Reddit IAmA Former Octochamp

[Jon O'Neill]

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1 ... quiz_show/

For those not familiar with IAmAs, basically you say you're something interesting then answer questions about it.

I've done some detective work and it's Jeffrey Burgin.

Calm down, Phil.

[Jeffrey Burgin]

Can indeed confirm it is me, really didn't think it would take off in quite the way it has though- followed Reddit for a while now and this is the only thing I could think of which might interest people. Didn't mention Apterous or the forum as I felt it wasn't my place to and I was worried people might descend en masse, but I'm guessing with the stories in the papers about the site it wouldn't be hard for people to find it anyway/it's already known about. Hopefully I'm portraying Countdown in a reasonably positive light and generating interest in the show!

[Jon O'Neill]

They love that IT Crowd episode don't they! It was great though.

[Jeffrey Burgin]

I guess I did mention it in the title, but the tnettenba references are a bit irksome now!

[Jon O'Neill]

I guess someone posted a link to apterous as about five or six people have signed up tonight and are playing.

[Jeffrey Burgin]

I think someone did yeah, glad it's only a few as I was massively worried loads of people would sign up and crash the site or something, hence why I chose not to give the name- I figured anyone interested enough (and thus serious enough) would dig around and find it anyway.

[Chris Davies]

Just had a message from someone on facebook regarding this, whom I met years ago on a course (but sadly cannot remember). He thought you might be me. Thanks for your kind words about me on reddit and congrats on all the attention!

[Gavin Chipper]

Calm down, Phil.

Indeed. He's already claimed one victim. By the way, read the comments. I'd call the name of the first commenter at least a medium level coincidence.

[Jon O'Neill]

Calm down, Phil.

Indeed. He's already claimed one victim. By the way, read the comments. I'd call the name of the first commenter at least a medium level coincidence.

If coincidence then