Spoilers For Friday June 13th 2014

[James Robinson]

So, the time has come once more for another series finals of Countdown, and like last spring, it's been extended to 2 weeks, thanks to Royal Ascot next week.

Ah well, the joyous thing about the finals though, is that the #1 seed goes first.

So, we welcome back the #1 seed, Mark "The Bristol Bombardier" Murray, and the #8 seed, Andy "The Reading Rover" Gardner for the first quarter-final of Series 70.

Now, it's stats time :

Firstly, No.1 Seed Mark "The Bristol Bombardier" Murray - 8 Wins, 902 Points. (Average: 112.75)
Highest Score: 122 vs. Mike Wilson (7th Game)
Lowest Score: 100 vs. Jim Sales (4th Game)
9's Achieved: 5/7
Total Points/Max/%: 902/1058 (85%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 547/658 (83%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 295/320 (92%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 60/80 (75%)

Secondly, No.8 Seed Andy "The Reading Rover" Gardner - 6 Wins, 580 Points. (Average: 82.86)
Highest Score: 97 vs. Gerry Beirne (3rd Game)
Lowest Score: 74 vs. Martin Howes (2nd Game)
9's Achieved: 1/5
Total Points/Max/%: 580/900 (64%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 375/559 (67%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 175/271 (65%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 30/70 (43%)

Anthony will be around for the recap later.

[Tony Atkins]

Mark is usually good at 3L and there are several ways to 380, so he was unlucky there - and 379 is possible too, it seems...

[Mark Murray]

Thanks Tony..saw 380 3 ways and couldn't remember any of them by the time the clock had stopped! concentrated too hard on trying to find the target

[James Laverty]

1st numbers: (50*7)+(100+75-1/6). Got well after the 30 secs though

[Tony Atkins]

In Round 8, I was shouting for a final A but the I gave Mark a winning 8 anyway and a round of applause.
Would RETINOID have got bigger applause?

LEAKERS my risky alt the round before.

[Tony Atkins]

BOREDOM in the BEDROOM as anagrams of BROOMED! Unlucky Andy.

[Tony Atkins]

Assume you were going to risk HUMPIEST which is there in R12?

[Tony Atkins]

Well played Mark in a hard game (max 120 I think) - I just lost by a second on the conundrum having paced all the way through.

[Mark Murray]

was thinking of both humpiest and chummiest..thanks Tony ..couldnt remember half the words until watching it back

[Steven M. McCann]

You were right not to risk CHUMMIEST Mark, there was only one M!

[Mark Murray]

chump iest (my spell check kept changing it on here to chummiest) lol

[Jack Worsley]

1st numbers: (50*7)+(100+75-1/6). Got well after the 30 secs though

Very nice. I spent a few minutes looking for the solution but still couldn't see it.

Well played Mark, never really in doubt.

ENDNOTE (R4) and AREOLES (R7) for a couple of equallers.

[Jojo Apollo]

Good contest, well done on making the semi-finals, Mark.