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Craig Beevers

Obviously it'll be difficult to judge with total accuracy from the auditions, but I feel like you'd rather have the sort of next tier of player kept away from the top 3 just to ensure you've got a bit more quality in the finals. I could see the QFs being rather one-sided as things stand. I don't un...

Craig Beevers

I always presumed the point was that you want your finals to be as exciting as possible - whilst you might say most casual viewers don't pay that much attention, I think a lot will realise when it's the final(s), and it makes better TV (imo) if your finals are "omg these guys are so amazing&qu...

Craig Beevers

Did they serve free drinks to the audience or something?

Most of the stuff they're laughing at even Dudley wouldn't bother with normally. It's a bit surreal.

Craig Beevers

Personally I think IE and Firefox are both horrendously slow for what they do, I use Google Chrome mostly.

Craig Beevers

If potential octochamps are kept apart the luck of the draw argument doesn't really hold. Going by the Countdown database (obviously it's not totally up to date) the last contestant to score a century is still Chris Davies. This gives you an idea of how much the standard has dropped off, yet there w...

Craig Beevers

Not to be nasty or anything to the recent contestants, but if you were one of the potential octochamps who were knocked out first up against a top notch opponent you'd be a bit pissed off watching the last few weeks.

Craig Beevers

Okay who's actually heard of that word in the tea time teaser?

It's not even in CSW (Scrabble's dictionary) which has just the 200,000 words or so.

Craig Beevers

REVOKES

Craig Beevers

It is when they specify that it is awarded for someone who has most affected the preceding year - in a good or bad way.

Craig Beevers

Hmm those final answers were shite. It's like I know lets just name the most famous people we can think of, they'll be pointless won't they... Whereas they'd have won the jackpot if they'd named some really obscure people that nobody's ever heard of, like Queen Elizabeth II or Ronald Reagan. They w...

Craig Beevers

Hmm those final answers were shite.

It's like I know lets just name the most famous people we can think of, they'll be pointless won't they...

Craig Beevers

My opinion of Liverpool is they generally have a somewhat awkward style of play. It makes it a little harder for teams to be fluent (both them and the opponents). It's a good set-up for 2-legged ties against top sides but not so great for efficiently disposing of weaker sides in the league. I think...

Craig Beevers

I don't read newspapers. I ignore most punditry on TV because most people talk out of their arse or are heavily biased in some way - taking much notice of the BBC's views on anything Liverpool for example is not advisable. My opinion of Liverpool is they generally have a somewhat awkward style of pl...

Craig Beevers

I'd have gone with Niger, which would have gotten 1 sadly

Craig Beevers

Must have been a pretty rubbish 100 people they asked for this question.

Country name that has 5 letters.

China only got 28 and that was the 3rd highest. Spain/Italy were in the 60s.

Think Kenya got 2, India 16 etc.

Craig Beevers

Yes 'net spend since Rafa arrived' clearly only means certain bits of the last 5 years where your argument doesn't fall apart.

Craig Beevers

No history, just feel the urge to hammer the point home until people finally get it. The guy is just as poor as previous managers, but he's had a huge net spend and fluked two trophies. The net spend since Rafa arrived is significantly less than Manchester United's, and yet in 2004 we were 17 point...

Craig Beevers

Another top display from Rafa's Liverpool. Amazing how someone so mediocre can last so long. Haha Craig. I have no idea of the history behind you and Liverpool but it's funny seeing you jump on us every chance you can get. Not many of us Liverpool fans agree wholeheartedly with everything Rafa does...

Craig Beevers

Another top display from Rafa's Liverpool. Amazing how someone so mediocre can last so long.

Craig Beevers

One of the media articles out there on me involved the 'Scrabble expert got a D in English' line of attack (pre-Countdown appearances). Most English teachers are rather useless in my experience, the relevant GCSEs were piss poor as well. There's a lot of articles out there on me and Scrabble, but no...

Craig Beevers

He's rated 150. I'll leave it to others to decide whether that's high or not.

Craig Beevers

Nice to see a Scrabbler win for a change.

Craig Beevers

James Robinson wrote:I got STELLING. Unfortunately it's not a word, so later in the same game I got ARSEHOLE. Result

STELLING is a word, it's just not in ODE. It is in CSW however where STELL means to establish.

Craig Beevers

As well as the other annoying features already pointed out, I find it incredibly frustrating when what should be a good head-to-head round starts, only for someone to ruin it almost immediately. Reminds of a recent pair of halfwits who must have slipped through the net. There was some question whic...

Craig Beevers

Yea there's way too much padding and oversimplified scripted recapping of the scores. Like virtually every round he'll say the exact same lines regardless of if the highest score is 100 and the next highest is 3 or if the highest is 10 and the lowest is 5. Think it goes something like "well x i...

Craig Beevers

Jeffrey missed BEAVERING - like we're gonna let THAT lie!!!! Well done Kiddo - really well played and sooo Mr Showbiz today. Yea I'm a friend of Richard (today's challenger) so he really should have got it too. You're right Craig, Richard couldn't believe it when the conundrum came up and he missed...

Craig Beevers

Sue Sanders wrote:Jeffrey missed BEAVERING - like we're gonna let THAT lie!!!!

Well done Kiddo - really well played and sooo Mr Showbiz today.

Yea I'm a friend of Richard (today's challenger) so he really should have got it too.

Craig Beevers

4*50 = 200

9+6 / 3 = 5

200+5 = 205

205 * 4 = 820

Craig Beevers

He wasn't a contestant, he was on as a trainspotter so got identified then trotted out some groanworthy line.

Craig Beevers

My photos are on a combination of:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/scaly.piscine

and

http://craigbeevers.me.uk/photos.html

Not added any new ones for a few weeks, will probably be getting a lens or two shortly what with the money I've won from Scrabble lately which was earmarked for camera stuff.

Craig Beevers

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0391837034

Might have a go at another challenge if the Scrabble study allows.

Craig Beevers

He did kinda lead her when he asked for groups of x people to be eliminated.

Presumably there's some sort of predictable standard human response to this that mentalists have stats on?

Craig Beevers

The position itself is obviously designed to be harder than normal to get up from. Things like having your feet flat and having yours hands on your lap - I guess you're left using your core muscles to get up.

Craig Beevers

What a complete load of bollocks.

Craig Beevers

Heh loved that disclaimer there.

Apparently the subliminal film is high resolution such that if it ends up on the internet it won't work...

Craig Beevers

Expect to see Pointless get replaced by mickey mouse tennis today... BBC always allot laughably tiny slots for the Davis Cup tennis. It would take a minor miracle for two games plus all the other filler stuff to be done and dusted in 3 3/4 hours.

Craig Beevers

I'm up to 4 and 4, the first four being failures, and the next four being successes. The only change I made was that I made sure the other person was directly opposite me, not sort of side-on. Will carry on. I've always had the people next to me. I was gonna say I'd always been nearer the 5 cup, bu...

Craig Beevers

You know his opponent is another Apterous player, stop being so bloody cryptic and tell us who it is! :P Incidentally I am going to the pub with all my mates to watch Countdown today in a totally unrelated matter that offers no hints at all as to which Apterite may or may not be on today's show. Yo...

Craig Beevers

Do you find that you get more Scrabble-related publicity and attention due to your Countdown success? I bet a lot of your opponents are extra-keen to beat you as a result of it? Probably do a get little extra press attention due to winning Countdown, I would think most Scrabble tournaments would me...

Craig Beevers

Thanks, adds to my rather packed schedule over the next 3 months. Got my local club's tournament this Sunday The National Scrabble Championships Team event the weekend after National Championships final (£1,500 first prize, £750 runner-up) Oct 18th World Championships - Johor Bahru, Malaysia (US$15,...

Craig Beevers

I don't think the above is true. Mark Tournoff knows Apterous exists, as does Paul Gallen, and both don't use it to practice on. Granted that they've both appeared on Countdown now and Paul studies using different methods for Scrabble but I still think there will be a few people who are very good f...

Craig Beevers

Hmm well that was somewhat underwhelming.

Craig Beevers

I've not had any problems with IE8, although I hardly use it. I use Google Chrome instead because it's miles faster.

Craig Beevers

Charlie Reams wrote:http://www.apterous.org/cdb/records.php ... st_maximum

No chance of pushing these records unless one of the numbers games is impossible, really.

First game on that list has an incorrect max... 2nd numbers game is easily doable.

Craig Beevers

Well actually that was a question where you *could* guess as it happens, I think there were a bunch of servants with common names that were pointless. That's the thing really that with some questions you can guess and you're better off doing that than going for an obvious answer - in others it's vir...

Craig Beevers

Yea I dunno why they're so conservative in the last round, the pairs nearly always go for 1-2 'safe' answers that will never in a million years be pointless - although I suppose they really are pointless answers in one sense.

Craig Beevers

Hopefully one week there'll be a set of contestants where one isn't incredibly annoying and or a repulsive tit. Last show had like a male version of Jade Goody on it.

Craig Beevers

Heh just turned over to see some epic stuff.

Second round, question is "word ending in ...INGING"

Spoilery bit:

Question is a word ending in "...INGING"

Two of the answers? SPONGING (seriously) and SEINGING*

Craig Beevers

Seems alright, bit too much padding but I suppose that may be reduced in further shows.

Contestants were amazing thick/useless as per usual.

Craig Beevers

John Douglas wrote:CENTAURS for 8?

No A. Was an I and another U.

Craig Beevers

Thought they were amazingly lenient with the names of Oscar categories just now.

Craig Beevers

Former Contestants'? - Help & Information Wanted. I am waiting to hear about appearing on "Countdown" after having been accepted, I got the letter on 4th August. I know it's filmed in Manchester (I'm in London). But can anybody help me with the following queries? How much notice will ...

Craig Beevers

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:Also, wasn't it Adam Howard?
Not according to his nameplate.
Oh, right. Eyesight goes with old age.

Or puberty in some cases.

Craig Beevers

Hmm PIXILATE is another that wouldn't be allowed in Scrabble, although PIXILATED is okay there.

Craig Beevers

Surprised they didn't edit that (further) or re-shoot it.

Craig Beevers

Interestingly AMINO is purely adjectival in CSW (Scrabble's wordlist). SOZIN(S) is Scrabble-only.

Craig Beevers

GALAGOS is good according to Apterous

Craig Beevers

Yeah, looking at the game, he struggled on the numbers which is slightly surprising as didn't Craig Beevers argue on his website that anagramming is a numerical sill? Also, he offered some SOWPODS only words but if, like Holden and Beevers, he took time to learn the dictionary omissions, he could h...

Craig Beevers

Must be quite a strong cross-over of knowledge from that show Karen's husband won a load of money on.

Anyway the last round to win dosh seems quite tough

Craig Beevers

Another stunning result for Liverpool.

Still it is the best thing that could happen to them, might finally get rid of Benitez.

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