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Gavin Chipper

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

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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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Rhys Benjamin wrote:It's a little like the Allan Saldanha 'max game' in the Supreme Championship, where he scored 7 pts, the max, on the numbers for three away but one away was possible. FWIW, I think Callum did get a max.

I wouldn't even say it's like that. I wouldn't call Saldanha's game a max game.

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JackHurst wrote:79 points out of about 160.
Has anybody ever won an episode and scored less than half the points available?

Dunno but 9s distort it. He's not the greatest player ever but he's the same standard as most non-apterite champions and certainly shouldn't be lumped in with the challenger.

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Needlessly far away in the final numbers.

(100+75+3×2)×5+50=955.

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Needlessly complex on the third numbers as well.

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JackHurst wrote:Rachels 2nd numbers needlessly complex.

I saw a couple of more straightforward methods but I'll leave it to Tony to give us the standard method.

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Seems as though Callum and a couple of other have never come across somebody with Dave's phrasing. "To be fair, I can't fault blah" is just another way of saying something is really good or somebody has done a really good job etc. I am very familiar with the phrasing, its usage jars here ...

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To be fair, you can't fault Countdown Team for giving us at least a bit of info here, they didn't have to post, so, thanks. I don't think anyone was faulting them, the reaction has been unanimously positive. Thanks for posting, Countdown Team! Good to hear that another CoC is on the cards. Yeah, I ...

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The date is wrong in the thread title.

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-a perfect Lockdown letters attack http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=1197992 This is a max game, but there could be some debate as to whether or not it is a 'perfect' game. Let's have that debate. I say it's perfect. Are you saying it's because you declared in invalid word? Had you declared...

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Last numbers - 50×(25-7+1)-8-4=938.

Also while I'm here I beat DC with PEONAGE in a round somewhere.

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I don't know what Susie was expecting to find when looking up QUAINTER saying she was sure it would be fine. Unless it specifically said the comparative was something else. Which it wouldn't have done. I still don't think she fully gets how the dictionary works. (Yeah sorry, it's old Gevin.)

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So who has what day at the moment? Monday: Andy McGurn Tuesday: Callum Todd Wednesday & Thursday: Me Friday: Anthony Endsor OK. If there continues to be more people wanting to do recaps than slots available, I can see a possible solution here... Edit - although I didn't notice that Callum has a...

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Andy Platt wrote:Happy to see the challenger win that game, must have picked up a good 7-8 maxes.

I think it was 5!

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Jon Corby wrote:Fucking hell Rhys. Jesus.

I think it was funnier than your post.

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So who has what day at the moment?

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Perfect bullet mocktorun is long overdue.

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Bradley Cates wrote:WHY WEREN'T WE GIVEN ANY DRESSING GOWNS?!?!

Forget that. Why weren't you given fence panels?

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Someone could always arrange a 60-66 CoC on Apterous if there's that much clamour for one. Not fair on Carl. It's not, and you should fight for your hero. But anyway, people have made the point that not all players who would probably have made a CoC made it into the 30BC. That could include your he...

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James Robinson wrote:Prices down to £43 and £48 on the saver atm.

Saturday was £42 when I initially rejected it, so I'm still not to happy with that.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:Dave Preece (he's a bit of a twit, but has sparked a bit of life from the embers of c4c)

Definitely agree with this comment.

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So with just 9 hours of voting still to go, here are the latest voting statistics. Countdown Personality Of The Year - Conor Travers 6 Abdizirak Hirsi 4 John Gardner 1 Glen Webb 1 Jen Steadman 1 Ian Toulson 1 Callum Todd 1 Innis Carson 1 Apterite Of The Year - Marcus Hares 5 Callum Todd 4 Matthew B...

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I definitely agree with Tom that if there was going to be a CoC with contestants that were on before the 30th birthday, then it should have taken place before the 30BC. Also there was a special between Kirk Bevins and Chris Davies and between Ed McCullagh and Graeme Cole that were sort of mini CoCs....

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Why not get Abdi on as the token black guy; a couple of girls... and players from Ireland, Scotland and Wales... Whilst you're there... Invite a wheelchair player and an autistic/aspergers type? FFS... Can't we just have the BEST, without worrying about ticking boxes? Or shall we have a gay/lesbian...

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There's nothing wrong with this thread (other than the thread title now and maybe that's an argument for not allowing thread name changes without a moderator). But so what, some of you disagree with Dave Preece. I can't help but think there's been some massive overreacting on here. Get over it. Get ...

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I'd say January 2015 is the earliest reasonable time, but January 2016 might be slightly more realistic (whatever series number they happen to be).

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I don't think it would be that confusing to have players like Eoin, Oliver etc. It's happened before (e.g. Jon Corby), and I'm not sure that the issue even needs to be addressed. Just have them on. I doubt there will be too many people pulling their hair out about it. I would say that obviously seri...

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Looking forward to it.

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Mark Deeks wrote:I mean, I don't like or respect it as a business model, but I want them to do it anyway, for you, because you're earning it.

I don't think it's going to get much more than £64 but it could go down so I don't think I've really got anything to lose. It is a good business model.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Holy cow Gavin

Which bit were you Holy cowing to?

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There's still a month. This game of chicken is not over.

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Andy Platt wrote:^ This. Next winter might be an idea, or Summer 2015. Wouldn't be too soon after the 30BC, I reckon.

There was always at least a two year gap so at least 2015 I'd say.

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I was thinking I might do a top ten for players that have never won a championship. Anyone else can join in too! I might do this now actually. In chronological order: Helen Grayson Allan Saldanha David Williams Jon O'Neill Charlie Reams Eoin Monaghan Adam Gillard Jonathan Rawlinson Martin Sinclair ...

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*The third highest scoring octochamp in a format which has only been going for 1.5 series. 0.75 years isn't it? Literally cant tell if you're mocking my use of decimal notation or if you misread my post. I misread "series" as "years". Never mind. Move on. Nothing to see here. Ed...

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JackHurst wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:
If being the third-highest scoring contestant ever...
*The third highest scoring octochamp in a format which has only been going for 1.5 series.

0.75 years isn't it?

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I think another CoC event would be pretty cool, not just for selfish reasons. There's a lot of good candidates from this year alone that I think both fans on here and typical armchair viewers would be happy to see again. My understanding is that Damian or perhaps officials at Channel 4, or whatever...

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It would be great to see a rematch, but would you qualify for entry to a CoC tournament? No offence meant, as obviously if it was based on ability alone then you would not only deserve a place, but would be one of the favourites. But if such a competition was opened up to one losing quarter finalis...

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Martin Sinclair wrote:EGOMANIAC
Are you going to Colin Dylan? And will you be fighting Ryan this time? (I think it was Ryan you were going to fight before but correct me if I'm wrong.)

Was this fight going to be about something or was it more like a friendly eating competition?

(I'm specifically asking Graeme.)

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Series 46 (Ben's series) was the first with 15-round games rather than 9 rounds, so they probably thought that 6 games was enough for someone. 6 games with 15 rounds each is 90 rounds in total, whereas 8 games with 9 rounds each is 72, so even with just 6 games, viscounts were playing more rounds th...

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I've been having a think about the high scores 'record' thing, as it's a moderately interesting problem. Obviously the basic conclusion is "Jack has the old-15 record, Dylan has the new-15 one", because a straight comparison is always going to involve some subjectivity. However, I thought...

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1) Conor Travers 2) Dylan Taylor 3) Jack Hurst 4) Edward McCullagh 5) Giles Hutchings Having seen the discussion in the other thread, I'm going to wade in, but in this thread. There's no way I'd put Dylan second. I know he has great stats, and I'm a fan of looking at stats, but they are just one th...

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Martin Sinclair wrote:I feel the numbers where you got 2 away but you could have got away as a max is up to opinion, as I know a few people don't think it should be classed as a max (I'm one of them).

I think Graeme does it that way because it's easier for him to calculate.

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Jason Larsen wrote:I see two votes for Callum so far!

Was that an unintelligent question?

Why did you pick those two?

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Matt Morrison wrote:You're waiting too right Gev? Just the two of you?

I'm waiting. I'm going to check Saturday again some time in January.

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Jon Corby wrote:Fri £50 now ffs

Well you could have nailed that deal ages ago. Saturday was the only one that was really a problem. You've only got yourself to blame over Friday. (And stop checking.)

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Brilliant final, and brilliant series overall. I'd definitely say this was the best series in terms of good players that we've had. To have three 945+ octochamps and one player beating all three of them to win the series is pretty good.

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Mark Deeks wrote:What's wrong with lagers?

Try drinking one.

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Have it in Vermont. It's a compromise between America and Canada and I have a friend who lives there so I can stay. Or you could hold it in May 2013 in New York as I was there then. You would need a time machine though.

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Andy McGurn wrote:I spotted MONOPEDS in round 13. Is it valid?

Not on Lexplorer.

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POSTBAG as a beater in round 1 I think.

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Nick talks such shit.

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HELIOSTAT? In the time as well!

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Had one of the top 8 been unable to play in the Series 65 finals, that would've happened (Phyl Styles would've played instead of Matt Croy, having lost to some no-hoper called Jack Worsley who we never heard of again in the final prelim of the series). Dunno if it's happened properly but it wouldn'...

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Has a player ever missed out on a finals place as a result of winning the final preliminary game of a series? (eg. player finishes series x with several wins, but loses the first game of series y and misses the series y finals, when losing the last game in series x would have got them into the seri...

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Of course though "30 year history" is slightly bullshit (goes for Dylan too) because it would be impossible to have a higher score from the 9-round era, and even a lot harder before the change to 4 numberses. Although clearly there is no female contestant who would have beaten her with the...

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You watching, Corby?

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