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I think one of the best examples highlighting the flaws of the current system is that Josephine Sinclair turned up to just CO:LON and came 30th there, but finished higher in the annual standings than Ed McCullagh who turned up to both Newcastle and Dublin and won both events. It's not even close to...

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I had a great time yesterday at my first FOCAL Countdown competition I've attended in Milton Keynes and would like to thank everybody involved in running it! Based on my experience yesterday, and my research on https://focalcountdown.co.uk/ it appears that there is no code of conduct that participan...

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Was the venue picked after the name?

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That was so thrilling to watch! Dinos - One of the first friends I made when I started playing countdown over ten years ago. You're a thoroughly nice bloke and from what I see it looks like you've become a great dad too recently. I'm glad they let you back on, and was thrilled to see you smash it. W...

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I am willing to pretend to be related to this Martin Hurst chap in order to have a battle of the Hursts once the CoC dust has settled

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Tony, The event page you linked to is either missing a date or has it somewhere that is not very visible ob a mobile. I think the summary of the event could be rewritten to be more accessible to people who don't already go to co-events. Would they know what apterous dictionary or "Bristol style" mea...

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VELAMINA available as a beater in the round before origin of words.

Thanks to Chris Davies for teaching me that one!

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I've started a daily puzzle blog which I'm hoping will take off. I'll be posting 3 puzzles every day this February.

Please take a look:
http://jackhurst.co.uk/blog/

comments/Feedback welcome.

JackHurst

FWIW I totally agree with Jono here. You go to Co-Events to play countdown, so may as well make it as much like the show as possible. I've always found letters rounds at co-events frustrating, firstly due to the excessive duplication of letters, and secondly due to bad shuffling (and so getting near...

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Well done on a successful year. I had a great day at the event I came to. See you in LDN ;) I do think Gevin's suggestion about charging entrants for the final event makes a lot of sense though. There is no need to do it because anybody keen enough to go to enough events to qualify will obviously be...

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James Laverty wrote: Ainsley Harriott- Always entertaining

If this ever happens, please somebody let me know so I can have audience tickets.

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I requested this here but never got it, so I made it myself instead. Apterous players ranked by Peak pro rank, and then by number of weeks in that position. Any player that ever [1][2][3] got into the top 5 should appear. Observations and suggestions welcome! Standings 1: 1 (157 times) Innis Carson ...

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I thought I'd share this here too since there has been discussion on how to adjudicate words: The chance of being able to declare a new word as a max is around 16%. The chance you can beat the old max (OED max) by playing a new word is around 7% http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11488...

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I'll put this here because I don't know where else to. The chance of being able to declare a new word as a max is around 16%. The chance you can beat the old max (OED max) by playing a new word is around 7% I had a very convoluted way of calculating this. I'm happy to do a write up of the method if ...

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Brilliant competition. I thoroughly enjoyed watching all of those games and it made me wish I could have been there in the audience. Dylan was a superb Champion and I'm really happy for him. He did incredibly well to not wilt under the pressure of Crucial conundrums in his last three games. Well don...

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I've been reading C4C posts that Gevin can't see.

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James Robinson wrote:Is there a reason why the quarter-final line-up isn't the usual 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, etc.....??

Because there are no seeds, so why make the order more complicated than it needs to be?

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My 16 ( PRESUMING IT'S FILMED IN MAY/JUNE 2015) : DAN MCCOLM ANTOINETTE RYAN GEORGE FORD JEN STEADMAN MARK MURRAY ANDY NAYLOR CALLUM TODD DYLAN TAYLOR ANDY PLATT GILES HUTCHINGS HEATHER STYLES PAUL JAMES GLENN WEBB TRACEY MILLS ANDREW KEITH GERRY TYNAN Adding Thomas Cappleman to the list as well Hu...

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1)Most maxes/ most points scored by a non series finalist?
2)Least maxes/ least points score by a series finalist. (Not including finals games)?
3) did the answer to 1) do better than any series champs did in their heats?

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Important question:
Who wants to take the trophy? I can hand it over somewhere in North/Central London or off office hours.

Somebody better volunteer! (PM)

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Mark Deeks wrote:Next up - Apto SnapChat!

Snaptochat.

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It tickles how we have two clear groups of commenters in these threads: Group A (E.g, Tony, Bradley, James...) Who watch the show most days and chip in with their contributions to the rounds. Group B (E.g Corby, MWM, Jen, Zarte...) Who seem to only show an interest when there is controversy or drama...

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With the exception of Samir Pilica and Mark Davies, all of the octochamps in 2014 have finished their run on the last filmed show of their second day of recording (ie final day of a DC guest). Does this imply that making your debut straight after the lunch break gives you an advantage or a mere coi...

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There's 3 I have an idea for, but no idea if the guess is valid:

ROCHESTER is HECTORERS?
BRIAN KENT is INTERBANK?
BASSINDER is RABIDNESS?

do any of them have more than 1 solution?

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Might have been asked b4. Only counting heat games, and not games with two new challengers, what is the avg score of champ vs avg score of challenger?

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Wow. You really need to get a life.

Still applies.

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Why does 0!=1! Because it's a lot neater that way. One reason is that it means the rule: n! = (n+1)!/(n+1) works for all n >= 0. See also Numberphile . n! is the product of the first n natural numbers. From this, it makes sense to say 0! is the product of nothing, which is defined to be 1. This is ...

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I just wanted to get the 1111th topic here.

I'll post another comment at some point when it's 11:11am

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Great news! The only downside with these things is the toiling over who gets to be included. Obviously there are always going to be people walking away disappointed which sucks, but there's nothing you can do. There's droves of people from series 60-67 who would have been good enough to get into the...

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People who drink fizzy drinks when travelling or playing sport instead of water.

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Zarte Siempre wrote:
JackHurst wrote:Loving this thread. For me its men who regularly wear hats...
Love you too x

See.

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Loving this thread. For me its men who regularly wear hats and people who sign up to web forums under pseudonyms (ahem). Controversially, I have no trust issues with bald men. People with spiky hair. Agree lots. People who slap the table when they laugh. And people who clap when they laugh People wh...

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Track and field athlete?

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Has this person been in an episode of countdown?

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Are they on any of these lists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Jews

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Mark Deeks wrote:FELLATING (again), VELVETEEN, SWEETVELD

MORRIBAKE
MORRICOPE
MORRIPEST

Importers reimports etc.

MORRIBAKE
MORRICOPE
RECTILPOO

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Great episode today, nice to see Manchester go out just because its Manchester. To be fair, their team seemed nice this year and they got quite far considering Day's attempts to make his team's score negative.

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What evidence is there (if any) to suggest that having the letters pick gives you an advantage for the round? It did for me in one round in the match I played. The first 8 letters I picked were U I A F D S O G. I realised that if an E came up I would have the word GAUDIES. I asked for a vowel in th...

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In the 30th Birthday Championship, the difference is ( a little bit ) more pronounced: in 440 letters rounds, the picker won 75 and the non-picker won 65. It would be valid to brush over this fact as unimportant based on the tiny sample size, but to brush it aside as an insignificant margin (which ...

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I'm pretty certain that for higher quality letters players there should be a small difference in percentage, something around 0.5% to 1.5%. Though looking at information from the show wont help with proving or disproving that because: A) The standard of letters on the show isn't high enough B) You'd...

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I'm on fire today.

Oh wait its past midnight. D'oh.

D'oh d'oh.

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Do you have a gambling addiction?

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Approximating this probability for an knockout tournament with n rounds as n gets large is a good exercise in using Sterling's approximation.

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Ignore me, I'm wrong.

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I make the probability to be 8!/(4!*2^4)=8!/(24*16)=1/105.

Currently flicking between my own working and Gevin's reasoning to find an error to see which of us is wrong.

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I don't have it, but have had it in previous years. Good gift for somebody who is a fan of the show but doesn't take it so seriously that they play on apto.

(I think it took me about 20 seconds to solve all 10 of those conundrums in total btw

)

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Topics like this are neither directly countdown or apterous, and I think they'd belong best in a new sub forum, which is intended to be a place for users to discuss ways of getting good at countdown/apterous.

If you read this Charlie, whaddya think?

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Cool thanks!

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Thanks for thet Graeme, that's an interesting list. Could you also do the same for 6 letter words? I imagine the list would be empty. Yes, it is. There doesn't seem to be a six letter word which does not have at least four letters in common with some seven letter word. If you still have time on your...

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Cool puzzle!

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...but its probably possible to crop pictures properly.

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Zarte Siempre wrote:
JackHurst wrote:Yes but it will be a small prize seeing as though it's coming out of my own pocket.
You really ought to sew that hole up...

what?

JackHurst

Yes but it will be a small prize seeing as though it's coming out of my own pocket.

Of course, there is always the pride of winning

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The first 15 to sign up have their place guaranteed, while the late entries will be put into a hat to pick the final 5. so 4 guaranteed places left!

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Ok, interested so far:

1)Jack W
2)Callum T
3)Thomas C
4)Kirk B
5)Jeff C
6)Heather S
7)James R
8)Jane W
9)Phyl S
10)Dan M
11)Rob F

Maybes: Gev Matt M

9 more spaces to be filled!

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I think because of the conundrum format it's probably more interesting not to have shit players. If you disagree, I'd be interested for the sake of it sounding interesting. I do disagree. Its an advantage to have as many players as possible in tue final regardless of their ability. Plus the if an u...

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This year there will be a small team event to go alongside the main COLIN event on saturday. The details are given in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10204

Please reply to the topic if you want to be part of it.

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With the kind permission of Ben, I will be running a small team competition at this years COLIN! It should be great fun and wont interfere with the main event too much. There will be two teams, each of the same size (yet to be decided but hopefully as large as 10), both trying to eliminate each othe...

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Whoop whoop. Finally got my train tickets sorted. I'll be turning up just for the saturday, bringing with me one OED3 and 2 Sets of the board game, one without a numbers target generator. I get to Hykeham at 10:44 so should get there just on time! Edit: Btw, I have checked my letters packs against h...

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Everybody shut up about irony and get back on topic.

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