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**Mat Ryer:** Yes, I can \*gibberish\* I can talk really fast like this. If you put that on half speed... That's how some people listen to the podcast, by the way, on 2x speed. It's like that. It's like me just going on and talking about everything really fast.
**Natalie Pistunovich:** Whatever he said, yes... So we would like to bid this gopher for a donation to GoBridge. So if you would like to take this plushie from this conference, and you would like to make a donation to GoBridge, please raise your hand and tell us how much would you like to donate, and Mat will be manag...
**Mat Ryer:** Yes. So I'm gonna need to see $5 first... What currency should we use? Euros?
**Natalie Pistunovich:** Yes.
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, fair enough.
**Natalie Pistunovich:** German Marks.
**Mat Ryer:** \[36:05\] Deutsche Mark, yeah. Okay, Euros will do. Five euros though... Do I see a bid? I do see a bid of five. Do I see 10? I see 10 down here, gentleman there with his hand up. He's got 10. Do I see 15? I see 15 in the back. Do I see 20? 20 down here, 20 euros. Do I see 25 euros anywhere? Yes, there's ...
**Natalie Pistunovich:** Your badge can be the card, yeah.
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. 25, okay. Do I see 30? Yes, we do, 30. What about 35? Yes, we've got it back there, the gentleman. 40. Yes, Adelina's got 40. What about 45 euros? Oh, we're getting into a bidding war, literally. Okay, what about 50 euros? Do I see 50 euros anywhere? I do see 50 euros over there. 55 euros... Maybe. ...
**Natalie Pistunovich:** This is a donation to GoBridge.
**Mat Ryer:** A donation to GoBridge. Okay, do I see 50? Did I do 55? I'm not very good at this... 60. 60 euros, anyone?
**Natalie Pistunovich:** Donations are tax-deductible.
**Mat Ryer:** Okay, there we go, we've got 60 euros over there... 65 euros. Yup. We've got 65. 70? Do I see 70? Do I hear 70? I've got 70 over here... Do I have 75? 75. Looking for 75. Down here at the front, we have a new entry coming really high there. Not interested when it was cheap. Now he's like "Now I want it......
What about -- what's after the 95 one? A hundred? Do I see - yes, in the back. New entry, a hundred. We're into three digits. Okay, let's go now 110. Do I see 110 euros? No, I'm not -- oh yes, there is 110. Okay. 120 euro donation. Do I see that anywhere? Oh, Adelina, 120. 130 anyone? Otherwise we're going for 120, unl...
**Adelina:** Thank you.
**Mat Ryer:** Yes, please come on upstage and bring your card. Bring your bank card. Or cash.
**Natalie Pistunovich:** And marked bills. \[laughter\] We are in Germany, this is the land of cash.
**Mat Ryer:** Yes. Give it up for Adelina! \[applause\]
**Natalie Pistunovich:** We want the handshake, we want the handshake. \[laughter\] Thank you, Adelina, this is awesome. This is a great donation to GoBridge, and on behalf of everybody who got to be supported by GoBridge, thank you very much.
**Mat Ryer:** Goodbye!
• Introduction to Gophers Say game show
• Teams are introduced: Team Zero (Natalie, Steve, Julie) and Team One (Jon, Katie, Rob)
• Explanation of how the game works: guessing popular answers from a survey
• First round face-off between Natalie and Jon on the question "Describe the Go community with one word"
• Results of first round: team scores points for correct answers and loses lives for incorrect ones
• Discussion of team names and the game format
• Ranking of adjectives based on a survey: "awesome", "welcoming", "friendly", etc.
• Round 1 game results: Katie's "coffee shop" answer wins her a chance to steal
• Round 2 game discussion about places to code/work outside one's house
• Team gameplay and strategy, with each team member taking turns guessing answers
• Discussion of a game show where participants answer questions about Go programming language
• Teams compete to collect points by answering the most popular answers from a group of "gophers"
• Questions include "The most useful Go keyword is what?" and "The best thing about the tech industry is - what?"
• Participants' guesses are revealed, and their scores reflect the number of people who answered similarly
• The game show features team competition and individual challenges
• Discussion of the best thing about the tech industry
• Answer guessing game with team members giving responses
• Team one's lead and scores
• Introduction to round five: discussing the worst thing about the tech industry
• Answer guessing game continues for the worst thing about the tech industry
• Discussion of worst things about the tech industry
• Contestants' guesses and elimination process
• Social media as a potential answer
• Results of previous rounds and scores
• Double Points Round for describing the Go language with one word
• Top answers including "simple" and "verbose"
• Final round results and leading team
• Discussion about verbosity in communication
• Go language game where participants had to guess answers from a survey of Gophers (Go developers)
• Teams competing, with team one ultimately winning 225 points to team zero's 160 points
• Review of the final round and surprises or unexpected answers from the survey results
• Discussion of a game played where users answered questions about Go
• Difficulty in determining joke answers vs. serious responses to certain questions
• Generics release coming in February 1.18 and fuzzing being added as first-class concern
• Documentation efforts for fuzzing feature
• Conversation about regex notation and its usage
• Discussion of "Linux" pronunciation
• Permission to call regex "regex"
• Debate about whether using website resources during game is cheating
• Review of the previous game, including score and strategy
• Explanation of how survey questions are created for games
• Discussion of built-in functions in a programming context
• Confusion over what constitutes keywords vs built-in functions
• Mention of specific examples such as "new" and "panic"
• Reference to a past talk by Mat Ryer at Gotham Go
• Personal interaction between Steve Francia and Mat Ryer
**Mat Ryer:** Hello, and welcome to this Go Time GopherCon extravaganza... Yeah, extravaganza, yeah. I'm Mat Ryer, and I'm thrilled to announce that today again we're playing Gophers Say, the excellent, popular, family game show based on Family Feud, or Family Fortunes if you're in the U.K, which I am.
Let's meet the teams. We have Team Zero, is -- well, let's meet our contestants here. We've got Julie Qiu around... Hello, Julie.
**Julie Qiu:** Hi!
**Mat Ryer:** Welcome to Go Time/GopherCon. We've also got Steve Francia. I can't believe it. Hi, Steve.
**Steve Francia:** Hi, everyone.
**Mat Ryer:** I can't believe you're here, Steve, really. Can you?
**Steve Francia:** I mean, I'm here...