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Ryan Lam

Wow, I must be very lucky when I altered the CoC XVI table on Monday after the first episode when the order was clearly wrong, because I happened to put today's match in the right order without knowing it was going to air today! :D So, it's the "Human Dictionary" Ahmed Mohamed, our Series ...

Ryan Lam

This is the match you've all been waiting for I bet, and this brings me back memories in the Daily Chat on Apterous on that fateful day of 28 June 2019, the day the Series 80 Grand Final took place where all of us but one (Chris M iirc) expected the greatest of all time in terms of points, Elliott t...

Ryan Lam

Happy 2023 to all of you and hope you're doing well! Championship of Champions is back for another edition after four years, and this time around, we've got loads to cover and look forward to after having an incredible last eight Series between Series 79 which began way back in July 2018 to Series 8...

Ryan Lam

Turns out I might have been a bit tipsy for my 25th Birthday when this aired for I fell asleep in my timezone after the show aired finished. I thank all of you once again for wishing me one and it's rare to have two years in a row where the Grand Final airs on my Birthday, you could say it's a treat...

Ryan Lam

Fyi, Apterous came back up just after R10. Man, even though we didn't get the audience we so wanted, at least I got to play along with people on my Birthday. Thank you to Tom and Edward for giving such a brilliant show on my 25th (thanks to Tal and Ronan for wishing me one too!) and I'll write my re...

Ryan Lam

Well Apterous is down at the moment sadly, on what's my 25th Birthday, but oh well, things happen. Have fun watching this wherever you are, and may the best player win!

Ryan Lam

It's the second Semi-Final and the second last episode already. Damn, time flies and it's only ten days left until 2023. So let's get along quickly as I try to recap this episode just hours before the Grand Final! Letters: Good start in the first third of the show, then Edward separates Quinn when h...

Ryan Lam

Just when you thought Channel 4 couldn't get weirder with a trailer about a year-end Prince Andrew musical airing before the start of the show, the episode mentions a hooker and people possibly thinking ASEXUAL is a rude word. I mean, what has this world come to? :shock: Jeez, anyways, here's some h...

Ryan Lam

Tom spoiled last week, it's going to be an exciting show, so stay tuned to see who clinches the first spot in the Grand Final! Just to clarify, I was on about the 4 v 5 match, I haven't been publicly revealing spoilers about today's game haha, but no doubt that Joe is the toughest player I've come ...

Ryan Lam

Another disclaimer, I watched this episode way later than the original broadcast, because at the time of airing, I was on a flight back home. Plus, work the next day. That's office life for you I guess. Anyways, to the game now, Christmas is inching ever closer, "Home Alone" sounds like yo...

Ryan Lam

Many rounds of congratulations over the weekend for two things. First of course, the World Cup champions, Argentina after that nail-biting finale against the previous champions, France. Secondly, the first Series 86 contestant, Andrew Western is now officially a MP! :D Well done and I believe he’s t...

Ryan Lam

Disclaimer: Posting this later than usual, because I was on a flight after the show to another country and prepared this overseas! First time in three years I'm abroad, I forgot how it feels like flying! :D Got the subtitles and it seems he didn't at any point during the show. Back to the game, and ...

Ryan Lam

Oh yes, it's that time of year again when Christmas is around the corner, but hmm, where's the decorations? Did Countdown spend their budget on the 40th Anniversary things last month? Not sure, but anyways, here's Colin Murray's first set of Finals and you can tell how much passion he has for the ga...

Ryan Lam

Tom S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 11:12 am Ah cool! The wiki had an asterisk next to it, so didn't think that they'd shown it....

Removed the asterisk for you! On a sidenote, all the best for the Finals!

Ryan Lam

Tom S wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 10:21 am I saw this game from my dressing room. and if my memory serves me right, Rachel found Meshlike, which DC missed.

You are absolutely right, because this was what was broadcast on TV!

Ryan Lam

Alternative to R6: 75 × 3 + (10 + 9) × 2

Finally caught up after close to two weeks, had a bout of Rhinitis and was feeling ill for some time...

Ryan Lam

With four more preliminaries to go this Series, we now know who the final eight are for this Series and the matches are as follows below: Quarter-Finals #1 (15 December): Tom Stevenson (#1 Seed) vs Lewis Castling-Morey (#8 Seed) Quarter-Finals #2 (16 December): Edward Byrne (#2 Seed) vs Steven Ether...

Ryan Lam

Not sure if anyone was watching the program live, but the program ended a few seconds too early, resulting in the credits being cut off abruptly. Hmm, I wonder if someone flipped the control switch too early?

Ryan Lam

I remembered watching his run during CoC XIV with Andy Platt way back in 2016 days before I was enlisted into the military (I've long been discharged honorouably since) and rewatching it during the first COVID lockdown again brought me back some memories of how I spent my last week of "freedom&...

Ryan Lam

Still found Richard Coles (hugely overrated in my view) more sleep inducing than Trevor McDonald, and the latter had better diction even if he seemed glued to tne autocue. I honestly thought Sir Trevor was more sleep-inducing (no offence!) which left me quite disappointed really :( Luckily the epis...

Ryan Lam

Round 9: (25 - 3) × 50 - 100 - 7

Didn't find it within the 30 seconds, so easy yet it evaded me. I knew I had to leave the "7" for the very end though...also, the programme got interrupted after the first TTT for a brief newsflash that Rishi Sunak is our new PM LOL

Ryan Lam

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Ryan Lam

Incredible, just incredible! I witnessed history from afar and never would I have thought someone would beat Elliott Mellor's record three years ago. Anything is possible, and you Tom, just proved that today. You deserve like the highest honours here on Countdown, hats off to you. Our admiration and...

Ryan Lam

Philip A wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 11:15 pm
Tom S wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:00 pm Sara did have Amounted but forgot to declare that it was not written down, so for some reason they re-filmed the round with her declaring a 7.
That’s a really poor call to re-film, in my opinion.

Second this. It's like adding insult to injury. Poor her...

Ryan Lam

Amazing first game! You've definitely come a long way from when I first knew you five years ago on the Wiki. If you do make it to the Finals, I certainly can't wait for you to post your own stats

Ryan Lam

The anecdote was cut from the episode and the first part of this episode was at a record 10 min 41 sec (most episodes do not see it exceeding 9.5 minutes). I wonder if it had something to do with Queen Elizabeth II? That's my guess...

Ryan Lam

Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:09 am Hope to see Elliott Mellor and Luke Boynton among the 16 playing.

Yeah, both imo deserve a second chance after their losses in Series 80 and Series 83 respectively

Ryan Lam

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 10:07 am What happened?

Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K4wOit ... sp=sharing

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:20 am No, always switched off by then!

That's why you should leave it on, it's easy to miss moments like this!

Ryan Lam

Did anyone else see what did Colin Murray do in the very last few seconds of the episode in the credits?

Ryan Lam

Philip A wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:30 pm A colossal improvement. Enough said.

Watching this outside of home and I 100% agree with you. He literally injected a large amount of fresh air and his style is SO much different from Anne's one.

Ryan Lam

Last Series, the Grand Final was on my 24th Birthday. What a sheer coincidence that it's my brother's 17th birthday today on Friday, 17 June. :D I could have nearly missed watching this live because I was out running errands and if that happened, it would have been the first time since the Series 73...

Ryan Lam

Congratulations, most of you were right again this time round, Dan has become the Grand Champion!

That was a great match!

Ryan Lam

The penultimate game of the Series, and Steve's dressed formally once more, this time with a red tie today rather than a gold one (I assume it's in the event he failed to beat Ronan on Monday, so he wore the "better" one first). Matt on the other hand talks about his police caps which show...

Ryan Lam

We're down to the last four, and Ryan's dressed in a smart office attire, just like probably what you imagine a banker would be like while Dan kindly pointed out he wishes to complete a PhD, so good luck to him as well! Thanks to Philip on the Daily Chat for pointing out how Jay "destroyed"...

Ryan Lam

Time to post this review up before the first Semi-Finals began later, a much quieter affair from the last Series when comparing to the Quarter-Finals in terms of commentary and discussion. Speaking about the latter, if there's one good thing when Susie isn't around, it's that we get to know more abo...

Ryan Lam

Well, I had this review written up about an hour after the match ended but I was waiting to see who would post up this thread first :lol: Afterall, I didn't want this post to be at the very top and make it sound like a mini-recap (which sometimes it is). Things are surely heating up as we enter the ...

Ryan Lam

One week ago all of us were probably soaking in the Platinum Jubilee celebrations wherever you were and now, we're wrapping up the week with a Policeman and Teacher. The party's over, that's right, just don't do funny stuff in front of these two occupations or you'll get into serious trouble :lol: A...

Ryan Lam

Well, like I said before, this is Anne Robinson's second and final set of Finals she will preside as the host of Countdown, but at least Rachel's here to witness it plus the fact that she gets to see contestants for the very first time as she was still pregnant in the first half of the Series! First...

Ryan Lam

Well, if all goes to plan, there should be no more Preliminaries to air for this Series given that we don't know whatever happened to the final one with Steven Etherington (and it'll probably leave us in suspense as to whether he survived to make it to Series 86 or not). According to the wiki , he ...

Ryan Lam

Well, if all goes to plan, there should be no more Preliminaries to air for this Series given that we don't know whatever happened to the final one with Steven Etherington (and it'll probably leave us in suspense as to whether he survived to make it to Series 86 or not). I should also thank Craig Fa...

Ryan Lam

If they withdraw the episode completely, let's hope it's not because of a dark reason (like someone being a criminal and appearing on the show which has happened before...) I don't think it includes 5am repeats, I usually don't count that because Channel 4 will always broadcast this at some point (J...

Ryan Lam

Anyone saw the ending shot? I replayed the episode and I saw one of the technicians accidentally stepped into the camera frame, whoops

Ryan Lam

When was the last time that when a guest appeared that all the conundrums for the episodes they were in were left unsolved? That's something I would like to figure out...

Ryan Lam

Andres Sanchez wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 3:18 pm Let's just hope the internet nor Anne doesn't strike them down for that. I feel like they may.

Unfortunately they have already...https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-ra ... erbert/amp

Ryan Lam

Stunned, absolutely stunned by what happened, man I feel sorry Sarah is going to have that dubious honour of scoring nil-pwa for a very long time to come...

Ryan Lam

Just watched this episode and realised the airtime is one minute shorter than normal (Around 33 minutes 50 seconds excluding commercials). Most episodes have a length of between 34 min 45s and 35 min 15s.

Ryan Lam

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 3:53 pm WTF is POWERBANK? Not a great heat conundrum word.

The portable device people carry around and use it to charge their phones/tablets. I agree, it should have been reserved for the Finals, that was so tough...

Ryan Lam

Funny how Beth mentioned the most difficult person she had to interview was Boris given this happened just this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7upXsB4ztkE

Ryan Lam

Trivia: it’s the first double century in a preliminary match for nearly 4 years. This was the last one: https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_6814 (Finals and Championship of Champions notwithstanding) Ah yes, I remember this game in part because Jason Palmer used to be a Professional golfer. That was ...

Ryan Lam

That was an exciting game, man I thought I was watching some Finals match. Shame that someone had to lose today

How rare to have two contestants having a century in a Preliminary! I think the last time that happened must have been ages ago now...

Ryan Lam

Adam Dexter wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:33 pm
Ryan Lam wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 5:18 pm ...Luke Johnson-Davies defeated Florence's wife, Sam....
Something Sam not telling us?

Gah! Dammit! Thanks for spotting this!

Ryan Lam

What a nice way to end the Series on my 24th Birthday, and I sincerely thank all of you who were in the Daily Chat who wished me one. I never imagined I would still be around writing recaps after close to five years now, and I hope I can still be around after five more! Cheers and let's get on with ...

Ryan Lam

Congratulations! Most of you were right this time with Ahmed Mohamed winning! Great job to Florence as well who managed to make it to the Grand Final, we need more women to get to that stage!

Ryan Lam

The second last episode of the Series with just ten days left to a brand new year! This is the Semi-Final that I mentioned could go anyone's way yesterday. Aw, how cute, Stu has an octopus as a mascot. Incidentally, it's named "Octo" with a reference to the Octochamp status! I liked how Ph...

Ryan Lam

Watched this episode a bit later than usual as I was in a end-of-year virtual gathering which will probably be my main method of communicating with everyone just like what happened in the run-up to Christmas 2020. Ugh, it seems cruel that we're back in the same situation as this time last year. :( W...

Ryan Lam

The final week of Countdown this year gets underway, and Susie Dent's safe and well at the time of recording which is a relief as she's back, and for the first time together with Dr. Anne-Marie on-screen. Reverend Richard Coles also shares about his upcoming appearance on "Celebrity Chase"...

Ryan Lam

Two of my predictions came true, one related to the show and one not. We did indeed get a lot more people on the daily chat as I had expected (not least to mention Sam and Florence together!) and North Shropshire would fall to the Liberal Democrats which is just staggering. Anyways, the latter isn't...

Ryan Lam

Not so good news with a record breaking number of COVID-19 cases yesterday thanks to the Omicron variant, but hey, the show still goes on no matter what; no one wants to have it suspended like what happened in the middle of last year. What is good however, is that both contestants today are dressed ...

Ryan Lam

It has been an exciting first Series with Anne Robinson as the host of Countdown (whether you view it positively or negatively), and with Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon as the temporary arithmetician while Rachel is away on maternity leave. It sure is set to be a great Christmas showdown! Up today are &quo...

Ryan Lam

With just one more Preliminary of Series 84 yet to air as of the time of writing, we now know who are the final eight and here they are! At long last, the suspense is over and we know who is in and who's not! Quarter-Finals #1 (15 December): Ahmed Mohamed (#1 Seed) vs Janet Noe (#8 Seed) Quarter-Fin...

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