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Gavin Chipper

Also, I've read somewhere on here that a contestant once offered DOING in an onomatopoeic sense, rhyming it with BOING, and Susie spent ages trying to find it in the dictionary before remembering the verb DO. In general we should believe a cock-up before a conspiracy. And there was also Paul Gallen...

Gavin Chipper

Did anyone think it odd in R5 when Stephen said "risky 7", challenger went with 6, obv declared first, then Stephen says "Oh it wasn't risky, PRIMATE". Made me wonder if it was a dummy. Like he said "risky" to ward challenger off declaring 7, to stop challenger getting...

Gavin Chipper

Johnny Canuck wrote:Are there any "recap gaps"* that might be able to be filled in by these transmissions?

*also a valid conundrum scramble

There's likely to be interesting stuff in games that got missed out of the historical recaps, so it will always be worth comparing the game against the recap.

Gavin Chipper

http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/ This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow? It doesn't seem to be very well programmed IMO, I've played twice and won both times, and it's (seemingly) made some very poor choices (e.g. establishing that the word ends in -ME and then trying ...

Gavin Chipper

Just won on go 7.

Gavin Chipper

How many goes does it/you normally take to win? I just played once and lost on go 6 but I had three correct in the right place on that round.

Gavin Chipper

The IAAF has responded to the allegations saying that the results weren't proof of doping. Abnormal results are possible, but I wonder if it does amount to proof of doping, but just not in any particular individuals. For example, if I tell 100 people to roll a dice and they all get a 6, that's prett...

Gavin Chipper

Ryan Taylor?

Gavin Chipper

It's also a bit weird that the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency have regional offices dotted around the UK.

Gavin Chipper

I think Helen Grayson also won 10 heat games.

Gavin Chipper

I thought I might bump this given the recent revelation that a " top British athlete " had "suspicious blood scores". Apparently it's not Mo Farah or Jessica Ennis-Hill. The original Sunday Times article is behind a paywall, but someone said that it's an endurance athlete. I thin...

Gavin Chipper

(7×3×(4+1)-2)×7=721.

Gavin Chipper

Jon O'Neill wrote:I dreamt I met Graeme Le Saux in my local Nisa. Well actually I just moved so it's no longer my local Nisa. Well, it might be, because I haven't checked out the location of any Nisas local to my new place. But I really doubt it is.

It probably is. I've never encountered a Nisa. What's a Nisa?

Gavin Chipper

It will be interesting to see how you progress, Ryan. I was a bit shocked to see your time, especially as I also had quite a poor run this morning so it felt like you were closing in!

Gavin Chipper

Did my first parkrun today and clocked a time of 22:53. I still felt like I had a bit more in the tank and the finish line came upon me fairly suddenly due to me being unfamiliar with the course. I wasn't quite sure how far I was each time and so pacing was tough. The course itself was quite undula...

Gavin Chipper

I was thinking that if I decide to go to this I might stay on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. As usual for CO-events this year, it's on an F1GP weekend (why do you think Lewis Hamilton never comes?), so I might hang out in my hotel room on Sunday evening and have a Brazilian GP party.

Gavin Chipper

If I wasn't wearing a tiara in the dream, I can't wear one in the reconstruction.

Gavin Chipper

Ryan Taylor wrote:So I ran 5k today and it took almost 30 minutes. I'm out.

What did you expect? It's all about training. Your times will gradually come down. See you on the startline.

Gavin Chipper

If stuff is getting cut off despite windows being small it almost sounds like it is operating zoomed in. You don't have some accessibility setting on do you? Try going to Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display and check you're set to 100% rather than something bigger. I can't find any...

Gavin Chipper

How far through filming for this series are we? If we already have the 16 invitees, is it not dependent on the result of the series? Presumably the CoC will only include contestants from series 67-72, and people from S73 will have to wait for the next one. This would be the same as what happened wi...

Gavin Chipper

How far through filming for this series are we? If we already have the 16 invitees, is it not dependent on the result of the series?

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:SALONEEN in one of the later rounds.

Did you crack open a bottle when you saw that?

Gavin Chipper

Hopefully Jono will be doing this as well. We have a bet for a January parkrun, so it might as well be this one.

Gavin Chipper

I've been close to just booking the Travelodge at £58 because it's such a cracking price. But then I just have your smiling face saying "I got it for £54" and I leave the Travelodge website. As for the run I'm gonna be eating runner beans right up until the end of January. And I think you...

Gavin Chipper

How far is a parkrun? 5km? I'm gonna get into training for this if so. I fully intend to win this event and with it, complete a COLIN double of parkrun and price paid for Travelodge. You've been warned. I think it's very impressive that you've managed to sign up for parkrun and not know how long it...

Gavin Chipper

Co:parkrun recap for Saturday 25th July 2015. C1: Gevin Chapwell (17 parkruns, 1 win). R01: Forest Rec parkrun #114 And now a brief interlude before our main feature: SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOIL...

Gavin Chipper

I am signed up to parkrun. I've not ran in any yet, but I have a barcode so it's definitely official. I might make my parkrun debut at COLIN. That would be awesome. It would be good if we could get a decent number of people to do the parkrun at COLIN. We'll have to make sure that Ben doesn't start ...

Gavin Chipper

One concern I have about the new format is over how the declarations will work. As far as I see it, there are two options: A): The host asks each of the four players individually. B): The host says either "player one" or "player two" and they mention the length of their word to ...

Gavin Chipper

Excellent event. Well organised as usual and I enjoyed the new five-to-a-table format. It's puts a bit more pressure on the host, and I think sometimes there was a bit of confusion about who to ask for their words first etc. but I'm sure we can iron out a standard method. Also, I enjoyed scoring a g...

Gavin Chipper

Heather Styles has pretty much stated that she doesn't think Jen should qualify. It's going to be an awkward train to CONOT.

Gavin Chipper

Why did you delete your post, Corby? Because it was fucking shit. I just read your post, remembered reading what you put the other day, so just splurged. I then read back and found that a) it was in this very thread and b) loads of people had already replied to it anyway. I was mortified how shit m...

Gavin Chipper

Why did you delete your post, Corby?

Gavin Chipper

Very well played by Stephen but Liam was definitely subpar today especially on the numbers. Definitely one of the best non-octochamps we've had and hopefully we'll see him back.

Gavin Chipper

I'm probably going to do the Forest Rec parkrun on Saturday before CONOT if anyone else wants to come along. It's not far from the Nottingham Central Travelodge where quite a few people are staying.

Gavin Chipper

After a slow start, the challenger played pretty well towards the end.

Gavin Chipper

This running backwards thing isn't actually happening.

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, you've captured the essence of my question(s) well there Gev, I was thinking exactly along those lines. Do you die of "old age" though, or is that just a simplistic way of saying "you got so weak that something really trivial was actually able to finish you"? Yeah, as Mark...

Gavin Chipper

I've officially booked the Travelodge for Friday.

Ben, next time, pick a weekend when there's a rail strike on the Friday if you really want to keep people out of Nottingham before the event!

Gavin Chipper

I think this is quite a good question. I think some people have this idea that you're born, you develop until you reach some sort of peak (maybe somewhere between 18 and 30 - I dunno), and then you start to deteriorate. But I think this is over-simplistic. I don't think the human body just starts to...

Gavin Chipper

(Dunno why everyone's staying over on the Friday when the whole point of the later start was to make it easier for people to travel up on the day of event itself :-/) The late start also works well for Spoons-induced hangovers and Ring Of Fire-induced sleep deprivation. And I might hunt down a park...

Gavin Chipper

I think Dave was unlucky to come all the way from Australia only to encounter Liam playing the way he is.

Tony Atkins wrote:Standard method for the first numbers (though sadly out of time) is ((25-1)/3) x100 +75+2

Disappointing for you to miss a standard method!

Gavin Chipper

Who is staying on the Friday night and where? I'm unlikely to stay on the Saturday night but might on the Friday (nice bit of late planning).

Gavin Chipper

Apparently he doesn't speak a word of French but won the championship anyway.

Gavin Chipper

Did the Big Brother producers really think beating Chris was a reasonable expectation? When Big Brother was on Channel 4, the audition process was very different. To get onto big Brother, you had to be able to run 100m in under 10 seconds, beat a world top 10 tennis player over 5 sets, and max thre...

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:I was quite good at primary school but steadily went backwards after that.
Well that's certainly not going to help your times. Are you fucking stupid or something? It's hardly difficult to go the right way.

Well, I bet I could complete a parkrun backwards faster than you could forwards.

Gavin Chipper

20:34 at 13 is pretty good. Is he one of the best in his year at school? One of the reasons I ask that is that I often wonder how good my performances would be if I was as good as I am now when I was at school (in various years). Yeah, he's about 3rd in any distance running they do. He ran 19:54 on...

Gavin Chipper

That being said, if Apterous allows it, I would be offering it, whether it should be allowed or not. Paineder/est is a horrific example of this - no-one's going to throw away the 9 though. Innis and I made a suicide pact before our 30BC game in the event that the word LOSINGEST was available in a l...

Gavin Chipper

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:I cared too. But I don't post every time I care about a post. That's the old problem - the poster never knows how much silent interest there is in their post.
I'll save you the worry.. the answer is 0.

Are we still talking about Corby's posts?

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:Monday's thread didn't show a number and Tuesday was one higher than the show prior to that.
According to my records I got the count correct yesterday.

I probably could have worked it out but I was using my phone and everything's ten times harder than when I'm on my laptop.

Gavin Chipper

Lee, I would really like to believe you could beat Judy Bursford, but as she's a top ten Touchy Words player and your not, I have my doubts! This changes everything. It shows that being good at Touchy Words does correspond to being good at Countdown - and with Judy on 7 wins, what could the world n...

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote: There was an alt 9 to TONSORIAL and a 8 beater in the SNAKIER+US round.

I got TORSIONAL. Definitely the standard method 9.

Gavin Chipper

Someone will win this game. Who?

Anyway, Did DC get a beater in round 5? WIRETAP was there for 7. Also there was a 51×19 standard method in round 6.

I've left the episode number because they don't seem to have gone up in order in the other threads.

Gavin Chipper

Is it the standard method?

Gavin Chipper

20:34 at 13 is pretty good. Is he one of the best in his year at school?

One of the reasons I ask that is that I often wonder how good my performances would be if I was as good as I am now when I was at school (in various years).

Gavin Chipper

I cared too. But I don't post every time I care about a post. That's the old problem - the poster never knows how much silent interest there is in their post.

Gavin Chipper

I'll be up for this at COLIN next year if there's one nearby! Matt & Gevin's times are seriously impressive though, won't be anywhere near those. Well done. Matt and Lauren did one last year so presumably there is one nearby. But when I spoke to you about parkruns at this year's COLIN you were ...

Gavin Chipper

Google isn't very good with this place. What's the full postal address? If you search for Westdale Lane Baptist Church, it's basically in the same location- 368 Westdale Lane, Mapperley, NG3 6ES. Thanks. Also- you've been there before. That was years ago though! I don't remember where every place i...

Gavin Chipper

Google isn't very good with this place. What's the full postal address?

Gavin Chipper

Jon O'Neill wrote:Rules like that are ridiculous. If you design your tournament in such a way as it can be exploited to get a significant advantage then that's your problem.

I agree. You can't make it beneficial for someone to throw a match and expect people not to do this.

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:I think OUTWAIT was a beater in one of the rounds. Is it in?
Yup, no worries about that one.

Yeah, I knew really!

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