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George Pryn

Who is the octochamp that declared the fewest Es (excluding conundrums)

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RIP, was lovely meeting her and her husband at the finals. Really emphasises how good a player she was, as I remember her telling me she was having treatment a few days after the finals, yet still managed to play so well??? I hope the service goes/went well and is/was a nice send-off for her. Condol...

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YAY TRACEY !!!

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Many thanks, Ben, and Ben's mum and everyone else involved. Once again, you've pulled off the best co-event ever. Also once again, Ben, you suggested that you were unsure whether you were going to do a Hangover event next year. In my view it's very much part of COLIN weekend now, and a very enjoyab...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:I meant PATTIE, apologies.

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AMMAAAAAZZZZINNNGGGG!!!!!!!!!

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GREAT idea!!!

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Something is telling me that you want to be told yes, as it would be a cool title... so in this situation, yeah, you're the worst contestant ever But if you're genuinely worried then I'd say no, Gen Baker looks to be in worse shape than you as the other people around the top (well bottom) of the lea...

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In new 15 round games, Dylan Taylor scored most consistently, his highest score being 129 and the lowest 113. In old 15 round games, it was Tom Hargreaves , who had a highest score of 111 and a lowest score of 98. In 9 round games, it was Sharon Bridge , with 63 and 51. Interesting, but nines could...

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James S Roper wrote:Did Rachel just use George's former apterous pseudonym?

Yes!!!! Brilliant!!!!! She must be a fan...

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And so my Countdown run comes to an end... But with 9 wins and 999 points to my name, I really can't complain. :P Thanks for the comments, it's been great fun and a brilliant experience. Though I don't know about Champions of Champions - obviously it would be AHH-MAAAAAAY-ZINGGGGG :o :o - but there ...

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Mark Deeks wrote:Did you go?

Well, he said he'd be taking the winner of Series 71, so you'll have to wait until Friday to find out, sorry.

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Can I just add, as a tiny note, that Robbo pretty much singlehandedly operates the Wiki recaps, and he doesn't get any thanks for it, usually. Robbo may be glad to know that recappers - YOU CAN HELP . When finishing your recap, click on the "generate wiki version" (or something of a simil...

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Can I just add, as a tiny note, that Robbo pretty much singlehandedly operates the Wiki recaps, and he doesn't get any thanks for it, usually. Robbo may be glad to know that recappers - YOU CAN HELP . When finishing your recap, click on the "generate wiki version" (or something of a simil...

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I've just flicked through the people I follow, and Dylan isn't on your list. (But maybe that's intentional.) Good idea by the way. On both of those notes - with the C4C/Apterous Twitter list, no longer will gems like this get lost in the general disarray that is your main Twitter feed. https://twit...

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Sorry for looking miserable, this was the first game that really got me nervous!! Mark was great company and a great competitor too

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You'e left my 9s achieved box blank james! It's 1/1 to save you searching time

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I enjoy ochre paint Me too Ok so perhaps my post was quite prejudgey, I wasn't a fully fledged forumite when Tricia's run aired so please don't take it personally. Other than the (I presume) meteor-faced cavedweller Jordan Leckonby there isn't really a person that I dislike on here, however the gen...

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Bradley Cates wrote:
Zarte Siempre wrote:
Bradley Cates wrote:FLORUITS in R5
Think they'd disallow floruits, Bradley. Not sure though, can't keep up.
I'm aware of the controversy surrounding the word FLORUIT, but isn't it a noun as well as verb? So you can pluralise it?

Yeah, think you're right

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Great game! Tricia was always the person I thought would win bracket 2, and her octorun was definitely one of the best EVER. Obviously well played to Laurence but I do think on any other day Tricia would've taken it (especially considering the smallest possible winning margin.) Will be interesting t...

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Tony Atkins wrote:I thought they changed it so the higher seed went first. I guess with the new format it is not so important and they toss again? Messed up my score sheet.

The higher seed does go first, Tricia asked to be in the challenger's chair for reasons unknown (no rumours please)

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Well played Antoinette and was good to see David back too. Don't think Antoinette was up to her usual standard, but hopefully she is just saving it for the Semis (or maybe even FINALS)

VENATORS an ODO alt to the falsagram novaters^

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And one is from the Isle of Wight, the other from the Isle of Man (via Sevenoaks). My question to James was a genuine one. There is nothing worse than people who mean well but don't really know what they're doing (not literally - there probably are things that are worse), so I just wanted to unders...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:I misread it. I thought you said "name".

Oh

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:What was the pathetic decision?
Your decision to join this discussion.

I think he meant when they disallowed Jonny's HEADWAYS

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Hmmm. OK, humour me briefly. I can see the changes that you made, but what do they do that mine didn't? Clicking on the "Jackie Pinkney" link from Series 19 still took you instantly to the newly merged page via the redirection No he didn't Didn't he? Looking at the edits, I thought he did...

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Hmmm. OK, humour me briefly. I can see the changes that you made, but what do they do that mine didn't? Clicking on the "Jackie Pinkney" link from Series 19 still took you instantly to the newly merged page via the redirection. James also added Jacky's old game No he didn't Now I'm intrig...

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George Pryn wrote:
Fred Mumford wrote:Hmmm. OK, humour me briefly. I can see the changes that you made, but what do they do that mine didn't? Clicking on the "Jackie Pinkney" link from Series 19 still took you instantly to the newly merged page via the redirection.
James also added Jacky's old game

No he didn't

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Fred Mumford wrote:Hmmm. OK, humour me briefly. I can see the changes that you made, but what do they do that mine didn't? Clicking on the "Jackie Pinkney" link from Series 19 still took you instantly to the newly merged page via the redirection.

James also added Jacky's old game

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These finals have six people that are worth cheering for but not the other two. One is only there due to blatant cheating which is especially disgusting and the other is only there because of a pathetic and terrible decision by Dictionary Corner. The fact is there should be two other much more wort...

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My mum spotted Tilapia from the audience, Damian refused to believe it

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George Pryn wrote:amazing !!!!! Is it snobbery to presume Kevin must be of the apterous-elite purely because he spotted GREENMAIL?? I think so.

I have no idea where Kevin came from there

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amazing !!!!! Is it snobbery to presume Kevin must be of the apterous-elite purely because he spotted GREENMAIL?? I think so.

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I AM SO HAPPY THAT MY QUARTER FINAL HAPPENED TO FALL ON A TUESDAY

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tricky one because seeds 2-6 (and 8) are all pretty similar

#seed/% score/avg of lowest 2/avg of highest 2/consistency
#1 92/80/98/0.4 Dan
#2 79/70/88/0.4 Antoinette
#3 84/78/92/0.6 Tricia
#4 82/72/91/0.4 Mark
#5 84/79/89/0.8 George
#6 78/64/93/0.3 Laurence
#7 64/58/68/0.8 David
#8 74/66/83/0.5 Paul

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Tricia was so underrated during her run, she's probably the person with the highest chance of taking down the obvious favourite for the crown Dan. Turned out to be a really strong series, 3 really strong apterites, some random called George Ford, 3 great non-apterite players (though we seem to have ...

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Some people may or may not know that 3 specials were recorded recently. Well, these 3 specials are being broadcast in December, and here's the info. ;) :) :D Friday 12th December, 3:30pm (Shown after the Channel 4 Racing has been on): Bobby Banerjee v Bobby Johnson (Presumably a "Battle of the...

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It tickles how we have two clear groups of commenters in these threads: Group A (E.g, Tony, Bradley, James...) Who watch the show most days and chip in with their contributions to the rounds. Group B (E.g Corby, MWM, Jen, Zarte ...) Who seem to only show an interest when there is controversy or dra...

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George, not sure about 9s but I think Glen Webb had a fairly enormous potential max of about 1093 available points, compared to the new format average of 1030. I can't remember what yours was, but with your maths skills I guess you can work it out (although I know 4 large is your speciality rather ...

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CAPONISED for 9 in R13 (didn't hear if it was said) I think that was the only beater and being a 999 show I make the max 156 today. Three more nines?? Oh my god!!! :o :shock: :o :shock: :o I must admit I am a teeny weeny little bit COMPLETELY JEALOUS :cry: of how many nines you've had available com...

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I blame Gevin

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HI GRAEME!!! Big fan

Have any players ever scored 0 over all letters rounds in a game? (competitive score not raw)

thx

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oh for christ's sake a female contestant does well and suddenly we're commenting on her looks??? how OLD SHE LOOKS???? Absolutely ridiculous and unwarranted.

Antoinette played brilliantly, focus on the performance.

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Well, thanks for begrudging me one of only 2 rounds in which I beat Antoinette! The Countdown rules clearly state that points will be awarded if the contestant who buzzes, correctly identifies the nine-letter word. Which I did. So I don't see where any controversy arises (and I do know how to spell...

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wat up fellow c down bromigos an amigos, it time to whip ur breyani into gear an play another rootin tootin game of c down yall hear 8-) :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: antoin "the cigar" ette takes on TH3 CURR3NT CH4MP10N :!: :!: dat right !!! today the much precipitate ANTOINETTE gonna show us i...

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Cheers Clive, that certainly covers one of the areas I was looking for. I wonder which pot all the games with 90%-98% difficulty get shoved into? I'm pretty sure that the proportion of games getting the 99% rating is much lower than 1%. I've always assumed that William T-P's criteria value division...

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Yes, you are not mistaken, it is reality, today's date is the TWENTY FIRST of November! With only 40 days left of 2014, it's time to reflect on some of the more memorable games of this year. Series 70 was an entertaining series which gave a variety of apterites - Ciaran Crawley, Brett Davids, Samir ...

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What's the smallest score range of an Octochamp over their 8 games? By this I mean the difference between their lowest and highest score, not their highest winning margin

YOU ROCK

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No beaters today, but an exciting ending. Robert deserved to win a few. Was it me or were all Laurence's 4L games fairly easy? Not a 937.5 method in sight! Other than the one-away only game on Friday: Best: 945 = ((75 × 25 + 1) ÷ (100 ÷ 50)) + 7 Nice octorun there, great consistency with numbers in...

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What's the longest string of games in which the challengers' surnames have been in alphabetical order?

1. A string starting from any letter i.e DEFGHI
2. Just generally alphabetical i.e AeAzBCaCeD

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Philip Wilson wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Tony Atkins wrote:Seems 947 is best on 1st numbers.
Or 945.
I bet George got 945
Just reading the recap and admit not seeing the conundrum mixup as scaring me! I wouldn't have solved it so quick if I had. Having the 'ing' in order made it really easy I thought.

Haha I did indeedy

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Apparently Jonny will be invited back next series. ( link for those of you who can read the apterous chat logs ) AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was Susie's plan all along, she loved us both so dearly that she couldn't bear to watch one of us have our Countdown careers come to an end :cry: :cry:...

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As Hellen Keller once said; "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." Welcome , Apterites, Forumites, Apteforumites, Guests, Apteforumuests, one and all, to yet another installment of the holy blessing from our lord...

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Who has the best winning margin of numbers rounds over their octochamp heat games? Old 15 round format The person at the top of this table isn't any of the usual names that might spring to mind. Mike Pullin did well on the numbers with 216/237, but his eight opponents only managed 47 numbers points...

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thx !!!!!! to all !!!!!!

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mark b davies wrote:Congratulations George. Really enjoyed your Octorun. See you there tomorrow. Some really good players in the finals so it should be great fun.

I AM SO EXCITED MY WHOLE FACE HURTS!!!!!!!!

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THANKS EVERYONE!!!!!!

I dont mind the lack of 9s (am I right in thinking there was only ONE??) because I could've had a few more if I was better at the picking heheh...

SO EXCITED FOR THE FINALS AHHHH!!! I didn't expect a single win so it's just absolutely brilliant

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Have any octoruns contained 0 nines? If so, whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo WHERE oh and also if it's more common than I THINK, have any of these 0-niners been first seed in a series? if it's LESS common than I thought and actually 0 OCTOCHAMPS have had 0 NINES, then how...

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THANKS GUYS!!!!

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