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Adam Gillard

What are those tripod thingies with camera thingies with people in fluorescent jacket thingies manning them? Seems to be some sort of survey equipment but what is it used for? They've had them manned every morning for about a month next to a road I pass on my commute and I'm too scared to ask one of...

Adam Gillard

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 19, 2018 5:48 pm
absolute classic

Did you miss the nuance that they were both 1st of 1 and the ensuing existential crisis?

Adam Gillard

THE GotY 2017 POLL HAS NOW CLOSED. Thanks to all those who voted, and once again to those who nominated. I can now reveal the top three games of apterous from 2017! GotY 2017 : Ben Andrews 200 - 200 Martin Hurst Runner-up : Apterous Rex 480 - 520 Callum Todd Joint third place : Apterous Prune 0 - 2...

Adam Gillard

Only about 6 days left to vote!

Adam Gillard

Thanks to all those who submitted nominations for GotY 2017. There were 6 nominees that made the cut-off for the final poll. Voting rules: Each person should submit one of 12 options for each game when voting: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or Abstain (0 is worst and 10 is best). You can submit th...

Adam Gillard

GotY 2017 nominations have now closed. The poll will open shortly in a separate thread.

Adam Gillard

About one week left to nominate.

Adam Gillard

Nominations are now open and will close on Saturday 3 February 2018 at 11.59pm.

The rules and preferred format for the nominations are stated in the original post in this thread.

Adam Gillard

Stop right there. If we had a game of the decade, I think it should be more open, rather than to just winners of GOTY, just like GOTY is open to non-GOTW winners. A few games have been missed and were highlighted later on, like Rahul Suresh's max bullet hyper nasty numbers attack. Mathematically, i...

Adam Gillard

Since this is Apterous' 10th year, could we also do a Game of the Decade? Yes we could, nice idea! It'd be easy. Just do it after the 2017 winner is chosen... Allow people vote on what they consider the greatest of the 10 annual winners so far. I've been running the annual poll since 2010, the year...

Adam Gillard

Evening, all! I'm setting up this thread for information and discussion about GotY 2017. I'm planning to accept nominations for a one-month period after all of the GotW results for 2017 have been confirmed (around the second week of January 2018). After nominations close (mid-February 2018), I'll po...

Adam Gillard

Wow, that was a thrilling contest! Well done to Innis and team for coming through against strong opponents. Can just apply that comment for this round as well. So evenly matched all the way through, and just nicking it at the end. Yep! Just watched it - another nail-biter and some good educated gue...

Adam Gillard

Matt Bayfield wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:44 pm
1) Mark Lewis-Francis Obikwelu
2) Yelena Isinbayevalerie Adams
3) Steve Cramantle Montsho
4) Lorraine Ugenzebe Dibaba

Correct! Francis Obikwelu was pervading my consciousness this morning for some reason so I decided to incorporate his name into a quiz.

Adam Gillard

MR KLWSF RNC SBKWL
YLNSN BYVL RDM S
ST VCR MNT LMNT SH
LRRNG NZ BDBB

Adam Gillard

Figure out directions apart from straight / up without tilting my head or the map.

Adam Gillard

Yeah, agreed on MYOGLOBIN. FORTALICE also impressed me.

Adam Gillard

Tony Atkins wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 31, 2017 9:00 am

Adam Gillard wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:09 am
On the website it says there's £100,000 in prize money. Is any of this available in the Countdown event?
Sadly it seems the best one can hope for is a very small pocket dictionary...

Ah right, count me out then!

Adam Gillard

Wow, that was a thrilling contest! Well done to Innis and team for coming through against strong opponents.

Adam Gillard

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 08, 2017 9:10 pm
Around 21% chance of Corbyn as Prime Minister according to Betfair.

Edit - follow it here.

What are the chances of Toby Pereira as Prime Minister?

Adam Gillard

On the website it says there's £100,000 in prize money. Is any of this available in the Countdown event?

Adam Gillard

Yay, well done to Graeme, Phyl and Tom! Superb quizzing

Adam Gillard

Why do people eat fruit-flavoured sweets? Why wouldn't they? They give nice flavours. There are other flavours too, like mint, aniseed, liquorice, violet, rhubarb & custard, and non-specific. Just because they don't really taste like fruit and fruit is better for you and probably cheaper, at least ...

Adam Gillard

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:40 am

Adam Gillard wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:20 am
Why do people eat fruit-flavoured sweets?
Because vegetable ones are disgusting

Hehe, good answer!

Adam Gillard

Why do people eat fruit-flavoured sweets?

Adam Gillard

Euan Slatter wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:43 pm
MONKMAN WAS ON THE ONE SHOW!!

And Seagull! Great shout

Adam Gillard

Just caught up on the last two Only Connects. Well done, Verbivores! I thoroughly enjoyed Graeme's disbelieving facepalming in the closing credits of both episodes

Adam Gillard

Another good performance from Warwick there but Wolfson were also on good form. Great run Giles and team, well done!

Adam Gillard

THE GotY 2016 POLL HAS NOW CLOSED. Thanks to all those who voted, and once again to those who nominated. I can now reveal the top three games of apterous from 2016! GotY 2016 : Johnny Canuck 116 - 71 Tracey Mills Runner-up : Apterous Prune 0 - 285 Rob Foster Third place : Apterous Prime 160 - 200 R...

Adam Gillard

Reminder - voting closes on Saturday night!

Adam Gillard

Wooow! Got a bit overexcited applauding at nearly midnight catching up on this! When they had that double music round and Bristol were miles ahead I thought it was all over purely from a time perspective - well done Giles and Warwick!

Adam Gillard

Nominations have now closed.

Please see the GotY 2016 voting thread for details of the final poll.

Adam Gillard

It's that time again - now the seventh Game of the Year poll I've run on this forum! Nominations for GotY 2016 have now closed. Now we move on to the voting phase, which is quick and simple. There were 7 games with more than one nomination, which comprise the final poll - I've decided there are too ...

Adam Gillard

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:25 pm
RE - the marathon. While it was not open entry and thus not a CO:event, it thus would not count here on account of playing the game being the main point of going.

Not for Mikey Lear!

Adam Gillard

Zarte

Adam Gillard

Ed McCullagh <3

Adam Gillard

How many people does it have to be for a ratifiable COCMEAT? For example, I have met Innis and Ed M individually for non-Countdown shenanigans; Zarte, Innis and Mikey Lear are not on your list if Mark Watson's 25-hour show doesn't count as a Co:Event.

Adam Gillard

Reminder - nominations will close on Saturday 11 February 2017 at 11.59pm.

Adam Gillard

Hi Graeme,

Please could you Answer this Thing (well, not just this Thing, but the Thing immediately following this Thing)?

What's the percentage of returning players per (regular) series? (e.g. 100 different players in series n, 10 had played in series <n, therefore 10% were returning players).

Adam Gillard

Don't know if this is any different from before but when I read 'LAST POST' I hear a bugle playing in my head. It's cool that you can click the north-east facing arrow and jump straight to that post though.

Adam Gillard

Alas, poor Warwick. Seagull was flying tonight.

Adam Gillard

Came on to this thread to see what had happened in the main event and see everyone shouting at Jono instead. Can't believe there is so much passionate debate about this as personally I couldn't care less!

Adam Gillard

Return of the Mack! Nice to see/hear how much it meant to him at the end there

Adam Gillard

Time to open the nominations! The GotY 2016 poll will be opened shortly after nominations have closed. NOMINATIONS FOR GotY 2016 ARE NOW OPEN AND WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2017 AT 11.59pm. NOMINATIONS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO ME BY APTOMAIL OR BY PRIVATE MESSAGE ON THIS FORUM. PLEASE PROVIDE ...

Adam Gillard

RE the quarks; not gonna lie, by this stage I knew we were out and that I hadn't buzzed in yet - as soon as Jeremy mentioned quarks I ran through them in my head (saying up!) I thought he said "quartz" so I was completely bamboozled. I pronounce it to rhyme with "barks" rather than "forks" so that'...

Adam Gillard

Is it just me, or is there a palpably weird and knowing atmosphere in the studio every time APTEROUS comes up as a DC max on Countdown? It's kind of like in Harry Potter when someone dares to say "Voldemort" rather than "he who must not be named". Susie has a slightly excited expression, of someone...

Adam Gillard

What the Dickens happened there, Eoin?

In all seriousness, the opposing team were on fire, credit to them for a top-notch performance. They even got all the bonuses on Northern Ireland, so no complaints there!

Adam Gillard

Just noticed that Adam Gillard did a new year parkrun but was way off his PB despite a year to train for this one event! Stalker much? :p I have had a cough / cold so wasn't up for the Christmas Day parkrun, and I didn't feel that great still on Sunday so decided just to enjoy the run rather than c...

Adam Gillard

Evening, all! I'm setting up this thread for information and discussion about GotY 2016. For now (before the nominations go "live"), this thread is the forum for any questions about the rules and the general format of the nominations and the GotY 2016 poll. I'm planning to accept nominations for a o...

Adam Gillard

People who don't wash their hands after going to the loo. I also find it weird when people go for the soap before the water (i.e., with still-dry hands) but I wouldn't go so far as to deem these people untrustworthy.

Adam Gillard

I wasn't sure that you had it this time when that last clue went unanswered, but well done! Disappointed with Phyl's introduction though, I had already said "it's MC Stylez!" before the host mentioned rapping and neglected to use that stage name.

Adam Gillard

Gavin Chipper wrote:People who use the "word" "bae".

Why? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Adam Gillard

Hucthings smash! So that was Giles then? I did wonder (I tuned in late so didn't see the introductions and for some reason thought it wasn't; I'm unsure why but I thought he was a bit older). And yes, they did very well indeed, looking forward to their next appearance. Was this on UC or OC? I misse...

Adam Gillard

Hucthings smash!

Adam Gillard

What do you call it when you know what the actual words are but STILL can't escape that it sounds like something else entirely... What is it you lot think they're saying is about to explode? https://youtu.be/gh-pGxZBQ1Y?t=48s Without having heard this before or read the lyrics, it sounds to me like...

Adam Gillard

Matt Le Tassier's not had a mention yet that I can see. Craig Chittenden was an early trailblazer in numbers stuff too. Glad Paul Howe and Jesus have both got a mention so far.

Adam Gillard

Finally conceded that I'm not likely to ever use these, so threw them away this morning.

Adam Gillard

Not obvious I suppose, but certain sportspeople's names that I'd only heard said by commentators and then one day see them written and it's completely different from what I expected. Brian Ideye and Van Sinclair come to mind.

Adam Gillard

Carl WIlliams vs Graeme Cole was the best televised game I've seen live; "GALVANISE!" is a squeak that has stayed with me vividly, and vanquished semi-finalist Mark Deeks peering round from the edge of the set is an image that has stayed with me as well, cracking denouement. Going off Charlie's pos...

Adam Gillard

When an unsubscribe link on an email doesn't work (redirects to a non-existent page, or as I had recently, a page that refreshes every half a second so doesn't allow you to submit your email address), it's probably been done on purpose rather than being a site bug. Similarly this may be why the "hid...

Adam Gillard

Weird question in University Challenge stated "To the nearest factor of 10", where the eventual answer was 80. That's a multiple of 10 and not a factor unless they've changed maths again? It's the question-setter's fault, undoubtedly, but have you noticed that Paxman almost seems to take a pride in...

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