c4countdown

Marcus Hares

Countdown recap for Monday 28 February 2011. Oh you lucky people - Ryan is taking a break this week so me and Robbo will be covering his recaps this week (me today, Robbo tomorrow). Jeff begins by highlighting our awareness to World Maths Day which happens this week - it's a huge, global event aimed...

Marcus Hares

Dan McColm wrote:Desperate Dan, I'm afraid. Christ, I was shite.

You so weren't - several maxes and some lovely spots too especially NEPETA - disappointed not to see you again Dan but you played very well I thought.

Marcus Hares

Joseph Krol wrote:Any other preliminary matches where two apterites have met?

I played 3 apterites in the space of 4 games - James Bradley, David Hilton & Oli Moore

Marcus Hares

Really enjoyable ding-dong battle today - congrats Ned, glad you will only be choosing one 4-large from now on though!

I think EXOPLANET was available in the round before SENHORITA/HORTENSIA (possibly round 7).

Marcus Hares

Typical that after the lack of 9's in Edward's run that one should come up in the very first round today

Marcus Hares

Great first recap Marcus. :) Thanks Eoin - I quite enjoyed that! Yes nice work Marcus. Want to do Tuesday's from now on alongside Oliver? Or perhaps Joseph Krol could also chip in so it is a Marcus, Oliver and Joseph triangle? I wouldn't want to tread on anyone's toes Ryan - I'm happy to do the odd...

Marcus Hares

Ryan is still under the weather and Robbo is off to the footy so it falls to me to provide you with today's recap - it's a first attempt though so if I cock it up royal you'll forgive me I hope. Countdown recap for Tuesday 8 February 2011. Before the main event Jeff wonders if in today's ever-changi...

Marcus Hares

Maybe this has come up before, but after yesterday's as well, do Apterites get harder conundrums? It was a bit unfortunate to get that after today's performance. What was the unrisked word in the INDOORS round? Not sure Gevin - I had two conundrums rated 10/10 difficulty on Apterous during my run w...

Marcus Hares

Was Ed on for a max game there? I was well excited. Another new word for the conundrum and it was a mega toughie too. I guessed gailmeter, lol. Looked very much like he maxed the first 14 rounds - I was getting very excited too! Another top class performance from Eyeore, sorry Ed! Really enjoyed to...

Marcus Hares

Another top notch performance Ed - well played. That very tough conundrum appears to be invalid on Lexplorer so must be one of the new additions to the new dictionary.

Marcus Hares

I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but you all realise that Dave Dyer is an apterite , right? Not been seen since the middle of December, though. Out of interest, when was today's game recorded? Just wondering if it was round the middle of December. BTW - good game today - two quality players. ...

Marcus Hares

Great century on your debut Ed - can't wait to see the next one(s)

Marcus Hares

Result from the Speed Demon

Marcus Hares 97 - 85 Matt Morrison

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=382547

Cheers Matt, great game but annoyingly difficult conundrum at the end

Marcus Hares

Result from the Junior Mint

Marcus Hares 2 - 0 Jim Bentley

Marcus 103 - 75 Jim http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=382324
Marcus 98 - 72 Jim http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=382335

Cheers Jim

Marcus Hares

Another composed and solid performance Ads - here's hoping you applaud yourself for a few more shows to come

Marcus Hares

Great debut Adam - you looked very composed. Loved the little round of applause you gave yourself at the end

Marcus Hares

I think I remember Marcus H having downtime disallowed. If only he'd waited a series... (Not that it would have changed anything) It might have. Marcus was only 6 behind Daniel Pati, those 8 points woulda put him 3rd seed. ERUPTING should have changed it anyway. TBH, If Marcus would have prefered t...

Marcus Hares

Result from the Junior Mint

Marcus Hares 2 - 0 James Hall

Marcus 113 - 70 James http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=377087
Marcus 99 - 98 James http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=377096

Marcus Hares

Haha thanks Joseph - and to anyone who voted - much appreciated

Marcus Hares

Sorry it's a bit late

Speed Demon game from week 2 result:

Andrew Herbertson 46 - 101 Marcus Hares

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=362350

Cheers

Marcus Hares

Slightly surreal playing in a Countdown semi-final with Jack - I was glad to keep it as close as I did for as long as I could. Jack, you're an amazing player and if I'm not wrong you maxed the final 9 rounds after I took the lead with AUBADES - a great numbers solve and very quick conundrum which wa...

Marcus Hares

Result from Junior Mint

Marcus Hares 2 - 0 Miriam Nussbaum

Marcus 105 - 85 Miriam http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=360439
Marcus 94 - 84 Miriam http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=360444

Cheers

Marcus Hares

Cheers for the nice comments guys - I want to say it was a really memorable game but I could barely remember anything about it until I watched it back tonight. This was always going to be a close game and I had a lot of luck with it - first off I won the toss so it meant I could have two choices at ...

Marcus Hares

Yes he only won 5 - Peter Godwin was the stand-by but as Michael didn't make it Peter moved up to #8 and the production team asked Greg to be the next stand-by as there was too little time to arrange another.

Marcus Hares

Result from Speed Demon:

Marcus 76 - 68 Kai

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=353692

Good game Kai - best of luck for the rest of the tournament

Marcus Hares

Speed Demon Week 1

Marcus Hares 99 - 67 Miriam Nussbaum

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=350745

Good luck in the rest Miriam

Marcus Hares

Peter Mabey wrote:R13: Marcus decides to go safe with his 7, although we have no idea what else he was thinking of.

Possibly SPATULAE^, as a possible plural (not recognised by ODE2r )

Yes this was exactly what I was thinking of - thankfully it would have been disallowed had I gone for it

Marcus Hares

Yes please - all three

Marcus Hares

A pretty tricky conundrum again means Marcus goes another day without solving it and maybe, just maybe, they have been made a little harder this week? Controversial. The conundrums on Monday & Tuesday (which neither player found) were both rated as 10 difficulty on apterous - not sure if that's...

Marcus Hares

Well played Marcus - good game. However, I feel I must query whether Damian has changed his policy again? I'm pretty sure this is the 2nd time this series a previous winner has been allowed to compete again. I'm not sure I can quite understand the logic in allowing previous winners to add to their ...

Marcus Hares

Result from Open Week 4: Marcus Hares 2 - 0 Jim Bentley Marcus 137 - 109 Jim http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=273862 Marcus 100 - 69 Jim http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=273878 A personal best score for me in the 1st game which yielded multiple 9's. A century was not on the cards i...

Marcus Hares

Result for Open Week 3:

Marcus Hares 2 - 0 Liam Tiernan

Marcus 96 - 80 Liam http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=270211
Marcus 100 - 91 Liam http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=270222

Marcus Hares

Result from Week 2 (Open)

Kirk Bevins 2 - Marcus Hares 0

Kirk 109 - Marcus 78 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 7906485564
Kirk 115 - Marcus 84 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 8350663009

Marcus Hares

Result from week 1:

Lee Simmonds 1 - 2 Marcus Hares

Lee 77 - 99 Marcus http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=261061
Lee 90 - 81 Marcus http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=261078
Lee 65 - 97 Marcus http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=261091

Marcus Hares

In for the Open please

Marcus Hares

Is there anything that can be done about the severe lag in the room? Lately you have to refresh several times even just to get through a few rounds.

Marcus Hares

I agree with the previous comments about having a plain background for English as these are by far the vast majority of games played and keep the other flags for the much less played other language variants.

Our Irish/American/etc... friends may agree with me!

Marcus Hares

No worries Ben - worth asking as I'm a regular player and would have liked to have participated, maybe if there's a drop-out I could be considered?

Marcus Hares

Only heard about this yesterday but looks like I am too late to enter? Would love to play if there is a chance?

Marcus Hares

I'm in please.

Marcus Hares

Result from U1200 week 3:

Marcus Hares 2 - 0 Daniel O'Dowd

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=87631 (90-81)
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=87642 (91-71)

Marcus Hares

Result from round 1:

Marcus Hares 2-0 Jay Murphy

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=79547
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=79557

Marcus Hares

I'd like to be put in the Open category as well as the U1200 if it's not too late... thank you

Marcus Hares

I would also like to take part - my rating has just gone over 1200 but could quite easily dip below again between now and the start of the tournament so please put me in the appropriate category/categories when you have finalised your line-ups.

Thank you,
Marcus

Search found 104 matches