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Fred Mumford wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 10:03 pm This octorun record could last 20 years.

Not even a 20 month wait for Elliott to have some company in the club.
Congrats to Luke*!

*I assume.
102pts required from someone with an average of 128 or better. It's bound to happen.
We'll know in around 10hrs time.

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The "Folk'll talk" pun... that's clever. A good argument for keeping the awful name, if ye do insist on keeping it. ;) Anyway, enough moaning. Episode 1 (abridged of course) was very entertaining, and you're not half as shit as they say. Paul's great, but I would prefer your presenting sty...

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The name of the Podcast is weird.

"Focal Talk", you would expect it to be purely in-person events.
But if it is going to include TV stuff and Apterous stuff too, you should consider something less niche, like "Countdownery" "Apto-goss", "The 'downcast" etc.

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Is it time to start speculating about her replacement? Given the times we live in... it won't be a sexy young girl. Not PC enough. Perhaps, given that it has traditionally been a job given to a woman, they'll Ghostbust a man into the role? Preferably a man who ticks at least one of the following box...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2012 6:02 pm It might as well be down now (the web side of things anyway - dunno about the game), considering that it's completely illegible with the wonderful Hallowe'en font!

Fixed!

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They must be desperate when the "celebrity" is just some hopeful from Dragons Den. Ergo: even Gevin has heard of him... ;) Of the celebs who've appeared so far this series, I'd rank him -on a fame scale- higher than all of Suzi Perry, Michaela Strachan, Charlie Higson, Linda Papadopoulos,...

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Might be imagining it, but didn't Susie seem extra intelligent in this episode?
Like some kind of demure Clark Kent...

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Sabrina Grant Anna Richardson Charlie Higson Rufus Hound Stuart Maconie James O'Brien Christine Ohuruogu Colin Murray Jay Rayner Jo Brand Chris Packham Charlotte Hawkins Calling it "Celebrity Countdown" is a bit of a stretch. You could argue Jo Brand was a household name for a period duri...

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Just did some googling and it turns out Westmonster was founded by Aaron Banks, who also founded the leave.EU campaign, who have been famously truthful in all of their dealings with the public. :roll: Interesting. So it was idiotic of him to defend them then. Still not a good reason to block someon...

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Anyone can block who they like for whatever reason they like (or no reason at all) - no public justification needed. i know that, but only the worst sorts of people would do it over a difference of opinions... which makes me question the OP. There must have been a very good reason for a sensible pe...

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:51 am I think you're disappointing.

Likewise.
You disappoint me daily when I tune in to watch Countdown and you're *still* not in the challengers chair.

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The bad person in that scenario is Rachel Riley, unless he was bullying her personally.
If it was purely a block based in a difference of opinion, that's disappointing.

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Two genuine laugh out loud moments. :D #1. ...not being found by employer/crazy ex... I'd've stopped working for them after the relationship ended. Too good! #2. Not that there's such a thing as a "real" name anyway. Names are just arbitrary labels we apply to ourselves, even if some have ...

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Mostly people are respectful of the Gevin and of the Gavin, but every now and then someone outs him. Most recently (and most hilariously) Jason did so on the 'Is Apterous Down?' thread. This got me thinking. Then, as it turns out, I have been playing someone on Apterous who is someone else entirely!...

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Jason William Larsen wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:15 pm I was trying to reprimand Toby, aka Gavin Chipper, for scolding Ronan.

Do you remember Superman II when Clark Kent revealed himself as Superman to Lois Lane?
Such intrigue!

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Question then, has Apterous ever been mentioned by name on the show? And if so, when exactly. I don't remember if he used the name, but certainly I became aware that such a thing existed, at the end of October 2010. This was because Jack Hurst went on a massive rant about Apterous and how cool it i...

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Jason William Larsen wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:19 pm Toby!

Toby?

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People were commenting -just before this evening's massive crash- on how many players were online at the same time. Maybe around 30 in the room. Would that have contributed to the crash? Excess traffic? And if that is something that's unstable about Apterous (that it cannot handle medium to large nu...

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People who ring you, and lead with "may I ask who I am speaking with?"

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lol @ the branded account. Corporate FOCAL has arrived on C4C. :roll: The "Sinclair-McCullagh example" makes it crystal clear the current scoring system must go. It only serves to make big events bigger and small events smaller (assuming players give a crap about FOCAL points... and we hav...

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Is "brownface" or "blackface" intrinsically racist, or does intent and context matter? That shit is not racist... Certainly not on this side of the Atlantic. Minstrel shows, segregation, blackface etc etc etc... These are american problems. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and th...

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Tom S wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 10:07 pm Here for the Eurovision comment- some of the artists mentioned in "2" strike a bit of a nerve though

Getting into the spirit of the thread.
#controversial

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Ok. This is fun. My contributions:- 1. The Eurovision Song Contest (since c1996) has provided at least one better written pop song per year than 10 or more of the 20 top selling chart singles of the year in question. .............................. 2. The following acts are overrated and some of them...

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Great idea - all you need now is someone to do Susie's job while she plays the game, someone to host the show while Nick plays, and someone to do Rachel's role while she plays too. :lol: Yeah... it is a pipe dream. It's the kind of thing that *could* happen were Countdown the sort of programme with...

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Ok... if they are gonna feature CD present / former staff members (and they SHOULD!!!

) then we've got to have Susie vs Rachel... or if they wanted to do teams I think Susie & Jeff Stelling vs Rachel & Nick could make for a close contest.

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Well, I haven't seen THIS thread before... Choices choices. So many excellent games that have had no mention yet. I voted for "other - please specify", so you did ask for this. ;) If I had to pick just one, ooh... that's hard, but maybe "Absolute Balderdash" would shade it? Other...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:11 pm You knead a good knight's leap I think.

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I wonder is that that then...
If your kryptonite / teapot smashes, C4 would hardly give you a new one?

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No offence due ,if I see you at a Co event, I will avoid you like the plague The response of the archetypal atheist there... At least agnostics are never smug about their beliefs. You say that and yet Agnosticism is a smarter position than Atheism. That's one of the only definites that can be relie...

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I entirely agree with your argument. For the record, I am of the "there is definitely no god" persuasion: there has never, ever, been any credible evidence to suggest there was. Millennia of misguided humans claiming otherwise is not evidence. What's as bad -if not worse- than the ones wh...

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Jason William Larsen wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:25 am You are Eoin Jackson!

Ta-dah!
Wait till you find out who Spike Guthrie, Susan Morton, Sympathetic Jones and Gavin Chipper really are... then you will be truly stunned!

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:16 am Did you make them yourself?

Yes. I'm a bit of a YouTube / video-editing hobbyist.

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Many people have differing opinions regarding the best game of Countdown of all time...
For me, this is it. No contest:-

Part 1 [https://youtu.be/oOQxfUXypZI]
Part 2 [https://youtu.be/yJFf5yCmtLQ]
Part 3 [https://youtu.be/zkIQKtCRvr4]

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Having recently uploaded two of the more humorous moments from my CD run to YouTube, I searched the forum to see if there was a "Countdown on YouTube / Dailymotion / Vimeo" thread here. Long story short... there is now! :mrgreen: ------------------------------------------------------------...

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What a game!

What we've learned from S69 and S80 is: setting a record Octorun mitigates against your prospects of winning the series!
Unlucky Elliott, and well played both! Great dramatic game.

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QUICK LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/345663402817680 That is the event page. -------------------------------------- WHAT IS IT? Based on Channel 4's flagship daytime TV quiz show, this will be a chance to partake in a real life Countdown tournament, in a rural setting. We'll have consonants, w...

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12. Or maybe the first member of the 1000 club is someone who has yet to discover the online community? All we can say for sure is… we are living in interesting times. A golden age of Countdowning… that has yet to reach a peak. :mrgreen: This thread started: 08-12-16 EM joins Apterous: 24-12-16 106...

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Jojo Apollo wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2019 2:55 pm He's done it again!!! Magnificent Mellor, smashes the previous world record for 8 games, first one to break the 1000 baririer. Simply superb, many congrats Mr Mellor.

Hear hear!
It was a joy to watch the 8 game display over the last week and a bit.
Peak countdown.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2019 4:24 pm I have no evidence to back it up

Someone else will know more, but I was under the impression that Carol and Damian didn't have a falling out, and are on good terms.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2019 1:11 pm Or calling the producer a dick , tantamount to the same thing

Are you sure that's true?
I had heard that Carol's beef was with someone other than the crew or production team. (But I don't remember the story fully, and it may not be accurate anyway.)

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In fact, the vowel pick in the SOLUTION round was for an E in the hope of flattening it out a bit. I have no goat talent, but was surprised at the 5th vowel on the end of that pick... All of your shows have been events in our house, with some animated commentary throughout (often from all 4 of us)....

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Thanks! It truly is. Wonderful too though... ------------------------------ This thread won't be needed soon. Elliott's average score = 135pts. Average score needed over the final 3 games = 108pts. Elliott's lowest score to date = 118pts. I doubt even a villainous ANCHOVETA could stop this freight t...

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I suspect Damian would relish the prospect of one of the old guard -from Conor, Kirk and Charlie's vintage- taking 1000's cherry. Based on what exactly, other than your own imagination? :roll: Pretty much that, yep. Damian is the ultimate puppet master and pantomime villain of the Countdown communi...

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Sounds promising. Enjoy.
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Recent nominees for this:-
Jodine Lawrence [S79]
Robin Johnson [S79]
Andrew Jackson [S79]
Maggie Barlow [S80]

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 5:16 pm You're not still bitter about the fact I said your avatar looked like the money shot in robot/human bukkake, are you?

A mention of CW put the notion of "bitterness" into your mind.

I appreciate the simplicity of that.

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The odds on a player good enough to do it getting a good enough set of letters with which to do it are very small. The odds on them actually caring enough to try and work towards it is even less likely. Enter Elliott Mellor. inb4 obvious jokes This is probably one of the best posts on the thread as...

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Yep, "top bloke"
as the Brits or Aussies might say.

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:48 am No reason to assume Carl was an Apterite. He knew it about it, sure, but since he admitted to Googling at least me, and no doubt all of us in the QF lineup, that's no great mystery. So yeah. Him.

We need more nice people like Carl in the Countdown community.

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It wasn't so much the song that was crap, it definitely wasn't the worst, it was the fact it was us singing it. I agree Sweden definitely had the better song but even if they'd had our song they'd still have finished respectably. I was quite surprised Australia weren't higher - I expected them to b...

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hahahahaha... 152!!! Crazy shit!

Very well played. Powerful stuff.
Delighted there's a new game record.
How long will this one last...
Days?* Months? Years?!

.

*On current form, you couldn't completely rule that out.

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UK's screwed... If ye participated properly (i.e. went through the semis) it'd already be over. I expect you to place no higher than 17th and no lower than 23rd. The song's not terrible, but John Lundvik definitely kept the best one for himself. Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, Australia, Russia a...

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Remind me not to attempt a mathematical or stats based analysis late at night... This is so error strewn! Dinos has played 4 games and amassed 494pts. Nope, that was Kerry Copland's total. Dinos had 476pts after 4 games. So would need to average 131pts per game... That would require too much luck re...

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won't happen If you wanna put your money where your mouth is, €10 says it happens before S80, and €100 says it happens before the end of the year 2020. :) Do your bets still stand? And are they both at evens? Because then I'd like to take you up on the first one. But not the second one. ;) (I'll gi...

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Seems like a good time to revisit this... Given that the average octomax for the current series is 1061, surely the very first 1000 scorer (kilochamp?) is due to grace our screens before S80? ^^^I think it's fair to revise the above by removing the word "before" and replacing it with "...

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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:25 pmAnother prediction about this Champion of Champions...
...the long standing game high score record of 146 will finally be beaten.

Yep!
It only took 17 years.
My new prediction is that 150pts will remain unbeaten for fewer than 3 years.

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That'll do pig, that'll do. Pure class. That TIRAMISUS twist keeping the game alive as a contest helped boost the excitement levels coming in to the home straight. And the game of rock/paper/scissors (or scissors/paper/stone if you like...) certainly gets my seal of approval as an appropriate manner...

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Cerise!!! :shock: Someone went above and beyond in his efforts to look pretty for CoC today! Tis no wonder he got molested in the first round... #stunner That was one of the most exciting ones so far for me... especially each time Rachel pressed CECIL only to reveal another very gettable numbers gam...

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The only bit that's still confusing is this: The -75 thing Actually, never mind. I think I have it now. -75 as a penalty for having both wrong players in a match, but no penalty applies as long as one of the players is the person you predicted to be there. And as that system will carry on all the w...

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They basically look the same anyway. Fair point. Paul is the Clark Kent version... Tx for the explanation. Clears up a few things I was unsure about. The only bit that's still confusing is this: The -75 thing Is that an automatic -75 you score if neither of your picks from earlier matches appear op...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:32 am It’s in the OP.

The OP reads like ESL.
There's something about a -75, but it's not explained.
Also, with the margins scoring, it says there is an extra 1pt added per number closer than 10pts out, but in the given example, it seems some sort of exponential method is used...

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