DISCONNECTED: The Champion of Champions Grand Final

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  • 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.
    AD: White Light provided the SmartStage studio facilities and crew! You can find out more about their technology here: tinyurl.com/y7dxo2gz
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    Host: Tom Scott
    Question Producer: David Bodycombe
    Set Designer: Mat Hill
    Format: Labyrinth Games / Pad 26
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    Andy Hook
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    For disguise:
    Peter Kirkup
    Lead Camera: Luis Quiterio
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    Fraser Carr-Gomm
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    Editor: Michelle Martin
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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +67

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

    • @yuakka
      @yuakka Pƙed 3 lety +4

      Pog.

    • @js0988
      @js0988 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Bring back Lateral.

    • @pincerprithu
      @pincerprithu Pƙed 3 lety +1

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

    • @zedzedveryhuman
      @zedzedveryhuman Pƙed 3 lety +3

      lmao how

  • @aziztcf
    @aziztcf Pƙed 3 lety +2094

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

    • @Mikall_
      @Mikall_ Pƙed 3 lety +84

      Alright this joke deserves a crap ton of likes

    • @legosans926
      @legosans926 Pƙed 3 lety +20

      @@Mikall_ ikr this is severely underrated

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 Pƙed 3 lety +8

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

    • @6023barath
      @6023barath Pƙed 3 lety +1

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

    • @tomvandongen8075
      @tomvandongen8075 Pƙed 2 lety +4

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

  • @asteroidsonsteroids271
    @asteroidsonsteroids271 Pƙed 3 lety +3076

    Alec's channel is now called Technology Disconnections

  • @hungmale7
    @hungmale7 Pƙed 3 lety +3122

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

    • @karina-ww9pp
      @karina-ww9pp Pƙed 3 lety +72

      Yes, it is quite amazing

    • @jankkhvej434
      @jankkhvej434 Pƙed 3 lety +97

      cant wait to woooosh someone

    • @SahilSingh-ov6qt
      @SahilSingh-ov6qt Pƙed 3 lety +56

      "OmG bUt ItS a ViRtUaL sEt"

    • @Finat0
      @Finat0 Pƙed 3 lety +82

      jankkhvej was that a pun?

    • @harrycahill
      @harrycahill Pƙed 3 lety +13

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

  • @Eira_
    @Eira_ Pƙed 3 lety +531

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

    • @weshard1
      @weshard1 Pƙed 3 lety +55

      I’ll have two-lips.

    • @hellterminator
      @hellterminator Pƙed 3 lety +30

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

    • @polishka7529
      @polishka7529 Pƙed 3 lety +23

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

    • @Shadow81989
      @Shadow81989 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@weshard1 get out! xD

    • @makarabaduk1754
      @makarabaduk1754 Pƙed 3 lety +16

      Tom Scott bringing the smoothest chat-up lines.

  • @BlazingshadeLetsPlay
    @BlazingshadeLetsPlay Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +13

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

    • @harriehausenman8623
      @harriehausenman8623 Pƙed 3 lety +10

      One more life please!!!

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Pƙed 3 lety +7

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

    • @moontiger6393
      @moontiger6393 Pƙed 3 lety

      +

  • @braincraft
    @braincraft Pƙed 3 lety +1731

    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 đŸ€·đŸ»â€â™€ïž

    • @elonmusk352
      @elonmusk352 Pƙed 3 lety +26

      Can you craft my Brain?

    • @inactiveytchannel
      @inactiveytchannel Pƙed 3 lety +12

      Congrats Braincraft!

    • @Halo_Legend
      @Halo_Legend Pƙed 3 lety +3

      Meh

    • @uremailingalex
      @uremailingalex Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +16

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

  • @anshalkapil816
    @anshalkapil816 Pƙed 3 lety +2247

    Dear Tom,
    We need a Season 2,
    Thank you.
    - Your Audience.

  • @MichaelHumphrey
    @MichaelHumphrey Pƙed 3 lety +320

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

  • @simonas_video
    @simonas_video Pƙed 3 lety +1060

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

    • @seancallaghan54
      @seancallaghan54 Pƙed 3 lety +128

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

    • @TheR00ndar
      @TheR00ndar Pƙed 3 lety +71

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

    • @barmanitan
      @barmanitan Pƙed 3 lety +58

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

    • @over5224
      @over5224 Pƙed 3 lety +20

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

    • @nokyan
      @nokyan Pƙed 3 lety +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?

  • @cosmicbun11
    @cosmicbun11 Pƙed 3 lety +450

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

    • @mbainrot
      @mbainrot Pƙed 3 lety +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 :)

  • @xureality
    @xureality Pƙed 3 lety +1634

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

    • @hexeddecimals
      @hexeddecimals Pƙed 3 lety +18

      You looked up the list?

    • @gingernytemare
      @gingernytemare Pƙed 3 lety +120

      by that logic, so is Sony and Microsoft

    • @stevepatterson1092
      @stevepatterson1092 Pƙed 3 lety +342

      @@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 Pƙed 3 lety +184

      @@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 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      No EA?

  • @danieltaber4924
    @danieltaber4924 Pƙed 3 lety +922

    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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +139

      Not enough game theory has been used this series

    • @ZanHecht
      @ZanHecht Pƙed 3 lety +104

      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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +393

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

    • @eDoc2020
      @eDoc2020 Pƙed 3 lety +9

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

    • @flubba86
      @flubba86 Pƙed 3 lety +5

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

    • @EpicJailbreakMan
      @EpicJailbreakMan Pƙed 3 lety +6

      I mean, ever heard of The Price Is Right?

    • @mutantgeralt
      @mutantgeralt Pƙed 3 lety

      Or the QuizUp game

    • @mutantgeralt
      @mutantgeralt Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +426

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

    • @kathrinehmunk
      @kathrinehmunk Pƙed 3 lety +3

      Yes me too

    • @BertGrink
      @BertGrink Pƙed 3 lety +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. ;)

    • @luelou8464
      @luelou8464 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Adverts don't bother me as much if i'm not the target audience.

    • @juillotine
      @juillotine Pƙed 3 lety +4

      @@BertGrink ads? I come here for those.

  • @flavoredchin
    @flavoredchin Pƙed 3 lety +263

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

  • @paradonym
    @paradonym Pƙed 3 lety +192

    Others: "thinking"
    Alec: "Instant answer"

    •  Pƙed 3 lety +6

      Didn't work for him though

    • @iamthinking2252_
      @iamthinking2252_ Pƙed 3 lety

      Doing the bluff quite well

  • @MiseFreisin
    @MiseFreisin Pƙed 3 lety +231

    "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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      From it’s alive to it’s alone

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Just give her a hand, mate

  • @ArsyaUtomo
    @ArsyaUtomo Pƙed 3 lety +322

    Technical Difficulties: Disconnected edition

  • @Bobberation
    @Bobberation Pƙed 3 lety +266

    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 Pƙed 3 lety +41

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

    • @kirkupxp
      @kirkupxp Pƙed 3 lety +29

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

  • @Papierflugzeug95
    @Papierflugzeug95 Pƙed 3 lety +56

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

    •  Pƙed 3 lety +6

      She's great

  • @CGaboL
    @CGaboL Pƙed 3 lety +207

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

    • @m.b.4165
      @m.b.4165 Pƙed 3 lety +8

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

    • @gametrashstuff2312
      @gametrashstuff2312 Pƙed 3 lety +6

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

    • @alex0589
      @alex0589 Pƙed 3 lety +23

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

    • @m.b.4165
      @m.b.4165 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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.

  • @tj_kendon
    @tj_kendon Pƙed 3 lety +68

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

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci

      Or kitchens. Don’t forget the kitchens.

  • @toaj868
    @toaj868 Pƙed 3 lety +88

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

  • @henriquejambu
    @henriquejambu Pƙed 3 lety +30

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

  • @ChristopherJackson1
    @ChristopherJackson1 Pƙed 3 lety +12

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

  • @ICountFrom0
    @ICountFrom0 Pƙed 3 lety +18

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

  • @_zoey.17
    @_zoey.17 Pƙed 3 lety +47

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

  • @onionbot2
    @onionbot2 Pƙed 3 lety +101

    we need a special with the techdif lads

    • @HMJ66
      @HMJ66 Pƙed 3 lety +32

      "Your categories are Yorkshire and Victorian History"

    • @mytube001
      @mytube001 Pƙed 3 lety +10

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

    • @masansr
      @masansr Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety

      This would be fantastic

    • @AFrogInTheStars
      @AFrogInTheStars Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Christmas Special

  • @mog398
    @mog398 Pƙed 3 lety +65

    We lost the technology connection to Technology Connections :(

  • @awkweird_panda
    @awkweird_panda Pƙed 3 lety +83

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

    • @eDoc2020
      @eDoc2020 Pƙed 3 lety +5

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

    • @ultimateagent1784
      @ultimateagent1784 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      abhi verma Travis Scott also

  • @mattjw16
    @mattjw16 Pƙed 3 lety +22

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

  • @Laittth
    @Laittth Pƙed 3 lety +150

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

    • @Seawolf.Gaming
      @Seawolf.Gaming Pƙed 3 lety +9

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

    • @Atomguy112
      @Atomguy112 Pƙed 3 lety +3

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

    • @Laittth
      @Laittth Pƙed 3 lety

      @@Seawolf.Gaming yes that too

    • @penumbra0182
      @penumbra0182 Pƙed 3 lety +1

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

    • @namewarvergeben
      @namewarvergeben Pƙed 3 lety +1

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

  • @Lunar_Watches
    @Lunar_Watches Pƙed 3 lety +42

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

    • @camatzuma
      @camatzuma Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Dream's Brother
      No I’m too busy watching the video

    • @jadeblades
      @jadeblades Pƙed 3 lety

      hi dreams brother

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Some of Tom's videos are extraordinary; others are merely excellent.

    • @gordonrichardson2972
      @gordonrichardson2972 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      AFAIK Michelle Martin used to work for the BBC.

  • @rudymartin8583
    @rudymartin8583 Pƙed 3 lety +27

    "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

    •  Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Rip Ellen

  • @user-ld4qt6ci7b
    @user-ld4qt6ci7b Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      thought the same thing when that happened!

    • @arbitraryending6489
      @arbitraryending6489 Pƙed 3 lety +13

      An incorrect lack of challenge causes him to lose also though

    • @pizzaivlife
      @pizzaivlife Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety

      Lmao but good logic

    • @dramforever
      @dramforever Pƙed 3 lety +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.

  • @IguitarVreakI
    @IguitarVreakI Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +1

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

    • @leilasalminen8398
      @leilasalminen8398 Pƙed 3 lety +34

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

    • @marcsidanparker2373
      @marcsidanparker2373 Pƙed 3 lety +12

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

  • @faketp6429
    @faketp6429 Pƙed 3 lety +21

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

  • @Naruedyoh
    @Naruedyoh Pƙed 3 lety +15

    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

    • @evannibbe9375
      @evannibbe9375 Pƙed 2 lety

      TV has way too many ads, I could never watch it.

  • @alaiterg
    @alaiterg Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Even just decennium

    • @bigdog91paper
      @bigdog91paper Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +3

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

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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

  • @grickum
    @grickum Pƙed 3 lety +8

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

  • @lockyourdoors5886
    @lockyourdoors5886 Pƙed 3 lety +191

    "Which Chinese food translates literally from Cantonese as 'touch-heart'"
    Okay, so in Chinese, it's actually ç‚č濃, with [ç‚č] meaning 'dot', and [濃] 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 [ç‚č] 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 (例雹äș†/æ­Łćœšäž‹é›š/ć°†äŒšäž‹é›š instead of rained/raining/will rain). With some extra words (and thus context), [ç‚č] 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 [ç‚č] 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 [ç‚č濃] is the same in both languages anyway.

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      Dafuq

    • @jadefalcon001
      @jadefalcon001 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      Today I learned!

    • @juillotine
      @juillotine Pƙed 3 lety +6

      TIL. That is very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

    • @candiestorie176
      @candiestorie176 Pƙed 3 lety +5

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

  • @jyrgenruut
    @jyrgenruut Pƙed 3 lety

    Thank You for this short series. It was wonderful and I appreciate you for making it.

  • @saltag
    @saltag Pƙed 3 lety +26

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

    • @warbler1984
      @warbler1984 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Okay let's throw Tom off the tower

    • @whythehecknot5038
      @whythehecknot5038 Pƙed 3 lety

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

    • @josir1994
      @josir1994 Pƙed 3 lety

      I think they mistaken it from 掂

    • @bubbleteaichooseyou
      @bubbleteaichooseyou Pƙed 3 lety

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

  • @simonas_video
    @simonas_video Pƙed 3 lety +14

    Thank you for this interesting show!

  • @DurianFruit
    @DurianFruit Pƙed 3 lety +41

    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!

  • @fordsfords
    @fordsfords Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Many educational CZcamsrs 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!

  • @Vodhin
    @Vodhin Pƙed 3 lety +13

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

  • @rubycon9158
    @rubycon9158 Pƙed 3 lety +25

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

    • @Shadow81989
      @Shadow81989 Pƙed 3 lety +15

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

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      What about Toast?

    • @GumSkyloard
      @GumSkyloard Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@nitehawk86 Never happened.

    • @bjorn_joseph
      @bjorn_joseph Pƙed 3 lety +4

      Is it the Chris Joel who reads books?

  • @300blackcats
    @300blackcats Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +31

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

    • @candiestorie176
      @candiestorie176 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +2

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

  • @shruthimaniyodath7755
    @shruthimaniyodath7755 Pƙed 3 lety

    Thank you so much Tom and all the crew involved. This series was a lot fun to watch (also made me super anxious haha)!

  • @asterisque9252
    @asterisque9252 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    This was so amazing! Pleaase do another series!

  • @Twisol
    @Twisol Pƙed 3 lety +19

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

  • @alex0589
    @alex0589 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    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

  • @las1147
    @las1147 Pƙed 3 lety

    What an absolutely wonderful format! Please keep making these!!

  • @m.ibrahim_2501
    @m.ibrahim_2501 Pƙed 3 lety

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

  • @vulduv
    @vulduv Pƙed 3 lety +11

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

  • @malup1117
    @malup1117 Pƙed 3 lety +10

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

  •  Pƙed 3 lety

    Love this show so much! Thanks Tom!

  • @MalcIgg
    @MalcIgg Pƙed 3 lety

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

  • @red_apple1156
    @red_apple1156 Pƙed 3 lety +46

    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.

    • @mytube001
      @mytube001 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      Oh, hell no! This premiere crap is destroying YT!

    • @leotaku5216
      @leotaku5216 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@mytube001 Why?

    • @mytube001
      @mytube001 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      @@leotaku5216 Because recommended and subcription feeds are filled with videos that aren't possible to watch, since they're set to premiere, which is useless and annoying to the user. And those that do actually play at the moment can't be watched properly, but instead the viewer has to sit through it all, unable to skip forward or jump back to rewatch a section. It's simply idiotic on so many levels, and should be banned, with 500 lashings for anyone who dares use it anyway!

    • @scragar
      @scragar Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@leotaku5216
      You can find out in 6 hours when the answer airs. In the meantime I'll be sure to remind you every 20 minutes that there'll be an answer in 6 hours.

    • @leotaku5216
      @leotaku5216 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@mytube001 That hasn't really bothered me at all so far. I've only watched one premiere (for an extremely well-produced video) so far and I'd say the live reactions enhanced my experience.
      Maybe the creators I watch just don't do enough premieres for them to fill up my subscription feed.

  • @subashrammohan8890
    @subashrammohan8890 Pƙed 3 lety +20

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

    • @alanvarghese5807
      @alanvarghese5807 Pƙed 3 lety

      So?

    • @vibsh625
      @vibsh625 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      @@alanvarghese5807 So now I like OP's comment and tell you to stop asking dumb questions.

    • @alanvarghese5807
      @alanvarghese5807 Pƙed 3 lety

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

    • @vibsh625
      @vibsh625 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@alanvarghese5807 Yes, you can simply ignore and find other comments to fuss over. No one invited you to care. Stuck up ьiŃ‚ŃĐœ.

    • @GumSkyloard
      @GumSkyloard Pƙed 3 lety

      Portuguese here, doing the same thing.

  • @mehking4078
    @mehking4078 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    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 !

  • @rickpolar
    @rickpolar Pƙed 3 lety

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

  • @aakratimehra9765
    @aakratimehra9765 Pƙed 3 lety +23

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

  • @shiteaterchildbeater3027
    @shiteaterchildbeater3027 Pƙed 3 lety +12

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

    • @axeldornelles5292
      @axeldornelles5292 Pƙed 3 lety

      Or they just have someone challenge the current champion for the belt.

  • @pampoovey6722
    @pampoovey6722 Pƙed 3 lety

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

  • @smu4242
    @smu4242 Pƙed 3 lety

    I really enjoyed this as well as all the other game-show things you do!

  • @jonoliahjohn6800
    @jonoliahjohn6800 Pƙed 3 lety +17

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

  • @LukeAmaral
    @LukeAmaral Pƙed 3 lety +4

    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".

  • @fopeprancis3207
    @fopeprancis3207 Pƙed 3 lety

    This was a REALLY great series. Enjoyed every single episode.

  • @fiddlesticks9887
    @fiddlesticks9887 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    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.
    😃😃

  • @simplylinn
    @simplylinn Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      Yea I had to rewind for all three this episode

    • @moontiger6393
      @moontiger6393 Pƙed 3 lety

      +

    • @blueandpurple5467
      @blueandpurple5467 Pƙed 3 lety +6

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

  • @yeeterdeleeter
    @yeeterdeleeter Pƙed 3 lety +10

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

  • @upstagedbyadog
    @upstagedbyadog Pƙed 3 lety

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

  • @TerenceHorsman
    @TerenceHorsman Pƙed 3 lety

    Omg I’m so hooked to this show now! Please make another season 😄

  • @directograph
    @directograph Pƙed 3 lety +31

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

    • @DavidChong
      @DavidChong Pƙed 3 lety +4

      if were to have a chance of being right, shouldn't it have been parent company take 2 anyways?

    • @MaartenvanHeek
      @MaartenvanHeek Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Me, screaming Chevron: challenge! Blizzard: challenge! Rockstar: don't challenge!
      I was surprised.

  • @EpicBandicoot
    @EpicBandicoot Pƙed 3 lety +7

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

  • @ms-dosman7722
    @ms-dosman7722 Pƙed 3 lety

    This was a great show to watch! Really great work Tom and the people behind it making it work.

  • @sonnypurwanto
    @sonnypurwanto Pƙed 3 lety +1

    What a great quiz show and interesting format. I recently went to held my own trivia night game with my friend over Zoom with this format and it was a lot of fun! Definetely want to see more season of this show!

  • @AngryKittens
    @AngryKittens Pƙed 3 lety +282

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

    • @bigdog91paper
      @bigdog91paper Pƙed 3 lety +34

      Haven't you heard of Dump Ling?

    • @hammerth1421
      @hammerth1421 Pƙed 3 lety +12

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

    • @Aquillyne
      @Aquillyne Pƙed 3 lety +3

      This was so dense...

    • @HatchetHaro
      @HatchetHaro Pƙed 3 lety +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 Pƙed 3 lety +1

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

  • @Thagor95
    @Thagor95 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    @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"

    • @Thagor95
      @Thagor95 Pƙed 3 lety

      For those seeing this comment now, it's been fixed!

  • @JJLiu-xc3kg
    @JJLiu-xc3kg Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Your videos remain amazing as always.

  • @dbackscott
    @dbackscott Pƙed 3 lety

    I’m already subscribed to two out of three of the contestants, and I love their content.

  • @matejlieskovsky9625
    @matejlieskovsky9625 Pƙed 3 lety +13

    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!

  • @christeebs
    @christeebs Pƙed 3 lety +115

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

    • @Ataku-B
      @Ataku-B Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Yes!

    • @yiply42
      @yiply42 Pƙed 3 lety +24

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

    • @AnnDVine
      @AnnDVine Pƙed 3 lety +16

      how many formulas are there

    • @s3mp3rfi
      @s3mp3rfi Pƙed 3 lety +9

      ​@@AnnDVine at least four hundred and nine

    • @jadefalcon001
      @jadefalcon001 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      @@s3mp3rfi Well played

  • @RadChild13
    @RadChild13 Pƙed 3 lety +1

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

  • @platinummyrr
    @platinummyrr Pƙed 3 lety

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

  • @mikeo.4924
    @mikeo.4924 Pƙed 3 lety +3

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

  • @TylerNovakYT
    @TylerNovakYT Pƙed 3 lety +3

    Season 2 when? This one was amazing.

  • @BazilRat
    @BazilRat Pƙed 3 lety

    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.

  • @gratuitousbird
    @gratuitousbird Pƙed 3 lety

    I love this show! Please make more!

  • @CaesarIII
    @CaesarIII Pƙed 3 lety +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!

  • @Laittth
    @Laittth Pƙed 3 lety +6

    Cool! CZcams subtitles can be coloured now!

    • @karlkastor
      @karlkastor Pƙed 3 lety

      CZcams is ending community subtitles, though :(

  • @aprillewis1940
    @aprillewis1940 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    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.)

  • @angelsdemons8520
    @angelsdemons8520 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    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 :)

  • @volix333
    @volix333 Pƙed 3 lety +3

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

  • @alydewji8383
    @alydewji8383 Pƙed 3 lety +8

    Tom, the second link for Ellen is invalid. Just wanted to let you know :)

  • @lukesanford9026
    @lukesanford9026 Pƙed 3 lety

    This was an amazing episode!!

  • @IamGamingJunkie
    @IamGamingJunkie Pƙed 3 lety +12

    Tom your vids are amazing! mine are just poop xD