DISCONNECTED: The Champion of Champions Grand Final 

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

Alec's channel is now called Technology Disconnections

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

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

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 🤷🏻‍♀️

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!!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Others: "thinking" Alec: "Instant answer"

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

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

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

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

Technical Difficulties: Disconnected edition

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

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?

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

Tom has the rare talent of being able to even make the advertisements interesting.

This is the definitely the best game show Tom Scott has ever made! It was very fun seeing RU-vidrs that I’ve watched, especially Alec. I really hope that there is another season of this show!

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!

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

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

This could be easily picked on a TV station for a question based contest done with contestants from home. Tweak the mechanics and assure security and it could really make a hit

Can we take a minute to admire the editing of Tom Scott's videos?

"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

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

we need a special with the techdif lads

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.

Me: *watches with absolute attention trying to ans questions and stuff* Also me: Tom Scott's head is so shiny in this episode 😂😂

Many educational RU-vidrs get criticized for some of their ads. I love how you did it here! No ambiguity between fact and ad, clean transitions, and actually good ads too! Thanks for this show!

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.

We lost the technology connection to Technology Connections :(

This game show would be great as a premiere. The audience could talk about things that are happening when they happen in live chat, without the show needing to be live.

"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.

I was actually holding my breath in anticipation at the end there

I follow Alec for a long time and I love his channel. I was rooting for him and, as I am a Brazilian, I knew Vasco da Gama was Portuguese and was like "no Alec, don't challenge".

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

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

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

More like technology disconnections amirite? Alec my dude, you were the chosen one! I guess they have the high ground now ;) Congrats braincraft. I loved this show. The only game show ive watched in 15+ years for sure

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

Kudos for not revealing the winners of the previous rounds in the thumbnail! And the format in general was hillarious, thank you for the entertainment!

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

Thank you for this interesting show!

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

Nooo... Grand Finale I love this show :( I hope you make another season of this show. It has such an interesting idea of a trivia contest that I can't wait to see more !

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

Nice touch with the subtitles. I like the colour coded text as well the pronunciation of Adidas.

Why aren't all ad-breaks like this? also great show, can't wait for another season

For those who are curious: Dim sum is written as 點心, where 點 means point and 心 means heart

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

This was so amazing! Pleaase do another series!

Alec last time - *dominates* Alec now - *trips on the start line*

Hi Tom , I liked this show hope to see season 2 soon and as for Vanessa, congratulations I am following u since past 2 years and was really happy that u r the grand champion cheers :)

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.

That was a really good show! I liked the concept and the format, very entertaining. The guests were great, the competitive spirit showed in all of them and it was great to be able to play along with the list type questions. 😃😃

1 year later: champion of champions of champions of champions of champions of champions of champions of champions of champions of champions

I wish this series can have a reboot ❤

As a Portuguese fan of Technology Connections, I can't believe Alec lost because of Vasco da Gama...

I'd like to see another season of this show. But Tom Scott's game shows are so great, I'd watch more seasons of any and all of them. (Technical difficulties too.)

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

Definitely worth ITV grabbing this as a new Gameshow.

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

its nice to see some of my favorite youtubers from unrelated channels do things together..

Tom, to make it more fair, and to get rid of those uncomfortable "who is going to challenge" decisions, I propose that when one player is challenging, other shall make an explicit decision if they support that challenge or not. If they do not support a rightful challenge, they should loose a point.

well done with the game show host dramatic pauses, Tom!

Is it weird I’ve been subbed to ALL FOUR of these people for a long time?!

Tom, this episode is better than previous ones because now it directly goes to the quiz rather than walks the participants through how to play, one by one.

Ellen: 17:32 GTA Fans: we feel ya!

Even the ads are informational. I love it.

Tom Scott’s distant set up has quite literally out-done every talk show’s cheap home set-up

This. Was. AN AMAZING SERIE ! 😃🎉

I'd love to see The Technical Difficulties go for a round of this.

So much fun. And I'm glad I wasn't playing because you proved how little I know.

@Tom Scott Thanks for the show, that was really cool. I think there is a small typo in one of the link to Ellen's channels, there is one too many "e" in "outsidextra"

That Portuguese explorer, I had the exact same thought as Ellen, I didnt know it, but i immediately thought portugese, and was so surprised that it turned out right. This show is great

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

Can't believe how good of a showman you are. Those years of technical difficulties have really paid off. (side note there, I just realized that being disconnected is in fact a "technical difficulty")

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

This was an interesting plug section - tou can tell Tom's both interested in the technology, and grateful to the company for letting him play with their set.

Being an F1 fan i felt a sliver of happines at 4:29, only to be let down.

I just love the tune - really rings like a TV quiz :D

Noooo Alec! Vanessa should've guessed, or they should've both gone down. May your connection be restored one day.

The only commercial breaks I do not skip. This information : peddling ratio is truly great; I don't feel pulled over the barrel or anything, just informed. Well, okay, this last case wasn't too interesting, but the earlier ones were!

Cool! RU-vid subtitles can be coloured now!

Tom and all the participants - thank you - great show, interesting tech demo, cool format for questions, and some new people to follow for content :)

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

Amazing show, so well produced! The quality of the subtitles was particularly excellent, compared to (for example) shows on Netflix etc.

I’ll be honest, I clicked because it looked like a Captain Disillusion silhouette

One of the most enjoyable gameshow series I've watched. Brilliant Hope it returns many times

Tom your vids are amazing! mine are just poop xD

I'm clearly the real winner here having now subscribed to several awesome new channels I'd not have come across otherwise