I actually think the person who said that the 'set' meant the set of the boardroom could be right, cos it looks like they're setting a task at Chiswick House this morning - I think this is the start of Task 10... Hopefully we'll see some photos, becuase as I said, they are pretty much always on public display for Task 10 (whether it be on TV, having a market stall, selling a London Tours experience or whatever).

EDIT: Here's the link: https://twitter.com/fiflippy/status/...297664/photo/1

They were filming at the Royal Bath and West Show today... Here is their website:

http://www.bathandwest.com/royal-bath-west/97/

I wonder what they were doing? Probably one of those tasks where they have so select two products to sell at shows/festivals.

EDIT: Considering they've only been filming for four and a half weeks, and they normally do the 'show/festival' task between tasks 7 and 9, I think this is Task 9.

So, at the Bath and West Show, one team is selling a 'hatbag and a bike thing.'

LINK: https://twitter.com/sophie_gadd/stat...678721/photo/1

Here's a pic I missed frm May 20th...

http://instagram.com/p/oOKQkdQHlE/

I have never seen that short-haired woman before...

So here's an approximate round-up of the tasks...

Task 1 - Selling flowers and coffee
Task 2 - A male subteam were spotted, possible doing
market research
for a product design task.
Task 3 - Selling incense sticks and candles at St. Pauls
Task 4-5 - Literally no sightings.
Task 6 - Were seen in Canterbury, Rochester and at Folly Bridge - god knows what they were doing.
Task 7 - Seen in London a few times - Covent Garden, Camden Town etc. (20th May)
Task 8 - No sightings
Task 9 - Selling products at Bath and West Show

Ok, well here's a curve ball...

http://www.bestdaily.co.uk/televisio...erm=television

In this article there are nine candidates remaining... And I genuinely do not understand how they can be on a task earlier than Task 9... so maybe they really have increased the number of candidates?!

Another interesting thing is out of the final nine candidates, only three are women... Another year of naff female candidates perhaps?

Oh well, all will be revealed in four months or so.

Series 1 reduced the number of women dramatically in the early weeks, didn't it? By the midway point, there were six men left and only two women. There has never been quite such a huge distinction since, I don't think, although it has come close.

When there were eight candidates, then you're right there never has been such a distinction.

In terms of ratio, however, the biggest difference was the final six of Series 8 - five male and one female.


Back on topic, none of those three women look like winners to me anyway!
And also, I CANNOT get my head around there being more than sixteen candidates... So I think I over-predicted on what task they're on - they must be on Task 8.

In that case, for Series 10, of the first seven fired, five are women.

Here's my revised program of the tasks so far...

Task 1 - Selling flowers and coffee
Task 2 - A male subteam were spotted, possible doing
market research
for a product design task.
Task 3 - Selling incense sticks and candles at St. Pauls
Task 4 - Literally no sightings.
Task 5 - Were seen in Canterbury, Rochester and at Folly Bridge - god knows what they were doing.
Task 6 - Seen in London a few times - Covent Garden, Camden Town etc. (20th May)
Task 7 - No sightings (Perhaps an abroad task, because there is such a large gap...)
Task 8 - Selling products at Bath and West Show

That's equivalent to six and two though?

No it's not, but that's really weird because when I was trying to think of the biggest male:female ratio I made the exact same mistake haha!

1:5 scales up to 2:10, not 2:8

OMG this is so annoying... I have had a good look at that article now, snipped the pics of the males, and I now have FOURTEEN potential male candidates, none of whom are the same... Why does this have to be so confusing

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how i could find out... Like is there someone I could contact?!

I'm dreadful with maths.

Ok, so after a month and a bit of watching Twitter feeds etc, for pictures of the candidates, I think I have finally pieced together the identities of the sixteen candidates, differentiating ones that look alike, and discovering which ones are the same person, etc. You can find a link to download the document below:

https://fs02u.sendspace.com/upload?S...INATION_DIR=10

I would really appreciate it if people had a look, cos this has taken some work, although I understand that people may not want to because it shows which nine get to the final nine, as well as who I have deduced is the first to be fired. Don't say I didn't warn you

I will explain how I deduced which candidate is the first to go below...

TRY THIS LINK INSTEAD: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tklxcn

By the way they started filming Task 9 today... I think this'll be the advertising task - they've been seen on Shaftesbury Avenue so perhaps they were gathering opinions on a brand name etc.

could be the scavenger hunt as someone tweeted that they tried to buy their skeleton lol

I just saw that lol! So task 9 is the scavenger hunt!

Has no one looked at my word document? :P

I find it strange that the scavenger/ negotiation task is at very different stages of the process as you would think in every series tasks were placed in order of their difficulty. I know a few times its been in Week 3, once in Week 9 however in Series 6, episode 9, it actually showed who had negotiated well and who couldn't do it whereas in any series at episode 3, there are too many people to notice. I think they should redo the discount vouchers task again, it really showed if people were able to negotiate.

Well it's meant to be Episode 9 this year or thereabouts so that's good. Have a look at my word document

I've never really understood the point of a lot of that task anyway. I can see how it's very good for testing the candidates' negotiating skills, but a lot of it seems to be filler. Like for example, they always have to find something very obscure that no one knows, and they're not allowed to use the Internet to find it. What on Earth does that test? When in the real business world are you ever going to be asked to source something without any information on what the item is, without the use of the Internet? To me, that seems to be an entirely pointless exercise. In the early series the candidates had pictures of what they were supposed to get. I think that they should bring that back - it would make it easier to find things and to concentrate on the overall point of that task, which is negotiation.

I actually think it does have some business plot to it such as research, procurement and purchasing for good price. I do however they think the internet should be allowed. The Internet is important in business and I don't really see how using Yellow Pages would be effective or relevant to procuring items today.

I was impressed by the way that Zara asked a library to look in a dictionary for her (and regardless of what was said, that was her idea, not Harry M's - he suggested phoning the library, but she had the dictionary idea). Since then, no one has done that which makes me wonder if they have been asked not to. If that's the case, I think that's very unfair - why would you put additional obstacles in people's way when it's that hard to find out as it is? Although in fairness, there has only been one occasion since then (YA3) that that could have been used. Series 8 didn't have this task, and in Series 9 it was in Dubai, and I imagine that strategy would have been harder abroad. Maybe no one in YA3 remembered what Zara did.

Another thing that baffles me. They never appear to ask the retailers on the phone what the price would be. Have they been asked not to do that, or has it just never occurred to anyone? If I was managing that task, I would make sure that the price was known before we even went to the shop, so that if it was difficult to negotiate, we'd know we'd have a good price to start off with. I hope they haven't been asked not to do it, I think it's really unfair if they have.

the scavenger hunt task is very relevant when you're trying to source new/obscure products from undeveloped economies where there's no yellow pages let alone the internet

it's much harder in the real business world because you have to find a reliable long term supplier who can provide the large quantities and at the price you require to be profitable

it also encourages the candidates to be street smart eg in the Dubai task some of the teams asked the local shopkeepers for advice etc

I've looked at it and now I wish I hadn't. But I should manage to forget all about it when the show hits the screen.