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Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:10 am
by nigelbrown
Ian Volante wrote:
nigelbrown wrote:I thought Charlie Reams was good at first, then decided he was a cunt. Ho hum.
With that sort of wit it's a shame we don't see more of you here!
I was here last year, you saw plenty of me then, although under a different suedoughnimm. And Charlie called me a cunt first. Or was it a twat? Who knows? Everything is so confusing right now.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:26 am
by Jon Corby
nigelbrown wrote:I was here last year, you saw plenty of me then, although under a different suedoughnimm.
david dawson?

Were you banned?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:42 am
by nigelbrown
No I wasn't banned, I went away for a while, travelling like. It was right lovely, 16 months of bliss.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:46 am
by Jon Corby
Ah, you're Stuart Earl, aren't you?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:20 pm
by Jason Larsen
Well, then who are you, Nigel?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:22 pm
by Richard Brittain
Apparently it's just Kirk fooling around.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:04 am
by Kirk Bevins
Richard Brittain wrote:Apparently it's just Kirk fooling around.
I fool around in the privacy of ladies' homes, Richard - usually Sue's.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:35 am
by Sue Sanders
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Richard Brittain wrote:Apparently it's just Kirk fooling around.
I fool around in the privacy of ladies' homes, Richard - usually Sue's.
That's true, Richard(ysw) - and he's starting to show potential. Just need to stop him yelling 'smor-ZANDOOOOOOO' on his vinegar stroke.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:53 pm
by Tracey Mills
Jason Larsen wrote:Thank you, Craig, and it's a wonder how Mark Nyman went from being a great contestant on Countdown to being a lexicographer.

Can anyone direct me to some clips of Mark Nyman playing as a contestant on Countdown online?
But there several clips on YouTube of Mark Nyman in dictionary corner but not as a contestnat.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:05 pm
by Jason Larsen
I'll have to try my hardest to search, Tracey.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:05 pm
by Robert Baxter
Jon O'Neill wrote:Yawn.

Jeffrey Hansford is the best ever.

Settled.
Not even you??? :?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:58 pm
by Robert Baxter
Mine:

Scott Mearns
Harvey Freeman
Don Reid
Julian Fell
Conor Travers
Andrew Hulme
Craig Beevers

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:10 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Robert Baxter wrote:Mine:

Scott Mearns
Harvey Freeman
Don Reid
Julian Fell
Conor Travers
Andrew Hulme
Craig Beevers
Is that in order?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:29 pm
by Robert Baxter
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:Mine:

Scott Mearns
Harvey Freeman
Don Reid
Julian Fell
Conor Travers
Andrew Hulme
Craig Beevers
Is that in order?
Yes

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:08 am
by Rhys Benjamin
hmmm.

Scott Mearns
Harvey Freeman
Graham Nash
Don Reid

That's the top 4.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:52 pm
by Douglas Wilson
Update?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:57 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Well, I've changed mine;

9 round era

Scott Mearns
Harvey Freeman
Allan Saldahna

15 round era

Kai Laddiman
Julian Fell
Jack Hurst

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:11 pm
by Thomas Carey
1. Kirk Bevins
2. Jack Hurst
3. Craig Beevers
4. Edward McCullagh
5. Stewart Holden, Chris Wills, Daniel Pati, Adam Laws & Paul Gallen

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:40 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Thomas Carey wrote:1. Kirk Bevins
2. Jack Hurst
3. Craig Beevers
4. Edward McCullagh
5. Stewart Holden, Chris Wills, Daniel Pati, Adam Laws & Paul Gallen
There is a logic to some of those, but Daniel Pati and Adam Laws have no place here. Why did you pick them?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:10 pm
by Thomas Carey
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Thomas Carey wrote:1. Kirk Bevins
2. Jack Hurst
3. Craig Beevers
4. Edward McCullagh
5. Stewart Holden, Chris Wills, Daniel Pati, Adam Laws & Paul Gallen
There is a logic to some of those, but Daniel Pati and Adam Laws have no place here. Why did you pick them?
Dunno, they just seem good. Upon reflection, Eoin Monaghan beat Daniel Pati and Adam got in without Chris or Eamonn, so don't know what happened. Just pick one of the 5s. Quite sure the 1-4s aren't out of place, though.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:42 pm
by JimBentley
Thomas Carey wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Thomas Carey wrote:1. Kirk Bevins
2. Jack Hurst
3. Craig Beevers
4. Edward McCullagh
5. Stewart Holden, Chris Wills, Daniel Pati, Adam Laws & Paul Gallen
There is a logic to some of those, but Daniel Pati and Adam Laws have no place here. Why did you pick them?
Dunno, they just seem good. Upon reflection, Eoin Monaghan beat Daniel Pati and Adam got in without Chris or Eamonn, so don't know what happened. Just pick one of the 5s. Quite sure the 1-4s aren't out of place, though.
Adam was the guy who beat me, so naturally I must agree with Thomas's choice here.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:59 am
by Ben Hunter
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Thomas Carey wrote:1. Kirk Bevins
2. Jack Hurst
3. Craig Beevers
4. Edward McCullagh
5. Stewart Holden, Chris Wills, Daniel Pati, Adam Laws & Paul Gallen
There is a logic to some of those, but Daniel Pati and Adam Laws have no place here. Why did you pick them?
Daniel Pati was a huge talent who took Countdown by surprise, as this game testifies- http://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_5104

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:44 pm
by David Barnard
Between Julian Fell, Craig Beevers and Jack Hurst for me

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:56 pm
by Gavin Chipper
David Barnard wrote:Between Julian Fell, Craig Beevers and Jack Hurst for me
Some good choices. I'd say that Edward McCullagh had a similar air of invincibility.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:06 pm
by David Barnard
'Some good choices. I'd say that Edward McCullagh had a similar air of invincibility'.

I remember him saying before that he was going to be beaten but to be honest I thought Adam was going to pip him in that final.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:30 pm
by Gavin Chipper
David Barnard wrote:'Some good choices. I'd say that Edward McCullagh had a similar air of invincibility'.

I remember him saying before that he was going to be beaten but to be honest I thought Adam was going to pip him in that final.
Edward always said that he was surprised to win all the time on the show, but in terms of play he came across to me as more impressive than Adam and although he was number 2 seed, I thought he was favourite going into the final.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:12 am
by Kirk Bevins
There's only one player that I've been really impressed with since I went on....and that is Chris Davies. Why hasn't he been mentioned?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:21 am
by David Barnard
Kirk, you were very good too, there has been so many great players since you have been on as well, my top 5 would be You, Jack Hurst, Craig Beevers, Julian Fell and maybe Andrew Hulme as well, I would naturally rate you in my top 5 because seeing you on the TV doing so well made me think, 'it would be cool if I could be good as well' :)

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:10 am
by Jon O'Neill
Nobody's really impressed me since I went on.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:12 am
by Jon O'Neill
Kirk Bevins wrote:There's only one player that I've been really impressed with since I went on....and that is Chris Davies. Why hasn't he been mentioned?
Paul Gallen? Mark Tournoff? Conor Travers? Stewart Holden?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:06 pm
by David Barnard
I think the best series was series 61, now there was 4 very impressive players. No series has had that amount of great players since then although there is usually 1 or 2.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:28 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
David Barnard wrote:I think the best series was series 61, now there was 4 very impressive players. No series has had that amount of great players since then although there is usually 1 or 2.
Ahem series 63...

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:14 pm
by Chris Davies
Kirk Bevins wrote:There's only one player that I've been really impressed with since I went on....and that is Chris Davies. Why hasn't he been mentioned?
Cheers Kirk! I'm surprised you weren't really impressed with Jack Hurst though. I certainly was.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:56 pm
by David Barnard
Eoin Monaghan wrote:
David Barnard wrote:I think the best series was series 61, now there was 4 very impressive players. No series has had that amount of great players since then although there is usually 1 or 2.
Ahem series 63...
Haha, but there has just been so many impressive players on there recently, although you would also fit into one of the ones that impressed along with Jack, I can think of 15 good/excellent players in the past 5 series, Mark Murphy (the guy who played wankers) is definitely not one of them.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:09 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Chris Davies wrote:
Cheers Kirk! I'm surprised you weren't really impressed with Jack Hurst though. I certainly was.
Jack is very good but I wasn't impressed as such. I was impressed with your consistency and word knowledge. You had an air of authority and unbeatability about you that didn't come across with Jack, in my opinion.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:23 pm
by David Barnard
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:
Cheers Kirk! I'm surprised you weren't really impressed with Jack Hurst though. I certainly was.
Jack is very good but I wasn't impressed as such. I was impressed with your consistency and word knowledge. You had an air of authority and unbeatability about you that didn't come across with Jack, in my opinion.
And for 2 players like you 2 who played the obscure words, it was certainly interesting seeing dictionary corner work for their money verifying the words :)

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:30 pm
by David Barnard
I would also say Kirk's comment is fair, Andrew in the final just seemed happy to be there and didn't worry about the result, Chris seemed like he was the one who wanted it more

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:35 pm
by Ian Volante
A pub conversation on Friday night elicited the claim from one of my colleagues that she shagged Julian Fell a few years back at uni, and he was described as being "dirty". I didn't get (want) any more detail.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:41 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Ian Volante wrote:A pub conversation on Friday night elicited the claim from one of my colleagues that she shagged Julian Fell a few years back at uni, and he was described as being "dirty". I didn't get (want) any more detail.
As a %, how likely do you think that is to be true?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:41 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Ian Volante wrote:she shagged Julian Fell a few years back at uni, and he was described as being "dirty"
Are we talking personal hygiene, or sexual habits?

Edit: if Julian Fell makes a move on you, is this what's called a Fell Swoop?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:10 pm
by Ian Volante
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:she shagged Julian Fell a few years back at uni, and he was described as being "dirty"
Are we talking personal hygiene, or sexual habits?

Edit: if Julian Fell makes a move on you, is this what's called a Fell Swoop?
Jon O'Neill wrote: As a %, how likely do you think that is to be true?
No doubt that it's true, and she meant in sexual habits. I wasn't drunk enough to pry further.

And ahaha.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:02 pm
by Jason Larsen
I highly doubt Julian is dirty too Ian.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:44 pm
by Ian Volante
Jason Larsen wrote:I highly doubt Julian is dirty too Ian.
I wouldn't like to speculate too far :)

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:26 pm
by Jason Larsen
Good for all our sakes.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:26 pm
by David Barnard
Would have been interesting to know if he was as good in bed as he was at countdown, if he was then she was one lucky lady

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:48 pm
by Jason Larsen
I have no idea what that could be about!

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:57 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Jason Larsen wrote:I have no idea what that could be about!
If you're good in bed, Jason, it means you are a restful sleeper.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 11:11 pm
by Jason Larsen
Ok, and hopefully I'll have a happy Easter!

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:23 am
by Andrew Feist
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:I have no idea what that could be about!
If you're good in bed, Jason, it means you are a restful sleeper.
...eventually.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:49 pm
by Jason Larsen
And Easter is now over

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:53 am
by David Barnard
Jason Larsen wrote:And Easter is now over
And thank god we've stopped talking about such a repulsive subject

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:22 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
David Barnard wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:And Easter is now over
And thank god we've stopped talking about such a repulsive subject
If you're so keen to stop talking about it, why post about it? :|

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:15 pm
by Jason Larsen
David Barnard, who are you?

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:21 pm
by David Barnard
Who am I?
I am David Barnard from Herefordshire, I am 20 years old. I like golf (play off a 3 handicap), darts (only for the drinking), countdown (obviously) and scrabble (good banter). I am a member of another forum (it's to do with golf) and am one of the most prolific posters on there (2nd most posts in the country).
My facebook profile is here http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php? ... 0259082415 so if you are thinking I am someone having a joke I'm not, heres proof.

Does that answer your question? :D :D

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:29 pm
by Adam Gillard
Best ever is Edward McCullagh because he beat me. Chris Davies is immense too. My knowledge of Countdown history is nowhere near as extensive as most people who have submitted their responses though, I expect. I vaguely remember being wowed by Kai Laddiman's skill when he was on, too, but that may have been principally because he was so young. I only watched Countdown in dribs and drabs between finishing primary school and the end of Oli Garner's series, when I started watching regularly again.

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:15 pm
by Jason Larsen
Yes David Barnard. That does answer my question

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:27 pm
by David Barnard
Jason Larsen wrote:Yes David Barnard. That does answer my question
No problem Jason Larsen ;)

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:54 pm
by Jason Larsen
It's ok David Barnard

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:56 pm
by David Barnard
It's definitely a god thing we are calling each other by our full names, I want to seem like I have good manners so the formal approach definitely has worked on this occasion so I shall call you by your full name from now on, feel free to do the same back to me

Re: Best ever contestants

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:02 am
by Jason Larsen
I don't like to be called Jason William. If I ever applied to go on Countdown I would tell Nick Hewer my name is Jason Larsen and not Jason William