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Gavin Chipper

Why not get Abdi on as the token black guy; a couple of girls... and players from Ireland, Scotland and Wales... Whilst you're there... Invite a wheelchair player and an autistic/aspergers type? FFS... Can't we just have the BEST, without worrying about ticking boxes? Or shall we have a gay/lesbian...

Gavin Chipper

There's nothing wrong with this thread (other than the thread title now and maybe that's an argument for not allowing thread name changes without a moderator). But so what, some of you disagree with Dave Preece. I can't help but think there's been some massive overreacting on here. Get over it. Get ...

Gavin Chipper

I'd say January 2015 is the earliest reasonable time, but January 2016 might be slightly more realistic (whatever series number they happen to be).

Gavin Chipper

I don't think it would be that confusing to have players like Eoin, Oliver etc. It's happened before (e.g. Jon Corby), and I'm not sure that the issue even needs to be addressed. Just have them on. I doubt there will be too many people pulling their hair out about it. I would say that obviously seri...

Gavin Chipper

Looking forward to it.

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote:I mean, I don't like or respect it as a business model, but I want them to do it anyway, for you, because you're earning it.

I don't think it's going to get much more than £64 but it could go down so I don't think I've really got anything to lose. It is a good business model.

Gavin Chipper

Jason Larsen wrote:Holy cow Gavin

Which bit were you Holy cowing to?

Gavin Chipper

There's still a month. This game of chicken is not over.

Gavin Chipper

Andy Platt wrote:^ This. Next winter might be an idea, or Summer 2015. Wouldn't be too soon after the 30BC, I reckon.

There was always at least a two year gap so at least 2015 I'd say.

Gavin Chipper

I was thinking I might do a top ten for players that have never won a championship. Anyone else can join in too! I might do this now actually. In chronological order: Helen Grayson Allan Saldanha David Williams Jon O'Neill Charlie Reams Eoin Monaghan Adam Gillard Jonathan Rawlinson Martin Sinclair ...

Gavin Chipper

*The third highest scoring octochamp in a format which has only been going for 1.5 series. 0.75 years isn't it? Literally cant tell if you're mocking my use of decimal notation or if you misread my post. I misread "series" as "years". Never mind. Move on. Nothing to see here. Ed...

Gavin Chipper

JackHurst wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:
If being the third-highest scoring contestant ever...
*The third highest scoring octochamp in a format which has only been going for 1.5 series.

0.75 years isn't it?

Gavin Chipper

I think another CoC event would be pretty cool, not just for selfish reasons. There's a lot of good candidates from this year alone that I think both fans on here and typical armchair viewers would be happy to see again. My understanding is that Damian or perhaps officials at Channel 4, or whatever...

Gavin Chipper

It would be great to see a rematch, but would you qualify for entry to a CoC tournament? No offence meant, as obviously if it was based on ability alone then you would not only deserve a place, but would be one of the favourites. But if such a competition was opened up to one losing quarter finalis...

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:
Martin Sinclair wrote:EGOMANIAC
Are you going to Colin Dylan? And will you be fighting Ryan this time? (I think it was Ryan you were going to fight before but correct me if I'm wrong.)

Was this fight going to be about something or was it more like a friendly eating competition?

(I'm specifically asking Graeme.)

Gavin Chipper

Series 46 (Ben's series) was the first with 15-round games rather than 9 rounds, so they probably thought that 6 games was enough for someone. 6 games with 15 rounds each is 90 rounds in total, whereas 8 games with 9 rounds each is 72, so even with just 6 games, viscounts were playing more rounds th...

Gavin Chipper

I've been having a think about the high scores 'record' thing, as it's a moderately interesting problem. Obviously the basic conclusion is "Jack has the old-15 record, Dylan has the new-15 one", because a straight comparison is always going to involve some subjectivity. However, I thought...

Gavin Chipper

1) Conor Travers 2) Dylan Taylor 3) Jack Hurst 4) Edward McCullagh 5) Giles Hutchings Having seen the discussion in the other thread, I'm going to wade in, but in this thread. There's no way I'd put Dylan second. I know he has great stats, and I'm a fan of looking at stats, but they are just one th...

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Martin Sinclair wrote:I feel the numbers where you got 2 away but you could have got away as a max is up to opinion, as I know a few people don't think it should be classed as a max (I'm one of them).

I think Graeme does it that way because it's easier for him to calculate.

Gavin Chipper

Jason Larsen wrote:I see two votes for Callum so far!

Was that an unintelligent question?

Why did you pick those two?

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:You're waiting too right Gev? Just the two of you?

I'm waiting. I'm going to check Saturday again some time in January.

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:Fri £50 now ffs

Well you could have nailed that deal ages ago. Saturday was the only one that was really a problem. You've only got yourself to blame over Friday. (And stop checking.)

Gavin Chipper

Brilliant final, and brilliant series overall. I'd definitely say this was the best series in terms of good players that we've had. To have three 945+ octochamps and one player beating all three of them to win the series is pretty good.

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote:What's wrong with lagers?

Try drinking one.

Gavin Chipper

Have it in Vermont. It's a compromise between America and Canada and I have a friend who lives there so I can stay. Or you could hold it in May 2013 in New York as I was there then. You would need a time machine though.

Gavin Chipper

Andy McGurn wrote:I spotted MONOPEDS in round 13. Is it valid?

Not on Lexplorer.

Gavin Chipper

POSTBAG as a beater in round 1 I think.

Gavin Chipper

Nick talks such shit.

Gavin Chipper

HELIOSTAT? In the time as well!

Gavin Chipper

Had one of the top 8 been unable to play in the Series 65 finals, that would've happened (Phyl Styles would've played instead of Matt Croy, having lost to some no-hoper called Jack Worsley who we never heard of again in the final prelim of the series). Dunno if it's happened properly but it wouldn'...

Gavin Chipper

Has a player ever missed out on a finals place as a result of winning the final preliminary game of a series? (eg. player finishes series x with several wins, but loses the first game of series y and misses the series y finals, when losing the last game in series x would have got them into the seri...

Gavin Chipper

Of course though "30 year history" is slightly bullshit (goes for Dylan too) because it would be impossible to have a higher score from the 9-round era, and even a lot harder before the change to 4 numberses. Although clearly there is no female contestant who would have beaten her with the...

Gavin Chipper

You watching, Corby?

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:
Peter Fenton wrote:Well done to both players - a fantastic game and one that would have been well worthy of the final.
You wait til the final between X and X this time next week............

SPOILERS!

Gavin Chipper

To be honest Callum, I think you came one series too early. If you were filming now I think you'd have a good chance of winning any series. I think because of the gap between his heats and the quarter finals and the Apterous practice, that has been shown not to be the case. Callum has improved to t...

Gavin Chipper

The thing is - I see myself as OK at eating food. If I go to a Pizza Hut buffet or go our for a curry where they have some offer meaning that you effectively have to order more than most people would eat, I do a better job than most of my friends. But I don't eat industrial amounts of food. I've nev...

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:If you don't want to do quantity Gev you either have to do "spicy" or "disgusting", do either of those appeal more?

Yeah. Carrots and pineapple are pretty disgusting. We could do that.

Gavin Chipper

Can a decision be made nearer the time?

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote:I dunno, I forgot. But you were up for it at one point and then backed down because you weren't feeling the competitive element.

It was probably the feeling uncomfortable for ages afterwards that I was against.

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote:Fine by me. I bet Gevin won't play though. Pre-emptive booing. Booooooooo!

How did this come up in the first place? Did I say I was really good at eating or did someone else put me forward on the basis of having two puddings in the pub or having more than one thing in Little Chef?

Gavin Chipper

that adds up to £100!! Back to £28.99 and £64.20 today. Do you suppose that they monitor the number of people searching for specific locations/dates, and adjust the prices accordingly? If I stop showing interest for a week, will the price fall? This is getting very quantum mechanical. Is there a wa...

Gavin Chipper

I've enjoyed doing the Monday recap over the last two years, but I've decided to stop doing regular recaps at the end of this series. Time for someone else to have a go. So if anyone wants to take on the Monday recap slot, it's available from the start of 2014. As long as you don't think you can ev...

Gavin Chipper

Good call.

Gavin Chipper

What does the pancreas say?

Gavin Chipper

Somebody else has voted for me :S I struggle to understand why Glen hasn't had more votes yet, I would have made him a very comfortable 3rd favourite. I think someone said something similar about a player in another series when we had this thread. He has hardly any votes because everyone sees him a...

Gavin Chipper

Turns out that Sudokus are the biggest waste of human life ever invented. Don't waste your time.

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:Alt 3rd numbers ((3x6)+5-4)x25-3

(4×6-5)×25-3 for the straightforward method.

Gavin Chipper

Dave Preece wrote:I'm assuming the bottom few are very good conundrum/average numbers round contestants???

Conundrums don't make a difference. But yeah, more likely to be people who are shit at numbers.

Gavin Chipper

Defo taking a risk by actually not booking anything yet................... That's the risk you take when a CO-event is on FA Cup 4th round weekend............... :roll: :roll: :roll: What's that got to do with the price of ... Travelodge? Easy, by the time, the 3rd round is done 3 weeks before COLI...

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James Robinson wrote:Defo taking a risk by actually not booking anything yet...................

That's the risk you take when a CO-event is on FA Cup 4th round weekend...............

What's that got to do with the price of ... Travelodge?

Gavin Chipper

Corby's going nowhere near.

Gavin Chipper

And there's a theory that selections on the show are set a bit nicer and less randomly than online. I'd be interested to investigate that. I would be reasonably surprised if they were different enough that it's perceptible. Isn't that what got investigated and turned out to be just 3 points a game,...

Gavin Chipper

Andy Platt wrote:METATES in round 5 or whenever it was. Gevin will be happy to know this is a beater.

I'm ecstatic.

Gavin Chipper

I always write the letters down and because there's more time pressure on Apterous, the letters don't always come out as well. That and I try to fit more rounds per page. I think that makes a difference for me.

Gavin Chipper

Unlucky there, James. On a related note, with the pretentiously long questions that they have on Mastermind (often with single-word answers), does John Humphrys ever fuck up a question and waste loads of a contestant's time? It must also be quite easy to accidentally blurt out the answer when someon...

Gavin Chipper

Read down from here. sean d reckoned playing against the TV is worth about 3 points a game over Apterous, based on the stats compiled there.

Gavin Chipper

Graeme, could you please post a table off all old 15 octochamps' estimated totals in the new 15 using the following formula: (average points scored per numbers round - average points scored per letters round) x 8, + original total, then rounded to the nearest whole number? How much the new format c...

Gavin Chipper

Interestingly, ODO likes both PONGEES and NAIVEST.

Gavin Chipper

I suppose you can always go for VAINEST instead.

Gavin Chipper

I think its easier watching on television. You have longer to find the words as the letters go up really slowly and then Nick has to decide to start the time. I think I do better watching on television as well and that's probably partly it.

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