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Rhys Benjamin

Or just get a close family member to go on the show...

(If you're reading this, dad...)

Rhys Benjamin

IMPLORES as an equaller in R7.

Rhys Benjamin

I believe the official rule is no, but then again there are several returnees in recent years, so much so that it has de facto become such a rule. I would personally leave at least 15-20 years between appearances, and I am very surprised Zarte was allowed back on.

Rhys Benjamin

I also really enjoyed these at the time, not least because of the respect I have for Geoff Marshall, one of the contestants, in the transport world. Geoff, I have to say, is quite a divisive figure amongst some so this series didn't particularly go down well with some of my friends who have a grudge...

Rhys Benjamin

I'm not a huge fan of structuring the draw so that same-series players are kept apart. Re-drawing that person would be far better. Zarte vs Paul in the first round is tough shit, but that's just the way the cookie crumbles. COC10 aside (when K Ogilvie and S Mearns had to be given byes because they o...

Rhys Benjamin

Do you even need to have a third person for Edinburgh-style? I don't see why that's a necessity and why it can't be done between two? Technically you don't but you'd need to draw each round separately , and the event would only be as fast as your slowest table. This has been known to be a hassle at...

Rhys Benjamin

Do you even need to have a third person for Edinburgh-style? I don't see why that's a necessity and why it can't be done between two?

Rhys Benjamin

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 22, 2018 9:27 am

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:23 am
Whilst I actually remember (and can't quite believe it hasn't come up) - Annie Humphries, was she invited?
I think she was invited but declined.

Yeah, that's what I'm asking. Did she say no, or was she never asked? Either way, shame.

Rhys Benjamin

Whilst I actually remember (and can't quite believe it hasn't come up) - Annie Humphries, was she invited?

Rhys Benjamin

I will probably give it some more detailed thought over the next few months, but a date I wanted to work towards was late 2019 or maybe early 2020. I know that the Amex stadium hire rooms out (since it's where I took my exams in my first year at University) but I haven't been able to find anything i...

Rhys Benjamin

Essentially the question was, what if what's shown on TV isn't the same as what happens in the studio. C1 and C2 are level going into the conundrum. Nobody gets it. They're given a tiebreak, and C1 gets it. The first conundrum is cut out for some reason. Does it count as a tiebreak? I think this is...

Rhys Benjamin

Q: in event of a TB which is cut from broadcast (such as my first show), will this go down as a margin of 10 or a TB?

(I scored 7 on the last numbers to tie at 68-68, and we missed two conundrums, both of which - both - were cut, giving the impression my GADWINNER solve was not a TB.)

Rhys Benjamin

I've always wanted to host a Co-event, but have no idea as to the overheads (which can vary, having looked around Brighton a little), the "best" format to use (Edinburgh? Bristol? QFs or just GF? Group and knockout?), how much organisation needs to go into the event, how many to expect (and thus how...

Rhys Benjamin

To be honest, I can see both points of view here. Not that that helps.

Rhys Benjamin

I did initially think of that but that wouldn't explain why the title sequence is "correct".

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU3VuZyCExQ

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Something that struck me recently watching a few episodes on YouTube from the mid-90s is that the clock music was occasionally a quarter-tone too low. It’s most notable on the 1500th episode special (ep 1523, to be precise).

How did this happen?

Rhys Benjamin

I’m going to say something very controversial here. Very controversial.

Top 5 Bond themes (exc. the main theme):
5 Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey)
4 Skyfall (Adele)
3 For Your Eyes Only (Sheena Easton)
2 Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
1 GoldenEye (Tina Turner)

Rhys Benjamin

Haven’t noticed that “apply now!” ad before... desperate?

Rhys Benjamin

I find it very odd how SMEARING and FAILURES came out, almost like it was set up...

Rhys Benjamin

Controversy in the Countdown studio as Mr Zarte Siempre deliberately lost his crucial conundrum today so as to gain a perfect score in his predictions competition...

I'll take a strictly mathematical approach to this, so my predictions won't be in for a while.

Rhys Benjamin

It's down again.

Rhys Benjamin

It's a real shame Scott Mearns was never invited back for the 30BC.

Rhys Benjamin

I dreamt that Dylan Taylor was the Tory candidate in my constituency at the next general election. What happened next is not appropriate for this board.

Rhys Benjamin

Well it's really one-and-a-half syllables, isn't it? I mean, a word like "milk" is clearly not one syllable, but neither is it a full two either.

Rhys Benjamin

I should maybe put on record that I don’t really have a problem with Susie deciding these as long as she is consistent. Especially now that she is the only lexicographer and it’s no longer as whimsical as it was in the old days (SCREES being an example: initially disallowed by Damian as lex but over...

Rhys Benjamin

It seems so. It's also invalid on Apterous, which surprises me, since you'd expect Apterous to more rigidly follow the rules For the avoidance of doubt in future shows, we've decided from now on that ALL 1-syllable adjectives can be extended with -er and -est, even though it'll be difficult to unde...

Rhys Benjamin

This is a good summary of DOND sequence-gate.

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The only one reservation is that the uptake could well be ridiculously large. If it's open to any and all televised contestants you could well end up at a figure approaching 4,000. I assume you've changed your tune on drugs, because there's no way anyone is actually this fucking dumb. Glad to see y...

Rhys Benjamin

The only one reservation is that the uptake could well be ridiculously large. If it's open to any and all televised contestants you could well end up at a figure approaching 4,000.

Rhys Benjamin

So if it doesn't make sense, does that mean that -er and -est is decided on a whim by Susie?

Rhys Benjamin

SONDAGE as a DC beater in R2.

Rhys Benjamin

I don't follow Rhys - can you explain? Taking cue from Graeme, I'm going to a logical extreme here, but if you imagine the best player in the history of the show appears near the end of a series and has won 7 games, they may choose to play badly in their 8th prelim and finish 6th in the series. The...

Rhys Benjamin

The arguments about not having a random draw could end up with some people deliberately throwing their last prelim in their original series if they want to play the long game. I don't follow Rhys - can you explain? Taking cue from Graeme, I'm going to a logical extreme here, but if you imagine the ...

Rhys Benjamin

There's been a spate of misdeclarations recently. How odd.

Rhys Benjamin

Ouch. Would really not like to call that. Zarte's run to the final looks particularly difficult. I could see Matthew Tassier going all the way from that draw... The arguments about not having a random draw could end up with some people deliberately throwing their last prelim in their original series...

Rhys Benjamin

Amazed Round 1 didn't get a giggle when the first six letters were PENQIS...

Rhys Benjamin

Are there not 899 targets? Shouldn't that be 121,001,804 possible numbers games then?

Now someone merely just has to memorise all of them...

Rhys Benjamin

I wonder if the length of the series has any effect on how many people from that series get invited? Series 77 ran for 116 prelims, for example, whereas Series 74 ran for 85. I don't know who has and hasn't been invited, but I do hope Annie Humphries was/is invited back. I'm probably going to word ...

Rhys Benjamin

I wonder if the length of the series has any effect on how many people from that series get invited? Series 77 ran for 116 prelims, for example, whereas Series 74 ran for 85. I don't know who has and hasn't been invited, but I do hope Annie Humphries was/is invited back. I'm probably going to word t...

Rhys Benjamin

The stop sign was quite difficult, really. Hexagon really threw me. I’m not a huge fan of the two major changes. And what really annoys me is how the music cues are slightly changed from the original (for example, when the contestant gets the £1,000 question right, when the lights go back down the £...

Rhys Benjamin

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue May 08, 2018 4:12 pm

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Tue May 08, 2018 2:44 pm
my money's on an each-way bet for Sweden, whose song, "Dance You Off", is my favourite this year.
I heard Abba are making a comeback so I presume this is their entry.

Alas, no. It’s relative unknown Benjamin Ingrosso.

Rhys Benjamin

(Where's Martin Bishop gone these days?) SuRie was a backing singer for Belgium in 2015 and 2017, so she has loads of Eurovision experience (and, it would seem, has sung "Rhythm Inside" (Belgium 2015) at every opportunity). Hot favourite until last night was Israel, but Cyprus (!) has now overtaken ...

Rhys Benjamin

84 points by Round 9. This may sound a bit odd, but from that position 123 could well be considered somewhat... disappointing, for want of a better word...

Rhys Benjamin

^^ Good post. Seconded. Thirded. This hits worryingly close to home for me, with the guy being in pretty much the exact life position that I'm in :( RIP James Fourthed. To some extent, the fact this is a very real problem being faced - and all-too-often dismissed - by many. I believe suicide is the...

Rhys Benjamin

No comment.

Rhys Benjamin

I was in seethe mode when I first saw this article. Maybe it was something to do with the dismissive tone of the article, the completely over the top criticism of Rachel Riley (far better than Carol Vorderman in terms of both Maths ability and personality) or the signalling out of Martin Lewis (his...

Rhys Benjamin

Nick comes across very well in the studio and does engage very well with the contestants in the studio, but I'll admit that this is sometimes misconstrued as favouritism on TV. It didn't help when I was there that the recording went on until 11pm due to a number of reasons, and by that stage everyon...

Rhys Benjamin

This somehow has only just now wound up on the Daily Mail Twitter feed. What if they found out that thousands of past contestants, including us, received the same guidelines about wardrobe and game procedure when they went on the show and didn't give them to the press, on the paper-thin pretext that...

Rhys Benjamin

I would have put this on after the practice session (15:15 or so). Channel 4 is really going downhill generally at the moment, daytime aside.

Rhys Benjamin

John made a right pig's ear of the third numbers, don't know why he didn't see the rather easier 9 x 5 x 10 + 8 + 7 - 1.

Rachel appears to be wearing an ice lolly today.

Rhys Benjamin

It's amazing what one finds on the internet at 3am. In the final series of Dick & Dom In Da Bungalow, the final round was a parody of a game show (and Question Time). Some (The Crystal Muck, Muck or No Muck) were very good. Others (Strictly Come Mucking, Muckety Muck) weren't. This was one of those ...

Rhys Benjamin

2017-05-26 18:29:56 [...] The answer to DMTOOTBE was BOTTOMED.
2017-05-26 18:29:57 Chris Hare is playing Apterous Nude in a Letters Attack.

Rhys Benjamin

Whoever wrote Nick's line (or whether Nick cane up himself with it) of "according to that well-known spy, Richard Whiteley..." - GENIUS.

Rhys Benjamin

Montenegro's entry is brilliant. Camp as Christmas, but brilliant.

Rhys Benjamin

This was the lead story on two of the "red top" papers today...

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(Personally think this warrants its own topic)

Telegraph article: https://www.facebook.com/TelegraphEnter ... 8516229908

I agree... think it's a non-story.

Rhys Benjamin

Euan Slatter wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:11 pm
You literally put the exact same thing as on tubechallenge

Yes, because it's a different forum.

Rhys Benjamin

(I haven't been here for a long old while. Older, wiser, but no less opinionated.) Doesn't time fly? Here we are again. I actually actively dislike our entry (zzzzz) which means it will probably do well. Mind you, the Eurofans abroad seem to like our song. If you didn't see You Decide, we've picked ...

Rhys Benjamin

That'll be on Points of View, probably.

Rhys Benjamin

That does it, I'm going to complain.

Dear Sir, it has come to my attention...

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