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Craig Beevers

Heh personally think I'm pacing myself well considering Liverpool have a shit result pretty much every week and all the stuff said on here earlier.

Craig Beevers

Keep expecting the other teams around Liverpool to fall apart and obligingly let them cruise to Champions League qualification. But Liverpool keep dropping points regardless. Had their main players and still lost. Surely even Liverpool fans must be getting sick of Rafa the clueless by now.

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Lose all respect for anyone who says Muhammed Ali. The guy lost 5 times and not all of those you can excuse by saying he was getting on a bit. The only reason people mention is because he could bullshit better than anyone else and because of all the other stuff surrounding him with changing his name...

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In other Scrabbly news, the World Youth Scrabble Championship finished a few days ago with Malaysian Suanne Ong taking top spot after a modest-by-her-standards WSC performance. Britain were well represented with Jow Knapper and Tim Butcher finishing mid-table and 13-year old Jessica Pratesi finishi...

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Haye won by default basically. Was a pretty weak performance. Going to look pretty bad if he gets voted Sports Personality then gets annihilated by someone who can a) throw a punch b) beat someone who throws one punch a round.

Button would be my choice. Won something big and has a personality.

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Spain? Are we assuming they play the worst possible opposition with zero defensive capabilities in each round then? Not going to happen again. They're a typical flair team that looks far better than they actually are. Even against England B where they were handed the ball on a plate all game they s...

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Venue size could well be part of it. For a lone stand up, a smaller venue is much better. I've been to see a few comedians at local small venues (e.g. Jimmy Carr and Dave Gorman), and thoroughy enjoyed myself, but only Lenny Henry left me with a painful aching face from laughing so much! :lol: Wow ...

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Spain? Are we assuming they play the worst possible opposition with zero defensive capabilities in each round then? Not going to happen again. They're a typical flair team that looks far better than they actually are. Even against England B where they were handed the ball on a plate all game they st...

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The guy in the final lost by 370 pts. That's absurd and probably his biggest defeat ever i'd bet. That's like picking out a frame of snooker where Ronnie O'Sullivan beat someone 147-0. Individual games, particularly the blowouts which you will get aren't particularly important. It's no different to...

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Although I wish Nigel had played his endgame in reverse order and quickly in game one. Just to see if Pakorn would have still played WAXING to lose when he goes over on time, or WAX to win This sounds interesting but I don't understand - any chance you could explain it in retard-speak? I've looked ...

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Just the best of 5 final (aka crapshoot) left to watch now. From this it seems that they were level on wins anyway after the 24 rounds, so the best of five "crapshoot" wasn't a bad way of deciding it on this occasion. Yea it ended up being 'fair' this time, but it's still a crapshoot. Som...

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Pretty strong finish there, Craig. Well done. Is that your highest finish? Edit: Ooops tournament still running. Looks like Craig is coming into form at the right time though. Good Luck tomorrow! Yes it's my first WSC. Surprised how many live game phonies were played in the annotated games. I only ...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:What about Craig? The lack of a mention suggests the CofC would have been a better bet.

Not really.

Craig Beevers

Thought some of you lot might like this.

http://www.lfc-endofseasonparty.com/

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Probably.

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There'll be a documentary covering the WSC and Scrabble in general on BBC1 later this year.

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Awww bless, looks like the cheating patriot just wants a hug:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 373804.stm

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I'd been invited to the WSC when I was busy with Countdown, and invited back to Countdown when I was busy with Scrabble (my first National final). Anyway some relevant photos here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/scaly.piscine My simple blog which I should probably add extra stuff to: http://craigbeev...

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When you're at one of the sub-forums there's a button to the top left with 'new topic'

There's probably a proper site or something that'll shrink thinks easily. But you should have a basic Paint program on your computer somewhere that can shrink images.

Craig Beevers

50/25 + 1 = 3
3 x (100+9) = 327
327 + 9 = 336

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UPWARDS presumably

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Actually, a win with a score of 7 will guarantee his place at the finals. Haha, just imagine it. His opponent blanks every round and scores 0. Ryan is nervous as fuck and blanks every round too but manages to get RETAINS in a round containing NOTARISES. He wins 7-0 and makes the finals. Bloody hell...

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jeff wrote:I applied about 3 weeks ago by email and haven't heard anything back yet. Is this normal?

Yes.

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Is it slightly cynical of me to suggest it would be nice if Ryan knew these as words rather than strings of letters? 'Fraid so - it seems to be a common tactic. Kirk was very kindly teaching me the PAINTERS stem (cos you never know when it'll come in handy) and he didn't know what they meant either...

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DEISTICAL

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Hmm APERTURED was very unlucky, although totally meaningless in the end.

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Should get double points for declaring PUDENDA here.

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Shame PHOTOGENE^ is Scrabble only.

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I learnt words from Scrabble, probably, when I was like 4-5.

Dunno how much good it did me though.

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940 maybe but maxing out at 950 would be the absolute limit IMO. Nah, this won't be the limit in years to come I think. I've done 981 at home in a set of eight (think it was Andrew Hulme's run) and yes I know it's different to doing it in the studio but I've gone over 950 a few times in a string of...

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Nice to have good standard play again lately. Not so long ago there would have been 7s declared for those rounds with 9s in.

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Christ Liverpool have to cheat just to get a point at home to Birmingham. Funny one really. Carsley's missed the ball, and is taking Ngog down unless he hurdles the challenge. It obviously looks stupid if you jump the challenge and then go down, but I don't see why it's any more a penalty if Ngog h...

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Christ Liverpool have to cheat just to get a point at home to Birmingham. Surely they must be lining up someone to take over before the transfer window?

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Surprised Rachel didn't get it straight off, don't see what other way you'd go to solve that one. It's quite easy to get once you have the 8x6x5x4 factors with 1,2 left over. I'm not surprised. I was in the studio and had 984 there and 984 again just now. (5x4x6+2+1)x8. I didn't think it was easy a...

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Surprised Rachel didn't get it straight off, don't see what other way you'd go to solve that one. It's quite easy to get once you have the 8x6x5x4 factors with 1,2 left over.

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Once again conratulations Ryan, you were the worthy victor. I wouldn't want to sully the good name of apterous by claiming to be an apterite, the bulk of my preparation was done with lexpert until I realised all too late that the dictionaries varied greatly between the two. Yep, unless you've learn...

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I'm sure pretty much every contestant that has ever been on Countdown and won is said to have looked smug by someone.

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BONFIREUP

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Brutal conundrum. I got it, but only because I used to spend too much time doing conundrums.

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Just in case anyone is bored of laughing at Liverpool, here's the geordies with some more comic relief:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 342406.stm

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Rooney stood out in the Euros about 5-6 years ago, particularly in the game against France. After that he was somewhat underwhelming for a while - personally think one of the big factors might have been Ronaldo at Manure and trying to compete with him. He seemed to stop his simple direct approach (w...

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There's quite a few inventions of this type that have made it into CSW (Scrabble dictionary) For instance today adding in a load more low probability 7s I came across SHEEPLE, which is as expected a mix of SHEEP and PEOPLE. Definition is listed as "people who follow the majority view" Anot...

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UITLANDER

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The trouble is people are daft enough to absorb this bollocks. It becomes self-reinforcing because there are very few people with a brain involved to form their own opinion and go against the flow (BBC pundits are basically clones but with different aesthetics). Particularly as humans in general ar...

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As I said before I don't follow much of what the media reports, I watch the football and follow scores and the odd story on the BBC (who in turn will influence most of the rest of the media). The way the BBC and fans were banging on about how unlucky they were last season not to win the league (when...

Craig Beevers

It's the way they (Liverpool, their players and the manager) are so massively over-rated that I find irritating.

Oh and I don't support any club teams in any sport except for Durham CCC. I'm much more interested in national sport.

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Matt Bayfield won the new player bit, unbeaten on 6 wins, according to uk-scrabble. Congrats to him.

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So are Liverpool fans still rating Rafa Benitez' management ability then?

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An interesting format, the letters games are dynamically more like standard numbers games where you can get some seriously impossible/easy rounds and your selection strategies are very important. Here's a good example where I've played a letters attack using CSW as opposed to ODE: http://www.apterou...

Craig Beevers

Bloody hell Brian had a complete nightmare, very lucky on that last numbers.

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Craig Beevers wrote:Personally I think IE and Firefox are both horrendously slow for what they do, I use Google Chrome mostly.
Is this the same Chrome that uses 3 to 4 times as much memory as Firefox?

Chrome loads pages way faster on my computer than IE and Firefox, that's pretty much all I care about.

Craig Beevers

*whistles nonchalantly*

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Five points seperating four teams in the C4C Fantasy Football league, but Matt's running away with it at the moment. Surprised only 5 people from this forum joined up though. :( I'm doing poo tang compared to what I was up to last season as well, come on boys! I was hoping / expecting Owen to get o...

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Yes there's a fair bit of attention from the BBC, I suppose it ties in with the documentary coming up in December.

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Thanks and yea I did have time to see Match of the Day (well the first 30-40 minutes) twice. The beach ball incident was still great on second viewing. Kinda makes it better the way Sunderland screwed up a hatful of chances so that ended up being the only goal.

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With a fairly short audition, it could well be that Ed Rossiter and Ross Editor (or whatever they're called) didn't particularly stand out. Do you (Craig) think that they should have been kept apart from the big three anyway based on Scrabble form? Ross Mackenzie Takes about 10 seconds to figure ou...

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I'm with you now but then you'd have to argue who classes as a super player or a good player. Was Ed Rossiter a super player? What's the definition unless you give them an octochamp run in their audition and they have to score more than like 870 raw? Ed Rossiter wasn't. The 'super players' are pret...

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You're not likely to have competitive QFs if you eliminate a fair few potentially decent/good players by pitting them against super players. Which is what has happened earlier this series. What I was saying was you'd have the super player types and the potentially decent/good players (say on average...

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Err no. The players who are the next step down from Innis/Hulme/Davies shouldn't be lined up to play those three in the heats. Simple. Yes. This is what I mean. You can't just line people up so you get an endless stream of octochamps. No because they're not lined up beyond the avoidance of the top ...

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Yep, that's my main reservation with what's happened in this series. The top 3 are through as expected, probably the next best few (from what I've seen) were lined up to play them or did play them. Obviously it'll be difficult to judge with total accuracy from the auditions, but I feel like you'd r...

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