Clash of the University Challenge titans! Viewers go wild as series’ biggest brainboxes Wang and Brandon prepare to go head-to-head in next week’s final
- Next week’s University Challenge final will be a ‘clash of the titans’, fans claim
- Brandon, of Imperial, and Wang, of Corpus Christi Cambridge, go head-to-head
- Students have impressed viewers and emerged as the series’ biggest brainboxes
- Quizzing enthusiasts say the hotly-contested match will be ‘one for the ages’
Quiz enthusiasts are already anticipating a ‘clash of the titans’ when two of University Challenge’s ‘best ever’ contestants go head-to-head in next week’s final.
Brandon Blackwell, of Imperial College London, and Ian Wang, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, have emerged as the two standout competitors in this series and are poised to go down in the TV quiz history books.
Blackwell, a computing student from Queens, New York, has scored 482 of his team’s 1,170 points so far this series. Wang, an English student from Sale, Greater Manchester, is responsible for 319 of Corpus Christi’s 1,190.
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Ian Wang, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (left), and Brandon Blackwell, of Imperial College London (right), have emerged as the two standout competitors in this series and are poised to go down in the TV quiz history books. They go head-to-head in the final next week
Quiz enthusiasts are already anticipating a ‘clash of the titans’ when two of University Challenge’s ‘best ever’ contestants go head-to-head in next week’s final, pictured
Both have led their respective teams to stunning victories and have made headlines with their extraordinary breadth of knowledge and unusually animated behaviour.
Last night Brandon delivered yet another stunning performance and helped deliver a 235-80 victory over Trinity College Cambridge in the second semi-final.
The win set up next week’s hotly-anticipated Wang-Brandon final – and sent Twitter into a frenzy of excitement.
Fans are already looking forward to the ‘titanic clash’ when the pair face off in the final
One tweeted: ‘Already counting down the hours until the match-up of dreams -Brandon vs Wang – in next week’s #UniversityChallenge final!! #beyondexcited.’
Another posted: ‘I’m still trying to process that it’s a Brandon vs Wang final next week #UniversityChallenge.’
A third wrote: ‘Wang vs Brandon in next weeks #UniversityChallenge final is going to be the sporting event of the year tbh!’
Some compared the match up to the tie between past contestants Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull, who went onto front their own TV show after appearing on the quiz series.
Last night Brandon delivered yet another stunning performance and helped deliver a 235-80 victory over Trinity College Cambridge in the second semi-final, pictured
Brandon’s performance style has been unusual but he has developed a jokey rapport with presenter Jeremy Paxman. Pictured, the final scores from last night’s semi-final
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