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Julian Fell

Charlie Reams wrote:I haven't played for about 2 months

I haven't played for about 4 years

(For the record, that last numbers round is possible, so final max score of 121 I believe)

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Can't really see anything in the definition to justify allowing a plural, Joseph, although there's no knowing really, these things do seem to depend largely on what side of bed Susie/Damian got out that morning... UNMETERED was a fantastic spot guys... I got the impression you missed a few more maxi...

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Just as well you couldn't update your ratings a week or two earlier Charlie, otherwise I would've had to play qualifiers for COOT... I wouldn't even have been one of the 8 seeds, yet people have me down as favourite :? I have a decent record in the games I've played (most of which don't count toward...

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Glad to see Corby's got a more realistic ranking now. Corby how much have you improved since you were on TV :shock: , back then you were pretty beatable but now, I'd back you to give Beevers a good game. It's Ben P who has the unrealistic ranking now, I'm sure most people would agree he's a top-ten ...

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I'm all talk Charlie (and I'm not going to bet against somebody who gets 97% in a Cambridge exam :shock: )... still don't see how you and Jim can be so confident though. Even if Damian 'forgot' to invite Hansford, Hansford wouldn't forget that he was supposed to be invited, would he? And there'd be ...

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I'm officially a bit scared of you now Charlie. Bloody hell

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Hi, it looks like Karen and I will be playing at 8pm-ish on Friday - can anyone host then? Merci

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Yeah I think I too was expecting a bit more from Charlie, but to be fair he's got more important things to worry about at the moment, like graduation!

Ben Pugh and the loser of the Corby-Howe match will be hot favourites for the Plate for me, as things stand anyway...

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D'oh, I think your odds are a bit wrong-headed Richard, putting me as favourite despite having not played for nearly 4 years, being 16th in Charlie's rankings and very nearly being beaten by Jon Stitcher the last time I played (in September 2004)... was kind of hoping I'd be seen as a dangerous outs...

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Was looking at the recap for Jono's COMA quarter-final and realized that NUDISMS technically should be allowed, and should be listed in CountMax, even though it's completely ridiculous - but NUDISM isn't specified as a mass noun so there you have it. Also WAZOO, as mentioned by Charlie, still I assu...

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Corby wrote:Watching: James Hurrell (until his wife pulled him off for dinner )

indeed

Seriously though: Ben, if you can replicate this form in the studio you'd be extremely unlucky not to win a series on TV - hope to see you on the show sooner rather than later...

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Just reading the wiki article on Countdown tournaments and it says (or suggests) that the letters and numbers are actually pre-determined at COBris, i.e. not picked on the day... is that right? As I understood it, they are actually picked then and there, although everyone plays from the same set (an...

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Charlie Reams wrote:I've taken time out of my final-week-as-an-undergraduate schedule

Charlie when is the big day btw? Don't let your parents take embarrassing pictures of you etc. ...

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To be fair though Matthew G, Damian has said recently that on TV they sometimes remove the J or Q or X from the letters pile for a few shows if they've had a run of bad letters rounds; and the J went missing (presumably unintentionally) for most of series 47, so there are probably quite a few player...

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What's going on with Conor, is he just posting the odd word on the Spoilers thread and not reading the rest of the forum?

Speak to us Conor

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James Hurrell wrote:Thanks Jono, but I am being dragged to a wedding that day (unfortunately nowhere near Nottingham otherwise I'd try and sneak out)

Not your own wedding I hope

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Corby wrote:
Corby wrote:They gave Tony 7 points for TINKLER? WTF? It's not in
HELLO!!!!????

DOES NOBODY CARE ABOUT THIS INJUSTICE EXCEPT ME?!

gambiers x

HELLO!!???

DOES NOBODY CARE ABOUT THIS... oh forget it

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No Os selected in the Wallace-Brittain game either

It's a conspiracy to deny O-lovers the chance of glory!!

But yes maybe Countgen does need to be checked Paul, if that's what the hosts so far have been using?

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Would be a shame if Heather missed out again - I believe she said she was in COOT 3 but didn't get to play then either because of the tournament's organizational difficulties... she might be a bit annoyed if she's forfeited this time. Come on Heather!

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Conor's back

(well he's posted in the Spoilers section anyway)

Conor any news re when you can play the last COMA match?

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I thought both COLin and COBris were run on a Swiss format?

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Hang on though, I remember reading a post a little while back about a person (I presumed, an English contestant - actually I thought it was you Jeff!) chatting to the DCedL hosts about the differences between DCedL and Countdown, and the hosts saying it's no wonder they take 45 minutes on Countdown ...

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Don't know if they were meant to be tongue-in-cheek offerings (if so, sorry), but CARTIER and PARISHED aren't allowed... Also Howard I think Jono said it's just people who get knocked out in the preliminaries and in the first round proper (i.e. last 16) who go into the Plate. That may be wrong thoug...

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DC-beaters ISATIN and SIXAIN in round 4 (so max. score for the whole game = 123)

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David are you computered again? If so Jono might let you have a late wildcard entry into COOT if you want it?

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Corby wrote:Word.

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I'd be massively surprised if Hansford wasn't invited back David - I don't really think Damian has much choice here

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It would be a great disppointment that the very last game of the tournament would be usurped like this, but Conor has been AWOL for ages, despite my emails and text messages- and the first game of the final was played way back on March 22nd. Horrendous- and thus, I'm setting a deadline of June 22nd...

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JON CORBY vs. BEN PUGH Ouch - judging by their performances in COMA, these two could well have contested the COOT final, yet one of them's going to be out even before round one... that's a rum draw. Hard luck guys. (btw Ben P when are you applying to go on the show? judging by your COMA games you c...

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Tom, not to belittle or trivialize it, but I'm gobsmacked to hear that - you're one of the most well-rounded, sociable people I've ever met. If you have AS, how many others must have it... perhaps I'd better shut up as I clearly know nothing about this subject. As I say though, am really surprised. ...

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But Paul, whether or not Hansford does it knowingly or with the same amount of understanding as someone without his condition, is it fair that other contestants will be trying to win (what will probably be) close, hard-fought Championship of Champions games against him without cheating, whereas he m...

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Do we have to have Hansford back

I suppose if Damian doesn't invite him he'll kick up a fuss, so there's no choice...

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Charlie are you a big Scrabble player then? (boo hiss) You seem to know a lot about the game and the players on the circuit anyway

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Dinos is your name Syfris or Sfyris? Both of those are used on the Corral so I'm confused...

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Hmmm... :) Anyway I'd just like to add my voice to the many congratulating David - another excellent performance, and some great spots from (yet again...) tricky selections. The combined difficulty of those three numbers games must be a record for a series final, surely?? But to pull that first one ...

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Ah that's a shame David... you and Conor would probably have been the two favourites and you're both going to be absent... still, what can you do. Hopefully it'll still be a good tournament.

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Lol. By the way how did Zef's true identity come to light?

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Yes just seen the game - really really well done to both players, fantastic play - and great to see both of you keeping on smiling and joking throughout the nerves, the lead changing hands, words being disallowed etc. Wish I could do that! It's great that David's shown his ability to win tight games...

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Well done Richard, great performance. And it looked like the game was played in a good atmosphere - I liked Richard's and Peter's Henman-esque fist pumps towards the end there! Re the correcting-Carol thing, I did something similar in one of my games Richard, because I thought the same as you, that ...

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Jono would you be willing to let COMA and COOT IV overlap, since it doesn't look like Conor's going to be back any time soon? I still think Ben would be within his rights to default Conor from COMA though, even if Jono did agree to that. But I agree with others that it'd be a shame to have COMA won ...

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That sounds murderously difficult Ben! Good idea though. I'll be happy just to watch (that's if I can make it to CONot in the first place...)

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Just seen the third and fourth quarter-finals back-to-back; Richard was solid, but I was impressed by Jonathan - he was superb until round 9 (he'd've been 11 points ahead against me at that point, after I'd missed the first numbers game and PENTODES), but he then went off the boil, missing MEDIATORS...

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That's what I was getting at Corby, although God forbid that it should be true, of course... The thing is that Jono's said he doesn't want COMA and COOT IV to overlap, so, unless Jono wants to change his mind about that (?), you'd have to set a deadline for COMA really, because it's a bit unfair if ...

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Are you able to give details of this mysterious exhibition game now that it's been tested Ben? I'm sure we're all on tenterhooks...

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What I like about your recaps Jim is the background information you give about the players, and general commentary... it really adds colour to what might otherwise be a dry statistical exercise, and nobody does it as well as you. In the four years or so when I gave up watching regularly, if there wa...

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Yeah I noticed that anomaly as well Corby (you can add VIDEOES, TANGOES, ZEROES to your list, and I can't think of another -OS verb either...); bit unlucky there was our Tim. I wonder if it's because there simply aren't any examples of the verb LIMBO in the third-person present tense in the British ...

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On the subject of guests in general - just seen on Ceefax - Phil Hammond on this week! Brilliant, nice one Damian and YTV, that makes up for not getting David Mitchell (yet).

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Yes I saw that as well - I imagine it'll get a mention or two on Countdown in due course! Well done Des.

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Yes I know it was me who said that Corby - I just understood that it was Jim's dictionary (with help/tweaking from others) which was being used in CountMax, so I directed the main congratulations to him, because it was CountMax that we were talking about; I knew that you'd made your own version, but...

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Yes just seen Friday's game - disappointed to see Michael go; what a great character... but he just missed too much easy stuff. But at least he went down with a fight, and walloped DC with BEETROOT. Mind you, Peter's gradually showing himself to have a sense of humour as well, and I thought that QF ...

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Craig Beevers wrote:Hmm that one was quite easy as far as 4 large go.

Oh well, I still missed it!

Craig did you not get UNHOLIER??!

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Craig did you miss anything when you were watching the game at home? Been thinking a bit more about David's performance - he beat me (watching at home) on 4 different rounds and I think there are only two other occasions that's happened to me in the 15-round era... ok he missed a few things but it's...

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Can I just say that the atmosphere, the ethos, at Cambridge University in exam term is, mentally, the most unhealthy environment I've ever experienced, and I'm amazed that more people don't collapse under its strain. Richard, if you dropped out I don't blame you, and I wholeheartedly agree that it's...

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Yeah I agree with what Paul H and Dave have said; I don't think there can be hard and fast rules about which "suboptimal" (good term!) words to include for every round, but definitely disagree with Martin's stance of "maximums and nothing else". I mean for example, for last Wedne...

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Adam, as mentioned in the spoilers thread, there is an 8 available in round 3 - POTENCES. It's not listed in CountMax, but it's definitely fine. So final max score for the whole game is 132.

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David - really, really well done for today. Although you got a relatively low score, I thought you coped exceptionally well with a load of horrible selections (on both letters and numbers). I know I couldn't've coped with those sort of selections in my own series QF - how much harder have they got i...

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To Joseph: don't have any concerns about using CountMax for whatever you're doing. Errors in it OTHER THAN those relating to mass noun plurals, such as those mentioned by Howard and Jason above (which aren't really errors at all, given that the mass nouns rule is completely up in the air, and that D...

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Interesting... the both-players-not-written-it-down thing happened twice in my octochamp run, both on numbers games, though on each occasion my opponent and I had different solutions so it didn't matter. I believe there's an informal, unwritten rule on the show that they'll let a contestant off once...

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Just wondering, in Bristol-style events, what do you do if several people in the room say they've got the same word/numbers solution, not written down? Do you just trust people to be honest? (in which case, just as well Jeffrey Hansford's not signed up...) Also Ben, how are you doing the choosing of...

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Jono what're you thinking of in terms of format for this COOT - 9-round or 15-round? (I hope you'll make it a 15-round Final, at least...)

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