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Mike Brown

Hi everyone. It's been nice to trawl through the archives (it's been a while) and I'm pleased to say that I can provide insight of varying levels into these discrepancies. Series 4, Episode 163: The wiki matches my notes exactly. Although it's obviously possible that I wrote down an 8 instead of a 3...

Mike Brown

Hats off to you James for catching up with these! Nice to be up to date again.

Mike Brown

Gevin is correct. If you look at the Wiki Robbo flipped them about 10 years ago to match TCDP. But like I said, the fact we now know several of them were wrong implies that many of them are wrong. Especially if they're audio recordings, it could be the case most episodes from Series 1-20 have them ...

Mike Brown

He’s in the process of ripping his episodes to his computer, but this appears to be taking a while. He sent me the video of Ep15 today. What worries me is the fact the contestants were the “wrong” way round compared to TCDP and (before today) the wiki. Episode 312’s credits are on YouTube which was...

Mike Brown

Cool, do you know if he has the details for any more of his games?

Mike Brown

Seems like the right thing to do!

Mike Brown

*** EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 *** It will probably come as no great surprise to anyone that this event has had to be cancelled due to the current pandemic. All monies will of course be refunded immediately (that won't take me long!). I can also confirm that I have provisionally booked the venu...

Mike Brown

Thanks for posting this, Graeme.

Mike Brown

I'm pleased to finally 'officially' announce that Countdown in Cambridge is back for a second year on Saturday 8th June. Like last year and the events in King’s Lynn beforehand, this will be a Lincoln/Edinburgh-style tournament — everyone plays six 9-round games in groups of three, through three sta...

Mike Brown

Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:28 pm
Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:31 amCallum Todd 69 - 34 Zarte Siempre
This is incorrect. Must have been 69-54, as it was a crucial.

Apologies; my bad. Just had a look and can't even blame the handwriting.

Mike Brown

Hi Mike - I'll be attending + have just sent over payment. My brother is keen as well, but not sure he can make it. Will you accept an entrant on the day? Glad to have you on board, Neil. I've put your brother down as a provisional entry, so I'll make sure there are enough conundrums (and goody bag...

Mike Brown

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:22 pm Almost certainly coming to this.

Nice to see a traditional post, rather than this 'modern' facebook nonsense. Have 'likes' been fixed on here yet?

Mike Brown

Meant to add as well that for anyone flying into the UK, Stansted is pretty convenient for Cambridge with regular trains (and coaches, I think). Forget about the airport at Cambridge, it doesn't do commercial flights, unless you're a rock star, possibly.

Mike Brown

Hi all, With Spring in the air (according to the calendar anyway), it's finally time for me to announce the first-ever Countdown event to take place in the fine city of Cambridge. Forming part of the FOCAL calendar of events, CoCam will take place on Saturday the 16th of June and, like the King's Ly...

Mike Brown

Just booked.

Mike Brown

A bit late, but awesome event, Mike! I just wanted to mention that there was some controversy over some of the conundrums, because the answers were a verb + S, and there was some debate over whether they are allowed or whether it's only plurals that end in S that can't be conundrums. My understandi...

Mike Brown

Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2017 9:52 pm Many thanks to Mike for putting the event together.

And many thanks again for making it technically fabulous.

Mike Brown

Stephen R wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2017 1:04 pm I've talked myself into it again. Making an early birthday weekend of it, and I'll join in the parkrun too. See if I can go a bit faster this year.

Great news, Stephen. Good to have the reigning champ back!

Mike Brown

Count me in, Tony.

Mike Brown

Hi all, It's finally time (eight days later than last year!) for me to announce the third Countdown in King's Lynn (or Co:KL for short), which once more will form part of the FOCAL calendar of events. For those of you who are still not aware (even after last year), King's Lynn is a town on the Wash ...

Mike Brown

Robert Foster wrote:Paid up, see you there

Great news, Rob. Good to have both of last year's finalists back for a second time!

Mike Brown

Prizes for this weekend... form an orderly queue!

Mike Brown

Now up to 12. Entrants (about to be) added to the first post.

Mike Brown

Now up to 11.

Anyone want to make it twelve? (Is there a 'hopeful' emoji?)

Mike Brown

We're now in double figures, which is nice - but can we get higher by the end of the week? Conundrums now prepared, picking up trophies early next week, cakes hopefully being baked on Friday! Went to see the venue on Friday for a quick recce - getting excited now. Thanks to all those who have alread...

Mike Brown

I'm definitely coming to this now. Not sure where I'm staying yet though. I want to go to the parkrun but I also quite like the all-you-can-eat breakfast at the Premier Inn, but it's far away. Great stuff. If you fancy Parkrun, i guess 'Spoons is a good bet or maybe Russett House, where Jayne staye...

Mike Brown

Graeme Cole wrote:In and paid.

Excellent news.

Mike Brown

Jonathan Wynn wrote:Very likely to be in for this I think-anyone staying for the Saturday night? Will probs try and book the Wetherspoon's(who knows-maybe even successfully this time ? Is it the default pub?

Would be great to have you along, Jonathan.

Mike Brown

Hi all, just a quick update. Now got the prizes bought and the trophies on order (picture coming soon!) - all we need now are more players! So far, there are only five confirmed players (James, Heather, Phyl, Alan and Jeff) and I expect I'll be playing, which makes six, but hopefully we can muster a...

Mike Brown

Hi all, It's finally time for me to announce the second Countdown in King's Lynn (or Co:KL for short), which will be the fourth tournament in the FOCAL calendar (or the fifth if you count COLIN as two). For those of you who are still not aware, King's Lynn is a town on the Wash in the west of Norfol...

Mike Brown

Definitely in...

Mike Brown

Graeme wrote: Is that because it was wrong on the scoresheet, or because I typed it in wrong? (It's reasonably likely to be the latter. I have put scores the wrong way round before (despite it being my own software, and on one occasion the game in question being one I'd won) but in the past there h...

Mike Brown

Looks like I might have to do something next year, then...

Mike Brown

Thanks again to everyone who came and helped to make it a success. Will certainly be looking to repeat the event next year as long as there's enough interest.

Mike Brown

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Tony Atkins wrote:I won't be coming now - decided it is too far for a day trip and I got my May fix of CO events in Glasgow.
(Actually I'm scared of coming second last again...)
The standard method is to go to Co:KL.

Especially if you want to be in with a chance of winning the Kl bookmark.

Mike Brown

Happily now at 14!

Mike Brown

Tony Atkins wrote:I won't be coming now - decided it is too far for a day trip and I got my May fix of CO events in Glasgow.
(Actually I'm scared of coming second last again...)

Sorry to hear that, Tony, maybe next year??

Mike Brown

Barring any last minute entrants, we are now at 13. I hope that isn't an omen.

Mike Brown

James Robinson wrote:Looking great there, Mike. How many we got to now??

Now 11 definites plus around 4 maybes.

Mike Brown

A sneak preview of Saturday's prizes:

Mike Brown

I'd also be interested. Sounds good.

Mike Brown

Venue checked out, playing materials (hopefully) sorted, conundrums ready, prizes bought, trophies on order, cakes being made... can I tempt anyone else to come along??

Mike Brown

Jonathan Wynn wrote:May just be in for this, Mike. What's the deadline for payment?

There isn't really a deadline as such, but the more I have an idea of numbers the better. Hope you can make it.

Mike Brown

Well spotted, James. A different special to the one in my planner and noted as a repeat in the TV guides. Thanks to you (and 4OD) I managed to watch it.

Mike Brown

James Robinson wrote:
Mike Brown wrote:Great to have the three of you on board.
How many we up to now, Mike

Think it's 9 and about 5 maybes!

Mike Brown

Great to have the three of you on board.

Mike Brown

James Robinson wrote:I can bring a couple of packs along. Mike.

Thanks James, much appreciated.

Mike Brown

Almost certainly in.

Mike Brown

Got very few definites for this so far, but quite a few maybes. If you're interested, please sign up soon! Another plea - if you're coming and are able to bring sets of cards (letters and numbers) from the board game (don't need number generators) it would be much appreciated. Have some, but probabl...

Mike Brown

Also hoping to be there.

Mike Brown

As those who attended COLIN will already be aware, I'm pleased to announce yet another new event on the Countdown tournament calendar: Countdown in King's Lynn or Co:KL for short. For those of you who don't know, King's Lynn is a town on the Wash in the west of Norfolk. (For those of you who don't k...

Mike Brown

Sadly it looks like Edinburgh is not a goer for this year but I'll gladly put forward King's Lynn for next year if that's acceptable. Hoping to announce the 2015 event for KL shortly.

Mike Brown

Thanks to everyone for coming and making it such a memorable event. So glad that it went ahead after having my doubts earlier in the year that it would. Going to a Co-event always reminds me why it's worth going to the time and trouble of travelling round the country to meet up and play Countdown wi...

Mike Brown

Would have thought somewhere near to the station would be good on Friday. If the pub is anywhere near the station of the same name I'm not sure that would be a good choice as I assume most travellers would either be arriving at or staying close to Waverley. Saturday's venue can probably be discussed...

Mike Brown

Just a note for anyone who hasn't been before. If you're travelling by car or if the gate to the bowling club isn't open on Cluny Gardens, the club can be accessed from Midmar Drive, where there is some parking available. Postcode for satnav fans is EH10 6BT.

Mike Brown

David Barnard wrote:Hi Mike, did you receive the £15 for me and my mum? (she's not playing, just eating and watching)

Yes David, received with thanks.

Mike Brown

Thanks for all your input guys re word adjudication. I think the best approach will be to use a combination of ODE3 (hard copy edition) and Lexplorer's word list. For the final it would be good to hook up with ODO if we can and if anyone wants to use ODO during the games it's fine by me, but I'd sug...

Mike Brown

With the change to the use of ODO, does anyone have any thoughts on what we should use (and what will be practical to use) as the word arbiter on the day? What is the plan for CoHud and what was used at CoMultiLon? Would people be happy with the dictionary or Lexplorer? I was thinking it might be ni...

Mike Brown

Paul can no longer make it, I'm afraid but I take it you received my payment (via his account). Look forward to seeing everyone there. :D Sorry your dad can't make it, Jack, but yes, received your PayPal payment with no problems. Hi Mike, me and my Mum will certainly be going, just got to wait unti...

Mike Brown

Jack Worsley wrote:Paul can no longer make it, I'm afraid but I take it you received my payment (via his account). Look forward to seeing everyone there.

Sorry your dad can't make it, Jack, but yes, received your PayPal payment with no problems.

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