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Adam Beach

Braintree won't be taking place in November 2025, and is very unlikely to take place at all in 2025. I have earmarked a June slot and have tentatively enquired about a venue in Southampton. It would be a traditional Lincoln-style event. Jeff Thanks Jeff. I'll add this into the calendar as a pencill...

Adam Beach

I guess my main suggestion now would be to go back to 6 rounds as opposed to 8 in lincoln. I know i'm part of the problem why it became 8 but 8 every now and then is better than 8 as the norm. Blackpool was refreshing with 6, I've actively started to feel myself enjoying it less with the more games...

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This is a provisional calendar for the confirmed events in the 2025 FOCAL season as of Tuesday, 10th September 2024 , which will be updated as new events are announced. As things stand, next year's calendar is looking near-identical to this year's, albeit with some shuffling around. We have a spread...

Adam Beach

*your. But no, I don't accuse everyone of being woke. I only accuse the woke of being woke, and even then only if they are using their wokeness for evil purposes or to subdue or dominate others (e.g. when Stu was ruining Robbo's "announce entrants via pics of celebs" game by gate crashing...

Adam Beach

hmm, you seem like a negative-minded kind of a personality. Maybe take an oul chill pill there. These fears are ridiculous and unfounded. The events will be fine. There won't be arguments. (Who even thinks this way?!) Nope. Not negative, just realistic. Also, I'm not the one who needs to take an &q...

Adam Beach

Please refer to this update regarding the adjudication at the upcoming Goat:Brum and Co:Brum co-event tournaments at the beginning of next month.

Cheers.

Adam Beach

:!: UPDATES REGARDING THE DICTIONARY CHANGE :!: As a result of the abrupt, drastic entry deletions administered by Oxford University Press on Monday, it has been decided that the next two FOCAL events — Goatdown in Birmingham, and Countdown in Birmingham — will continue to use the dictionary seen on...

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Game results Round 1 Table 1 Darren Godfrey 46 – 64 MSR MSR 60 – 49 Phil Stanton Phil Stanton 55 – 48 Darren Godfrey Table 2 Matt Gould 62 – 27 Ashwin Abinashi Ashwin Abinashi 23 – 68 George Armstrong George Armstrong 84 – 48 Matt Gould Table 3 Bradley Horrocks 69 – 39 Elizabeth Beer Elizabeth Beer...

Adam Beach

Countdown in Durham 2024 Results Here are the game results and standings from Co:Durham 2024. Thanks to everyone for an amazing day. It meant a lot to me to be able to anchor a co-event for the first time — and certainly not the last. Final standings [Position]. [Player name] | [Games] | [Wins] | [...

Adam Beach

Fiona T wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:52 am

Adam Beach

Weirdly, the X is missing from at least two of the card sets used at the co-events as well (said sets haven't been used since I discovered this). A glitch in the matrix?

Adam Beach

Conundrums with people's names in it are great fun at a co-event (a proper one with divisional QFs and a big screen showing selections). I do it every year, and will never stop. Not when the name in the scramble belongs to someone present at the event, they're not. I learned that from last year's B...

Adam Beach

ADVANCE TRAIN TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE

Advance train tickets for the weekend of this event are now available to purchase from your desired operators. Get booking (and signing up).

Adam Beach

(ANOTHER) IMPORTANT UPDATE Hey everyone. Sadly, the venue that was originally booked for this event was permanently closed down at the end of February (though I was only informed on Monday after enquiring about having a look around). Luckily, I've secured a booking for a new venue — Merryoaks Commu...

Adam Beach

I can't wait for this triple-header. Couldn't think of a better way of spending a Friday night than Countdowning followed by a walk to the Fox in the freezing cold. :lol: The pre-drinks title is just brilliant. Re the poll, I've selected 6:30pm, as that's the time the Vicar of Dudley *prays* is open...

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Yeah it was much nicer this year - we went on Friday - been refurbished, friendly and helpful bar staff. But yeah the dartboard is now a big telly and I think they'd have been a bit upset if we'd chucked arrows at it. The social club did a good job of providing the traditional colin activities - Di...

Adam Beach

Agreed, it may sound simple but manually redistributing the letters packs is a massive ballache. Please don't mess the packs up when playing with them everyone! I also found the selections benefitted from the marvellous efforts of MSR and Beachy this weekend. I have to say I absolutely adored using...

Adam Beach

Following from this post ... If I had one small suggestion, it would be that if there are table numbers, it's best to have them explicitly labelled rather than people having to infer them from the set numbers on the lids of the letters/numbers boxes, which are generally harder to find with the lids...

Adam Beach

IMPORTANT UPDATE Due to Durham’s annual Miners’ Gala taking place on the same day as the event’s original date (13th July), for which the hotel companies have naturally put their prices through the roof, Co:Durham will now be held the week prior, on Saturday, 6th July 2024 . My sincere apologies to...

Adam Beach

If lunch is provided then the cost of providing the lunch will affect any prize pot surely Unlike Scrabble tournaments, we don't have prize pots at co-events. Do you think if there were prize pots it would be more popular? I would guess the prize pot is a big factor in why at a scrabble tournament ...

Adam Beach

If lunch is provided the downside is the catering cost will up the entry fee or any prize fund Huh? How do you mean it will up any prize fund? If lunch is provided then the cost of providing the lunch will affect any prize pot surely Unlike Scrabble tournaments, we don't have prize pots at co-events.

Adam Beach

This is something on my to-do list, because I've overheard it happening a lot. I'm on making a new batch of the foldable conundrum 'tents' as we speak, and will ensure they are included with every set of cards going forward. A stupid idea, to reduce the wonkiness issue pointed out, is to have a pie...

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You can often get slightly striped effects when printing blocks of colour, so really does depend on what the host has available. I know when I made my cards I got through a couple of crazy expensive blue ink cartridges, so will be avoiding colour backgrounds going forward! Printing in colour is a c...

Adam Beach

Does anybody have some low effort high impact suggestions for reducing the % of botched printed conundrum reveals? I had a botched conundrum given to me in at least 5/8 of the events I attended in 2023 which had paper conundrums. Reasons for botched conundrums reveals could be any of (but not limit...

Adam Beach

Another new city, another new host, and another exciting co-event to add to the mix. For the first time, letters, numbers and conundurhams are coming to the historic cathedral city of Durham. ———————————— Date and times [/u] Saturday, 6th July 2024 • Doors open : 10:00 • First round draw : 10:45* •...

Adam Beach

Thanks a lot for the comments and feedback regarding the conundrums and my hosting. I agree with Jack's view on FLOWERAGE being too easy as a con for the finalists. In typical Adam fashion, this was meant to be one for the openers, but I stuck it in the wrong file. Epic fail #2. Saying that, if it s...

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One other thing - if there's a grand final at the end of a tournament and no screen with the scores, it's important to announce the scores at the end of each round. My bad. I was a complete scatterbrain and overcome with nerves during the final. My board was intended to be used a score display but ...

Adam Beach

Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:18 am
I for one am interested in joining this breakaway faction going to the Indian restaurant.

Not a problem. Come join us

Adam Beach

Count me in for food please! Unfortunately the venue have set a capacity which we've met (actually we went over and have had to reject a couple). However Beachy has made alternate meal plans so worth messaging him. Ofc anyone else is welcome to join us for the karaoke (up until 10pm) Ok no worries ...

Adam Beach

I gather there's a discussion on the Apterous wiki about whether I'm a troll (https://wiki.apterous.org/Talk:Jane_Guestin). I'm not, I'm genuinely Jane's daughter! I have a VHS with this episode on, and have extracted an image showing the correct spelling of my mum's name - but I can't figure out h...

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JackHurst wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 2:43 pm I can't find any records of individual games for this event. Does anybody have them? Would like to get them added to the event rankings.

Same. Would be good for the wiki page that like 6 people will have looked at.

Adam Beach

FWIW, that's not enough C's. I had two shows in my octorun where 5 C's were drawn and another that had 4. Yeah, I saw your post about that last year on another thread. I think it's simply a case of the quantities of certain letters being changed every so often by the guys who shuffle them. 3 seems ...

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The consistency in the letter packs was because I sat down and sorted through every one of them in the weeks beforehand and gave them equal distribution (yes, I'm sad). I kid you not, one of the packs had 4 Ks in before doing this. I'm all for fairness and everyone playing with the same quantities ...

Adam Beach

Please please don't set conundrums with one of the players names in. Lots of people know at least some of the scrambles with their name, and it gives a huge potential advantage to that player. Twice in tournaments I've faced crucial conundrums where the scramble started with my opponent's 6 letter ...

Adam Beach

Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 12:41 pm Fun Event

Any chance of a run down of all the results for both events?

Goat:Brum — https://greem.co.uk/cgi-bin/colive/tour ... atbrum2023

Co:Brum — https://greem.co.uk/co/brum2023

Adam Beach

Thanks to Adam and MSR for putting on this event! Several things about this event were awesome: - Adam did a cracking Job hosting his first event(s) - The venue was excellent. Hope there's another Co:Brum there next year - 8 game format. Probably not everybody's taste, but it's good to have a few o...

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Matt Rutherford wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 7:14 pm but it does mean the added risk of having to put up with my shit puns should I end up on your table

In that case, fingers crossed we’ll need two Prunes so I can rig the draw and have you with them.

xo

Adam Beach

Thank you to everyone for making the weekend great. I enjoyed my COLIN debut very much, and was honoured to preside over the grand final for the Hangover — it made up for my embarrassing performance of coming last. Looking forward to next year's. :)

Adam Beach

Seems like as good a place as any to post this. I recently bought a set from a charity shop. Is there any official letters distribution to check they are all there in the correct quantities? Same for numbers (I assume 2 of each plus 4L covers that). Generally accepted thingy is A 15 E 21 I 13 O 13 ...

Adam Beach

I've somehow miraculously managed to book a room for myself and Maus at the Novotel for £122 via Booking.com . It's non-refundable, however you can add cancellation insurance for a fairly reasonable (I think) £8.42 . At the time of writing this, it says there are 6 rooms available at that price. Tho...

Adam Beach

If a lack of physical tiles is a problem atm, I'm sure most of us attending have a version of the board game and could bring along a set of tiles? Hi friends :) First post on here, but have been familiar with the site for years, so thought I'd chip in for once. This is exactly what I'm going to be ...

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