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Thomas Carey

You wouldn't have thought it from his first couple games, but Robin looks hard to beat now. How's he gonna fare in his sixth game?

(Stats people: may be getting ahead of myself here, but does anyone know the lowest debut score for an octochamp? 15 round era, obviously)

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Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 10:45 pm I wonder if anyone's been to the Vatican City but not to Italy?

Maybe someone who got airlifted in and out for a big popey thing, but I doubt it

Feels annoying to have been to Italy for the second time, and still not 'completed' it in terms of countries because San Marino

Thomas Carey

Add the Vatican for me

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Robin Johnson's just got better and better in his 3 wins so far. How's he gonna do now?

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:35 pm Tom and I decide to try to blend in with the tramps

You picked the right man for the job

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPpUYXZb2AA

Robin Johnson won 57-47 yesterday, let's see what he can do now.

Thomas Carey

Let's hope I haven't mangled the thread this time

Greg Purling got a decent win yesterday. Can he make it two? I have no idea but the episode's nearly over so you might

Thomas Carey

two new contestants. are we gonna get back to back to back to back octochamps? that'd be well good wouldn't it

Thomas Carey

two new contestants. are we gonna get back to back to back to back? that'd be well good wouldn't it

Thomas Carey

Oh cool I'm awake in time this time

Uh yeah Dave's on game six now. Can we get a third back to back octo? Find out Monday at the latest I guess

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Davedown III

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Friday already. Mad stuff. Dave's back after a strong 95 point performance yesterday. Whack on't telly right now for more Dave.

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It's two new contestants. Will one of them octo again? Probably not

Thomas Carey

We had a pair of back to back octochamps last series. Can Tony complete another here, or will he fall victim to the 7 time winner's curse this series? A win with only 17 points puts him ahead of Adam at #1 seed. Should he lose, he needs a score of 32 to beat Lewis for #3 and a whole 93 to beat Bob f...

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Tony's still at it. Can he get one step closer to octochampdom today? Probably but who knows really

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Tony got another good performance yesterday, getting only the fifth century of the series. How's he gonna do today?

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Tony Manwani proper smashed it yesterday. Can he do it again?

Thomas Carey

yeah, a lot. Don't mind subtitles (much prefer them over a bad dub), to the point where I often subtitle stuff in languages I can understand in case I miss a word or something to save me scrolling back a few seconds or whatever every time How many languages can you understand?! I often watch stuff ...

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How's Adam going to end his run? Another 7 time winner? The first octochamp of the series? Will he score more than 74 with a win to avoid the unfortunate record? Find out in like an hour I guess

Thomas Carey

yeah, a lot. Don't mind subtitles (much prefer them over a bad dub), to the point where I often subtitle stuff in languages I can understand in case I miss a word or something to save me scrolling back a few seconds or whatever every time

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Well that was painful at the end. No offence to Adam but I kind of want there to be three 7 time winners just because it's such a weird thing to happen. If Adam wins tomorrow, a score of 74 would make his octotal match the lowest 15-round one so obviously anything below takes the record. (Love the s...

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Adam's back for game 7 of what could potentially be a very low scoring octorun. Tune in, or something.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:55 pm Also whilst we are talking toilet habits.
Am I the only one who can take a shit and then after I have wiped and washed my hands, can then immediately take a piss.
Maybe it's an age thing

I piss when I shit

Thomas Carey

It's Adam Rolston's sixth game. Will he be the first octochamp of the series? Will he lose his last heat game like those other guys? Who knows. Might not even get there. Whack on channel 4 right now to see how he does today.

Thomas Carey

Probably a similar amount to you Mark. I don't drink as much (water) as I probably should though.

Thomas Carey

Nah, it will only offend 15 people. Anyway I didn't exactly put an enormous amount of thought into it, just looked at the basic stats, and tweaked them a little bit to allow for dictionary updates and progress in their series finals. Wouldn't have bothered at all if it hadn't been for the outcry ab...

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Didn't think you were gonna accept the faceless

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viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11281&p=165157#p162047

This was Gev's thing. Quite liking the idea of your first suggestion atm Graeme (would need to run it with past events obvs)

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Would recommend. Went to a talk by her at Huddersfield uni in May which wasn't this tour, she was a guest speaker of some language society, but it was a similar two hour thing. Genuinely was really interesting all the way through (was a lot better than a very long origins of words would be I imagine...

Thomas Carey

2 (that I can think of), both from school :( Both went to 'remembering' profiles. Not unfriending cause there'll be memories of them on their pages, and one of them died recently so people keep tagging her in fundraising things in her memory. Also still have one (a countdowner) coming up in the sugg...

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Terence Mazon wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 7:03 am Thanks for this. Are these quanities based off of the board game? or averages based on what was found during the different series?

Board game

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Ah! I didn't search the word "distribution". Nice one. This is perfect. I think it's probably easier to just model the home game stacks and go from there. The thread that you showed me so far has the vowels from the newer home game. I'll keep digging for the consonants unless someone else...

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spicy meatball

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*cough*

not quite Mark's, but

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It's Toby! And he's won 7 with yesterday's 104 being his lowest yet, can he octo? Probably, but find out soon I guess Was gonna do one of those 'he needs X points to be nth seed' things but since his points total is higher than all but one person's this series already: A loss puts him at 4th, above ...

Thomas Carey

obligatory star wars reference Tobi-wan McDonald??? no

Toby's back for game 6 and he's doing pretty well tbh. Can he get another win/century/solid performance? Find out at the usual time woaw

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Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:58 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:54 am Stuff like maxes aren't even officially measured anyway.
And to do so you'd need an absolutely definitive list of which words are valid, with a ruling on every edge case.

Good point. Actually I take back all the shit I said, average maxes is the way forward.

Thomas Carey

yeah but that's annoying to calculate, wins then points is much easier for your average viewer to understand and imo there's not really any point caring about scoring due to different selections at this sort of stage (random fluctuations when someone gets a bunch of easy nines etc) cause the opponen...

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Barbara Bush

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The real issue here is 'school level'

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Updated as of early January 2019 thanks Gev Joseph Krol, Sophie Krol (ancient) Callum Todd, Jamie McNeill, Zarte Jones, Jen Steadman, Andy Platt, Heather Styles, Mark Deeks and Graeme Cole, Matt Hayfield and Loz Bamer, Matty Artell, Giles Hucthings, Aidan Linge, Sara Lawson, Anoush Khachik, Tom Capp...

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Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:55 am The odds on a player good enough to do it getting a good enough set of letters with which to do it are very small. The odds on them actually caring enough to try and work towards it is even less likely.

Enter Elliott Mellor.

inb4 obvious jokes

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Stephen Hawking

Genuinely surprised nobody seemed to really mention him ever

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Zarte's on game 7 and he's got his cool red jacket back which I apologise for calling stupid a few days ago cause it actually looks pretty snazzy. Against him is some guy called Steve who didn't stand a chance, I can't remember much else about him tbh

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:26 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 5:09 pm ^^ 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

Thomas Carey

Bumping this cos I can't create a new one. If the first three rounds ( i.e.first 27 tiles ) where from a pool of the 26 letters of the alphabet plus an additional A what would be the best distribution for maximum points ? Interesting. Ignoring the fact that you don't have enough vowels for 3 valid ...

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And I reckon there should be a wise person or people to adjudicate if people are too ill to count (and also if they actually qualify as being 'famous')

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I propose picking a constant x (we're essentially doing it with 1 here), 1.05 seems like a decent value from playing around a little bit feel free to change, and then a fixed age N (say 90) and then multiplying whatever points you would get by x^(N-[age of death]). This is just a suggestion after a ...

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Here's my list of very old people, just last year's with the dead two replaced. Rest in peace Chuck Berry, rot in hell Hugh Hefner. Vera Lynn Prince Philip Sir David Attenborough :( Angela Lansbury Barbara Bush George H.W. Bush Jimmy Carter Betty White I.M. Pei Kirk Douglas I agree the first time bo...

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36 innit

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Solid

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In future, could it be a good idea for people to come up with their own margins? Maybe with different choices depending on who contests the semis/finals (or change them up as the results come in like real fantasy football)? A lot of people guess winning margins anyway so might as well combine these ...

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2017 6:09 pm
Jennifer Steadman wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2017 6:02 pm Last night I dreamt that I was chatting to Tim Down in an office and he was being verbally bullied by Thomas the Tank engine largely about his hairline. Tim was very upset and Thomas thought it was hilarious.
So Thomas thought Tim's LOUSIHAIR was HILARIOUS?

to both

Thomas Carey

stanley wang. love that man

Thomas Carey

Lmao it's last day of term at uni today so we've done all the Christmas shite there for the last week and then we're gonna go home and it's just beginning

Thomas Carey

Was veggie for 5 years (2008-2013). Literally couldn't tell the difference between real meat and Quorn (or the off brand version thereof) except in the case of sausages.

A lot of people cite bacon as the main reason for eating meat. It's alright but so so overrated imo

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It's October innit? Wd again Eoin

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Eoin is back for his sixth game. I think we have Dr Phil in DC again

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Mean confidence: 76.00% Actual percent correct: 80.00% You want your mean confidence and actual score to be as close as possible. Mean confidence on correct answers: 79.25% Mean confidence on incorrect answers: 63.00% You want your mean confidence to be low for incorrect answers and high for correc...

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Mini metro please? Cheers Tom

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