Ivo decides that it's all so stupid

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Ivo memorises the pattern of the items on the conveyor by remembering them as 'yes's or 'nos'. Anxious that he will not learn it in time, he initially requests a pen to write it down, but then dodges it as Alex throws it to him, remembering that the task brief stated that they were not permitted to touch anything during the task. Once sat on the stool, he spots the beer-mats lined up on the wall to his left, arranged in a pattern corresponding to the items on the conveyor. Initially, however, Ivo can't seem to get the position of his hat correct, to catch the potatoes. He soon figures it out, though, and does well up until the point when the pattern repeats, which he was not expecting. At this point, he becomes flustered, and also the fact that he is trying to look at the wall to his left while doing it doesn't seem to help, and so everything falls apart. After he's already mentally given up, he spots that there are also beer-mats denoting the pattern on the wall in front of him. As the task ends, he states that it was his least favourite, and that "we should all be ashamed". After Alex asks whether anything that Ivo had planned had worked, Ivo admits that it hadn't, but claims that he didn't care "because it's so stupid". In the studio, when Greg observes that the start of his attempt had been so promising, Ivo responds with "Yeah, I love to squander promise", this coining the episode's title. Alex reveals that Ivo collected 11 potatoes and 10 animals, giving him a potatotal of 1. This earns him fourth place.

(Written by Karl Craven)