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Best fishing = Adrian Fletcher won a copy of the Angling Times by picking for 'filigree'. Best word = Darren Godfrey won a puzzle book for spotting the nine 'aromatics'. Conundrums = Dan Byrom won a puzzle book for spotting five out of six conundrums. Rudest word = Stephen Read won a mug with the le...

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Standings Players are ranked by number of wins then total points scored. Played Wins Points 1 Dylan Taylor 6 6 405 2 Tim Hebbes 6 5 365 3 Matt O'Connor 6 5 351 4 Thomas Carey 6 5 338 5 Adam Latchford 6 4 363 6 Stephen Read 6 4 344 7 Coral Heath 6 4 321 8 Adrian Fletcher 6 4 314 9 George Armstrong 6 ...

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Is anyone thinking about coming but holding back for any reason? Cheers Just did a 3 tourney weekeneder @ CoLin and I am still recovering. Also it's the day after valentines day and I didn't want to bugger off to the other end of the country to leave my partner alone. Fair play -- I think I will tr...

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Is anyone thinking about coming but holding back for any reason? Cheers

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TBF it would have been even worse with 8 games. The Yorkshire trains arriving late and us having to wait for people, lots of slow newbies, etc. Hopefully smoother this year and I will try and get the overhead projector working as well. And I kept messaging to tell you to start and wait for us to ge...

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The most chaotic/slow/overrunning event I can recall from past couple of years was Liverpool 2024 and that was 6 Lincoln games. TBF it would have been even worse with 8 games. The Yorkshire trains arriving late and us having to wait for people, lots of slow newbies, etc. Hopefully smoother this yea...

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DATE: Saturday 15 February 2025 LOCATION: Cross Keys pub, 13 Earle Street, L3 9NS. It's the same place as both last year and back in 2019. The room can fit 36, maybe 39 or 42 at a push. FORMAT: Edinburgh/Lincoln style, six 9-rounder games played in tables of three. The top two ranked players after s...

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Yep have managed to retrieve them here. If any are incorrect i.e. the wrong way round, let me know. CoLiv2024 Liverpool 24 February 2024 STANDINGS Players are ranked by number of wins then total points scored. P W Pts 1 Jack Hurst 6 6 400 (won final) 2 Tom Stevenson 6 5 438 (lost final) 3 Dylan Tayl...

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Cheers Andy for a great event. Sorry I didn't get time to thank you at the end of it all- but was a great day and nice to catch-up/meet with folks... Legend. Glad you enjoyed. Final standings below. I heard that a few people might have the wrong number of wins - a number of games were scored 'the w...

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Event has hit 36 but I'll leave signups open as we may be able to squeeze an extra table or two in the side.

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Dan Byrom wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:06 am Any recommendations for super-cheap accommodation on the Saturday night and/or anyone want to share a room?

Feel free to ask on FB as you may get a more expeditious reply than on here. But as for hotels there should be plenty of options available on the link I already shared

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 6:50 pm Never been to Liverpool so this is a good excuse as any to break my duck

I'll be honest, I read "duck" as something else. Plenty of strip clubs in town down Hanover Street way.

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Plenty of options on Trivago for a much lower price than you mention, unless you were desperate to stay right in the centre of town.

https://www.trivago.co.uk/en-GB/srl/hot ... 918;rc-1-1

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Werds and nerds will be reterning to Merseyside. DATE: Saturday 24 February 2024 LOCATION: Cross Keys pub, 13 Earle Street, L3 9NS. It's the same place as last time, for those who came in 2019. The room can fit 36, maybe 39 or 42 at a push. FORMAT: Edinburgh/Lincoln style, six 9-rounder games played...

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New York Giants being an anagram of Towering Yanks is probably my current favourite

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Bringing it back to Countdown somewhat, my auntie is really good mates with Carol Vorderman's sister, Trixie.

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Champion : Callum Todd Runner Up: James Robinson Third Place: Dinos Sfyris Most conundrum solves: Matty Artell (settled via a sudden-death TB conundrum after tying with George) Best final-letter pick: Matty Artell (PISTOLEER, saying exactly what letter he wanted for it as well :!:) Best word spot o...

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Sam, Stephen, and some other dickhead, are on tonight's episode of Only Connect.

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Jason William Larsen wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:55 pm I'm very sorry!

Don't worry about it - everyone says some stuff that they don't mean or don't intend.

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Some news regarding the after-event festivities. I've spoken to the Trattoria restaurant and they are happy to take our reservation without needing a deposit, because the owner trusts Emma and me as fairly regular customers there. Which is very nice of him. #itsnotwhatyouknowitswhoyouknow As with a ...

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Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 11:37 am Did it break into 2 small pieces and the rest large?

Fantastic. Take a bow.

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That time that Jason had a surreal racist outburst in Aptochat and was banned for two months.

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But yes, to answer the question seriously, rounds are very regularly ended early, if an easy numbers or very common nine comes up.

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Ronan M Higginson wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 12:21 pm 100 1 6 5 4 9 - 105

Easy, (100/4 + 6 - 9 - 1) * 5

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This is a very interesting thread - I can't believe I've never contributed. Football: Prenton Park (Tranmere) Goodison Park (Everton) Old Trafford (Man Utd) Villa Park (Aston Villa) Vale Park (Port Vale) Coface Arena (Mainz 05, and also the best potential Countdown event that never existed) Atleti A...

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A popular series 68 octochamp became the mayor of Leeds in January.
She's changed her look slightly since she appeared on the show. New haircut or something probably.

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ENTRIES SO FAR: (Names in green text have lunch included) 1 - Dave Ryan 2 - Suzy Turner 3 - Callum Todd 4 - James Haughton 5 - Dylan Taylor 6 - Eddy Byrne 7 - Adam Dexter 8 - Fiona Titcombe 9 - Bradley Horrocks 10 - James Robinson 11 - Nathan Pace 12 - Sean Fletcher 13 - Tim Down 14 - George Armstr...

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Hello! Countdown is coming to Liverpool in September. Hope to see you there! FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/431283990952369/?ti=cl LOCATION: Cross Keys pub, 13 Earle Street, L3 9NS, Liverpool. DATE: 21 September 2019 FORMAT: Edinburgh/Lincoln style, 6 rounds of 9-rounder games playe...

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I thought Dylan came across much better in his intros than he had previously for his octorun and finals, if rather dour still while picking vowels/consonants. This. He wasn't showboating. He thought he'd seen it the way he was going straight away and then didn't bother looking for another way, only...

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#TeamTracey2015

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Too early to say, depends who has the most time available to practice. You know how it is.

I'm looking forward to an avalanche of 4 large and 6 small numbers though.

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Cool stuff. Doubt I'll make it past round one like, but I'll enjoy every second.

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Paid for Saturday only, see you soon.

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Some major issues tonight in terms of the site going down for a few minutes at a time, and then not staying up long enough to play even a single round, then going down again.

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I actually like it. Would also stop 4L or 6S experts going for the same thing all the time, forcing them to adapt their game a bit too.

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:
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Swap Andy for Giles and that's my top 8 too.

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This is pretty cool to see one of the crowd on.

(100 x 25 + 50) x (5 + 9) / 75 as an alternative in the 4L round.

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Not a terrible shout

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Finally in a position to add to this thread! There was some kind of outdoor party happening for new year's eve, with a combination of people that I work with and people from apterous in attendance. The only person I can really be sure was there was Dan. Anyway, there was general drinking and banter ...

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Jon Corby wrote:Apterous performance simply should not factor, not at all.

Andy Platt wrote:I have a feeling on-screen performance might be the decider.

I'm glad we're in accordance

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Yeah Jen, I agree. It wouldn't surprise me if she made it in ahead of other semi-finalists. It's hard to call a 16 - so many things to consider, not least how far back in time to go. The last CoC was between S59 and S60, so I guess that might be the marker. Anyone since then who wasn't in the 30BC i...

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Is the concept of having preset rounds for the qualifier finalised? I think normally drawn rounds would be better and fairer, although a relatively minor detail wouldn't keep me from attending.

Regarding the numbers, will you presumably do one of each plus a second one large?

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Rhys "Realistic" Benjamin strikes again

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Thanks for the announcement. Amongst all the speculation, I think the most interesting one to watch is to see if David gets on - clearly would be one of the favourites to win the whole thing because he has improved so much online since his semi-final, but I have a feeling on-screen performance might...

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It's natural that the knockout games have fewer goals as teams who know how to defend are successful teams.

What I find interesting is that in this little poll at the top of the page, nobody said Germany would win.

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Yeah, I think Graeme Cole did a piece of analysis on it.

If I remember rightly, the results showed that the 'manual separation' is not really so prominent with the consonants (see round 8 here for instance) as it is with the vowels though.

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Yeah, I can't make this. The unusually early start makes travelling down on the Saturday unreasonable - perhaps highlighted by how few people in the list of attendees live North of Birmingham. Adding that to extortionate costs for travel and accommodation and the whole thing becomes completely unfea...

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This looks familiar :) Awesome job, looks and plays loads better than it did like 6 months ago when I spoke to you then. Nice work. I think the only way to improve it would be the addition of an algorithm that separates similar letters, particularly vowels - just had a round that had two consecutive...

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Whatever you ate/drank/smoked/did/played before going to bed, keep doing it, these are quite entertaining

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Haven't watched it yet but obviously seen the result plastered all over Facebook. Well played to Mark. Well played to all finalists, really. Was the expected result, but it was probably a bit of a shame for the neutral that it was arguably one of Andy's weaker performances. Still, great to see peopl...

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Needlessly complicated in R3 there. (75 + 10) x 10 + 3 x 6 was fine

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