topic History of: University Challenge - another example of BBC spinelessness
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)

Author	Message
BR	Thank you Emma
Emma Bee	Thank you for that post, BR. I haven't laughed so much for a long time. I really think you need to stop taking the tablets.
Bill	'What would have been the situation if he declared he was working ?' This has happened many times before - life moves on. The answer is - he would have been replaced by a student. Few rules exist for this show. But you must be a student at all rounds and affirm that you are - and tell the BBC of changes in your student status. This chap chose not to and quite correctly was disqualified. Why have rules at all ?
JK2006	Great piece in the Sun by Bamber Gascoigne saying that, now University Challenge takes so long to record, most contestants in their last year now cannot enter. And in the Mirror it's revealed that several previous winning teams should now be disqualified. Just another example of BBC spinelessness and laxness - not thinking things through or examining consequences.
BR	When the competition started this man WAS at Oxford University. I really cant see why he has been disqualified. In addition how come he was not checked by the BBC until AFTER the whole series had finished. This sounds like the classic GORDON BROWN story. Revising history after it has happened. You dont get Man Utd getting disqualified after a Premier League season. They may get a fine if they do something wrong....but football clubs dont get demoted for breaking rules unless it happens at the time. What the BBC have done is to disqualify the WHOLE COMPETITION - not the contestant. Surely those of you posting on here must see that. By all means cancel the prize money of this individual. But to cancel the whole team and then to cancel the whole competition after it has taken place makes the whole thing meaningless. Revisionist history is what dictatorships do. The BBC let this person take part and checked his entry ( or we think they did ) I believe students in Oxford believe that they followed the rules. I cant believe that they have been disqualified. I might add that my colleges are UCL - LSE - and Cambridge University - so I have no interest in standing up for an Oxford college. This is PC rule following gone mad. Box ticking culture is appalling. The BBC need to stand by their orginal decision to approve this team and have the GUTS to do so. Otherwise JK is right. They are spineless. I salute OXFORD and Ms Trimble as the real winners of University Challenge in 2009 - the only winners. Even if the BBC PC brigade dont want to recognise that. I would hope that when the TORIES get back into power the title will be restored to OXFORD and this sorry little episode will be forgotten about.