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Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:52 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Having recently uploaded two of the more humorous moments from my CD run to YouTube, I searched the forum to see if there was a "Countdown on YouTube / Dailymotion / Vimeo" thread here. Long story short... there is now!
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Here are my two to start the ball rolling:-
Short clip from Episode #6678 [S77E064]
(A creative interpretation of the pronunciation of GIAOUR, made into a 'rap' of sorts.)
https://youtu.be/GYxzK9k-nl4
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Short clip from Episode #6682 [S77E068]
(The first six letters of this 8-max selection featured a dodgy word. 4 people in the studio declared 6s, but none went for this one...)
https://youtu.be/stBUy7cH0aA
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 2:30 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Many people have differing opinions regarding the best game of Countdown of all time...
For me, this is it. No contest:-
Part 1 [
https://youtu.be/oOQxfUXypZI]
Part 2 [
https://youtu.be/yJFf5yCmtLQ]
Part 3 [
https://youtu.be/zkIQKtCRvr4]
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:16 am
by Gavin Chipper
L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:52 pm
Having recently uploaded two of the more humorous moments from my CD run to YouTube, I searched the forum to see if there was a "Countdown on YouTube / Dailymotion / Vimeo" thread here. Long story short... there is now!
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Here are my two to start the ball rolling:-
Short clip from Episode #6678 [S77E064]
(A creative interpretation of the pronunciation of GIAOUR, made into a 'rap' of sorts.)
https://youtu.be/GYxzK9k-nl4
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Short clip from Episode #6682 [S77E068]
(The first six letters of this 8-max selection featured a dodgy word. 4 people in the studio declared 6s, but none went for this one...)
https://youtu.be/stBUy7cH0aA
Did you make them yourself?
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 1:25 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:16 am
Did you make them yourself?
Yes. I'm a bit of a YouTube / video-editing hobbyist.
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:25 am
by Jason William Larsen
You are Eoin Jackson!
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 4:05 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Ta-dah!
Wait till you find out who Spike Guthrie, Susan Morton, Sympathetic Jones and Gavin Chipper really are... then you will be truly stunned!
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 2:37 pm
by Jason William Larsen
I know who Gavin Chipper is, but who is Sympatico Jones?
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:11 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Just made another video based on my shows from 3 years ago:-
https://youtu.be/x6UZFNauHSQ
This video contains 30 of my best letters rounds, and the cumulative maximum score is 250pts.
Play along and see how much of the max you can secure...
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:59 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Apto sign-up Tutorial, not that anyone on this forum needs it...
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:29 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
The
2nd video in my new series on "Countdown tutorials" has just gone online...
Possibly a little more entertaining than the first as it features a full 15R walkthrough.
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:30 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
There are more of these now...
Episode #2.5 - Challenge
Episode #3 - Letters
Episode #4 - Numbers
The numbers one went online 5mins ago, and features input from Apterites Hazel Drury and Dan Byrom, and also a (very) brief homage to Apto creator, Charlie Reams.
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:05 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
A Countdown of Irish Octochamps why not!
(This is part 1 of a 3-part series.)
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:59 am
by Noel Mc
Fingers crossed for part two
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:53 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Noel Mc wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:59 am
Fingers crossed for part two
Part 2 is going to be good!!!
Will upload it not next Monday, but the Monday after.
I tried to find as much actual TV footage of players doing their thang as possible... but it was very very hard to find. For most contestants there is nowt.
In video 1, some footage of Mark on Catsdown was included, but it got the entire video copyright struck and blocked, so I was forced to trim out that segment for the video to be publicly viewable.
Thankfully normal Countdown aren't quite as prickish about copyright issues, so those clips are ok to use.
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:30 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Part 2: It's grim up north!
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:11 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
The third part of the "
Irish Countdowners" trilogy is online now.
Potential future Octochamps.
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:44 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Tom Rocks Maths Appeal Does Countdown
Featuring Kai Laddiman and James Martin!
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 2:40 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
I have started work on a directory of "Countdown related content on YouTube"
The embryonic draft of it can be seen here:-
https://www.facebook.com/notes/countdow ... 915687483/
Any suggestions of other channels worth adding, received gratefully.
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:35 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Countdown tutorial on prefixes and suffixes just uploaded.
(Thanks to Maria Chandler for her contribution.)
https://youtu.be/FDpZVlafQMQ
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:17 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 2:05 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
"Essential 9s: Volume #1" has finally landed!
Enjoy!
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:34 am
by L'oisleatch McGraw
Here ya go!
It is
a play-along video, showing my worst TV misses.
101pts available, of which I scored 13 (lucky for some)
Can you do any better?
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:36 pm
by L'oisleatch McGraw
The
best video ever made about the Countdown numbers game has landed.
And -in a shock twist- it has no Apterite involvement whatsoever!
Enjoy!
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:03 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Yes, it's very good. Some people in our community have done calculations on solvability etc. as well. I might see if I can dig some of that out.
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:25 pm
by Gavin Chipper
This thread has got some very good stuff. Geezer was talking about number of solutions with different large numbers (Aegilops essentially) and according to
this post the "best" 4 numbers are 59, 83, 93, 97 and the "worst" are 12, 16, 18, 24.
Edit - I think Dave Ricesky was actually Sam Cappleman-Lynes by the way. I don't know why people don't stick to their real names.
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:57 pm
by Johnny Canuck
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:25 pmI don't know why people don't stick to their real names.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOImSuV6aQo
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 10:14 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Re: Countdown on YouTube [etc.]
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:05 am
by Dame Eadie
