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Well I've enjoyed organising different types of tournaments over the last three years, Michael's corny pencils and badges may yet emerge as a staple feature of summers to come, and it's amazing to think that CoLin in 2011 will be the seventh gathering in Lincoln.
Has anyone else thought about taking the helm? What kind of event would you run?
Has anyone else thought about taking the helm? What kind of event would you run?
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I've heard that following a suggestion from Mike Brown, the Edinburgh Countdown Club people are thinking of possibly running a CO-event in Edinburgh next year (CO-EDI?). Still just an idea at this stage though I think.
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I've always thought of hosting one.
I originally was planning hosting it in the Galpharm Stadium (that's the home of Huddersfield Town, in case you don't know), but Huddersfield isn't necessarily te best place to get to, so instead a thought was to hold it in Leeds, so as pun on words, I decided to call it CO-Hud-in-Lee (CO-Headingley )
The Edinburgh idea sounds cool though, I've only been to Scotland once and that was 20 years ago, when I was 2, so my memory of it is non-existent.
I originally was planning hosting it in the Galpharm Stadium (that's the home of Huddersfield Town, in case you don't know), but Huddersfield isn't necessarily te best place to get to, so instead a thought was to hold it in Leeds, so as pun on words, I decided to call it CO-Hud-in-Lee (CO-Headingley )
The Edinburgh idea sounds cool though, I've only been to Scotland once and that was 20 years ago, when I was 2, so my memory of it is non-existent.
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Oi.Jeff Clayton wrote:Michael's corny pencils and badges
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VARSITY COUNTDOWN (would be a bit one sided tho)
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QUB?JackHurst wrote:VARSITY COUNTDOWN (would be a bit one sided tho)
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On the back of Kai's tournament online I've had my own idea. I've submitted plans etc, but I'm not so sure...
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Startin'?Michael Wallace wrote:Oi.Jeff Clayton wrote:Michael's corny pencils and badges
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CountFast would be unreal
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Edward McCullagh wrote:CountFast would be unreal
You already have Holden and Gallen in the vicinity.
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I have thought about it, but while COLIN is going strong in the vicinity, there's not much point. I'd rather put my efforts into trying to co-ordinate a CO-EDI with Nita, I think.
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It would be good to get the land north of the wall on the circuit, along with others anywhere else of course. It does feel like Co-events are a bit East Midlands-centric. How did the Scrabble circuit get to be so big?
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CO-events are all up north. Bring on CoBrig!
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Leicester and Nottingham aren't in the north; they're in the midlands.Kai Laddiman wrote:CO-events are all up north. Bring on CoBrig!
Lincoln's the only northern one I can think of.
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Anything higher than Kent is northern.Howard Somerset wrote:Leicester and Nottingham aren't in the north; they're in the midlands.Kai Laddiman wrote:CO-events are all up north. Bring on CoBrig!
Lincoln's the only northern one I can think of.
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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It ironically started out with large unified tournaments held either in London or in central England.Jeff Clayton wrote:How did the Scrabble circuit get to be so big?
http://www.absp.org.uk/results/resultsearly.html Here are the very earliest rated tournaments. The location of the oldest non-BMSC? Durham.
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CO-events are all down south. Bring on CoHull!Kai Laddiman wrote:CO-events are all up north. Bring on CoBrig!
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IAWTP on both counts.JackHurst wrote:VARSITY COUNTDOWN (would be a bit one sided tho)
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That could stimulate the local economy massively.Ryan Taylor wrote:Bring on CoHull!
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I guess there's always a first time for describing Ryan's penis as 'the local economy'.Jeff Clayton wrote:That could stimulate the local economy massively.Ryan Taylor wrote:Bring on CoHull!
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Matt Morrison wrote:I guess there's always a first time for describing Ryan's penis as 'the local economy'.Jeff Clayton wrote:That could stimulate the local economy massively.Ryan Taylor wrote:Bring on CoHull!
That would be microeconomic theory.
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rofl
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I'd go. Would anyone come to CorkDown?Edward McCullagh wrote:CountFast would be unreal
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What if there's free beer?
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Right well I can't guarantee the free beer but I'll definitely shout you a pint! In all seriousness though, I have already been on to Charlie about this and my vision would be of an apterous lan staged tournament, where games could be watched on a screen. I've got the perfect venue in mind where we could have a band playing afterwards or something (would be cool to have someone from here playing) and I think I'd be able to sort out enough computers on loan to enable it to happen. I also work at a youth hostel so I could arrange cheap, nice accomodation. I know not many people may be able to travel, but I would hope that if half a dozen or so of our Irish contingent were able to make it down and I could rope a dozen or so locals into practicing on apterous in advance, we could have a great Cork Down. If 5 or 6 people express a serious interest I'm more than willing to get the ball rolling. I suppose I should maybe start a topic on this later. Encourage me!
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This would be sick, but it sounds very very ambitious. I couldn't express a serious interest in going to another country for Countdown.Andy Wilson wrote:Right well I can't guarantee the free beer but I'll definitely shout you a pint! In all seriousness though, I have already been on to Charlie about this and my vision would be of an apterous lan staged tournament, where games could be watched on a screen. I've got the perfect venue in mind where we could have a band playing afterwards or something (would be cool to have someone from here playing) and I think I'd be able to sort out enough computers on loan to enable it to happen. I also work at a youth hostel so I could arrange cheap, nice accomodation. I know not many people may be able to travel, but I would hope that if half a dozen or so of our Irish contingent were able to make it down and I could rope a dozen or so locals into practicing on apterous in advance, we could have a great Cork Down. If 5 or 6 people express a serious interest I'm more than willing to get the ball rolling. I suppose I should maybe start a topic on this later. Encourage me!
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Same. I'd absolutely love to get involved. But I'm just so skint at the moment, it would entirely depend on Ryanair being or not being cunts about the whole thing.Jon O'Neill wrote:This would be sick, but it sounds very very ambitious. I couldn't express a serious interest in going to another country for Countdown.Andy Wilson wrote:Right well I can't guarantee the free beer but I'll definitely shout you a pint! In all seriousness though, I have already been on to Charlie about this and my vision would be of an apterous lan staged tournament, where games could be watched on a screen. I've got the perfect venue in mind where we could have a band playing afterwards or something (would be cool to have someone from here playing) and I think I'd be able to sort out enough computers on loan to enable it to happen. I also work at a youth hostel so I could arrange cheap, nice accomodation. I know not many people may be able to travel, but I would hope that if half a dozen or so of our Irish contingent were able to make it down and I could rope a dozen or so locals into practicing on apterous in advance, we could have a great Cork Down. If 5 or 6 people express a serious interest I'm more than willing to get the ball rolling. I suppose I should maybe start a topic on this later. Encourage me!
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Understandable. Flights could be very cheap (£6 return flights for January available there at the moment) and you wouldn't just be coming to another country for countdown, you'd be coming to another country because of countdown, for an awesome time! But yeah, it is pretty ambitious.
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Add on the hidden taxes/charges and it's a lot dearer.Andy Wilson wrote:Understandable. Flights could be very cheap (£6 return flights for January available there at the moment) and you wouldn't just be coming to another country for countdown, you'd be coming to another country because of countdown, for an awesome time! But yeah, it is pretty ambitious.
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Aye aye - still, probably cheaper than a train from Leeds to Manchester though right?