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Julian Fell

Yes v well played guys, v few maxima missed there. And the highest score of COGST so far, as I'm sure Martin will have noticed!

Would it not be better to finish the Plate quarter-finals before starting on the Plate semis though?

Julian Fell

David did you get my email re the game? I sent it to your address which you had when we corresponded back in January, you might have got a new email address since then so just checking...

Julian Fell

An enjoyable game, this, with a lot of challenging rounds on both letters and numbers. I got the double-darren ( :D ) DC-beater ( :D ) in round 2 - ZOFTIG - though only just, on about 29.999 seconds. Got ROADSTER as well; only max I missed was the DC-beater ACYLATED in round 4. The last numbers was ...

Julian Fell

Finally managed to get on to Apterous and read the recap of this - excellent game guys; the second time in this tournament that Mr Briers has led for (almost) an entire game only to see his opponent nick it on the conundrum... really unlucky Steven but you've shown you're still a great player (obvio...

Julian Fell

No, it's still listed as a US spelling Mr Reams

Julian Fell

Kirk Bevins wrote:both consonant and vowel boxes seemed "depressed"

Just give them some Prozac or something

Julian Fell

Ah what a shame Jason, you kicked ass (including mine) at CONot... you'll be a force to be reckoned with when you get back online. Still, it means Paul now has a chance to get revenge for that COOT '08 defeat!

When dyou want the semi-finals played by, Martin?

Julian Fell

Wow what a game! One of the best online games I've ever seen recapped, I reckon - the lead changing hands 4 times before the conundrum? Great performance from both of you - have just played along and it would've been a crucial conundrum between me and David. Excellent stuff, although this means I'll...

Julian Fell

Yes I thought I remembered you mentioning it Gevin. Well, what Damian said there isn't exactly conclusive is it - now that a concrete example of a North American (as opposed to US) spelling has been found, I'd be interested to hear what his view is (just seen another variant spelling listed as "...

Julian Fell

I'll do Monday 13th, Howard

Julian Fell

I missed the ... 945 (got out of time the same way as Carol got late). :shock: I beat Kirk on a numbers game, I beat Kirk on a numbers game, ner ner ne ner ner :) Sorry Kirk, I'm only boasting because it's v v rare :) Didn't get the max game anyway; I missed PONDOK and EXCITERS. Again good stuff fr...

Julian Fell

Yeah you're right David, it was in round 3. What a finish to this game by Kai :shock: Excellent, calmly-produced solution to a difficult last numbers round when he was under pressure (if the challenger had beaten him there it'd've been a crucial conundrum) - a solution which beat me all ends up, nee...

Julian Fell

Chris Corby wrote:When I was at school and studying Drama, I was going to make the OED into a stage production but my teacher thought it would just be a play on words....

Julian Fell

I had an almost perfect game today and then he beat me on the conundrum. Well done. Kirk did you get SASINS / DANIOS then? :( I wistfully recall the days when even the best contestants used to miss quite a bit... all the top players seem to be near-perfect these days. Anyway well done Kai - again h...

Julian Fell

LUPINES is an interesting one. I was just about to post that it shouldn't be in Jim's wordlist because LUPINE, as a noun, is an American spelling (LUPINE as an adjective - "relating to wolves" is fine)... but then I looked a bit more closely at the ODE2r: it says "LUPIN (N. Amer. also...

Julian Fell

Interesting... just been looking at Mike's site - guess what happened in Mike Jones' very next game after he beat Junaid? His opponent, Sylvia Pitman, famously scored 0, one of only two occasions in Countdown's 26-year history that that's happened. I wonder if Junaid was still in the studio to witne...

Julian Fell

He may end up forfeiting, which is an enormous shame but then we can't wait forever either. Jason can't play until Tuesday so I'll give you until the end of Tuesday as well. It'd be a real shame to forfeit a quarter-finalist who actually wants to play - if someone isn't responding to emails / posts...

Julian Fell

The sad thing is that neither of those numbers were that difficult and I think both me and Conor would've solved them exactly on a typical day just watching at home I read and played along with the recap of that game in the comfort of home (well, my room at university) with no pressure on me, and I...

Julian Fell

Sadly not, Gevin, given that DC have allowed PENURIES before (the plural PARITIES isn't specifically listed btw, for what it's worth). And then you have the words ending in Y which don't have their own entries in the ODE2r (i.e. the ones that are listed as derivatives of other words), so can't be li...

Julian Fell

POLEIS needs to be removed from your list as well Jim - it's no longer in the dictionary. Also you have DIORITES and PARITIES in your list, which are dubious - Jack Welsby had DIORITES disallowed in one of his heat games, and to the best of my knowledge DC haven't reversed that decision since; and I...

Julian Fell

Ah right so I play the winner of Bevins vs. O'Donnell in the semis, do I? Jeez... oh well Guess who's going to be doing a LOT of practice on numbers before COLin :( It's annoying... after playing this game, I then watched Wednesday's and Thursday's episodes on TV back-to-back and got every numbers g...

Julian Fell

Yes Martin, you said Jono and I were the only ones who hadn't announced a date, when in fact we were the only pair of quarter-finalists (out of those who had yet to play) who HAD announced when we would be playing... curious.

Anyway result was Jon O'Neill 90-97 Julian Fell

Julian Fell

Surprised I even got a mention tbh - I hardly did anything. Congrats to all who did the real work... well done guys

Julian Fell

Really well done to Kai, he seems a v likeable and confident young man - he'll go far. He beat me with GRAPHIC as well (and I missed FLAVONE)

Julian Fell

Dinos Sfyris wrote:CONNATES/CONNATED as an equaller in that round.

They're not in the ODE2r, Dinos, sorry

Edit to say: do we know what Junaid's octochamp total is? Well played Junaid btw, you're going to be a tough cookie both in the series finals and at COLin (if you're still coming)

Julian Fell

Julian Fell wrote: Jono vs. Julian is going to be on Thursday at 8:30pm, on MSN (sorry Charlie) - can anyone be there then to host please?

Julian Fell

For what it's worth I also think you should extend the deadline to let Jason play, Martin - would be a shame to default someone who's won his place in the quarter-finals fair and square, for the sake of a few days. Jono vs. Julian is going to be on Thursday at 8:30pm, on MSN (sorry Charlie) - can an...

Julian Fell

COZENAGES should be on your list as well Jim - another of those "clearly a mass noun in practice, but not actually listed as such because it doesn't have its own entry" ones

Julian Fell

Junaid Mubeen's coming! Yeah what a legend! Anyway, looking at that player list, it might just be the strongest field for a Countdown tournament ever? :shock: Ben/Jono, the link to Charlie's ratings still needs updating, and also it's a bit confusing that you can click on 'results for the 2009 tourn...

Julian Fell

Gavin Chipper wrote: Instead of Apterous Plum/Prune/Cunt

Julian Fell

Interestingly enough today, it gave me the conundrum PEEORGANS, I'll leave you to work out the answer. Haha. On a similar theme I've had ASSWIENER and VAGINALEZ, but forgot to screenshot them. One of today's was NEXTSHITE :lol: I think your program has a dirty mind, Charlie. I remember that in one ...

Julian Fell

Interesting stuff, thanks for this Charlie and Mike - although I think a lot of those OT words wouldn't have been in COD; it may be a good idea not to use the automatic find-longest-word function when writing really old recaps

Julian Fell

In relation to recent events on the show: COZIER and COZIEST need to be removed from Jim's list, as do MEOW, MEOWS, MEOWED and MEOWING.

Julian Fell

Yes, there's no NAIVETE Paul. One that came up in Jono's game with Howard: TAGATIES - I don't think that should be on the list Jim; TAGATI is a mass noun and there is a verb "to TAGATI", but the third-person present form isn't specified so you'd have to assume it's "he/she TAGATIS&quo...

Julian Fell

jimbentley wrote:I liked this:

Julian Fell

Wow Jono! If - as I'm assuming from the time of the messages - you played this game second, you've continued the tournament theme of massive improvements in second games... some really awesome spots in there ( :shock: ) and you hardly missed anything. Unlucky not to get an even higher score, with th...

Julian Fell

We have our 7 group winners now, in order of seeding they are: #1 Paul Howe #2 Julian Fell #3 Kirk Bevins #4 Ben Wilson #5 Jason Cullen #6 David O'Donnell #7 Jon O'Neill #8 Ben Pugh Hmm so are you doing the seedings based only on results in this tournament? I thought when you said you were doing se...

Julian Fell

Defending champion Conor's entered as well, on another thread

watch out people (Ben, get that name up there on the website). And Tournoff's in there now also, yikes...

Julian Fell

And it was nines galore here in an entertaining game: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2430 I had REBUILDER but didn't risk it. Yikes! :o I'm glad somebody else is a bit scared! Never mind whether it's technically the highest score or whatever, that's definitely the best performance anyone...

Julian Fell

Yes, that conundrum of Junaid's could be a lethal weapon when he starts having some closer games...

(edit: that was a bit of a dumb thing to say, since he's already had a close game with a crucial conundrum

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Julian Fell

Junaid's sharpened up loads since his first two games hasn't he? He's really cut down on the disallowed words, and on this form will be really hard to beat for any opponent. I saw FRIENDED today but never seriously considered going for it, oh well... Kirk and Rich, don't make posts like that when Ch...

Julian Fell

Thanks Mike I used to have a DVD recorder and record Countdown from the TV onto DVD (before I discovered 4oD) and the recording quality wasn't great - it was slowed down quite a bit, so the clock sequence took 33 seconds and everyone's voice sounded a lot deeper... is that to be expected or was it j...

Julian Fell

Ok ok I get the message

Julian Fell

Oh I thought you were still on the ODE2 Charlie, from when you said something along the lines of "GOATIEST should be in, unless it's changed in the new edition"

Julian Fell

Conor wrote: Oh, I'd forgotten about that.

Seriously?

but didn't Ben send you about 10,000 texts and emails about it?

Edit to say: yes please do finish it, then Ben'll let you come to COLin (if you're up for it)

Julian Fell

Ok results so far: Group A: Julian Fell 96-86 Steven Briers Jerry Humphreys 60-117 Julian Fell (still to play: Briers vs. Humphreys) Julian Fell through to quarter-finals Group B: (all games still to play) Group C: Julie Taylor 43-91 Kirk Bevins Julie Taylor 44-100 Richard Priest Richard Priest 26-1...

Julian Fell

Well, again without wanting to sound confrontational (which I'm not), I don't think you should have a situation where people who've paid can see how players have done in previous online games and people who haven't can't, I think it's going to create a bit of a "them and us" split in tourn...

Julian Fell

** EDITED VERSION OF JULIAN'S ORIGINAL POST ** Oops! I've just edited Julian's post instead of quoting it and presume it can't be recovered... (oh, the dangerous powers of being a moderator), but it was along the lines of... how can I (and others) copy my Countdown appearances to DVD? Sorry, Julian!...

Julian Fell

Yes, it's bizarre. APOGEE has another sense but the rest of them are just inconsistencies. IMO they should all be count nouns. It's interesting with curries as well - to the best of my knowledge KORMA and JALFREZI are count nouns but BHUNA, DHANSAK, ROGAN JOSH and VINDALOO are mass nouns. Remember ...

Julian Fell

Just wanted to find out who on here has a copy of the ODE2r because it seems that nearly everyone relies on CountMax these days (not that CountMax is bad, but it's good to have someone with the primary source material). I believe apart from me (and Damian obviously :) ), there's Kirk, Corby, Jono......

Julian Fell

More definite mistakes: CHOKIER and CHOKIEST aren't in the ODE2r so should be removed from the list. EUCRITES is fine and should be on the list (it was in the dictionaries before CUTESIER goddammit, CUTESIER is the usurper :x ) About APOLUNES - when I first read your post, Charlie, I agreed 100%, bu...

Julian Fell

Charlie, can you not let Martin be a full Apterous member even if he hasn't donated, at least for the duration of this tournament, so he can see the results? Don't want to sound too grumpy, but it's going to start getting a bit farcical if the organizer of the tournament keeps having to say "I ...

Julian Fell

Just to say that CHOKIEST actually isn't allowed, that's a mistake in Jim's wordlist - so Ben actually only missed three maxes here, good stuff

Julian Fell

Interesting stuff - since Dinos crushed Charlie and O'Donnell then crushed Dinos, you'd expect O'Donnell to absolutely larrup Charlie... but it looks like the theme of this tournament might be "players making a massive improvement in their second game", we've seen it with Charlie, Rich Pri...

Julian Fell

Jesus, Conor

BIRTHDATE, PICAROON, TEPIDARIA... you've obviously been keeping in practice whilst you were away! Scary... so are you going to finish your COMA Final with Paul H?

Julian Fell

I thought Richard Brittain's racism was general - I didn't realize there were nuances to it

Julian Fell

Wasn't Martin referring to Ian Fearon, not Ian Volante?

Julian Fell

Yes and in round 14, the first number in C1's solution should be 5, shouldn't it? No major drama obviously

Julian Fell

Junaid looks very strong on the numbers and I doubt he'll miss many during his run; I thought he was a bit lackadaisical on the letters, if he'd really concentrated at the end there I think he'd've got LECTURING, and at least RETIRING from the last round. But I think he can up his game when the scor...

Julian Fell

Cheers for writing the recap Dinos - yes that was much better, I had a bit of a point to prove maybe and it was good to get the horror show against Steve Briers out of my system. Jerry, as mentioned, played this game in the pub - what an absolute legend; one day I want to emulate this feat. Of note ...

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