Team Koror!

Sarah and her friend Matt (also teaching at Kids Herald School in Seoul) got on the final ever episode of the Korean TV quiz show, The Contenders (dun dun dun!) It's the final episode because - and this is top secret - the female host is pregnant. Now she took us into her confidence so please don't go spreading this around to all your mates. And what a bitch she was, every time someone got a question wrong she glared at them, then rolled her eyes and sighed like "You're a real moron aren't you? However could you not know the name of the 13th century Korean dynasty that spawned this random art form". Not kidding - every single time!

But anyway Sarah and Matt - Team Koror (Survivor fans take note) - were awesome. Natural TV stars exuding poise and confidence, they kicked butt and showed a ton more charisma than the other team, who nearly put me to sleep. Koror were clear crowd favourites. If you watch the show you'll see the middle-aged Korean women cheering their little hearts out as they sat around watching a show which they couldn't understand a word of, before stampeding to get their cheque for ten bucks for being in the studio audience.

Anyway there was a buzzer issue (Sarah thought Matt had already buzzed and vice versa) for the Cleopatra question and a very dodgy judges ruling on Faust (the original story is clearly known by the non-anglicised Faustus which Sarah said) and these two glitches meant that Koror missed out on advancing by the narrowest of margins. But that was probably a good thing, they couldn't have been carryover champs anyway since it was the final show so they avoided that pain.

If you want to watch Matt and Sarah in all their glory (along with a bemused looking whitey sitting among the Korean housewives in the studio audience) the show airs next Friday April 8th and apparently there is a link to watch it online. Stay tuned...