The Magnificent Magyars - Hungary A Team 2003
World Team Tantrix Champions 2003

Top row: Zormac, Pepe / Bottom row: SiRPi, mikellos, pusi

And here is the infamous caption competition ... top three captions (very subjective and very hard to choose!):

"OK, next on the agenda, teaching you two how to shave" (Garry Laishley, AUS B)
"How on earth are we going to look like the Hungarian Mafia with you grinning like that, Miklos?" (Simon Wright, GBR B)
"I've heard on the grapevine that the hatstand is going to be a late replacement ..." (Rob Morton, GBR A)

Other good captions (entries have now closed, but thanks to all of you for the contributions!):

"Pepe wondered if his surgeon could remove those people from the end of his arms ..." (Rob Morton, GBR A)
"Pepe introduces a shadowy sixth member to the HUN A Team" (Eleanor Gordon, GBR C)
"Global Tantrix sales team meets for 10-year strategy convention" (Robin Brown, NZL B)
"Pepe: Just stay there boys ... that beer went straight to my head ... and I wouldn't want to look silly now ..." (Rob Morton, GBR A)
"The Hungarian human cloning experiment hits a slight snag" (Glynn Ridley, GBR D)
"Laszlo spots a spy in the camp ..." (Alex Thompson, GBR C)
TedEBare's caption needs a pic all of its own - click here (Peter Clay, AUS B)
"You may be bigger than me, Zoltan, but I can look MUCH more menacing!" (Steven Trezise, GBR A)
"Hungarian 'Rap Idol' contest reveals the final band - 'Da Tantrixtas'" (Eleanor Gordon, GBR C)

... and yet another one from our guest psychologist Eleanor ...

"Dehhh 15 in the Big Broother house ...

Zoltan decides he's not too sure about the rest of the group but puts on a brave face by throwing himself wholeheartedly into this week's task of winning the WTTC. He secretly confides to Laszlo that he agrees that they should not have gambled 100% of their shopping budget on completing the task successfully.

Things get a little ugly, as Pepe and Miklos argue over who has taken the 7th grg from the only Tantrix game pack in the house. Zoltan remains distant from this discussion, despite being accused of the theft of the grg. Laszlo tries to explain there are only 6 grgs, but is accused by Pusi of "taking Zoltan's side as usual".

Pusi seems to be enjoying himself, having spent all of the housemates' food budget on buying a new grg, to replace the one stolen earlier. He seems to disagee with Pepe that "eating is more important!" and doesn't seem to mind that the group will have to survive on vegetables from the garden. The situation gets worse as no one can see which grg is missing. When Zoltan confronts him, he argues that he was "only trying to keep the peace". Laszlo remains adamant that there are only 6 grgs.

Later, Laszlo goes off in a huff after finding out that the rest of the housemates (including Zoltan) now think he took the 7th grg, and threatens to walk out. He spends the rest of the evening muttering "...5 tiles fit an abc space, 6 tiles fit an aab space and 6 tiles fit an aba space..." under his breath.

There now seems to be a definite split in the group, as you can see from the picture. Pepe feels at ease with Miklos and Pusi, while Zoltan and Laszlo prefer to make intellectual conversation in the living room. The rest of the group nominate Laszlo to leave the house as he is freaking them out with his muttering.

Could these events in the house mean a chink in the HUN A armour? Is Miklos' game plan working as well as he seems to think? Tune in next week, when the group face GBR A in their quest to increase their shopping budget ..."

... and where would we be without another pogonophobic (= beard-phobic) reference ;-)

"OK boys, you win the Steven Trezise lookalike competition" (Karen King, GBR D)

... yet more Aussie humour from Garry Laishley (read these at your peril ...):

"The Godfather meets with his prospective sons-in-law while planning Hungarian domination of Tantrix from 2020"
"First hand proof of why Tantrix players should be forced to use cartoon characters for their pictures" (aw, how unfair!)
"Smile ... what for ? ... I need to get some glasses, I thought this was a meeting with picur, not picture."
"Is that a pusi's tail caught in the air-conditioning ? "

... and the final word ...

"Pepe: If I'd known this was going to turn into a caption competition, I wouldn't have bothered ..." (Eleanor Gordon, GBR C)

With thanks to all who contributed and thanks (and profuse apologies!) to Pepe and his (really-quite-scary-after-all) team!

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