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Welcome Rachel. Hope you enjoy the site!


Thanks!



I don't think it is arbitrary, as I think there must be a limit for each series for scheduling purposes, but the episode numbers roughly started increasing about a year or two ago on average.



It's basically half a year per series isn't ...

Hi everyone, my name's Rachel, I'm a new-ish countdown enthusiast from Australia :)

I need some help understanding the format of each series- how many heats are there? How do they decide who gets into the finals? etc.



Hi Rachel, welcome :)

On average there about 100 heats in a series ...

Hi everyone, my name's Rachel, I'm a new-ish countdown enthusiast from Australia

I need some help understanding the format of each series- how many heats are there? How do they decide who gets into the finals? etc.