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Thanks everyone!

Paul

Hi everyone The Irish Scrabble New Player Event 2011 will take place again in the West County Hotel Chapelizod in Dublin, on Saturday 9th April 2011. Registration will be at 9:15-9:45am and everyone is welcome. It is a friendly atmosphere and is a great way to see how tournament Scrabble in Ireland ...

Going to try bump this up a bit due to the lack of replies! David O' Donnell, Liam Tiernan, Ken MacKenzie, James Doohan, Eoghan Monaghan, M. George Quinn, Edward McCullagh , Helen A and many other Countdowners in Ireland on this forum who I don't know or can't remember!Would you be interested in pla...

Republic of Ireland Scrabble Players Association is organising a New Player Event taking place in Dublin next month (Saturday April 17th 2010). For more details of the event and Scrabble in Ireland in general (including your local club), go to the link below: "http://www.irishscrabble.org/newpl...

I still read the forum but don't watch the programme anymore so it's difficult for me to contribute to most threads! I watched the programme for about a month after I had finished recording the C of C and it was clear that the motivation and enjoyment for the game had gone. Watching it was becoming ...

I haven't seen the episode today but this an interesting topic that I've thought about before. My view on declaring the 'easy' word vs the 'fancy' or 'obscure' word would be always to pick the easy word. During day two of my octochamp run, I declared the word COMITAL by accident when I really should...

Well done to Steven on his deserved victory. The motivation of his shock early round series exit has obviously spurred him on to this great success. The final was not a classic but from the reviews it looks like the two best players reached the final. Interesting that people were disappointed that t...

Well done Junaid on becoming the latest series champion. Bad luck to Charlie- I think the disallowed ALIENER was the crucial point. Both ALIENER and ALIENOR are good in Scrabble but ALIENER is not in Oxford. In my opinion, Charlie did 100% the right thing by going for 4 large numbers. It was somethi...

Just heard the news- really happy that Stelling is doing it over Armstrong. He is excellent on Gilette Soccer Saturday and with that being his only TV work at the moment, Stelling will be a much more permanent fixture than Lynam and O Connor. I remember an interview with Stelling in Fourtfourtwo mag...

I wonder if he has quit to start recording for the Countdown presenter's job? Just a thought...

Paul

The Mirror story has been confirmed by Channel 4 Teletext. It seems Armstrong has indeed quit at the 11th hour.

Paul

Hi everyone Did I miss a post on a previous thread? Is Craig not able to play in the Champion of Champions? If so, it's a real shame as Craig had, in my opinion, a great chance to become one of the few people to do the Countdown "double" ( series champion and champion of champions). Only f...

Just want to add my congratulations to David. Whilst the final wasnt quite the dramatic thrillers of the semi finals, it certainly was a real test of word knowledge and numbers prowess which I enjoyed- a lot of the letters rounds had only one 7 as the winner (LEXICON TOTARAS EPIDOTE APOGEES) and som...

First of all, thanks to Ben for the invitation to play in this tournament. I have moved into Scrabble now and after finally stopping playing Oxford phonies (i hope!) after 2 years, playing Countdown again would not be a good idea! I am still trying to dilute the Oxford dictionary out of me. I am enj...