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Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 5:45 pm
by Matt Morrison
Great stuff Matt. Can't believe you counted Indra though! Cheeky!

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:17 pm
by Mark Deeks
I just went for a steak with Kirk Bevins in Las Vegas.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:16 am
by Gavin Chipper
Gavin Chipper wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:30 am
Thomas Carey wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 3:15 am Updated. Dan's at uni, everyone else as above with a few new ones, may still have missed some idk

Joseph Krol, Sophie Krol
Callum T, Jamie M, Zarte, Jen, Andy, Heather S, Mark and Graeme, Matt and Loz, Matty, Giles, Aidan, Sara, Anoush
Jonny Rawlinson
Tanmay
Oli Garner
Dan Byrom
While some of these people may be obvious, you need to surname up these people.
Like, who is Anoush? I don't think this is a standard Countdown person.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:31 am
by Thomas Carey
Gavin Chipper wrote: Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:16 am

Like, who is Anoush? I don't think this is a standard Countdown person.
Khachik, according to somebody else's list. He's fairly regular on apterous. Edited/updated my post.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:28 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
Thomas Carey wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 3:15 am Joseph Krol, Sophie Krol (ancient)
No way does this count! Otherwise Sara counts for me (arguably my mum too)

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:35 pm
by James Laverty
James Laverty wrote: Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:40 pm Callum Pickering- various times
Jaco Bates- Callum's flatmate who has had an apterous account but hasn't used for ages
Dan McColm- visited Callum once or twice
Jason Turner- Gave me taxi rides a few times at Uni
Jonathan Wynn- visited Callum
Matty Artell- met up when I was in Manchester for a non-CD related thing
Ben Wilson- randomly bumped into him at Lincoln station
Matt Conway(?)- not 100% sure but pretty sure we met at a Forest game once

Whole load of others at CD audiences but don't think we are counting these. I really need to do better
Can add a few

Ian Volante- Korfball
Wes Jardine- Bit of a weird one, bumped into him at Earls Court Tube station (admittingly I was in London for Co:Lon, but he didn't attend so I'm counting it)

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 11:14 am
by Jennifer Steadman
Bumper fortnight for COCMEAT.

37. Innis Carson (pre-Christmas meet-up)
38. Aidan Linge (Zarte's birthday, actually we have hung out before but I forgot him from my list)
39. George Armstrong (Zarte's birthday)
40. SJ (SJ's birthday)
41. Phil Collinge (SJ's birthday)
42. Phil Makepeace (SJ's birthday)
43. COLLECTOR'S EDITION: 2019 Charlie Reams (SJ's birthday)
44. Angus Eady, S74 contestant (I know him through mutual friends. this was ages ago I just forgot to include him)
45. Tim Down (amphitheatre picnic, Thorpe Park)
46. Fiona Titcombe (Thorpe Park)
47. Chris Marshall (Maus and I were going to watch Brighouse Town v Eccleshill United with him but the game got moved 25 miles at short notice so we went to a Wetherspoons in Halifax instead, via the Shay Stadium and the big mill that is now a Travelodge)
48. Dinos Sfyris (Penistone meat with Bundy, Maus and Sara, played House of Games and Codenames)
49. Elliott Mellor (Leeds meat with Bundy, Maus and Sara, gave me a Scottish £10 note with otters on)

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:45 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Gavin Chipper wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:07 pm Jon O'Neill
Mark Deeks
Matt Morrison
Heather Badcock
Jen Steadman
Heather Styles
Graeme Cole
Adam Gillard
Bjorn Aas
I can also add to this having been at Supee's 50th.

Supee
Phil Collinge
Phil Makepeace
Charlie Reams

Though I feel Phil Makepeace should already be on there. Anyway, he is now so it doesn't matter.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:06 am
by Matt Morrison
Fun reading through this. Absolutely bewildering that Mark Deeks used to think audience for Countdown recordings should count. Ridiculous.

Also - Jen - can you expand on your inclusion of Paul Sinha? I think you have to spend time with him after the show for it to count, not just be in the audience for an otherly-famous thing. I'm sure you did, just checking.

I've got a pair of Dans to add to my list:
  • Ben Hunter
  • Dinos Sfyris
  • Charlie Reams
  • Mark Deeks
  • Jon O'Neill
  • Michael Wallace
  • CF
  • Matt Bayfield
  • Michelle Nevitt
  • Ryan Taylor
  • Adam Gillard
  • Phil Makepeace
  • Gevin
  • Jen Steadman
  • Heather Styles
  • Graeme Cole
  • Tom Barnes
  • Bjorn Aas
  • Nathan Pace
  • Kath Webb
  • Dan Vanniasingham
  • Dan McColm

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:30 pm
by Mark Deeks
Used to? Still do.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:16 am
by Gavin Chipper
I'm going to rewrite my list:

Jon O'Neill (various, probably the first time was at Chelmsford parkrun)
Mark Deeks (various, probably the first time was on election night in 2015, and he also came to mine with Jen)
Matt Morrison (various, been to his flat several times)
Heather Badcock (various, been to her flat several times)
Jen Steadman (London meet-up, and she also came to mine with Mark Deeks)
Heather Styles (London meet-up)
Graeme Cole (London meet-up)
Adam Gillard (London meet-up)
Bjorn Aas (London meet-up)
Supee (her 50th birthday)
Phil Collinge (Supee's 50th birthday)
Phil Makepeace (various, round the Morricock's, Supee's 50th)
Charlie Reams (Supee's 50th)
Matt Bayfield (came to my local parkrun on Jeff's wedding day)
Lauren Hamer (came to my local parkrun on Jeff's wedding day)
Jeff Clayton (accidental meeting in Tesco's)

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:07 pm
by Thomas Carey
Rewriting my list. (accurate as of lockdown times)

Joseph Krol, Sophie Krol (ancient/childhood friends, also you can add Emily Zhang and Wilf Carey if you count people I know from real life I've dragged to co-events as countdowners)
Callum Todd, Jamie McNeill, Zarte Jones, Jen Steadman, Andy Platt, Heather Styles, Mark Deeks and Graeme Cole, Matt Hayfield and Loz Bamer, Matty Artell, Giles Hucthings, Aidan Linge, Sara Lawson, Anoush Khachik, Tom Cappleman, Ann Dibben, Innis Carson, George Armstrong, Big Steve Anderson, Elliott Mellor, James Haughton (various meets)
Mark Hartnett (edge case I mentioned earlier which I'm gonna count even though I was there with Eddy Bryne and Gerry Tynan. Them too if you want)
Chloe Jones (non countdown related Susie Dent talk which totally counts)
Dan McColm (randomly bumped into a drunk him on the Glasgow subway, then got a drink the next day)
Jonny Rawlinson, Tanmay Dixit, Oli Garner, Dan Byrom, Mervyn Tong, Richard Freeland (uni, also put J. Krol here again)
Jason Larsen (went to his place when I was in Seattle)
Jessica Pratesi (met at events for a non word game we both play)

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:09 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
Matt Morrison wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:06 am Also - Jen - can you expand on your inclusion of Paul Sinha? I think you have to spend time with him after the show for it to count, not just be in the audience for an otherly-famous thing. I'm sure you did, just checking.
Almost offended you had to ask. Had a chat with him before one of his shows in London a few years ago (accompanied by my friend Imogen, who played at CO:LON 2017).

If Maus is including people he has brought to Co-events/knew prior to being a part of the community (which I don't rly think should count):
Sara Lawson, Caroline Steadman, Eleni Bohacek, Leah King, Emily Muir, Imogen Birt, James Uffindell

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:21 pm
by Gavin Chipper
People you already knew definitely shouldn't count.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 12:54 am
by Thomas Carey
Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:21 pm People you already knew definitely shouldn't count.
Disagree. Why should certain people count for some people but not others? I’m happy to accept that people who don’t really do countdown but got dragged along to the odd event shouldn’t count as countdowners, which is why I put some people in brackets above. But Joseph Krol (for example) is a Countdowner, and I have met him in real life outside of Countdown stuff, so why shouldn’t he count?

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:44 pm
by Matt Morrison
Definitely shouldn't count. This is Countdowners you've met outside Countdown stuff, I think you'd consider family and friends to be family and friends before you categorise them as Countdowners. If that makes sense.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 2:15 am
by Thomas Carey
What about, say, people I first knew through countdown but then met entirely coincidentally through other stuff? Like, Jonathan Rawlinson was my supervisor for a bit, and would have been regardless of either of our involvement in countdown. I knew him through countdown first, so by your rules I can count him, but if one of us had gotten into countdown after we’d first met I shouldn’t be able to? Makes no sense to me. The same also applies to a few other people on my list (Dan B and Jessica for instance) and presumably some other peoples’ lists as well


(Idk why I’m so invested in this either tbh)

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:22 am
by Matt Morrison
There is definitely lots of interesting discussion to be had here. I think part of the reason that before/after makes such a big difference is because apterous (the real community rather than Countdown I think it's fair to say) is a real word-of-mouth thing. For nearly every example of someone who can say they knew someone else on apterous before apterous, the reason that person is on apterous is usually because of that someone in question telling them about it and encouraging them to get on there. I think in most of these borderline COCMEAT legality cases, it really boils down to the fact that knowing the person, and that person also being part of the community, are not mutually exclusive.

In your Rawlinson case, I'd happily accept that if you had both "found" Countdown/apterous entirely independently (after already having met) then this would still be ok. It would also help that I suppose the role of supervisor is more official than "friend" - I think the chances of "friends" independently finding apterous/Countdown is very very slim, and they would have to be pretty shit friends for Friend A (the first one on the scene) to not really have ever bothered talking about Countdown to Friend B, and thus indirectly encouraging and contributing B's joining the community. Whereas with vague acquaintances, people you have only met once or twice beforehand, both making independent decisions to get involve could still happen legitimately.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:32 pm
by Mark Deeks
Matt Morrison wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:22 am There is definitely lots of interesting discussion to be had here.

* immediately kills thread dead *

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:29 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Mark Deeks wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:32 pm
Matt Morrison wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:22 am There is definitely lots of interesting discussion to be had here.

* immediately kills thread dead *
And it's back!
Matt Morrison wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:44 pm Definitely shouldn't count. This is Countdowners you've met outside Countdown stuff, I think you'd consider family and friends to be family and friends before you categorise them as Countdowners. If that makes sense.
I think it's also relevant to why you've met up with them. I think the primary scenario that this thread exists for is that you meet someone at a CO-event, become friends with them, and then arrange to meet up with them at other times. It's a causal thing.

My dad has been to a CO-event, and every time I've met up with him since, it hasn't been because of the friendship we struck up at the CO-event. So that's why it doesn't count.

Obviously there are still grey areas. I randomly bumped into Jeff Clayton at Tesco's. We didn't arrange to meet up. But then the conversation that ensued happened because we knew each other from Countdown.

Also you might have met someone in real life but not known them very well, but then became stronger friends because of Countdown, or it might be unclear exactly what proportion of your friendship is Countdown-based.

So it is complex.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:06 am
by James Nguyen
Dan McColm and that's it

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:03 am
by Fiona T
Maus and Elliott in the Arndale - think that counts cos Elliott wasn't attending the co:Man event, so the meetup was because we were there, but separate. (drank coke)

Jen, Mark, Sara, Tim and Graeme at Thorpe Park (got wet)

Jon Corby at parkrun (scanned my barcode)

Audiences don't count - does pubbing/eating in media city count? If so, can add lots.

Def need some more non-Countdown socials!

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:11 am
by Fiona T
Is there a CIMC (Countdowners in my Car) or did I imagine that?

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:34 am
by Gavin Chipper
You might have to start that one.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:58 am
by Thomas Carey
Fiona T wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:03 am Maus and Elliott in the Arndale - think that counts cos Elliott wasn't attending the co:Man event, so the meetup was because we were there, but separate. (drank coke)

Jen, Mark, Sara, Tim and Graeme at Thorpe Park (got wet)

Jon Corby at parkrun (scanned my barcode)

Audiences don't count - does pubbing/eating in media city count? If so, can add lots.

Def need some more non-Countdown socials!
Pub/eat in media city sadly does not count if the reason you both were there was to watch countdown recording, but our Arndale thing does since you were the only person who was there for the co event and joined our unrelated meetup (I was there to meet Elliott, and went home between that and the co event) :)

I'm up to 41 (unless I've missed anyone) btw, will update soon

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:29 pm
by Mark Deeks
Fiona T wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:11 am Is there a CIMC (Countdowners in my Car) or did I imagine that?
With respect, we can probably pre-emptively retire this in my name, as a decade of Co:Lins has seen me shepherding about over 6,000 former contestants.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:54 pm
by Ben Wilson
If we extend CIMC to 'Countdowners' Cars I've Ridden in Game' (COCRING) I can claim a pretty unique one in CJ De Mooi.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:11 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Mark Deeks wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:29 pm
Fiona T wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:11 am Is there a CIMC (Countdowners in my Car) or did I imagine that?
With respect, we can probably pre-emptively retire this in my name, as a decade of Co:Lins has seen me shepherding about over 6,000 former contestants.
What, all at once?

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:52 am
by Fiona T
Fiona T wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:03 am Maus and Elliott in the Arndale - think that counts cos Elliott wasn't attending the co:Man event, so the meetup was because we were there, but separate. (drank coke)

Jen, Mark, Sara, Tim and Graeme at Thorpe Park (got wet)

Jon Corby at parkrun (scanned my barcode)

Audiences don't count - does pubbing/eating in media city count? If so, can add lots.

Def need some more non-Countdown socials!
Updating with a few more...

Ian Volante's pub quiz (x2) (recommended if you ever find yourself in Edinburgh on a Tuesday!)

Ian V
Stevie G
Phil H
Fred W (not been on telly)
Stu H

Have met lots of former contestants at scrabble events, but restricting to ones I remember actually playing and/or having a conversation with. Reserve the right to add others as and when I remember them

James Burley
John Ashmore
John Matthews
Wayne Kelly
David Webb
Tim Hebbes (not been on telly)
MSR (not been on telly)

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 7:06 pm
by Adam Gillard
Thomas Carey wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:07 pm Hucthings
Correctly Correctington!

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:35 pm
by Tom S
In touch with quite a few from my time on the show, but the only person who qualifies for this is my 8th prelim opponent, Ben Timi Nuga when we had a quick bite to eat nr Paddington before I headed home.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 1:05 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Tom S wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:35 pm In touch with quite a few from my time on the show, but the only person who qualifies for this is my 8th prelim opponent, Ben Timi Nuga when we had a quick bite to eat nr Paddington before I headed home.
You just went from the recording to have a bite to eat? I don't think I would count this as you didn't meet up, just stayed together for a bit after recording. It's the same as a post CO-event meal.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 2:30 pm
by Tom S
Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2023 1:05 pm
Tom S wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:35 pm In touch with quite a few from my time on the show, but the only person who qualifies for this is my 8th prelim opponent, Ben Timi Nuga when we had a quick bite to eat nr Paddington before I headed home.
You just went from the recording to have a bite to eat? I don't think I would count this as you didn't meet up, just stayed together for a bit after recording. It's the same as a post CO-event meal.
I should have clarified- this was several months after recording.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:01 pm
by Gavin Chipper
I see.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 7:25 am
by Josh Hurst
Failed Eggheads audition with... I can't quite remember who... Dinos, Ryan Taylor and maybe Richard Priest?..Maybe around 2011?

David Smith (one of Jack's prelim opponents) - fellow contestant on a pilot episode for a gameshow that never came to air.

Dan Pati, who I first met completely by chance just after he'd been on CD at a house party in Manchester. We went on to regularly pub and even played snooker once.

Have had non-CD related pub experiences circa 2012 with Jeff Clayton and Andy Platt.

Matt Bayfield queuing for Badminton at the 2012 Olympics.

Kirk Bevins round my house for curry when the darts was in Perth around 2014.

Some bloke called Jack, sibling 1992 to present.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 8:56 am
by Matt Morrison
Really enjoying the Bayfield and Bevins ones there, Josh! The sort of COCMEAT we all love.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 11:41 am
by Mark Deeks
Guess I have a fair few to add here, mostly through quizzing. Incomplete list off the dome - Fiona, Tim Down, James Wilson, Ned, Aidan Linge, Rychelle, Tom Rowell, Ian Volante, Phil Makepeace, Charlie, Phil (RIP), Supee, T-Cap.

Most recently, Ahmed Mohammed. We talked about all of you. Especially YOU.

And, um, I guess that for the sake of completeness, I should count David Barnard here.

Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)

Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2023 2:43 pm
by Fiona T
Fiona T wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:52 am
Fiona T wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:03 am Maus and Elliott in the Arndale - think that counts cos Elliott wasn't attending the co:Man event, so the meetup was because we were there, but separate. (drank coke)

Jen, Mark, Sara, Tim and Graeme at Thorpe Park (got wet)

Jon Corby at parkrun (scanned my barcode)

Audiences don't count - does pubbing/eating in media city count? If so, can add lots.

Def need some more non-Countdown socials!
Updating with a few more...

Ian Volante's pub quiz (x2) (recommended if you ever find yourself in Edinburgh on a Tuesday!)

Ian V
Stevie G
Phil H
Fred W (not been on telly)
Stu H

Have met lots of former contestants at scrabble events, but restricting to ones I remember actually playing and/or having a conversation with. Reserve the right to add others as and when I remember them

James Burley
John Ashmore
John Matthews
Wayne Kelly
David Webb
Tim Hebbes (not been on telly)

MSR (not been on telly)
The more I think about it, the more I think that random people I end up playing scrabble with at a scrabble tournament shouldn't count - we've not got together because of countdown, but rather happened to come across each other at a separate nerdy word game thing. I'm gonna keep MSR and JB though because MSR and I only started attending scrabble tourneys because we knew JB through countdown.

Anyway can now add to my list - Jack H, Phil Stanton, Callum Todd and Florence and Sam C-L.



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14/8/23

Right - reviewing my list, discounting people I've happened to be at a scrabble event with, as opposed to people I already know through countdown that I've arranged to go to the event with...

Maus and Elliott in the Arndale - drank coke

Jen, Mark, Sara, Tim and Graeme at Thorpe Park (got wet)

Jon Corby at parkrun (scanned my barcode)

Ian Volante's pub quiz (x2) (recommended if you ever find yourself in Edinburgh on a Tuesday!)

Ian V
Stevie G
Phil Hannan
Fred W
Stu H

Phil Stanton, Jack Hurst and Callum Todd - Phil's house, ate sausages

Florence and Sam C-L - visited my parkrun

James Burley and MSR - scrabble events
George Armstrong - James Burley's house (again primarily to play scrabble)