Spoilers for Tuesday 19th October 2021 (Series 84, Preliminary 81)

[Martin Hurst]

Wowzers - did that ending just happen? Drama!

[Tom S]

Fair decision but tough on Andrew. Hope he gets another chance soon. Standard has been strong lately- lots of octo-potential players have been missing out on doing so...

[Gavin Chipper]

I think he was probably winging it.

[Ryan Lam]

That was a very, very painful loss for Andrew there. Unbelievable and you can't help but feel anything else than being sorry for losing out by just that much

[Rhys Benjamin]

Jeremy Paxman is much better at Rachel Riley on this topic of timing the player out - he says "come on"/"let's have it", but Rachel doesn't really give that warning, and just goes "sorry, that's too long".

[Adam Dexter]

Jeremy Paxman is much better at Rachel Riley on this topic of timing the player out - he says "come on"/"let's have it", but Rachel doesn't really give that warning, and just goes "sorry, that's too long".

There is a big difference, however. In UC, warnings are given as this is conferring time. In CD, your conferring time is with yourself in the 30 secs - once you have made your declaration, you should not be fannying about trying to fudge your way to it.

[Philip A]

What Adam said. No two formats are the same. Apples V Oranges!

[Toby McDonald]

AREOLATE in R13

[Fiona T]

I think he was probably winging it.

My suspicion is that he'd miscalc'ed 70x4 so was expecting something other than a -9 at the end, and was still in wtf mode when the 280 came out.

[Adam Latchford]

Feel bad for challenger there but it was a fair decision to disallow. I suspect he saw it very last second and with it being such a pressure spot he just couldn't quite remember how he did it.
But fair play to the champ for keeping his composure and an excellent conundrum spot!

[Howie Myers]

r1: MISLAID and MISDIAL
r4: DOGMAS
r8: UNMISTED