c4countdown

After a relaxing break in the Channel Islands, I'm now fully up to speed with the goings on in Countdown, and at this moment in time, tomorrow might be a monumental day.

Current champ (do I have to remind you ) Jack Hurst is on fire with 703 points from his first 6 games. Interestingly, just above him in the rankings are Michael Chadwick and Peter Godwin, who in their 8 games scored 705 and 706 points, respectively, meaning Jack is just a smidge behind them having played 2 games less

As you are probably aware the octochamp points scoring record held by Andrew Hulme is 930 points, meaning that Jack needs 228 more (as well as the 2 wins obviously) to overtake Andrew. Can he do it

I'll be around with the Robinson Recap later on.

James Robinson wrote:As you are probably aware the octochamp points scoring record held by Andrew Hulme is 930 points, meaning that Jack needs 228 more (as well as the 2 wins obviously)

What's the septochamp record total?

Michael Wallace wrote:

James Robinson wrote:As you are probably aware the octochamp points scoring record held by Andrew Hulme is 930 points, meaning that Jack needs 228 more (as well as the 2 wins obviously)

What's the septochamp record total?

After scurrying around, Steve Baines of Series 57 has the record at 758.

James Robinson wrote:

Michael Wallace wrote:

James Robinson wrote:As you are probably aware the octochamp points scoring record held by Andrew Hulme is 930 points, meaning that Jack needs 228 more (as well as the 2 wins obviously)

What's the septochamp record total?

After scurrying around, Steve Baines of Series 57 has the record at 758.

Sexochamp?

Jon O'Neill wrote:Sexochamp?

You called?

Jon O'Neill wrote:Sexochamp?

Do you want me to include or exclude the viscounts from Series 46

CTDAEIFSH was the original selection in that round. It had to be re-filmed.

Josh Hurst wrote:CTDAEIFSH was the original selection in that round. It had to be re-filmed.

Which Round?

Why?

Rhys Benjamin wrote:

Josh Hurst wrote:CTDAEIFSH was the original selection in that round. It had to be re-filmed.

Which Round?

Why?

Can't remember which number the round was, but the one where Alex declared SHAFTED and Jack declared HARDIEST. The reason is because there was a rather rude 8 which you wouldn't have heard of, Rhys. The D cannot be added onto the end if you work it out, otherwise it'd be hyphenated.

Josh Hurst wrote:

Rhys Benjamin wrote:

Josh Hurst wrote:CTDAEIFSH was the original selection in that round. It had to be re-filmed.

Which Round?

Why?

Can't remember which number the round was, but the one where Alex declared SHAFTED and Jack declared HARDIEST. The reason is because there was a rather rude 8 which you wouldn't have heard of, Rhys. The D cannot be added onto the end if you work it out, otherwise it'd be hyphenated.

Try me.

Is he on for a max game here...

Superb stuff, Jack. Is that the second ever Max?

Ben Hunter wrote:Is he on for a max game here...

No, missed PERENTIE in the round where he declared POINTER. 133/134 though, not too shabby at all I'd say.

The 8 was SHITFACE Rhys. It was pretty funny in the studio when it happened. Jack just started laughing pretty much as soon as the last letter came out. Buried his head on the desk, it was awesome.

Crikey, so just 95 for the record?

Michael Wallace wrote:Crikey, so just 95 for the record?

Yikes! It could be smashed.

Jojo Apollo wrote:

Michael Wallace wrote:Crikey, so just 95 for the record?

Yikes! It could be smashed.

No, he plays Ed McCullagh and gets beaten. Suppose that's a spoiler so I should delete it.

63 to beat Eoin, 95 for the record.

Josh Hurst wrote:

Jojo Apollo wrote:

Michael Wallace wrote:Crikey, so just 95 for the record?

Yikes! It could be smashed.

No, he plays Ed McCullagh and gets beaten. Suppose that's a spoiler so I should delete it.

Yesterday you said he lost today's game......

I don't believe you.........

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Yesterday you said he lost today's game......

I don't believe you.........

Well, I was told that Jack lost his first game. I don't believe anything anyone says now.

James Robinson wrote:

Jon O'Neill wrote:Sexochamp?

Do you want me to include or exclude the viscounts from Series 46

Both please.

Someone posted this on my facebook event:

Stuart 'pid' Jones: You have been nominated for the coveted "king of /b/" award.
Thoughts?

I have no idea what this means, is he making some sort of joke at my expense, or am I nominated for an award on some type of forum?

JackHurst wrote:Someone posted this on my facebook event:

Stuart 'pid' Jones: You have been nominated for the coveted "king of /b/" award.
Thoughts?

I have no idea what this means, is he making some sort of joke at my expense, or am I nominated for an award on some type of forum?

That's presumably referring to 4chan, but I've not heard of "king of /b/", but I am not a /b/-tard, so that is perhaps why.

JackHurst wrote:Someone posted this on my facebook event:

Stuart 'pid' Jones: You have been nominated for the coveted "king of /b/" award.
Thoughts?

I have no idea what this means, is he making some sort of joke at my expense, or am I nominated for an award on some type of forum?

Basically it means you're now an internet sensation.

I fucking love openbook. Every day it seems a new person realises that there's "a new Carol".

Ben Hunter wrote:I fucking love openbook. Every day it seems a new person realises that there's "a new Carol".

Oh my god, so true. Makes you wonder just how many people there are out there who still think Carol is on the show. Heaven knows there may even be people who don't know that Whiteley is brown bread.

Yeah PERENTIE for a beater but even with that it was 116-116 at the conundrum and I just couldn't live with Jack's speed on the conundrum so I'm beaten again, twice in a week. Mate, you're fucking awesome and a great bloke to boot. Now do what you deserve to do and smash 95 tomorrow.

Edit: Why were you sucking cock after you'd solved the round 10 numbers game?

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Edit: Why were you sucking cock after you'd solved the round 10 numbers game?

What?

JackHurst wrote:

Kirk Bevins wrote:Edit: Why were you sucking cock after you'd solved the round 10 numbers game?

What?

I think he's referring to your totally uninappropriate tongue-in-cheek motion.

one time? http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=273543

Andrew Hulme wrote:one time? http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=273543

You'll so be hoping for that, won't you, Andrew

Phenomenal again, Jack. Interestingly, that 133 is the highest score on the show when the contestant just got 1 nine-letter word, beating the previous best of 131, got by Tom Hargreaves against Ben Wilson in CoC XI.

A nice appropriate 8 in round 2 was OCTAGONS.

2nd Numbers Alt.: (75 x 8) + (5 x 10) + 3 = 653

Under Gevin scoring (nine points for a nine), Jack's score was 124, which I'm fairly sure is a record. Tom Hargreaves got 122 once (actual score of 131) which I think was the record.

I wondered about HEADFIRST in the HARDIEST round but apparently not, and apparently they weren't even the "real" letters. But I was happy with 90 today, without getting the 9.

Gavin Chipper wrote:Under Gevin scoring (nine points for a nine), Jack's score was 124, which I'm fairly sure is a record. Tom Hargreaves got 122 once (actual score of 131) which I think was the record.

I wondered about HEADFIRST in the HARDIEST round but apparently not, and apparently they weren't even the "real" letters. But I was happy with 90 today, without getting the 9.

Jack, being the smug bastard that he is, also mentioned HEADFIRST^ to Alistair McGowan after he had suggested FISHTRADE^.

It's a bit strange in NODE1 (I don't have NODE2 so can't comment about that) but "head first" is shown as two words in the lead entry, but within the definition it's used in an example as head-first. Not that it matters for Countdown purposes because it's disallowed either way, but what would be the position if it had been spelt headfirst in the definition?

David Roe wrote:It's a bit strange in NODE1 (I don't have NODE2 so can't comment about that) but "head first" is shown as two words in the lead entry, but within the definition it's used in an example as head-first. Not that it matters for Countdown purposes because it's disallowed either way, but what would be the position if it had been spelt headfirst in the definition?

It'd be disallowed. It happens a lot in ODE2r - a word in the definition isn't defined in the dictionary anywhere.

Kirk Bevins wrote: It happens a lot in ODE2r - a word in the definition isn't defined in the dictionary anywhere.

Not really, only twice that we know of.

Also, it says in the intro that the hyphenations given are only examples and not meant to exclude alternatives, so it's probably justified on that basis.

David Roe wrote:It's a bit strange in NODE1 (I don't have NODE2 so can't comment about that) but "head first" is shown as two words in the lead entry, but within the definition it's used in an example as head-first. Not that it matters for Countdown purposes because it's disallowed either way, but what would be the position if it had been spelt headfirst in the definition?

I definitely replied to this. Where's it gone?

Edit - Anyway, what I said was that a hyphen is used because of its position in the sentence - "a head-first slide" whereas you would also say "the slide was head first". But I don't think this would ever turn two words into one without even a hyphen. It would be like calling someone a not-at-all-bald chap, if he had all his hair.

SHITFACE

Absolutely excellent stuff, Jack - hope you destroy the 930 tomorrow

It dawned on me (the day after this show) - what a superb conundrum scramble. 'Ugly' hints at the answer...

Chris Davies wrote:It dawned on me (the day after this show) - what a superb conundrum scramble. 'Ugly' hints at the answer...

Maybe Damian is practising for when he starts doing nine-letter Teatime Teasers.

Chris Davies wrote:It dawned on me (the day after this show) - what a superb conundrum scramble. 'Ugly' hints at the answer...

Cheers Chris,
It's like tossing pearls to swine. Glad to see you're not a pig.

Josh Hurst wrote:The 8 was SHITFACE Rhys. It was pretty funny in the studio when it happened. Jack just started laughing pretty much as soon as the last letter came out. Buried his head on the desk, it was awesome.

A few weeks later, the press get onto it:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a28 ... d.html?rss