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Gavin Chipper

Would they let you bet on something you can take part in? They must take precautions or they'd be taken to the cleaners.

Gavin Chipper

I completed Auf Wiedersehen Monty on my Amstrad emulator today. Never managed it when I originally used to play it, so I'm pretty pleased with that.

Gavin Chipper

I think a lunch break was necessary, certainly I saw some people eating a pack up or whatnot, but an hour was too long. Half an hour max. I also agree that an 11am start was more than fair and this should remain the case. OK, here's an idea. I know I said earlier than the hangover shouldn't be an e...

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Andy Platt wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:DOTAGES or controversial?
Well, still valid on apterous, but it'd suck if Susie went against the precedent she set down in March: http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5667

ODO likes it so if that doesn't change, it's likely to be allowed again in the near future.

Gavin Chipper

I don't think you should really start building in allowances for people who haven't got the courtesy to turn up on time after the effort you've put in. If there's a 10am start with an optional 'lazy' 11am start, these cunts'll probably think they'll go for the 11am, and then still be late for that,...

Gavin Chipper

I thought the extra mini-event was a brilliant idea, and I'd definitely come to it again next year. For those who didn't do as well as they expected at the main event, it's something to look forward to the following day. I like Jono's idea about new formats. I don't see the Hangover as just a small...

Gavin Chipper

As one of the few who couldn't get the fuck out of bed for it, I still had a really good time and it was definitely worthwhile. Having said that, maybe something other than just another Countdown tournament might work? You could have other disciplines, other formats, other board games, quizzes, com...

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James Laverty wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
James Laverty wrote:HA! Trust a teacher at my old primary school to declare FARTED. Also it's spelt Bridgford, not Bridgeford
Lavatory humour.
heard it before Gavin

And you'll hear it again.

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Jon Corby wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Yeah, Jono's a cheat. It's a shame, but someone had to say it.
*looks up cheat in the dictionary*

Yep.

So when were you thinking of bullying him off the forum?

Gavin Chipper

James Laverty wrote:HA! Trust a teacher at my old primary school to declare FARTED. Also it's spelt Bridgford, not Bridgeford

Lavatory humour.

Gavin Chipper

Graeme Cole wrote:
szodiac wrote:I am sure there must be a dozen or so forumites who would gladly present Countdown if given a chance.
Plenty would. None could.

Except Mark Deeks.

The database doesn't lie.

Gavin Chipper

Challenger for record low max? In this format, quite likely because it's not that old. 112 doesn't seem that low though. With all gettable numbers and 7 per round in the letters, you'd get 120, so I'd say under 110 with a impossible-to-get-within-10 numbers or three like this (where 11 points were ...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:Imperfect max game for me. Had 517 instead of 514 on R9, but in terms of points, a max game

Tony's 14-max was only a 12-max by the looks of things as well.

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, Jono's a cheat. It's a shame, but someone had to say it.

Gavin Chipper

Innis Carson wrote:
Clive Brooker wrote:Equally interestingly, Philip Griffiths seems to have maxed R1 in 1189, and both players maxed R7 in 1614.
Would CLAMORED have been OK back then for R1 in 1189?

Probably. American spellings were allowed for ages before they were banned.

Gavin Chipper

Where's Gevin Chapwell, Ben?

Gavin Chipper

I'm pretty sure Gevin Chapwell was playing but he's not in the results, Ben.

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Graeme Cole wrote:[Only two games have seen neither player max a round: episode 1189 and episode 1614.

Interestingly, both players from episode 1614 went on to make the quarter finals.

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Andy Platt wrote:C2 is the sort of contestant we like to see. Wowzers.
Not sure I could cope with the messy bedroom.

Is that a wanking joke from Tony Atkins?

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:The eating competition will start at 8am next year.

Who's going to take part in that one? The Hall of Fame has two legends in it at the moment. It would be interesting to see this extended.

Gavin Chipper

Would have been interesting if C2 got that conundrum, having just thrown the game away with terrible strategy (risk when losing by < 10) in R14 It's not necessarily terrible strategy. If you're good at numbers but rubbish at conundrums, you want to be ahead going into the conundrum and hope the oth...

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:TLDR. I'll be in it but remind me of the rules on Saturday
should be banned in my opinion

Kirk in general?

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, it's a bit conundrum-heavy. I'll think about it, but it also seems like a lot of Countdown to play as well. Let's not forget it's lunch after round 1.

Gavin Chipper

If it means you can find words in jumbled up letters, it should help quite a lot. Unless you take ridiculous risks, then someone who can do that is likely to have a reasonable shot of becoming an octochamp unless they come across somebody else pretty good. There have been many scrabblers that have b...

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Yes. Nice.

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INDORSED beat them in one of the rounds.

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Arguing over the meaning of "ironic" has got to be in the top ten of common Internet debates.

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I loved the laugh in the audience after he said he was studying the Eurovision Song Contest for six years.

Gavin Chipper

FLORUIT is already past tense. It means FLOURISHED. I don't think you'd allow FLOURISHEDED even if the dictionary appeared to specifically allow it. But that's the Latin origin, not the dictionary definition. It's a bit strange, actually. You could say that the ODE doesn't actually define it! The e...

Gavin Chipper

If you put FAINEST into Oxford Dictionaries Online, it comes up with no results... This is probably how Dictionary Corner will adjudicate words when they move from the ODE3 to using the ODO website, so don't be surprised if they disallow it in the future. Although it won't find it if you search for...

Gavin Chipper

David Williams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:What's the big deal about FLORUITED anyway?
FLORUIT is already past tense. It means FLOURISHED. I don't think you'd allow FLOURISHEDED even if the dictionary appeared to specifically allow it.

But that's the Latin origin, not the dictionary definition.

Gavin Chipper

What's the big deal about FLORUITED anyway? In the ODO under FLORUIT it's used in an example sentence.

Although it won't find it if you search for it. I think that's quite a big problem for the dictionary and its use on Countdown.

Gavin Chipper

I think strange is better than the possibility of inconsistent ruling. I think it was said before that Countdown becomes a game of guess what the DC adjudicator is going to think rather than based on any knowledge. You can have all the relevant facts - that it's a one syllable adjective and that you...

Gavin Chipper

There's nothing to take a screenshot of while it's not playing up anyway.

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Well, it hasn't done anything else today, so I might as well wait and see.

Gavin Chipper

Andy Platt wrote:She went to 1008 then divided by 2, but looking at the numbers I still can't see how she would have got to 1008

Edit, (6 + 8) x 8 x 9 / 2 I guess?

That's a bit of a cheat then to go to 1008 because it's just 14*4*9, so multiplying by 8 first is showboating!

Gavin Chipper

6-small-esque alternative for the hard numbers round, (6 - 2) x 8 - 25 to get the 7, then just 7 x 8 x 9, outside 30 seconds though. Stitcher got (25 - 8/8) x (6 x 2 + 9) as well for 504. I missed how Rachel did it. I did (25×2+6)×9. Is that what she did? I noticed FAINER was there in one of the ro...

Gavin Chipper

Interesting how coming across well (to some of you anyway) means that he doesn't get accused of trying to fudge a numbers game like most contestants would have done.

Gavin Chipper

I think (hope) these discussions might become irrelevant anyway when we use the online dictionary. It would be the fabest thing to happen for a while.

Gavin Chipper

Yesterday, it decided to update Java. Well actually, it said it wanted to and then said I had the latest version but then wanted to again and decided to do it this time. But since then, I keep getting a message saying asking if I give permission to Oracle America Inc to make some update on my compu...

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It's not really that surprising a correlation I don't think. Both the letters and numbers games are fundamentally very computational in nature, and it makes sense that the kind of mind that can play them well will tend to be the same kind of mind that can do mental arithmetic well - I know that's n...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:
Mark Deeks wrote:Also, the absolute top player is the ultimate wordsmith
Who's that?

Apterous Rex. He maxed the Booker Prize a few years back but was disqualified for being a bot.

Gavin Chipper

Yesterday, it decided to update Java. Well actually, it said it wanted to and then said I had the latest version but then wanted to again and decided to do it this time. But since then, I keep getting a message saying asking if I give permission to Oracle America Inc to make some update on my compu...

Gavin Chipper

I might rank one off later just for you. To be honest though it's a thing that's impossible to be objective about. How do you factor in the fact that certain players in the past were wonderful natural talents but would obviously get stuffed by the top apterous players right now? Are we ranking natu...

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Andy Platt wrote:Lol, that may be true, but the point was that the ranking brigade were doing a list of people that haven't won series.

You should join the ranking brigade.

Gavin Chipper

I don't know if any of you know about Coursera but they do free online courses. There's one on voting systems. It looks quite interesting. I'm going to do it. I also think that Rhys should do it.

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£59.20 then? Travelodge wankers http://i26.tinypic.com/2dr6iqa.gif Oh, didn't I say? They dropped the price to £15, so I only paid a tenner. (It was £59.20.) (But at least I get to hang out with all the cool people, and I'm not sure it even counts as going to COLIN if you don't stay at the Travelod...

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It's on vouchercodes.co.uk if you can't find it. Haven't looked at the T&C but see if you can book the two nights separately and use it twice. Travelodge are completely insecure about booking names so you can use the same card and book each night in a different name if needs be. And don't forge...

Gavin Chipper

Just Saturday. Just booked my train tickets in advance too. Less than £9 to get from York to North Hykeham, even booking as late as today. Ridiculously cheap. £17.15 to get home though. I get to Hykeham at 10:44 so enough time to walk to the venue before shuffle off. Booked Friday & Saturday. T...

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INTERESTING. Are you there Friday & Saturday night or just Saturday? Just Saturday. Just booked my train tickets in advance too. Less than £9 to get from York to North Hykeham, even booking as late as today. Ridiculously cheap. £17.15 to get home though. I get to Hykeham at 10:44 so enough time...

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I might ring up Travelodge and haggle. Tell them about the Eagles Guest House. I'll kick arse.

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Jon O'Neill wrote:We lost 4-3.

So he's better than you at football as well as at Countdown?

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Matt Morrison wrote:Haha Gavin. I've played about 2 games this year and I'm still above you buddy!

I've pretty much only played the odd duel. I don't have a pro rank.

Gavin Chipper

If losing a game limits you to 7 wins, then you could have a situation like series 47 where you need to be an octochamp to make the quarter finals, so your comeback would be futile whatever you do in it.

Gavin Chipper

The other strange bit is some saying Rachel's numbers solution was 'needlessly complex'. No such thing. You get the answer how you get the answer. When Jack said that for one of the numbers, I found it quite amusing that her next solution was quite complex as well, so I thought it would be quite fu...

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For me the purposethough.a spoilers thread is for people to post their reactions to interesting things that happen in the episode and for others to share their opinions on such happenings. For me there were two main points of interest from today's show: 1) I found the challenger very irritating to ...

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Andy Platt wrote:Were you saying I questioned Countdown's procedures? Hell, I was trying to say that it wasn't their fault.

Who's this to? If me, then no.

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:Japan, Morocco or Panama

Jon O'Neill wrote:japan, china, mali, morocco, brazil, chile, chad, guinea, panama, turkey

You absolute shaft. I had to ask someone else for a third because I could only think of 2!

Lovely

Gavin Chipper

I guess this series of events along with a couple of other past posts perhaps leads to certain questions. To what point should talking about contestants go? What's too far? What makes rational sense to say and what doesn't? I'll leave the floor open, but I guess I'll explain my thought process with...

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I think starting a new forum because you don't like certain posts and then coming here and making worse comments yourself is pretty hypocritical. Not getting those nines is no worse than some of your numbers misses...

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