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- Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 371769
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Very pleased with my run today. New table update please Gevin!
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 371769
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Northala Fields. Colloquially, The Northolt Nipples.
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 371769
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Just took part in my first one today, happy with a totally reasonable 28:23. No plans to go anywhere near the top end of your list.
- Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 16th January (COC XV, QF 3)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7416
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 16th January (COC XV, QF 3)
Thanks Elliott, feel much better knowing that Tom's letters were perfect. Missed a couple of easy ones (OPERATES, SOAPIER/PROXIES), misdeclared a numbers, chickened APHONIA, and ADORNATE and OIDIUM are in my repertoire on a very good day, but still all of that would have left me short, Tom was excel...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 3:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 2nd August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 22)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5203
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 2nd August 2017 (Series 77, Prelim 22)
Both players, or just the challenger?
- Mon Jun 27, 2016 7:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: EU Referendum
- Replies: 182
- Views: 55122
Re: EU Referendum
Sharing this link to the petition calling for a second EU referendum, and encouraging people to sign it, may well make me look like I'm clutching at straws. Well, as things stand, the Remain campaign has lost, so I'm not too proud to look desperate - I've got nothing to lose. https://petition.parli...
- Mon Jun 27, 2016 7:08 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Never play Countdown when you're THIS tired... this is what could happen.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3437
Re: Never play Countdown when you're THIS tired... this is what could happen.
Au contraire, if you play apterous when you are not drunk, tired, hungover, stoned, straitjacketed or listening to One Direction at full volume then you are taking the game too seriously.
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 1:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 10-00 pm BBC2 Tonight. STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6557
Re: 10-00 pm BBC2 Tonight. STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE
In defence of Jen's minority position, the most overwrought, pretentious and indeed unfunny comedy show I ever went to was Stewart Lee's.
Or possibly it was Richard Herring, I never got the hang of who was who.
Or possibly it was Richard Herring, I never got the hang of who was who.
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 1103899
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
Hi Hazel,
Welcome to the forum!
We nearly got to play each other on the show, if you'd won 7 games then we'd have had an exciting game with you trying to become an octochamp. Well done on the shows you did win though.
Welcome to the forum!
We nearly got to play each other on the show, if you'd won 7 games then we'd have had an exciting game with you trying to become an octochamp. Well done on the shows you did win though.
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:00 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deliberately Silly Factoids
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11305
Re: Deliberately Silly Factoids
Jim Bentley was actually the session drummer on both Traveling Wilburys albums. Probably why he started this thread.
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 2nd February 2016 (Series 74 Prelim 7)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2893
- Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 97079
Re: How many countries have you been to?
22 : Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK(4), USA, Vatican City. Now I'm regretting foolishly revisiting some of those on a number of occasions when I c...
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 5:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 42562
Re: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
25,50,75,100 are a very inefficient set of large numbers because their co-factors lead to a lot of duplication in achievable targets if you have 2+ large numbers. If you take this into account then 12,37,62,87 being more useful shouldn't be too big a surprise.
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 42562
Re: How many Numbers puzzles are there in total?
Here is the breakdown by type, and how far away you can get: Zero away 1 away 2 away 3 away 4 away 5 away 6 away 7 away 8 away 9 away 10 away 11+ away 6S 1963726 (76.64%) 353472 65417 26954 15232 9859 7357 5780 4589 3945 3326 102493 1L 4966076 (95.11%) 220295 21730 5813 2527 1272 713 470 339 264 21...
- Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Grand Final Spoilers For Wednesday December 23rd 2015
- Replies: 44
- Views: 12119
Re: Grand Final Spoilers For Wednesday December 23rd 2015
Thanks for all the generous comments. The whole thing was a blast and I'm glad we managed to put on a decent contest for the final. Goes without saying that Jonathan was a very worthy winner and a great guy. SHOTCRETE did ring a vague bell with me, and if I'd seen it I'm pretty sure I would have buz...
- Tue Dec 22, 2015 9:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday December 21st 2015
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7984
Re: Spoilers For Monday December 21st 2015
Thanks guys. I was really calm for this one, as it was the first game for which I felt it really wouldn't matter if I ended up losing. Round 2 was a bit of a shocker. 10 mins before we went on in the green room Judy Bursford was telling us about a nice new word she'd found in a book she had recently...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 4:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 724095
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I've got another question about relativity. The speed of light is the same for all observers, right? So let's say there's a planet that's exactly one light year away and not moving relative to Earth. Some weird freaky alien sends a beam of light from there towards Earth. There are two people standi...
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 12:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 724095
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I've got another question about relativity. The speed of light is the same for all observers, right? So let's say there's a planet that's exactly one light year away and not moving relative to Earth. Some weird freaky alien sends a beam of light from there towards Earth. There are two people standi...
- Sat Dec 19, 2015 4:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday December 18th 2015
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6357
Re: Spoilers For Friday December 18th 2015
Despite the hansfording I thought John played it in the right spirit. Always smiling, cracking jokes. Very well played matthew. Addictive was a brilliant spot. OUTLINEAR as an alt to uranolite/tile Yes, in case anyone gets the opposite impression, I found John friendly and he was quick to praise my...
- Sat Dec 19, 2015 11:01 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday December 18th 2015
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6357
Re: Spoilers For Friday December 18th 2015
Thanks all, chuffed to put in a decent performance under QF pressure. DUALIZES was the only disappointing miss, so got very lucky when John surprisingly plumped for UNSAILED*. Bit of a shame not to have a chance at the conundrum as if I'd got it I would have topped my apterous high score.
- Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:12 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: New -IZE words, whose -ISE variants come up blank in the search tool and are not specified
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10249
Re: New -IZE words, whose -ISE variants come up blank in the search tool and are not specified
I suppose it's because PAGANIZER is a separate entry, and it's one of those new crappy entries that isn't proper. Yes - so would Susie see behind it, or have instructions to automatically allow any -ISE declaration if -IZE is in and vice versa? If not, it's gonna get extremely confusing and interna...
- Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:31 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Repetitve conundrums
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4692
Re: Repetitve conundrums
GNAGGLING, POLYPHYLY, POLYONYMY and HYPERNYMY likely to be among new additions.
- Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:13 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7842
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
Cheers Martin, hope you've enjoyed the 6s action. I did indeed. They were some very challenging numbers rounds in your run, I hope for more of these come the quarter finals! :) Are all your travel and accommodation expenses paid for by channel 4/Countdown? Rest assured I am likely to be sticking wi...
- Tue Nov 24, 2015 2:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 666495
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
The Sainsbury's one is only great because it's Mog. Essentially it's pretty shit too. Mog doesn't even feel right in 3D. But it's still Mog. For whatever reason I've not seen that one, although I saw a news article about it. Is it Mog that hangs around with Meg? Must be weird in 3-D! Sadly I was di...
- Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7842
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
Thanks all. Jim was indeed lovely, and actually all 8 of my opponents were, particularly those who ended up in the Holiday Inn bar with me until past 3am. I tried not to take the whole thing too seriously and had a lot of fun during these two visits to Salford. Thoroughly recommended for anyone who ...
- Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7842
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
Cheers Martin, hope you've enjoyed the 6s action.
- Thu Nov 19, 2015 2:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7842
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
Thanks Gev/Steven/Jack. I think a couple of the misses today were more down to the pressure of wanting to be an octochamp than mental fatigue. I was lucky to get away to a good early lead in 3 of the 5 filmed that day. Also I didn't use the circular formation, so no excuses there! As to being 5th se...
- Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7842
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18th November 2015
Cheers Jojo, chuffed to get the 8 wins.Jojo Apollo wrote:Many congrats on becoming an octochamp, Matthew. Good set of games there.
When watching it back I was sure I was going to spot IMPARTED. hey-ho.
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 12:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Friday 13th November 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 93)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1650
Re: Friday 13th November 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 93)
Not crap at all, great to have you doing one of mine. Nice work, mate.
- Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:03 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 10 November 2015 (Series 73 Prelim 90)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2599
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 10 November 2015 (Series 73 Prelim 90)
Thanks Martin, (9*9*8-8-7)/3 is also neat, but 6 weeks out of time.
- Tue Nov 10, 2015 10:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 10th November 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 90)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1347
Re: Tuesday 10th November 2015 (Series 73, Prelim 90)
Nice recap, Jen. R4 I had LAGERS for my disappointing 6.
- Tue Nov 10, 2015 10:22 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday October 5th 2015
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3371
Re: Spoilers For Monday October 5th 2015
Maybe when Matt is invited back on (hopefully within the year), they could look at possibly changing the filming schedule slightly (e.g. fewer games per day, or pad out the last couple of slots with specials) to avoid this happening again. Amazingly he's back after just over a month! Does he contin...
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 8:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
- Replies: 417
- Views: 123892
Re: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
I hope I have gone some way to reclaiming my identity.
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 8:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday November 9th 2015
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2653
Re: Spoilers For Monday November 9th 2015
Thanks Jojo, it was a relief that it went fairly smoothly. I was pretty nervous at the start.Jojo Apollo wrote:Well done Matthew, good ton debut.
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
- Replies: 417
- Views: 123892
Re: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
My show is on Channel 4 on Monday. Enjoy!
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 6:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: A change to Co:Events for 2016?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10883
Re: A change to Co:Events for 2016?
I'm imagining a Countdown/Co:Event co-sanctioned "Unofficial Countdown World Championship" hosted in the Countdown studios and being broadcast as the first 7 Countdown episodes every January. Top 6 from the tour plus the two series champions from the programme.
Am I mad?
Am I mad?
- Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:58 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Problems with Java
- Replies: 25
- Views: 22231
Re: Problems with Java
I'm using Java version 7 update 71 on Chrome and have no problems. Maybe uninstall and try that version instead?
https://java.com/en/download/manual_java7.jsp
https://java.com/en/download/manual_java7.jsp
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 7:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 5th August - Series 71, Prelim 21
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1608
Re: Tuesday 5th August - Series 71, Prelim 21
R8 is missing the Other Maxes, ENVOI, MOVIE and OVINE
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475869
Re: People you shouldn't trust
Forum trolls.
- Thu May 01, 2014 8:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Desert Island Discs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4798
Re: Desert Island Discs
I wouldn't be taking it for the music so that's fine. Depends what you mean by books; I have no ebooks on it, but would Word documents I've written/accumulated over the years count? The priorities of functionality would be having MS Word and Pinball/Tetris/Mahjong/Football Manager on it so I can wr...
- Thu May 01, 2014 7:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Apparently, babies born this year have a 1 in 3 chance of re
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2209
Re: Apparently, babies born this year have a 1 in 3 chance o
Even assuming you meant to add "in the UK" too, it still feels like lazy/populist/detached statistical work to me. Yes, ONS, I'm looking at you.
In reality a Brit turning 97 this year has a 1 in 3 chance of reaching 100.
Also 40 year olds are youngsters.
In reality a Brit turning 97 this year has a 1 in 3 chance of reaching 100.
Also 40 year olds are youngsters.
- Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Desert Island Discs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4798
Re: Desert Island Discs
Isn’t taking a laptop kind of against the spirit of Desert Island Discs? Effectively you’re being asked what handful of songs + book + luxury item you’d take with you if they were the only songs you could ever listen to again. And you’re saying “I’d take these eight songs and this one book.... and ...
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:09 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Game of the Year (GotY) 2013 - voting
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5271
Re: Game of the Year (GotY) 2013 - voting
Thanks Adam and Innis and everyone who voted, it's an honour to have my game voted top of the poll and the winning margin is indeed really rather surprising. Also, apologies to Gev, I shall try to do better this year. On the subject of human v human games, I was quite surprised that none made the fi...
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:06 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Playing words you don't know
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7025
Re: Playing words you don't know
11 months into my study of the titles of 17th century restoration comedies, dystopian Russian novels, films of the silent era and the songs of Justin Bieber I'm feeling pretty confident about the upcoming family charades this Christmas.
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:47 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Kjarposko
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3780
Re: Kjarposko
Seems interesting, but I tried the "Sizzling" puzzle and either I have misunderstood or there is an error. Box20 + Box10 = 22 Box20 + Box18 = 5 As all boxes are integers between 1 and 12 this does not work, there is no number I could put in Box20 that would enable both the above to be true.
- Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:56 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Getting Started On Apterous
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2759
Re: Getting Started On Apterous
If you could detail exactly what happens when you try to play then people will be more likely to have ideas as to why it doesn't work for you. I'm not aware of any particular system requirements, but I'm no expert at that type of thing. Also, if you raise it as a ticket/bug report/tech support reque...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Series 70 - 2014 onwards.
- Replies: 175
- Views: 62925
Re: Series 70 - 2014 onwards.
Hi Graeme. I'm giving you the rest of the day to respond to my API revelations before I'm officially offended and to be found crying in the corner. My response, though not articulated very well (or at all) on here, was "that is awesome news, as long as the terms aren't beyond the means of apte...
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:23 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: CECIL as a counter
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3518
Re: CECIL as a counter
You've stumbled upon my cure for insomnia. Unfortunately it works very well so I can't give you any amazing insights, but you can use 3 numbers to get up to 17 if you pick 2,3,10. I suspect this is the maximum possible.
- Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:53 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 759114
Re: Ask Graeme?
Does anyone remember that during COC13 (the first games with Jeff and Rachel) we all noticed immediately that the "shuffling" seemed different. This was swiftly confirmed by Kate Horton (and denied by Mr Team). Would that set of games (165 letters rounds) provide enough data to test wheth...
- Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:56 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 759114
Re: Ask Graeme?
Yeah, I'd say it would increase average scores, but decrease the chances of a 146 or 146-beater. However, 146 can be beaten with three 9s, so essentially there's only a 3/11 chance that by reducing the letters rounds to 10 you'd actually take away one of your nines. So the extra numbers could still...
- Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:31 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Weighing game
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6161
Re: Weighing game
Yes, it's possible to correctly isolate the heavier or lighter coin in 3 weighings. Great problem that I originally saw many years ago.Andy Platt wrote:http://www.mathplayground.com/coinweighing.html
I reckon, you can isolate the coin in 3, otherwise surely this website wouldn't exist
Keep thinking!
- Tue Nov 20, 2012 1:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Friday 19 October 2012 (series 67 prelim 54)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1570
Re: Friday 19 October 2012 (series 67 prelim 54)
R13 other valid 7s are IODATES TOADIED TOADIES TOADISH and C2 said TODDIES not TODDISH*.
- Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:15 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 386325
Re: Is Apterous down?
To give you all something to do/a clarification: 13 and 19 are impossible, and as said, the best solutions are 418 and 735. 17 is also impossible. However 872 is not the best solution. And I do apologize for those impossible games, as I said all of these games are determined at random. Thanks for t...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Salt in food
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5038
Re: Salt in food
I believe that salt is supposed to have some effect on the yeast when making bread (slowing down the fermentation rate or something) - so it does serve a purpose. Don't know about the technicalities, but if you leave the salt out then the bread is practically inedible. Salt doesn't make bread taste...
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:48 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Does anyone else have problems getting onto apterous?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2163
Re: Does anyone else have problems getting onto apterous?
Yep, appears to be down at the moment. downforeveryoneorjustme agrees.
- Sat May 26, 2012 9:07 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Matt Morrison Computer Corner
- Replies: 452
- Views: 122224
Re: The Matt Morrison Computer Corner
The bottom right toolbar where the clock is used to have a slide bar for volume control and it's gone now. Any idea where it's gone and how to get it back? I'm currently using headphones. There's still sound coming from them, I just can't adjust the volume. My uncle was over and he's pretty good wi...
- Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:03 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: 'Gevin's Delight' Tournament 2012
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19219
Re: 'Gevin's Delight' Tournament May-June 2012 - enter here
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING FORMAT CHANGES: 1) Picks will alternate between Player 1 (P1) and Player 2 (P2) 2) Tied games will be decided by tiebreak numbers rounds - a brand new innovation for this tournament! In please. 1) seems rather too fair, but 2) is definitely a good thing.
- Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:02 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Finding art within Apterous
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5810
Re: Finding art within Apterous
Not sure if this counts as art, and it might sound a bit crackpotted, but I actually "see" colors in the small numbers selected in numbers game selections. Like, they don't appear colored on the screen, but my imagination kind of sees them in color in the back of my head. 1: White. Can ap...
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:39 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: May-June 2012 Tournament... you decide the format
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7970
Re: May-June 2012 Tournament... you decide the format
The FA Cup is not fair. Fair is not necessarily automatically desirable. Fair is generally biassed towards the strongest players which can make for a predictable (dull?) tournament. Fair point and I agree, though I think this format would be fairly unpredictable anyway without this additional quirk...
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: May-June 2012 Tournament... you decide the format
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7970
Re: May-June 2012 Tournament... you decide the format
The FA Cup is not fair.Innis Carson wrote:How is this fair?Gavin Chipper wrote:To be a Gevin's Delight, I think one player gets to pick all the rounds. Should be interesting!
Fair is not necessarily automatically desirable. Fair is generally biassed towards the strongest players which can make for a predictable (dull?) tournament.