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- Sat May 04, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4c errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3367
Re: c4c errors
http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewonline.php?sg=1&sk=b&sd=d You can see what the 'guests' are up to. It is a bit odd. Dunno if it displays IP addresses for admins... I can't see IP addresses of non-logged-in users, but I'm a "global moderator" rather than an "admin". Perh...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Highest attendance for a Co-Event
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1706
Re: Highest attendance for a Co-Event
Found it - CO:LON 2017 has the record with 68 players. CO:LON 2018 had 67 and CO:LON 2019 had 65. Besides those events, I can't think of any others that got higher than the low-to-mid 50s. The recent Reading event had 53 but I don't think all of them were there at the same time. One of the more rece...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Highest attendance for a Co-Event
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1706
Re: Highest attendance for a Co-Event
I'm playing in a scrabble tournament with over 160 entrants , so I was interested in what was the biggest attendance for a Countdown event ? Jen's CO:LON events from 2017-2019 consistently hit the high 60s, and I'm pretty certain that no other co-event has ever had that many people. I think the hig...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1780515
Re: Politics in General
Fast forward a few years, and David Harewood says go for it ! Blackface in Shakespeare was much like men playing women's parts as women wernt allowed to act in those days and presumably black actors were not in abundance. So I kinda disagree with blackface in this context but RDJ using blackface in...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26379
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
After discussion with a number of players at lunchtime, we decided to drop a round - we could have squeezed in 6 before the final, but it would have been pretty intense with no real breaks between 4 back to back games. As it was, 5 games fitted nicely, the pace felt a bit more relaxed, and the fina...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2846
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
Could the same not happen anyway in the non-replay? How do they decide where to have the first match? Couldn't that be at Compton Pauncefoot Rovers' home stadium? Is it the home fixture or the away fixture that most benefits the smaller team? In the FA Cup, for most of the early rounds, the ticket ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2846
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
I'm surprised replays have survived this long since penalty shootouts were invented in the 1970s. Surely there are enough headaches involved in organising the FA Cup without giving every match a second "maybe" match, which nobody knows whether it will be played or not until after the firs...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2846
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
I'm surprised replays have survived this long since penalty shootouts were invented in the 1970s. Surely there are enough headaches involved in organising the FA Cup without giving every match a second "maybe" match, which nobody knows whether it will be played or not until after the first...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:OX - 15th June 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16702
Re: CO:OX - 15th June 2024
However, to put my own little spin on it, we will then have two 9-round Bristol-style semi-finals (1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd) played simultaneously to decide who will contest the 15-round final. At the same time, everyone else will get to play one last game, against the person next to them in the standi...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:OX - 15th June 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16702
Re: CO:OX - 15th June 2024
However, to put my own little spin on it, we will then have two 9-round Bristol-style semi-finals (1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd) played simultaneously to decide who will contest the 15-round final. How is 3rd/4th place decided? Do the losing semi-finalists play along with the final as a 3rd/4th place playo...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26379
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
Old CoRea used to have five 15-rounders and a final, with a typical attendance of less than half what this one's getting. The FOCAL Finals have seven games but they're 9-rounders. I'm not aware of any event ever fitting in seven 15-rounders and a final (even six is a lot), so colour me astonished if...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Can all CO-event c4c threads have the title of the top post edited to include the date please? Edit - Reading and Sheffield are currently the only ones that do this. So not London, Birmingham, Durham and Oxford (though Oxford has the month). This is obviously a good idea, and to me seems such an un...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Atropine 1.2.3
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2318
Re: Atropine 1.2.3
Nice work Graeme! Does this mean for a single tournament, it is now possible to upload results from separate machines? Use case: You are at a Bristol style event with 2N players, and you want to minimize waiting time between rounds by having 2 (or more) people inputting results. No. The only change...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Atropine 1.2.3
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2318
Atropine 1.2.3
If you're involved in the running of co-events, this is likely to be of interest to you. If you aren't, it's less likely. Version 1.2.3 of everyone's favourite Python-based co-event administration tool is out now. It can be found at the usual place: https://greem.uk/atropine/ New features since last...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
If you are a host who includes either 14-rounders or division (people who are lovely)-read the room. Ditch them Agree. I can take or leave 14-rounders - they're not my favourite, and I'm not sure what benefits they have that 15 rounders don't, but whatever, I'll play them without much gripe. The pl...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
-For one, use Draw Against Someone On Same Number Of Wins (the 'Geneva' method). I've just implemented this for the next release of Atropine, because apparently this is what I get up to during the Easter weekend. I guess the question wasn't about method but more about outcome. What's better for R3 ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
On a separate note about smaller events. They should count, in full. It's still a CoEvent. Agree. Different day, different competition, and in many cases a different venue. But having two events in one go seems a bit of a "hack" allowing people to rack up two lots of points while making j...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Should I be worried?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4560
Re: Should I be worried?
I've opened an Apterous ticket. It seems strange to raise tickets on Apterous for things related to C4C, but precedent exists.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Should I be worried?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4560
Re: Should I be worried?
c4countdown.co.uk still uses unencrypted HTTP rather than HTTPS. I suspect this has always been the case and we've only just noticed.
I think C4C ought to have HTTPS and an SSL certificate like Apterous and most other websites do nowadays. AFAIK Charlie controls the domain so only he can set that up.
I think C4C ought to have HTTPS and an SSL certificate like Apterous and most other websites do nowadays. AFAIK Charlie controls the domain so only he can set that up.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
Re: Ask Graeme?
Obviously we know about Maus's record for the shortest time to solve all 8 conundrums, but what is the record for 7/7, 6/6, 5/5, etc.? (And I suppose, 9/9, 10/10, etc., if it has been done) I've noticed Matthew Jenkins managed to solve 4/4 in 8.25, which must be up there? People who solved all the ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
Re: Ask Graeme?
In today's episode a contestant scored points by declaring 99 in a numbers round. Has this ever happened before? No. That's the first time a player has scored points with a declaration of less than 100. At the other end, there have been 22 scoring declarations of 1000, but only one scoring declarat...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
Re: Ask Graeme?
Has anyone ever won a game without making a declaration in any of the numbers rounds? (question inspired by Monday's game in which Caroline only declared in 1 of the 4 rounds) Obviously this happened quite a few times in the 9-round format when there were only two numbers rounds, but if we restrict...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
Re: Ask Graeme?
Apropos of nothing, what is the smallest number vowels ever picked by an Octochamp across their entire octorun? Has anyone managed a perfect 120? In the modern 15-rounder, an octochamp picks 40 letters rounds, so the number of vowels they pick will be between 120 and 200. In the old 15-rounder, C1 ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
Re: Ask Graeme?
Since it's origin up to Series 87, what's the percentage of contestants/finalists/champions that are Apterites? Curious of how much Apterous has had an absolute grasp on the community? I can't answer all of this one because there's no way to know, for every contestant, whether they actually played ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
I'm curious to hear from hosts (and Graeme) if atropine had a feature where you can mark a player as a an inexperienced/slow hosts and for R1 the draw avoid clustering such players together do you think it would help to keep things running smoothly? Funny you should mention this, because I've alrea...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
I don't tend to really play along as host. I'll glance at the letters and might spend a few seconds on the numbers but if I don't solve it I leave it to watch the time. Also has this been said - as host, don't write the letters down on the scoresheet until the time starts. You don't need to interru...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22035
Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
But a great weekend all round, and it was good to get access to the rugby club place on the Saturday night. Though I think they could make their door look more like a door you're supposed to go in through rather than some back door to the dungeon. Yes, I think the social club was an improvement. I ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Following from this post ... If I had one small suggestion, it would be that if there are table numbers, it's best to have them explicitly labelled rather than people having to infer them from the set numbers on the lids of the letters/numbers boxes, which are generally harder to find with the lids ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22035
Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
Yeah thanks again Ben. I'll second everything GC said. Much better atmosphere at the social club than the fox and hounds, but I don't think we'd even be able to describe the food as "ok" this time I didn't eat at the social club. Are you saying the food there was better than OK or worse t...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-event dictionary
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6826
Re: Co-event dictionary
I was just alerted to this thread on Apterous: https://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=6867 I also agree with the sentiment that Co-Events should be played with the most up to date dictionaries available, however the practicalities of asking for this on apterous at 7 days notice are very qu...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 59839
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
The generations like Gen X, millennials etc., are arbitrary, confusing and ultimately just stupid. It makes no real sense to say that you are in the same generation as someone because you fall the right side of some arbitrary boundary. You might be in a "different generation" to someone b...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:24 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-event lunch arrangements
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6083
Re: Co-event lunch arrangements
I prefer option 5 - just buy or take your own. It's really rare for an event not to be within easy walking distance of a supermarket or similar sandwich-vending emporium. The problem with options 3 and 4 is that in the past people have gone to a cafe or pub for lunch and got stuck there waiting ages...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 1:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 59839
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
The whole digitisation of services has gone too far, and is really just the result of high-ups being lazy and not wanting to do any work or employ anyone. This applies to things such as car parks where you have to pay using your phone, anywhere that insists you download an app in order to use a ser...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3171
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
Did its reintroduction coincide with the new numbers generator? If you mean the "new" display, that came after the old 7-segment one, no. That was introduced at the same time Countdown moved from Granada to MediaCity in 2013 . It's possible that 100 became a valid target at this point and...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3171
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
Is there an Ask Graeme here? When there were two numbers games per show you'd expect it to come up every 450 shows on average - and up to 1996 it did. Now you'd expect it to come up every 225 shows, and it doesn't. Not even close. If we look at all episodes since 100 appeared as a target in 2016, t...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3171
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
100 has come up several times as a target. The whole 101 thing is a myth. Only a really long time ago and in relatively recent history. Here are all the times 100 has appeared as a target... https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_877 (1989) https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_1268 (1992) https://wiki.apte...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 166910
Re: You Are The Ref
You're at a co:event. This is a co:event. It's not Countdown. It's not apterous. It's a co:event. So you're at a co:event and it's Bristol style. Conundrum time. It's a crucial conundrum. Pretty important game in the context of the day too. Both players buzz at around about the same time, although ...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
It's an interesting suggestion but I don't remember making it, so I don't think I can take the credit for it.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:24 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
it's important that the small numbers are revealed before the larges. Particularly in 4 large this distinction is significant. 100% agreed. I also have a strong preference for larges always being on the left, as that's the canonical way of seeing them, and I never write them down. Frankly, it's an ...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:52 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
On writing the numbers down, how much time should there be and when does it become "extra"? It can be quite awkward watching the numbers come up quickly and then having to write them down (backwards, because of the weird Countdown tradition from decades on the television) and a bit of tim...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:43 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
1) Extra Time for Writing Numbers Down: Should a player be given considerable extra time to write the numbers down before revealing the target? This deviation from the show's format happened for Tim on Saturday. It inadvertently provides extra thinking time for everyone. In games like 6 small, this...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:26 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Written as a separate post as I think this one's important enough to deserve it. I was disappointed to hear recently that someone who used to come to events no longer does, because of certain people and their continued disrespect of boundaries. It's a tiny minority, but it's always the same men's na...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 31098
Co-Event Suggestion Box
Here's a thread for everyone's suggestions on how co-events could be improved. Naturally people normally post these in the thread corresponding to the most recent co-event, because the improvement they thought of is fresh in their mind. However, to avoid these looking like criticisms of one specific...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20297
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
*Graeme Cole once said that in his experience it's the onion, but I think he must hang out with a statistically anomalous bunch of people. Last night I went for a curry with seven other people from this social group, and guess what, the onions got used up first. Basically you're calling this forum ...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 5:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Letter Shuffling Algorithms
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9010
Re: Letter Shuffling Algorithms
Bumping this - the tool that was used for hosting the finals yesterday implemented "algorithm 2" as outlined by Jack (although with 9 or 15 rounders (code bugs excepted!) we're never going to get near the end of the pack so algorithm 1 is probably fine!) I think it felt about right - ther...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11030
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
I was going to say the exact same thing. Being a contestant on a TV show, fun though it is, is not worth giving up your job for.
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33909
Re: The Countdown Android App is now out!
Yesterday, Phil Stanton mentioned to me that when the app asks you to pick your numbers, the "Random" button never picks 6 small. I can reproduce this. I've just played four 10xN games, pressing the Random pick button every time, and in 40 numbers rounds I didn't get a single 6 small. This...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:25 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 59839
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
What, you never use the words "him", "her" or "them" to refer to someone?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:40 pm I will refer to people by their chosen name and not their pronouns
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20297
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
Unfortunately the venue have set a capacity which we've met (actually we went over and have had to reject a couple). However Beachy has made alternate meal plans so worth messaging him. Ofc anyone else is welcome to join us for the karaoke (up until 10pm) Ok no worries cheers for the info Hey Dan. ...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 60954
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Joasia Zakrzewski banned for 12 months for using car in race Stories like this are always hilarious, but what makes this especially noteworthy is she still only came third. Presumably this was to the great amusement of the two who finished ahead of her, who now brag about having beaten every other ...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
Re: Ask Graeme?
Do you have a quick way to produce a list of teapot owners, who won their first game by <10 points, and solved one of the numbers rounds in the same way as their opponent after declaring second? https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/1710798417805394113?t=SmwfDZeMD38Yg7KOX8EnYw&s=19 Skipping ahead...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 166910
Re: You Are The Ref
C2 leads C1 by 15 points going into the last letters game. C1 declares a 9. C2 then declares a risky 9. C1's word is just the letters spelt out as they are in the selection and disallowed. C2's word is a valid 8 with an S on the end - plausible but disallowed. The lead remains at 15 points. C1 then...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 87615
Re: Joke Items
"Click and collect". What's the point of it? Who's using it? There are two main ways to buy something. You could go to an actual bricks-and-mortar shop, and get it the same day but have the inconvenience of having to go all the way to the shop. Alternatively, you could order it from a webs...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:11 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 11th September 2023 (Series 88, Heat 52)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1298
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 15th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 33)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4018
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 15th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 33)
Matey taking the piss. Suggest the wiki write-up kept to the minimum - don't give him the attention he's clearly after. What a tosser. I've seen a couple of people suggest this was a deliberately low score to seek attention, but what makes you so sure of that? Having watched the episode, all I can ...
- Thu Jul 27, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6620
Re: Big Ben
Incredible that they put so much effort into reproducing Big Ben's iconic clock face, then they put a 7 in the 6 position.
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: What is your preferred format for co-events?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2291
Re: What is your preferred format for co-events?
I do get why some people like the divisions format as more people can win prizes not just those at the top of the tree, but IMO the big problem with the divisions format is that your final position is largely determined by how you perform solely in the first half of the day. Take the recent CO:NUT ...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 6:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
Re: Ask Graeme?
What are the chances of a 'Golden Game', on Apto or elsewhere? Standard 15-player finds a nine in each round, along with all numbers, and the con. This hypothetical game would have a score of 230. Statisically, what are the chances? I imagine there's not a lot, but is there anything the player coul...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 753232
Re: Ask Graeme?
Rita Meston scored in all 10 letters rounds on 14th March 2023, despite only finding the longest available word in two of them. Has anyone ever scored in every letters round without finding any maxes in the 15-round era? The following seven players have all played a modern 15-rounder in which they ...