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Charlie Reams

I'm not crediting you as an octochamp until I find out whether our armchair heroes did better than you.

Charlie Reams

Someone really should expand the wiki articles a bit. Volunteers?

Charlie Reams

I suggest something like I did for Stuart's recap; "[Year Month Date]" first, followed by anything else the individual recapper feels is relevant (some people put the series and episode number, etc.) Actually convincing recappers to do this might be trickier.

Charlie Reams

This is the forum for discussion of all the unofficial Countdown events that take place. There are several real-life tournaments each year, the most venerable of which is COLIN (Countdown in Lincoln) which has run every January since 2005. There is also COBRIS (Bristol in the summer) and CORED (Redc...

Charlie Reams

Sorry Jim, that's totally unacceptable. I've drafted Amey Deshpande to replace you.

Charlie Reams

My brother came up with a good idea today, what about a numbers conundrum where you buzz when you think you have it? That sounds similar to Jon Stitcher Cheaty Countdown, which is a variant invented by the eponymous Stitcher, in which you can declare any number of times as the round goes on, and mu...

Charlie Reams

Yes, well done mate. Your long-awaited entry onto the Octochamp Stats page will be made as soon as today's recap appears.

Charlie Reams

I disagree. You should've been better, particularly on the numbers and letters. Oh, and you were a bit slow on the conundrum.

Charlie Reams

You asked me at Colin to investigate whether phpBB would allow fixed-width fonts. It doesn't, although suitable extensions may exist, so I thought I'd try to gauge whether anyone actually wants to read in fixed-width before spending time finding and installing such a thing. As it's pretty clear that...

Charlie Reams

Does anyone have a NODE (the version of the dictionary used circa 2002)? I'm looking for someone to check some words from the recaps for that period. If you have a NODE but no inclination to use it, I'm also willing to buy them for some suitable fee.

Charlie Reams

You can see me in action in the final of the COOT Plate (a kind of repechage competition for people who are a bit rubbish.) Basically I much prefer the letters, although I'm trying to improve my numbers at the moment. I used to be quite good at the conundrum and still get most of the ones on the sho...

Charlie Reams

Your comparison to McMicrosoft is straight from the Zef book of ridiculous overstatement. You're still at liberty to prepare the recaps in any font you see fit, but evidently no one wants to read them in fixed-width, so it seems like a straight debate between your creative liberty to, err, make the ...

Charlie Reams

Well, everyone knows letters is best, but let's have a poll anyway.

Charlie Reams

I think it's fair to say that most contestants and, more importantly, most people playing along at home prefer the letters rounds, so anything which decreased them would be fairly unpopular. I might be wrong about that. Let's have a poll.

Charlie Reams

Maybe you should join the Nick Wainwright School of Youthfulness.

Charlie Reams

I think Jono's octochamp run proves that if you can nail your opponent on the numbers then you can afford to make shit up in about half of the letters rounds and still win comfortably.

Charlie Reams

Yeah, knowing the words is a different skill to spotting them. Otherwise I'd be quite good.

Charlie Reams

The only one I can think of is Victor Ubogu. Although Ron Atkinson is a funny shade of red, does that count?

Charlie Reams

Haha. Great list by the way.

And now, Pedants Corner:
Lightening: making lighter
Lightning: climatic phenomenon

Charlie Reams

Probably Countdown - General.

Charlie Reams

Is there actually any attack on this except brute force?

Charlie Reams

Surely you mean "the kitchen", you massive sexist.

Charlie Reams

Jeffrey Hansford / Barry Bonds: Both brilliant in their own ways, but doomed to be remembered as a cheating cu... person.

Charlie Reams

I don't think it's a spoiler anyway, it just lets you concentrate on the other 8 letters - a bit like having an 8-letter selection, which makes for a bit of variety. For example, see Round 8 of this game, where the Q probably made things more exciting.

Charlie Reams

David Mitchell also has Channel 4 ties already (with Peep Show and stuff) so I'm sure they could get him. We need that Robin guy back, who (as you may remenber) started about four million petitions, even if none of them had more than two signatures.

Charlie Reams

Everyone's recaps contain the occasional error (especially mine), but it seems bizarre that simple errors (like the wrong selection) persist when there are tools around specifically designed to prevent them. I've said before that I'll add features to the recap writer if something is particularly des...

Charlie Reams

For future reference, it would really piss me off to have someone advertising their performance against me every day, even if I always beat them. There are plenty of opportunities to play me for real, online or in person, rather than some phoney "against the telly" contest which I didn't e...

Charlie Reams

It would only be 1/2 if all heights (over some range) were equally probable and he had no evidence about his own height.

Charlie Reams

The average number of legs is a bit less than 2, given that a small number of people have no legs or only one leg, while barely anyone has more than 2 legs. So the probability that you see someone with more than the mean number (e.g. two) is, well, close to 1 I'd say.

Charlie Reams

Haha, no need mate, you are right about the error - I was just pointing out that if you're going to post all the errors in the unchecked articles, well, you'll be here for a while. You can of course edit them yourself if you want to help our little project along.

Charlie Reams

Countdown recap for Monday 17th March 2003: http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_3440 C1: Champion Andrew Tatham (2 wins, 186 points.) C2: Challenger Val Mills. DC: Susie Dent and Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: V R H R O I O E F R02: Z N A T I B O L ...

Charlie Reams

Countdown recap for Friday 14th March 2003: http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_3439 C1: Champion Andrew Tatham (1 win, 89 points.) C2: Challenger Julian Duxbury. DC: Alison Heard and Rick Wakeman. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: H N S E O A N G I R02: D J S O E T T O C R03:...

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Countdown recap for Thursday 13th March 2003: http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_3438 This is the final of the Ladies Championship. C1: Challenger Hilary Hopper. C2: Challenger Kate Ogilvie. DC: Alison Heard and Rick Wakeman. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: S H G R U I E L ...

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Countdown recap for Wednesday 12th March 2003: http://www.countdownwiki.com/Episode_3437. This is the second semi-final C1: Challenger Kate Ogilvie, Series 39 champion. C2: Challenger Verity Joubert, Series 30 champion. DC: Alison Heard and Rick Wakeman. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solut...

Charlie Reams

I probably quoted more than was really necessary, apologies.

Charlie Reams

Does anyone actually find the recaps harder to use with the current variable-width font? I have to say it doesn't affect me in the least, but I'm willing to look around for a way to make them fixed-width (like the old Yahoo ones) if anyone actually cares.

Charlie Reams

Sorry Ben, what do you mean?

Charlie Reams

Round 11: E O A P N P T O H C1: ETALONS (7) C2: ATONES (6) DC: TANNOYS (7) Other: SYNTONE (7) Shurely shome mishtake, the letters don't match up to the words at all. Round 12: Z A O E A S C S R C1: ROSACES (7) C2: ACROSS (6) DC: COURSE (6) Must've been COARSE or there's a letter wrong in the select...

Charlie Reams

It also says "This article includes round details inferred automatically from the recap. It has not yet been verified by a human and may contain errors."

Charlie Reams

Any of those would be good, or at least I'd give them a shot at being good. I'm not sure how much control the production team have over the guests though, didn't Damian once say they just get given a list by YTV or something?

Charlie Reams

Maybe they couldn't understand his obscure northern dialect. Where is this "Yorkshire" place anyway?

Charlie Reams

I would've thought 9, given that he's the tenth person and each person gets on independently of all the others. But maybe I need to think about this more carefully.

Charlie Reams

That's a right-on summary, yes.

Charlie Reams

there are undertones of racism in the vilification of Bonds, such as comparisons between him and OJ Simpson, two men who have only their skin colour in common I haven't heard any such comparisons and I agree that they are a bit unfair, but the two men do have plenty in common - they're both highly ...

Charlie Reams

Everyone always criticises the contestants, it gets tiresome. You've clearly been awesome and set this series alight and people still come in with the most pointless criticism. Advice like "You should get better" is 1) completely tautological 2) completely ridiculous given who it's being g...

Charlie Reams

It's a one-off hardware upgrade (4GB of memory up to 16GB.)

Charlie Reams

Did that advice serve you well in your career as a zero-time winner, Joseph?

Charlie Reams

James, mate, have you noticed how you're the only person that posts how they did against the winning contestant every day?

Charlie Reams

Yes, it's PM.

Charlie Reams

So you think if Countdown was played forever (or just for a couple of thousand years perhaps) NEUROGLIA would be 57th in the frequency list of nines? I was actually planning to simulate just that (the latter case!) at some point, so then we'll have an answer. And don't apologise for causing a debat...

Charlie Reams

There's not anywhere convenient for me to announce this (maybe we should have a closed Admin forum) but c4c and the Countdown Wiki will be down from 3 til 4 on Sunday due to server maintenance.

Charlie Reams

Your patience is much appreciated, Paul

Charlie Reams

So Jim was completely right except one extra U (totally plausible) and two extra Ds (quite surprising - maybe that's been changed lately.) Cheers for the info Mr Eadie.

Charlie Reams

Lots of successful baseballers are black. Lots are disgraced drug cheats are white. So maybe there's a special kind of racism which discriminates against Barry Bonds and not any other sportsman, or maybe Bonds lied to a Grand Jury and people (who would be critical of that at the best of times) are p...

Charlie Reams

You need to submit to the recap index, just like before. The recap writer does provide a link to that page, including filling in as many of the details as possible. The only difference is you now paste in the entire web address of the forum post, rather than the Yahoo message number. Also, David, yo...

Charlie Reams

The intermediate results do have to be integers, though, which would be difficult to check otherwise. WTP calculated that this does actually make a few games impossible which would otherwise be possible, which is interesting.

Charlie Reams

Surely the whole essence of the original problem was that the numbers were selected randomly from a boundless selection. If there is some sort of probability distribution it's a different matter altogether. No, sorry, that's meaningless. There has to be a probability distribution. You may not be th...

Charlie Reams

Haha, the granny population would freak out. But it's definitely a good idea.

Charlie Reams

I'd rather not keep sorting it myself, that's why we have a submission page. The submission system is simpler now, as you can just copy & paste the entire web address, so I think it's more likely that Stuart just forgot.

Charlie Reams

I'll answer this as Paul is trying to get his life back from the clutches of this thread. Hmmm, I think I have a slight issue with this, I took it to mean that you were as equally likely to pick 1 as you were to pick -312 4/7, or some number with 18 trillion decimal places - ie, it can be anything, ...

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