Well it's been a couple of weeks, so seems like we're the only ones that care haha. Not a hill I will die on.
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- Tue May 14, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: RoboRiley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2345
- Tue May 14, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 526
- Views: 413983
Re: Best ever contestants
Wut?Ronan M Higginson wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 6:06 pmActually 5 years, only the 70th odd account here is 5 days old.
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- Tue May 14, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 526
- Views: 413983
Re: Best ever contestants
Anyway, even if we disagree on Countdown opinions, it's always good to have another enthusiast on board. Welcome to C4CJamie Weisenberg wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 5:49 pm I've been watching Countdown on and off since the 90s actually.
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 526
- Views: 413983
Re: Best ever contestants
Conor should come of of retirement and face him, I think Ahmed would blow him away. Conor still plays, and is still top dog statistically. Most typically in a 15 game: - He'll get 9 or 10 letters maxes - He'll get 40/40 on the numbers - He'll be able to solve most conundrums in under a second. Even...
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 526
- Views: 413983
Re: Best ever contestants
Rude.Jamie Weisenberg wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 3:49 pm However, in Ahmed's defence I'd say the quality of the opposition was FAR higher than what Conor faced.
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Favourite Number Plays/Players
- Replies: 10
- Views: 271
Re: Favourite Number Plays/Players
James Rowan
- Fri May 10, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 526
- Views: 413983
Re: Best ever contestants
Upcoming champion of champions should be the best ever - Ronan Higginson vs Tom Stevenson in the final ? Tom already played in the previous CoC. Incidentally, that CoC was the strongest ever. We'll need quite a few amazing players to burst on the scene in the next few series for next CoC to come cl...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
- Replies: 156
- Views: 34709
Re: The Countdown Android App is now out!
I am planning a post-game insights page. This would replace the existing (pretty ugly) page you get when you finish submit game. The idea is that you would get customised set of information related to the game you just played. Could be things like: - You've played this format xxx times and this is y...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: RoboRiley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2345
Re: RoboRiley
Maybe a much longer disappear (say 1.5 - 2 secs) would work better to give a proper warning? I think the trick is 2 button presses from the host. The first empties the letters from conundrum. The second reveals the shuffle. Whatever length of time you want between those is fine as long as you give ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: RoboRiley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2345
Re: RoboRiley
Conundrum reveals Do hosts have a way of knowing which conundrum is about to be revealed yet? If not I think that's a good feature to have. Yeah the host presses a 'reveal' button. A change between the MK finals and Reading was that the CONUNDRUM then disappears from the display for a short time (0...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: RoboRiley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2345
Re: RoboRiley
I'm not going to stick it somewhere for people to just download as you'll probably need talking through the setup and I want to keep track of who's using it, mainly so I can provide you with an updated dictionary file as and when needed. I have learned the hard way that when you privately distribut...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
TCap's suggestion is the best solution. Graeme specifically added this feature to the most recent atropine release after several people requested it. So that would be: - When drawing fixtures, favour equal number of wins between players, but (mostly) ignore points - When producing final rankings, st...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: RoboRiley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2345
Re: RoboRiley
Not sure if the name will stand the test of time though...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: RoboRiley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2345
Re: RoboRiley
Great job making this!
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 28196
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
Some absolutely batshit crazy final standings from this event
https://greem.co.uk/cgi-bin/colive/tour ... =CoRea2024
Helen Harding 87 pts per game 42nd Place
Paul Talmey 81 pts per game 10th Place
Tom Stevenson 112 pts per game 26th Place
Martyn Pegram 73 pts per game 25th Place
https://greem.co.uk/cgi-bin/colive/tour ... =CoRea2024
Helen Harding 87 pts per game 42nd Place
Paul Talmey 81 pts per game 10th Place
Tom Stevenson 112 pts per game 26th Place
Martyn Pegram 73 pts per game 25th Place
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 28196
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
yep I was definitely going too fast on the letter picking Not your fault. My suggestion is lifetime bans for the people who do an all in one letters pick when it's their turn. :) The worst is when they request multiple things in one go that they expect you to remember. x consonants and y vowels is ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 28196
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 28196
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
So it's two separate questions. What should the software do? Is the software doing what it's supposed to do? I suppose on the former, it's subjective. Sone people will like more duplication others won't. Everybody is entitled to an opinion. My competitive side favours more duplication, but my fun si...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 28196
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
Great stuff today. Thanks for running the event Fiona - really well organized! Great performances from Maus and TCap today, congrats maus for getting the win. Because you asked for feedback - When you programmed the letters generator what were you hoping to achieve in terms of deduplication? I have ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169058
Re: You Are The Ref
I've said it before that a tablet should be used by each player in Countdown so that answers are visible to the audience like say in The Weakest Link. I think if you winged it with the numbers then a partial completion of workings out would sway Colin to accept the answer. Or maybe do away with NWD...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Why don't you like basketball?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 44182
Re: Why don't you like basketball?
Basketball is absolutely a contact sport and the idea that it isn't is a big misconception that needs addressing. It is a non-collision sport, yes, but that's very different. I am interested to know, is there any correlation (positive or negative) between popularity of Netball and Basketball in a g...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:03 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:OX - 15th June 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18227
Re: CO:OX - 15th June 2024
However, to put my own little spin on it, we will then have two 9-round Bristol-style semi-finals (1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd) played simultaneously to decide who will contest the 15-round final. At the same time, everyone else will get to play one last game, against the person next to them in the standi...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169058
Re: You Are The Ref
This is a great suggestion. I think if you were doing Countdown from day 1 you'd do it this way. No, if you were doing Countdown from day 1 you'd never allow NWD on letters games. If you're writing as the time ends you're allowed to finish, otherwise it's tough shit, you spotted it after the time. ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Atropine 1.2.3
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2561
Re: Atropine 1.2.3
Nice work Graeme!
Does this mean for a single tournament, it is now possible to upload results from separate machines?
Use case: You are at a Bristol style event with 2N players, and you want to minimize waiting time between rounds by having 2 (or more) people inputting results.
Does this mean for a single tournament, it is now possible to upload results from separate machines?
Use case: You are at a Bristol style event with 2N players, and you want to minimize waiting time between rounds by having 2 (or more) people inputting results.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:22 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169058
Re: You Are The Ref
Not really answering the question about what I'd do, but perhaps a case for a new convention that if you're declaring 2nd and it's NWD you say 7 Notarise nwd in one breath This is a great suggestion. I think if you were doing Countdown from day 1 you'd do it this way. I think on TV the host can alm...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 28196
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
In order to get everyone playing comfortably in the space we've got, I've bought clipboards. There will be plenty of tables too for those who want/need them. Great to have so many players signed up! What's the deal going to be with conundrum buzzes? I could imagine adjucating buzzes onto separate c...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169058
Re: You Are The Ref
Bristol style: ASREOTINY P1: 8 P2: 8 not written down. After a couple of seconds of hesitation Adjacent table audibly declare NOTARISE before P2 says their word. P2 declares NOTARISE. Similar situation arises 2 more times during the game when P1 declares first. At this point P1 kicks up a fuss that ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
What would people think of doing away with tie-break conundrums and allowing draws to happen? There isn't the same need to declare a winner that the TV show has, and I feel like achieving level scores over 9 rounds should count for slightly more than a defeat and slightly less than a win. Also avoi...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Great work Graeme! I am interested to see when this feature gets given a whirl!
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
People don't necessarily actively complain but I get the feeling that 14-rounders aren't the most popular. I would go as far as saying at an event with 14-rounders, every single participant dislikes them, and the host is the only person in the room who likes them. It's just an awful format with way...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Some folk have made the point in the past that the grand final format at an event should be the same as the format played throughout the day for the sake of fairness and consistency. Possibly wait until after Reading, see how the 15R games go and possibly adopt them for the whole of the Finals/Open...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Yeah 27 rounds of Countdown to sit and watch at an event you attended on the premise of _playing_ countdown is too much.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:38 pm I can imagine a very restless audience with three games to not play in.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Here's one I think I will get outvoted against on. The Grand Final for EOY FOCAL finals should be a 15r game. Keep the 7 heat games as 9rs, but make the GF 15r :) Throughout the year, most events use 9r as the format, but there is some variation - we have some Goatdown, some 14r events, and some 15r...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
On a separate note about smaller events. They should count, in full. It's still a CoEvent. Absolutely agree with the sentiment. It's still a proper event, and it's still deserves full the recognition etc. I'm not saying there is less achievement in winning these events, it still always takes a spec...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
What do people think about the weighting of non main events towards Focal points? This year I think there will be at least 3 non main events, and next year there may be 4 or more. A few people have mentioned they should count as a half weighted event for focal points. Pros: - Small events are tacked...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
What would people think of doing away with tie-break conundrums and allowing draws to happen? There isn't the same need to declare a winner that the TV show has, and I feel like achieving level scores over 9 rounds should count for slightly more than a defeat and slightly less than a win. Also avoi...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Goat/Co Rugby 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11750
Re: Goat/Co Rugby 2024
So thank you all for coming for what was a very enjoyable two days. You are all lovely, and it was sublime to see you all. Thanks must go to Beachy and Rach, without whom this would have been a ballache of cosmic proportions. Congrats to Zohaib and Jack for their respective victories-watch this spa...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Belts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4968
Re: FOCAL Belts
Do you mean like the Special Olympics?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Belts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4968
FOCAL Belts
Just a fun idea. If across FOCAL tournaments there were belts different categories like in boxing. Examples - Over 40s - Ladies - Hasn't been on the show - Tom (there's enough Toms to justify it) What categories would you have? The first two would be interesting, with Countdown dominated by men unde...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15385
Re: The 1% Club
Saw this for the first time yesterday. Can imagine many Countdowners having a go especially if they need 100 players per episode!
Anybody else find Lee Mack unbearably facetious?
Anybody else find Lee Mack unbearably facetious?
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Goat/Co Rugby 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11750
Re: Goat/Co Rugby 2024
How's it going with setting the Goatnundrums?
If it helps, I could provide a script that runs locally on your machine to batch check a set of potential goatnundrums and highlight invalid ones.
If it helps, I could provide a script that runs locally on your machine to batch check a set of potential goatnundrums and highlight invalid ones.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169058
Re: You Are The Ref
100% Agree with Fiona. I think it's a good practise for event organisers to point this out at the start of the day for any event using Goatnundrums: "We've tried our hardest to make sure that the Goatnundrums have a unique solution, however if you spot one that doesn't have a unique solution, b...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 759104
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: RIP Dave Myers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2093
RIP Dave Myers
Dave Myers has died at the age of 66. He was best known as half of the Hairy bikers duo. He appeared in Dictionary Corner on 25 episodes of Countdown between 2012 and 2019. He was a guest during the first week of 30BC so a few of the regulars on here (including myself) had the pleasure of meeting hi...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
However, I don't like the idea of expanding the definition of "newbie" to include "people who are perceived as slow hosts". If you, as the organiser, are telling everyone the first round is "random", then you shouldn't be interfering with it. You may say that guarantee...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
I'm curious to hear from hosts (and Graeme) if atropine had a feature where you can mark a player as a an inexperienced/slow hosts and for R1 the draw avoid clustering such players together do you think it would help to keep things running smoothly? I wouldn't want "slow" to cause offence,...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
As for co event suggestion - I do think if there's somebody who is quite clearly a good host and can hurry a game along that they host first. Shows newer people how it's done and sets a precedent for more experienced but slower hosts on how to carry the game along. Quite annoying when one table is ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Reasons to go with standard declaration; It's the way it's done on the show/ apterous/ Jack's app I think you're confused because my app doesn't do that - and also if it did, it's not necessarily an assertion from me on the correct way to play Countdown, I could have just done it that way because i...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Also has this been said - as host, don't write the letters down on the scoresheet until the time starts. You don't need to interrupt the letters selection process to do something you will shortly have 30 seconds to do. I might be considered crazy for saying this, but lets just abolish the selection...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
[*] Then, put the selection into Lexplorer or Jack's app to see the maxes, which often saves time afterwards. Good system. Worth noting that app app has an "other words" section too, so you only need to do one search. Enter the selection. Its the offered word isn't in the maxes list, or i...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Top tip for hosting games at Colin style co-events: A game changer for me as an event attendee was when I started putting no effort/caring into playing along with games that I am hosting. It has many benefits: - I'm able to prioritizing hosting effectively and make fewer mistakes with timing. I can ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Liv II - Saturday 24 February 2024
- Replies: 31
- Views: 18179
Re: Co:Liv II - Saturday 24 February 2024
Cheers for yesterday Andy! Do you have the full set of results to post here? Interested to see who played who etc and also would be good to have for when I get round to updating ELO. Also for focal standings I think it's important to have all of the correct results in, so posting the atropine result...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XX- your input desired
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4029
Re: COLIN XX- your input desired
two calendars' thing it's been a problem for years. Only solution I can think of is to only give prizes on the Saturday for people not playing on Sunday but that feels like cheating somehow. Different prizes on Saturday and Sunday, especially branded ones, would be prohibitively expensive as you ge...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XX- your input desired
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4029
Re: COLIN XX- your input desired
My favourite Colin souvenirs are the mug, the coaster and the badges.
3 events all with a final will be a lot! I will probably do all 3 because of FOMO but honestly 2 is already enough to leave me exhausted.
3 events all with a final will be a lot! I will probably do all 3 because of FOMO but honestly 2 is already enough to leave me exhausted.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 371761
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Great stuff from Adam L shaving 9 mins of his parkrun time!
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22927
Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
Cheers for another fantastic Colin weekend Ben! Looking forward to 2025 already.
Also cheers to everybody who came and played, always a pleasure to see you all
Also cheers to everybody who came and played, always a pleasure to see you all
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:29 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Always use the letters packs that Callum made. The ones taken from various copies of the board game all have very bad (and inconsistent) distributions, which make it less fun for most. They used to. Adam 'awesome' Beach has gone through the packs and standardised them all, so everyone from COLIN on...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
- Replies: 156
- Views: 34709
Re: The Countdown Android App is now out!
I assumed you get the next unplayed game, so if I sit and play three games in a row at the same time as you do, then that's gonna happen. I think also at the moment there's relatively few people playing - I've had mainly A, quite a few teapots, a few Jack and a smattering of others - have only mana...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 34050
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
I guess the question wasn't about method but more about outcome. What's better for R3 tables Version A T1 4W 4W 4W T2 4W 3W 3W Or Version B T1 4W 4W 3W T2 4W 4W 3W Version B has a big downside that 2 players on 3 wins are getting lumped with a pair of 4W players. Version A has the downside that one ...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Word Checks at Co:Events using the Android App
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5449
Re: Word Checks at Co:Events using the Android App
Version 1.117 is out now and will be required if you want to use the app for word checks at Colin. It has all of the new words (such as ANTIPOLE).