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Andy Platt

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...

Andy Platt

#TeamTracey2015

Andy Platt

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.

Andy Platt

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

Andy Platt

Paid for Saturday only, see you soon.

Andy Platt

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.

Andy Platt

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.

Andy Platt

Jennifer Steadman wrote:
George Pryn wrote:my top 8 -

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Swap Andy for Giles and that's my top 8 too.

Andy Platt

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.

Andy Platt

Not a terrible shout

Andy Platt

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 ...

Andy Platt

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

Andy Platt

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...

Andy Platt

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?

Andy Platt

Rhys "Realistic" Benjamin strikes again

Andy Platt

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...

Andy Platt

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.

Andy Platt

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.

Andy Platt

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...

Andy Platt

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...

Andy Platt

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

Andy Platt

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...

Andy Platt

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

Andy Platt

UNFROCKING
GLASSHOUSE
NUTCRACKER

I'll try and continue the rude scrambles

CLUNGENIDE
WANKERBOUL
DOUCHEPUNT

Andy Platt

The England football team?

Andy Platt

People actually know what the episodes of Star Trek are called? Beyond The One where Picard kinda becomes one of those weird Borg thingies (obviously legit) I wouldn't have a clue.

That's impressive/tragic knowledge (delete as appropriate).

Andy Platt

The fact you're all mentioning negative things says quite a lot unfortunately - not a criticism of you guys, just a sadly accurate reflection of things!

Andy Platt

Expected result really. Well played Samir, stuff like ADIPATES and REGIONALS are very missable.

Andy Platt

League table seems to be constantly broken. Anyone (Mark H?) on more than 37 pts?

Andy Platt

What a shout. Since November, Costa Rica have lost to the major footballing forces of Australia, South Korea, Japan, Chile, (well Japan are alright and Chile are good at least), drawn with Ireland, and edged out a home win against the mighty Paraguay. They are literally coming in to the WC off the b...

Andy Platt

I'm top, albeit only by way of my two Chilean players already having been awarded their points for tonight's game.

The chase is on

Edit: Aaaaaand now they've been rescinded.

Andy Platt

I think you need a different kind of help if this is the sort of thing you spend your free time watching.

Andy Platt

True. Italy-England has 0-0 written all over it, and England-Costa Rica could easily be a boring 1-0 or something. Probably a goal from a corner knowing England, so fair enough!

Andy Platt

Lots of words in the Collins dictionary don't make it into the Oxford - apparently BARYTONES isn't in

Andy Platt

Jagielka? Have you ever watched football before?! Lol.

Andy Platt

Just done mine. I don't get the Brazil-Mexico game being in the first round of fixtures, but it certainly makes the tactics of the transition between weeks 1 and 2 more interesting as everyone rushes to drop all their Brazilian players.

http://i.imgur.com/DKqGZGP.png

Andy Platt

I think I'll go with Mark. Better all-round game, although Neil and Samir have been really good on letters. Andy was good too, but less consistent than those three. I'd be very surprised if the semi-finals weren't those four. It could very well even be a repeat of S68 with all the results going acco...

Andy Platt

One of the best 9 picks in the history of Countdown and he only has a 6

Andy Platt

Ah, I passed there once. Got 200 quid for it.

Andy Platt

Nice, looks smart.

Andy Platt

Loving the, erm, "satirical" votes for England and Russia.

Andy Platt

Zarte Siempre wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:People who claim fraudulent credit card chargebacks for their apterous subscription, then continue playing.
No. Shitting. Way?!?!

What did you do about it? xD

Think there needs to be a name and shame thread.

Andy Platt

Yep, congrats. Some great performances in the middle of the run there.

Andy Platt

Think Samir was lucky to come up against a slightly weaker opponent today, not his best performance, but still fully deserving of a place in finals all things considered.

Andy Platt

((9 + 4) x 25 + 1) x (4 - 1) = 978 to beat Rachel in R6

Andy Platt

Feel bad for C2, Samir is absolutely smashing it.

Andy Platt

((25 - 9) x 6 - 10) x 10 + 7 alternative for R6, but I was outside 30 s

Andy Platt

Unlucky is a pretty diplomatic way of saying it.

Andy Platt

Had UNEARTHS from those letters ^

Andy Platt

Cracking game today. I really thought Neil would win even when he was 10 down going into the conundrum(s).

Really though there's so many people that got to 6 wins, what is up with that? Neil is the highest scoring of the four people on six wins though, so I fully expect to see him in the finals.

Andy Platt

Awesome show today, to me it had the feel of a quarter- or semi-final.

Shame that C2 ran into a good player playing well, because he is about the third or fourth contestant this series that is probably capable of winning eight games but has lost their first game. Shame really.

Andy Platt

OPPIDA in round 1, I'm sure there was a third DC beater somewhere too, can't remember.

Andy Platt

He could be 900 material if he had any sort of numbers game, but as it is, he won't even score 800.

Andy Platt

He is very good on the letters. I could see him making the semi-final or final before maybe losing to a numbers expert.

Andy Platt

C2 needs to pick up on his numbers otherwise he could be throwing away a potential 40 points a game

Andy Platt

Very strong start for C2, calling octochamp now

Andy Platt

BOURNES round 2 beater

Andy Platt

VIRGULES alternative beater

Andy Platt

VIRGULES alternative beater

Andy Platt

What a game. Great way to make your debut and keep your cool against a strong performance. Bobby might be regretting not practising his numbers in advance of his run because he was right on top of the letters games.

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