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L'oisleatch McGraw

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.

L'oisleatch McGraw

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...

L'oisleatch McGraw

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.)

L'oisleatch McGraw

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)....

L'oisleatch McGraw

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...

L'oisleatch McGraw

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]

L'oisleatch McGraw

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.

L'oisleatch McGraw

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.

L'oisleatch McGraw

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...

L'oisleatch McGraw

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?!

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

L'oisleatch McGraw

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...

L'oisleatch McGraw

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...

L'oisleatch McGraw

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 "by the end of"...

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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:25 pm
Another 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.

L'oisleatch McGraw

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...

L'oisleatch McGraw

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...

L'oisleatch McGraw

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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Thomas Carey wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:51 am
me, Lav, Rhys, Eoin and Tim have called 7/8 of the games

Margins are a bitch.

So, what happens with the wrong predictions in the next round?
Does Zarte now automatically take Paul's place in my remaining predictions, or is there an ongoing penalty for getting the first result wrong?

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Tom S wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:51 pm

L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:14 pm

Thomas Carey wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:22 am
wearing red for Zac
Zac Efron?
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/hea ... -year-old/

Ah fair play.
Far less shallow than the thing I said so.

L'oisleatch McGraw

Thinking some more about the CoC and what might happen over the next few days... ...what was great about Dylan's win in the last one was how there was an element of redemption about his win after the unexpected defeat in S69's final. With that in mind, I'd pick out these players as the most worthy w...

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Thomas Carey wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:22 am
wearing red for Zac

Zac Efron?
And red...
...because he's hot?

Excellent game today.
Those obscure 9's were a real treat for those of us into COC worship.

Well played both...

L'oisleatch McGraw

So far so good!
I wonder how long this lucky streak will last?
Games 4 and 5 are going to be intense...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Graeme. Apologies. I can't expend too much energy taking your reply seriously, as you seem to have a blind spot on this topic. You're usually sharper and fairer in your analysis of things... but not with this. Hypothetically, if someone's tongue is deeply extended into someone else's hole, all they'...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:31 pm
the only three of the top 16 who weren't invited were 14, 15 and 16, so while I wouldn't necessarily have invited the exact same group of people that were invited, I don't think what has happened is the worst thing ever.

Agreed.

L'oisleatch McGraw

John Cowen is John Cowen. I help balance out the show's diversity policy. Anyone who made it to a semi final is CoC material as far as I'm concerned. The only pity is that there were only 16 spaces allocated for 24 contenders. The final 4L solve in your Semi was the best CD moment of the decade, so...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Ok... time to look at the seeding for this:- Firstly, (just for the buzz) here are the points totals of each of the 48 finalists from the 6 series in question:- 1. [S78] Zarte Siempre (#1. W. 967pts) 2. [S74] Paul Erdunast (#1. W. 925pts) 3. [S73] Thomas Carey (#1. SF. 923pts) 4. [S73] Jonathan Wynn...

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I must have seriously impressed you at Co:Dub yesterday Mr McGraw :lol: A tiebreak conundrum in the final though - what scenes May as well have drama in a final! Let's make it one to remember. ;) The way I see it, there are a fair number of players who could nick the title... ...and I have a feelin...

L'oisleatch McGraw

This is going to be a hard COC, (but all the more enjoyable for that, undoubtedly)...
...I am actively rooting for 11 of these contestants to do as well as they possible can, compared to around 6 in the last one.
It'll be compelling viewing.

L'oisleatch McGraw

My Predictions:- 1. JONATHAN WYNN beats PHIL DAVIES by 42pts. 2. JOHN COWEN beats ANN DIBBEN by 14pts 3. MATTHEW TASSIER beats DOUGIE MACKAY by 61pts 4. THOMAS CAREY beats STEPHEN READ by 7pts 5. PAUL ERDUNAST beats ZARTE SIEMPRE by 28pts 6. TOM CHAFER-COOK beats MARTIN HURST by 10pts 7. BRADLEY HOR...

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Zarte Siempre 1331 Paul Erdunast 1273 Johnathan Wynn 1244 Tom Chafer-Cook 1235 Stephen Read 1230 Ann Dibben 1209 Thomas Carey 1141 Bradley Horrocks 1136 Martin Hurst 1128 Matthew Tassier 1119 Andrew MacLeod 1119 Philip Aston 1080 John Cowen 990 Noel McIlvenny 987 Dougie Mackay 932 Phil Davies 926 H...

L'oisleatch McGraw

I heard about those from my series too... but are you sure that all four are partaking?
There are usually some back-up players invited in case of drop outs...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Good point... I'd agree that anyone who made the 800 club over the last 3 years or so is in with a realistic shot of some CoC action... so Conrad and Stephen are good shouts, but I wouldn't bet my house on their inclusion.

L'oisleatch McGraw

The 16 competitors for CoC XV will be as follows:- Series winners:- 1. Jonathan Wynn [S73] 2. Paul Erdunast [S74] 3. Martin Hurst [S75] 4. Stephen Read [S76] 5. Tom Chafer-Cook [S77] 6. Probably Zarte Siempre [S78] Series Runners-up:- 7. Matthew Tassier [S73] 8. Ann Dibben [S74] 9. Andrew Macleod [S...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Overwhelming whiff of CoC about these days.
Must be one coming soon...

L'oisleatch McGraw

QUICK LINK https://www.facebook.com/events/406571309767781/ 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, ...

L'oisleatch McGraw

To no extent actually, other than whatever is in your bizarre imagination. --------------------------------------------------------- The stats I'm most interested in are the following:- -What was the average hardness level (according to Apto) of the conundrums during Zarte's run compared to the oth...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Interesting times... The Countdown game record is 146. If Zarte gets 144 he scores 1000... The best max Zarte's had so far has been 145. Generally he's getting ~90% of the available max. The highest max of S78 so far has been 175. There is quite a real possibility that, with a bit of luck, two massi...

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Buckle up, it's Tom vs Noel!

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Top banter!

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:::SPOILER above:::

Worth waiting for...

L'oisleatch McGraw

I was sure you were going to go for randomite when you seemed unsure in the monradite round! No, I had the word. Just took around 25s to see DOMINATER which is my falsie for MONRADITE. The unsureness was fake news. Just playing. Did you actually say gandiseeg in the omitted buzz? I did... but it di...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Yeah... it was great watching that back. Very enjoyable game to be a part of... though I never expected that making a 6 from 5 and 1 would cause such difficulties! ;) I actually gandiseeg-ed the conundrum... which would have been a terribly cringeworthy moment to watch back. Even as I was doing it, ...

L'oisleatch McGraw

I love my priceless piece of Kryptonite.
And my sociopathic little niece (4) is fascinated by it, and regularly asks if we can use it to "kill yuperman"... with an excited and conspiratorial glint in her eye.

I worry.

L'oisleatch McGraw

Stop right there. If we had a game of the decade, I think it should be more open, rather than to just winners of GOTY, just like GOTY is open to non-GOTW winners. A few games have been missed and were highlighted later on, like Rahul Suresh's max bullet hyper nasty numbers attack. Mathematically, i...

L'oisleatch McGraw

It'd be easy.
Just do it after the 2017 winner is chosen...
Allow people vote on what they consider the greatest of the 10 annual winners so far.

L'oisleatch McGraw

I'd suggest editing the original post to include the new start time... just for those who'll check the OP as a reference point without regard for the comments beneath...

L'oisleatch McGraw

This was Martin's 77th post here!

L'oisleatch McGraw

Noel, I think we should just be done with it and tell them which of us wins...
...I mean the thread title does say 'will contain spoilers' after all!

:::SPOILER ALERT:::

Semi-Final 1 will contain at least one Irish man.

L'oisleatch McGraw

This has been on my mind today, so I had a look at some of the recent maxes that the S77 crew have faced... No point doing a full run down till the series is over, but if you just look at the Octochamps so far, here's what was available for each of them:- Series 77 (Octochamps to date) Tom CC..... [...

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imo, Mike still deserves the 10pts in that scenario.

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were all of the top eight seeds of the series able to play? :::SPOILER::: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes. The #10 seed was also there as a back up in case of emergency, but he wasn't needed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spoiler abo...

L'oisleatch McGraw

By virtue of being a fussy eater, I am *almost* vegetarian...
Won't eat beef, steak, lamb, pork, bacon, venison, eggs, or any seafood.
It's not an issue of principle, but I am often grateful when a vegetarian option is available.

L'oisleatch McGraw

Not going to spell it out for you...
But each of these numbers is relevant to my CD run.

77, 8, and 778.

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