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Davy Affleck wrote:Who won? I was watching the fitba as usual.

Scott, by 87 points to 67.

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2. A man walks up to a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender then points a gun at the man. The man sincerely thanks the bartender. Why? I assume that the water came out of one of those gun shaped dispenser things that you see in bars. 3. At the carnival, three teddy bears were won by two...

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SHEAFING as a beater in Round 2, DARKIE and ROADIE in Round 7 and GRANTER in Round 12.

1st Numbers Alt.: (9 x 100) - 75 + ((50 / 25) x 7) = 839

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WAHEY! Summer has arrived :D , if not in terms of weather, although it's not too bad at the moment, and following Oliver's brilliant triumph on Friday, it's now time to find his replacement. :lol: As Series 63 of Countdown is about to begin. ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) Our carryover champion is our very ...

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Countdown recap for Wednesday 23 March 2005. C1: Champion Tanmay Dixit (2 wins, 180 points.) C2: Challenger Mike Meakin. DC: Susie Dent and Ken Bruce. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: I A O I T M G P K R02: R E D A S T E H O R03: R W N D E A E L N R04: T A P S O T E N A R05: 1...

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How close can you be to perfection

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=259329

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Very good performance, Oliver. Very worthy winner of the series. Nicki put up a good fight to and deserves a lot of credit for making it to the final.

There definitely needs to be a CoC XIV. The amount of talent there would just be phenomenal.

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DUTCH DELIGHT AS KIRKINHO & CO. AWAIT IN THE QUARTERS! Tom Rowell (Slovakia) 5 - 7 James Robinson (Netherlands) A very hard fought second round match took place today, where Group E winners Netherlands, managed James Van Der Robinson, took on Group F runners-up Slovakia, managed by Tomas Rowell...

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I really don't know who to support today. Oli is without doubt the standout player of this series and thoroughly deserves to win. But Nicki's a mate (as is Dave, her husband, who I used to work and socialise with back in the '80s) and has performed extremely well on the show, particularly in the qu...

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So, we've reached the main event, the piece de resistance . The top 2 competitors of Series 62 go into battle to decide who will be the new series champion of Countdown . Will it be New Malden's Oliver Garner or Swindon's Nicki Sellars :?: Here are the stats:- Firstly, No.1 Seed Oliver Garner - 10 W...

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Rich Priest wrote:
James Robinson wrote: Series 39 of course, is the last female winner - Kate Ogilvie. Can Nicki become only the 5th series winner
She'd be the 6th actually - Joyce Cansfield, Hilary Hopper, Liz Barber, Verity Joubert and Kate Ogilvie.

(I should get out more ).

Oops

, thanks Rich.

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James Robinson wrote:Still, you took it very well, and shouldn't be too disappointed.

Another newspaper clipping I happened to come across:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/l ... n_and_out/

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Welcome to the Robinson Recap 2nd Semi-Final Special, which as an added bonus, brings us a rematch, something not seen for a good while, and a definite Robinson Recap first! 48 days ago, it was Lee who ended Nicki's run on the show with a slender 3 point victory, will payback be served :?: Enjoy. ;)...

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Series 56. Nick Wainwright versus Anita Freeman. Freeland, but thanks - 3 years. Series 39 of course, is the last female winner - Kate Ogilvie. Can Nicki become only the 5th series winner :?: GOSSAMER in round 2, DEBATES and SAUTEED in round 6, REPLICAS in round 7, TRIAGED in round 8 and SALLIES in...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:Round 9:(8) (max 69)
Round 10:(10) (max 76)
Round 11:(7) (max 83)
Round 12:(6) (max 92)

How did that happen

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So, we've now reached the 2nd semi-final, which is a rematch between 2 of the nicest contestants this show has seen this series, No.6 Seed Lee Graham and No.7 Seed Nicki Sellars. They first played against each other around 48 days, ago when Lee beat Nicki by just 3 points, after neither spotted the ...

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Well, the fixtures for 2010-11 are out.

Liverpool vs Arsenal on Day 1 seems tasty, as does Man Utd vs Newcastle and Man City vs Spurs.

Even better is Notts County vs Huddersfield Town.

And at least the fixture gods have been kind to make us play Southampton twice before the end of this year.

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By the way, is it just me or did MULTITASK seem a pretty easy-ish conundrum for a semi-final :?: :? Nope....I didn't get it then and didn't get it now either. Oops. Was looking for MIS- or -ISM or some other complicated word. MULTIPACK was used as a heat conundrum and MULTITASK a semi final - think...

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Countdown recap for Tuesday 22 March 2005. C1: Champion Tanmay Dixit (1 win, 85 points.) C2: Challenger Isabel Fennemore. DC: Susie Dent and Ken Bruce. CV: Carol Vorderman. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: O E I L G W A N T R02: R G D O E O B M U R03: R S P M E A O S E R04: H L J O E O M P E R05: ...

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Well, we've reached the semi-finals, and after today's results in the World Cup, Spain can only dream of getting there at this rate. :lol: Countdown recap for Wednesday 16 June 2010. C1: No.1 Seed Oliver Garner (9 wins, 925 points.) An Apteforumite from New Malden, Surrey. He's a student at Tiffin's...

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Hugh Binnie wrote:
James Robinson wrote:the literage/LITERAGE fiasco
Eh?

Knew that was going to happen. Fixed.

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Well done Oliver on your magnificent performance yet again. That's the quarter and semi where you scored just 15 points below maximum :!: Pretty impressive. 8-) Very unlucky, Craig. I think soon as the literage/LITREAGE fiasco happened, it seemed like it wasn't going to be your day. Still, you took ...

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Just under an hour to go now....

It's so unbearable

And I can't even see it till 6pm.

Damn work

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David Roe wrote:Is WARTIEST in the current dictionary? I'm an edition or two behind, and it isn't in mine, though WARTY is.

It's allowed in this one, David.

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My prediction:

If Oliver is in the champions' chair, Craig by a single-figure margin.

If Craig is in the champions' chair, Oliver by a low double-figure margin.

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So, the quarters are done and dusted, with THREE of the top 4 seeds knocked out. :shock: :o :!: So, we're left with the No.1, 5, 6 & 7 seeds. Those of you who are thinking "I'm gonna watch Spain v Switzerland at 3pm", maybe you should think again. After all, the two 3pm games we've had...

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If Craig is in the challengers chair against Ollie,he will have an excellent chance of making the final. I know it has been mentioned somewhere before, but is this shit random or what? toss of a coin? When I did my first show (there were 2 new challengers), it was the straight toss of the coin, and...

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Phenomenal again, Craig. 8-) ;) :) :D I only just managed to get 119 and 924, but was never going to get 709 the way you did it. The semi tomorrow between you and Oliver will be some spectacle, I'm sure. And at least you've kept your promise of letting me do another recap of one of your games, after...

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Right, we have now reached the last quarter-final of Series 62, with the match, that on paper, should be the closest of the lot. The match-up is No.4 Seed Peter Zyss vs. No.5 Seed Craig Chittenden. Here are the stats:- Firstly, No.4 Seed Peter Zyss - 7 Wins, 617 Points Highest Score: 100 vs. Steve T...

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Superb, although why am I the only one who is super imposed onto a goalkeeper

I'm the only one who has scored 21/21 goals in the tourney so far, so I'm the leading scorer

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Matt Morrison wrote:You just got TOLD Ryan.

I hope that wasn't too strong, or he might flee to Uruguay.

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Recap coming around midnight tonight :) Which midnight is this :?: From the spoiler thread: Dinos is back to his Tuesdays starting from 18th May right? Negative. I'll be resuming my recapping post Tuesday June 15th. Which means that you were supposed to have done last Tuesday's recap, unless you fl...

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Matt Morrison wrote:Quarter Finals

Winners 1 - Winners 2

Winners 3 - Winners 5

Winners 5 - Winners 6

Winners 7 - Winners 8

So, the winners of the 4th Second Round game are going to feel a bit short-changed, methinks.

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Pfff, thought the conundrum was SPIRALLED for a second then.

WARTIEST in round 1, SNIDELY as a contestant beater in round 4.

3rd Numbers Alt.: (8 + 7 - 1) x 3 x 10 = 420

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
James Robinson wrote: Clearly, you haven't even changed your avatar to the Brazil flag for the Apterous World Cup
Ha, I'm not even sure I'd know how to do it.

How did you get your face as your avatar in the first place then

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Kirk Bevins wrote:I hate football

Clearly, you haven't even changed your avatar to the Brazil flag for the Apterous World Cup

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Well, the weekend is over and we have now reached the final week of Series 62. :D / :cry: But, the mystery of who will be the new champion of Countdown is far from resolved. Following Nicki's win on Friday, we are now down to 1 octochamp remaining in the competition. But, that doesn't necessarily me...

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Group F 1st http://www.apterous.org/matt/flags/it.png Italy (Edward McCullagh) - Record: 2 -0-1 - F/A: 19-15 - GD: 4 - Points: 4 Matt, unless I'm not mistaken, 2 wins normally mean 6 points rather than 4. I'm not sure if Edward likes to be ripped off like that, especially as he's Italy. :lol:

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Is anyone pissed off by the constantly negative coverage by the BBC? They broadcast Slovenia v Algeria and the commentators just bitched constantly about the poor quality. What did they expect? Not only do I find it disrespectful, it just pisses me off as we're effectively paying for them to be the...

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Douglas Wilson wrote:I think Lee has a great chance of beating Dave on Monday which would mean a repeat of the prelims in the finals, has this happened many times before?

A few times, but not many in recent history, as you can see below:

http://wiki.apterous.org/Rematch

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DISOWNER in round 6 and ORGANDIE in round 8.

Very good performance by Nicki today. Unlucky, Danny.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:Could be an upset today.

I personally think there's a bigger chance of an upset in Monday's quarter-final.

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i can understand that if for some reason you google my name that would come up. but why the fk would james be googling my name? lol. he could've been playing my dad online and he may have mentioned it i suppose then he googled it. Not that i care just thought it was funny and bizarre lol If you mus...

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We have reached the end of the week, and also the start of the World Cup, which means that viewing figures for this show will probably decline sharply, while most people watch South Africa vs. Mexico. But, for those of you who are loyal to the cause, today's 2nd quarter-final sees No.2 Seed (and the...

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France v Mexico 2 Are you suggesting that France are going to throw the match or something against Mexico :?: :shock: :o :? :lol: Oops, now corrected. Now give us your predictions, Mr Oranje Squash. :) Fair enough. They'll probably all be wrong, but you never know. Week 1. South Africa 2 Mexico 2 U...

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Marc Meakin wrote:France v Mexico 2

Are you suggesting that France are going to throw the match or something against Mexico

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Wahey :!: The Series 62 finals have arrived, and I'll be your guide for today's first quarter-final action. Enjoy. ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) Countdown recap for Thursday 10 June 2010. C1: No.8 Seed Claudia Tyson (6 wins, 545 points.) From Ampthill, Bedfordshire. She works as a civilian nurse. C2: No.1 ...

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So, the waiting's almost over, the World Cup is about to commence in South Africa. But, before that minor event commences, an even bigger event is about to start. 8-) I give you the Series 62 Finals. ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) Today, as by tradition, is the first of the quarter-finals. The match-up is N...

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It seems that Scott's local paper has got in on the act of celebrating its new hero:

http://www.lennoxherald.co.uk/dunbarton ... -26613753/

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Verwelkom naar de laatste voorafgaande Robinson Recapitulatie van Serie 62. Maak u geen zorgen, zal dat alle Nederlands zijn dat u in deze recapitulatie zult zien! Welcome to the last preliminary Robinson Recap of Series 62. Don't worry, that'll be all of the Dutch you'll see in this recap! Countdow...

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1st Numbers Alt.: ((10 + 9) x (5 - 3)) + 75 = 113 2nd Numbers Alt.: ((100 - 1 - 6 + 5) x 4) - 25 = 367 3rd Numbers Alt.: (75 - 9 - 9 - 1) x 4 = 224 Very well done, Scott. If you'd have got that conundrum, that would've been the highest score of the series, but that I suppose would've just been the i...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:"Henry Meier and Stuart Arnot got an nine from LSOARISEM; can you spot it?"

Spot the spelling error.

Yeah, I noticed that a bit ago, but thought it was a one-off, so didn't bother mentioning it.

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Oh dear, some bad news I've just read.

Our very own Rachel Riley has missed out on the Rear Of The Year Award for 2010.

Instead, it went to Fiona Bruce

(And if you're interested, Ricky Whittle won the male award.)

http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/news/9331?

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Goed hebben wij het laatste voorafgaand van Serie 62 bereikt. Morgen ziet het begin van de finale :!: 8-) Een persoon die duidelijk er morgen zal niet zijn is de huidige kampioen, Scott Gillies, geen kwestie wat hij doet vandaag, als zijn 4 overwinningen niet genoeg zijn om hem in de hoogste 10 te k...

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Other funny bit in the last numbers, when we were both asked to show our methods for getting ZERO :!: :lol: Yep, either of you could've bagged the three points by declaring any target. I suppose that proves that we're both amateurs in this format :!: :lol: DUTCHMAN TESTS POSITIVE FOR CANNABIS! Not ...

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Group E: James Robinson (Netherlands) 7 - 5 Scott Gillies (Cameroon) Another enjoyable game. Bit unfortunate that Scott tried fearness so early on, as it might've been much closer otherwise. James Robinson (Netherlands) 7 - 7 John Gillies (Denmark) A very tight game with John here. I bottled DOLLIED...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:And the max is wrong, which I'm fixing at the moment.

Edit: sorted the max out. Tell me if it's still wrong.

It seems fine to me, Ryan.

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Group E:

James Robinson (Netherlands) 7 - 5 Karen Pearson (Japan)

A very enjoyable game with Karen. She was just unlucky with curlies in round 2, and that her strategy of 3 large in her numbers worked in my favour.

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Round 6: L G T E O I R S C C1: GOITRES (7) C2: cloister DC: CORTILES (8) COSTLIER (8) OT: CLOISTER (8) Score: 38–15 (max 47) Again Scott is noticably annoyed at missing a trio of sevens (I personally like to see this in a player, it shows his passion something which isn't always appreciated by a ca...

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RESIDUE in round 1 and SOLITUDE in round 7.

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