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Andrew Feist

http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?section=common_9s How come DOMINATES and STAMINODE have different values assigned to them (12th and 13th positions) when all the other anagrams of each other are on the same line? Probably because in this game , DOMINATES was given by Dictionary Corner but STAMI...

Andrew Feist

Innis Carson wrote:YES

It only cost me around 840 rating points, but I finally got that.... one sun credit. Let this be a warning.

I think this means that "The Riddler's Path" will remain forever locked in my star chart.

But congratulations, nonetheless.

Andrew Feist

Ian Volante wrote:I meant to ask - why does this tournament occur almost exclusively in the Autumn?

Because (a) I wanted to avoid dealing with holiday scheduling as much as possible and (b) there's already an established tournament on the February calendar.

Oh and (c) December is winter no matter what they say.

Andrew Feist

My question to you, Matt, and any other forumites of a technical bent, is a simple one: Why did it take me nine fucking days to think of this? I think we tend to focus too often on the problem instead of the solution. The desire to continue using your laptop in the usual manner was so strong that y...

Andrew Feist

Information about format and the pairings themselves are at the website.

Post links to games and summaries etc. below.

Reminder: Speed Demon should have two speed-9 games per match; the main tournament should have two or three standard games each.

Andrew Feist

Alas and alack, 886 puts you in flight B instead. Nuts, i thought i was being smart by waiting til i was above 900 to register. # 1 person in Flight A # some odd number of people in Flight B Well, if you still have uneven numbers when you need to get cracking, you can take it that i'd be happy to u...

Andrew Feist

Currently, we have 15 in the Championship Flight, 23 in Flight A, and 7 in Flight B, along with 29 in the Speed Demon. That means that, on a first-come first-serve basis until about 10pm today or so, I can take: 1 or 3 people in the Championship Flight 1 person in Flight A some odd number of people ...

Andrew Feist

Andy Wilson wrote:I'll go for flight A and the speed demon please sir if space permits.

Alas and alack, 886 puts you in flight B instead.

Andrew Feist

Hey I've already got my PhD, so save that love for someone who needs it.

Andrew Feist

Maybe I'm projecting, but I don't think PhD students ever get tired of people telling them they love them.

Andrew Feist

Thanks Charlie for all this. Lots of fun, and some good games.

Andrew Feist

A reminder that if you register by the end of tomorrow, you will be entered; after that, only as space permits. Currently we have 15 people in the Championship Flight, 24 in Flight A, 6 in Flight B (so we definitely still have room there), and 28 in the Speed Demon.

Andrew Feist

Scott Gillies wrote:closed for me either a or b whatever my rating was at the time. cheers

Your rating puts you in Flight A, which you can check on the website above.

Andrew Feist

Everybody above this line should be entered as appropriate. You can check the current registrations at the web site above. If you can get the magic blue tournament interface up, Charlie, I'll at least try it out on the speed tournament. (I don't know whether you have best-of-3 built in ready to go, ...

Andrew Feist

Innis Carson wrote:I have no idea how this happened, but:

Ha! V for vowel, C for consonant, and S for symbol?

Andrew Feist

Registrations are now open for the 2009 edition of the Apterous Winter Closed tournament. I'm trying not to step on Charlie too much with the timing, but I want to get this done before Christmas, so here we go. There is a basic home page for this tournament out there on the internet (which is where ...

Andrew Feist

Hugh Binnie wrote:Slightly confused: the draw says I should play Andrew Herbertson, who duly beat me; but a tournament match instead came up against Andrew Feist, whom I beat.

Indeed. When the blue thing came up, I just thought I had forgotten the draw. But that was not the case....

Andrew Feist

Obvious things include Junaiding (multiply by 1) or adding zero, To add a zero you will need two numbers the same (e.g a 10 and a 10) to do 10-10. You can also then do 10/10 to make 1 and multiply, so it seems that adding zero is a bit of a wasted strategy. Shame. Well, I don't know; I used it to b...

Andrew Feist

Perhaps interesting article in light of our techno fan who started the thread:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... nsion.html

Myself, I tend to have iTunes running anyway, so I just leave that on.

Andrew Feist

The (sole, IMO) advantage of #4 is that I don't reflexively reach for something to squash a bug with. That said, I rather like #2 (half a bug is better than one?), and then I suppose #3 ahead of #1. That first bug just looks ugly to me, for reasons unknown.

Andrew Feist

If you mean "a Swiss system tournament enforces a bell-shaped curve"(*) then you're correct. If you seem to expect a uniform distribution then you will get more in the middle then you are expecting. OTOH, why you would expect a uniform distribution I don't know. (*) Technically, it follow...

Andrew Feist

If you have too many rounds, yes. With 32 players and 5 rounds, it guarantees that there will be exactly one player who wins all of their games, and hence is declared the unique winner, just like a knockout; for the other players, it keeps the tournament interesting by pairing people with roughly e...

Andrew Feist

That Swiss thing is quite interesting and I can see the advantages of it but it also makes it harder for you to win the better you do (and harder to lose the worse you do), so could it not end up with the field clumped closer together than they should be? I'm utterly confused by the whole thing. Wh...

Andrew Feist

Option 2: Each match would be a "custom" round of 4 speed standard word rounds, 4 speed goat rounds, 4 speed junior rounds, 4 speed goat junior rounds, and 4 speed standard number rounds. Winners only scoring (so each section would count the same). Colour me stupid but, I don't understand...

Andrew Feist

So I'm sketching out my plans for the Apterous Winter Closed (coming relatively soon!), and I want to include a "Speed Demon" side event. I've come up with a couple different formats, and I thought I'd see which one has more support outside of my fevered imagination. Option 1: Each match w...

Andrew Feist

Feist 167-91 Dent

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote: New: Auto-tournament system.

I think I love you. Is this a on-the-fly tournament director, or something for tournaments run over a long period of time?

Andrew Feist

I will throw my hat into the ring (or into <generic forum participant>, whichever seems easier).

Andrew Feist

The in-game inventory page now looks like this: Your inventory pencil.png" /> 129 pencils benjamin.png" /> 23 Benjamins slippers.png" /> 3 pairs of slippers tie.png" /> 14 broken ties prune_on_a_stick_jalapeno.png" /> 6 prunes on sticks plum_on_a_stick_oregano.png" /> 7...

Andrew Feist

Forgetting everything that's gone on since, I would have said that Andy Thompson's post was only slightly ambiguous. Presumably the possible misunderstanding would be someone thinking "Define "up" in Scotland? Well Edinburgh must be in the "up" part of Scotland, from the co...

Andrew Feist

Andy Thomson wrote:
Martin Bishop wrote: If anyone's up in Scotland this month, it might be worth showing off to some comedians.
Define "up" in Scotland. Some of us are here.

Not completely up on my Scotland geography, but wouldn't the Edinburgh fringe be very near Edinburgh?

Andrew Feist

Fuck, I give up with this COCKING quotes thing - thought I had it - but clearly not. You know you can just click the 'quote' button on the post you want to quote, right? (It's especially helpful since it then shows you the correct format for the tags.) Yeah, I can do that, but I'm stumped by that '...

Andrew Feist

Not the best display of etiquette I've seen. Needless to say I won't be playing him again. Haha, excellent. I like the "you have 10 seconds" bit - apterous has its very own Judge Dredd! At first I thought he meant that it was 10 second rounds, and who can possibly come up with a 9-letter ...

Andrew Feist

I voted for #2 and #3 together, as I think that would fit the definition of "abuse" the best.

Andrew Feist

I think I'm going to need more than one crosser to get 11D.

Andrew Feist

Yes, so far only U800 and U1000 were posted. The plan was to use my vacation day today to get everything up, but I can't seem to get to countdownwiki.com today. But when it comes back, the rest will go up. (I have put open and U1200 crosstables on the blog.)

Andrew Feist

Maybe this is the way the teasers are supposed to work, but I walked into an empty room and got four seconds for a teaser.

Andrew Feist

Dunno if this has ever come up, but what about Doubles? Not in the sense that everyone plays each round and the maximum amongst each pair is counted...that'd lead to too many max games and the best player on each team dominating the game too often. Rather, each pair alternates rounds. Restrictions ...

Andrew Feist

Well, I don't know that I'm an expert really, but I tend to go for two large too. I think the things that help the most when I can remember them are (1) you've always got an "extra" large number (with 50 and 100, you've also got 150, etc.); (2) you can use the extra large number to get clo...

Andrew Feist

Okay, I put the U800 and the U1000 results on the wiki, and I think I only broke two things (one extra page that I don't seem to know how to delete, and I can't make the colorful tables for some reason, so I stuck with plain black-and-white). I didn't do round-by-round for the round robin matches, f...

Andrew Feist

I think you need a better way to deal with people who don't play their games but I don't have any good ideas yet. Yeah, I only got to play 2 of my 5 games, even though I contacted everyone involved (I did lose one of those though! ;)) . Don't know what to do about it. How about play the bot with th...

Andrew Feist

Awesome tournament, really enjoyed it, can't quite believe one person was running it all, so well done Andrew. Congrats to Innis for winning the Open. My suggestion is given that there were so many contenders, maybe have more rounds? Lots of us ended on 4/5, but didn't all get to play each other (e...

Andrew Feist

A big round of congratulations to our champions: Ian Dent (winning U800 on a tiebreaker); James Hall (winning U1000 in the finals match); Matthew Green (winning U1200), and Innis Carson (winning the open on a tiebreaker). I have been informed that the countdown wiki would be a reasonable place to pu...

Andrew Feist

At some point, I'll get last week's standings updated etc. Really I will (they're done, just not on the web).

EDIT: Yeah, okay, they should be here (not counting U800).

A five-way tie at the top this time around! Of course all cash prizes will be equally split.

Andrew Feist

Would it be possible for Jack and me to have until next Tuesday? I've looked out for him on apterous this evening but not seen him and I go away on Wednesday until around next Monday, and doubt I'll have chance tomorrow to play. I can always update standings as appropriate if you don't get a chance...

Andrew Feist

Again, no special finals match in the open; but there's one man (currently) standing -- can he stay standing to win it all? This week's matches: Kirk Bevins - Junaid Mubeen Kai Laddiman - Jon Corby Charlie Reams - David O'Donnell James Hurrell - Innis Carson Dinos Sfryis - Ross Allatt Henry Meier - ...

Andrew Feist

No special finals match in U1200, but there is a de facto finals match, as the two remaining undefeated players will face off this week. Jeff Clayton - Matthew Green Henry Meier - Aaron Higgs Lesley Hines - Mark Harrison Marcus Hares - Matt Morrison Ross Allatt - Andy Kravis Donald Gordon - Tom Rowe...

Andrew Feist

The last round of the tournament is beginning. We've got some extra (unplayed :( ) matches in the U800 section: (Ian Dent - Ben Ziek) (Steve Rogers - Gregor Morgan) (Steve Rogers - Supee Juachan) and the last set: Gregor Morgan - Supee Juachan Steve Rogers - James Leroux Maxine Silkstone - Ian Dent ...

Andrew Feist

Did you change the meanings of the cards again Charlie? I just got a 4 of diamonds for this game, but it wasn't four in a row (in fact I've not played the guy four times total yet).

Andrew Feist

Andrew, what happens if your opponent is a no-show? Adam not seen since 13th, think perhaps his PC has died or summat? This week was finals week here, so I'm afraid I wasn't able to give people a poke during the week. If we can't find him today, we'll carry forward the match to next week (so you'll...

Andrew Feist

If we need to drop back down to 16, I can settle for being first alternate.

(Edit: Actually looking at the list, it looks like fourth alternate. Whatever.)

Andrew Feist

The proper response to this is almost certainly "pay attention you idiot", but I'll put it forward anyhow: sometimes, I don't notice that I'm not actually logged into apterous until I try to go somewhere. It would be nice if, when I clicked on "you'll have to log in" that I actua...

Andrew Feist

Neil Zussman 98-90 Dinos Sfyris Unfortunately we're both not available for the rest of the week to play the last game(s). Won't ask for an extension as it would put a strain on the rest of the tournament. I'm happy for Neil to have the overall win since he won the first one fair and square. If you ...

Andrew Feist

Oh why not.

Andrew Feist

I know that, and I have done so. Apparently I'm going to have start flagging sarcasm again. :roll: But it didn't make any sense to ask why I'd told him about a feature which evidently I hadn't (even entertaining the joke that there was such a feature). Did you mean "why didn't..."? The jo...

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote:
Andrew Feist wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote: Makes sense.
Why did you tell him about the "finding two games played a week apart" feature!?!?
I don't really understand this post, but it's trivial to find them with Head to Head.

I know that, and I have done so. Apparently I'm going to have start flagging sarcasm again.

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote:
Ian Dent wrote: Two games a week apart so I'm not posting them.
Makes sense.

Why did you tell him about the "finding two games played a week apart" feature!?!?

Andrew Feist

The U1200 matches for week 4: Matthew Green 2-0 Andy Kravis Lesley Hines - Jeff Clayton Ross Allatt 1-2 Aaron Higgs Jeff Burgin 0-2 Henry Meier Marcus Hares 2-1 Simon Myers Paul Erdunast 0-2 Mark Harrison Tyron Potts - Matt Morrison Jay Murphy - Rob Thomas* Donald Gordon 2-0 Liam Tiernan Shaun Hegar...

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote:Eek!

The air is getting pretty thin up there.

Andrew Feist

Pairings for the Open: Innis Carson 0-2 Kirk Bevins Charlie Reams 1-2 Junaid Mubeen Oliver Garner - Jon Corby Dinos Sfyris 0-1 Neil Zussman Jim Bentley 0-2 Kai Laddiman David O'Donnell 2-0 Richard Priest Ross Allatt - Andrew Hulme James Hurrell 2-1 Aaron Higgs Matt Morrison - Ben Wilson Jack Hurst 1...

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