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Gavin Chipper

Great game, great run and the knock-out stages are shaping up to be pretty good. Credit to Tom for making it a reasonably close game and not letting your head drop after the third numbers game. A mistake like that is so simple to make under studio conditions. Unlucky to come up against George, as I ...

Gavin Chipper

In that first numbers, I did (100*50-4*75)/25+1 = 189. For some reason it was the only way I could see to get it.

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:Ita asking for "a turd"

Racist.

Gavin Chipper

Correct numbers solutions don't get disallowed you big ninny. If HEADWAYS was an available beater but nobody spotted it, we'd either count it or not depending on whatever dictionary was being used by the recapper. This is the whole point, there is no definitive word list, so the whole max game conc...

Gavin Chipper

STOPOVER as the standard method alternative to OVERTOPS.

And (25×8-7)×3=579 as the standard method in round 6.

Gavin Chipper

The actual score is just what the show awards so you wouldn't give Jonny the points. Eh? Am I misunderstanding here? So if Jonny maxed every other round, you'd want the records to show that he scored 118/126, but on inspection you'd find that he actually declared the word you're sayng he missed? :?...

Gavin Chipper

How do people normally deal with DC errors in recaps? I'd base the max on what is "objectively" there, making it 126. But surely then you'd have to also award the points to Jonny as well? It's been said before that while there is no definitive word list, the concept of a max is slightly w...

Gavin Chipper

Peter Mabey wrote:(100+2)X(25+4)/6=493

Nice factorisation again.

George Pryn wrote:
Mark Kudlowski wrote:((100+25)x4)-((8+6)/2)=493 for third numbers game
Nice spot, very neat!!!

Looking at that, I'm struggling to see how it seemed so hard at the time. It looks really obvious now.

Gavin Chipper

That was more of a standard method solve from George in round 3. I managed to get that one.

Gavin Chipper

Is it really necessary to have Carol Vorderman's head on a spike displayed in the corner of the studio? It was always a bit mysterious how she died anyway, and then the "agreement" to have the rights to display her head in such a manner does not seem something that you'd expect her family ...

Gavin Chipper

What's the consensus opinion about the addition of gravel traps and the compulsory wearing of crash helmets? I know the Harry Mulvey fatality in that freak consonant accident was a tragedy for all concerned, but if you eliminate all the risks entirely then the very nature of the game changes. Banni...

Gavin Chipper

Well here it is then. What we've all been waiting for. After some awesome games, the top two seeds have made it through to the final. First up is number 1 seed - Dan McColm. And he's up against the number two seed - George "Pryn" Ford. This should be a good match. Stats to follow.

Gavin Chipper

Jack Worsley wrote:James, would you mind if I did the odd one? I've always wanted to start a spoilers thread?

Just do it.

Gavin Chipper

Personally I take a completely opposite view. IMO changing the result of a round retrospectively is worse than the problem it's attempting to resolve. Once a round is completed, the adjudication should stand, no matter what. This is the way practically all competitive activities with a formal set o...

Gavin Chipper

I am on vacation from today until late Thursday, so the three spoilers I normally do are up for grabs. Anyone want them? Just take 'em. I didn't realise this was done on a rota. I thought you and James just randomly started these threads between you. I mean - a rota for recaps I can understand, but...

Gavin Chipper

Ideally speaking, my preference in all of these cases (as it was in Q4) is to replay the whole game from the point at which the error was made. Where it's logistically possible to do so, I'd do that regardless of the precise details of what happened after the error. Where it isn't, then to be hones...

Gavin Chipper

4. C2 is 15 points behind going into the last numbers round. He asks for 6 small in the hope of getting a difficult round on which he can beat C1. The round is difficult, but C1 gets it spot on and C2 doesn't. C2 is now 25 behind. Then, just before you go into the conundrum, DC informs you that a m...

Gavin Chipper

I think that was the only solution so you can let me off hehehe Maybe - the solver is down so can't check at the mo. But you could of course have just done 100/50 = 2 and not gone above 1,950 in an intermediate stage. Or even 975 actually. Glad you didn't though. I suppose thinking about it, it was...

Gavin Chipper

Round 11: W H G A E A Y D S Jonny: headways George: WASHDAY (7) DC: HEADWAY (7) Score: 65–78 (max 90) Final Score: 92–102 (max 125) How do people normally deal with DC errors in recaps? I'd base the max on what is "objectively" there, making it 126. In many cases, there are DC beaters tha...

Gavin Chipper

Lets just congratulate George on a well played game. You can only play to the conditions on the day. It's not like he objected to the word being allowed. Jonny has said he holds no grudge. Yes, there's no doubt that both players played very well, and both performances would have won against most co...

Gavin Chipper

I think we're largely in agreement in this thread, and I think this discussion just goes to show that in general, if someone needs any dispute resolved, then they should seek out a C4Cer. It's not by any means certain that Jonny would definitely have won had HEADWAYS been allowed, so it would be unf...

Gavin Chipper

What to do in the HEADWAYS round is a variant on question 4 in Graeme's You Are The Ref thread . And judging by the answers given by seemingly most people, including all of the first five respondents, picking one-large and then having an earlier round overturned should not void the one-large selecti...

Gavin Chipper

the fact that it finds HEADWAYS if you use the search bar I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't see it in the search bar. It doesn't come up as a suggestion for you to click on, but if you type it in and press enter, it will find the entry for HEADWAY. That's a bit weird actually. It seems...

Gavin Chipper

I would say that disallowing HEADWAYS was definitely an error. The second definition is not listed as a mass noun, nor could be interpreted as a mass noun from the definition. Basically it says: NOUN 1. Mass noun - DEFINITION 2. DEFINITION The mass noun label only applies to the first definition. Th...

Gavin Chipper

People with phones and a reasonable data plan can look up words, unless it's in the middle of nowhere with no signal.

Gavin Chipper

Graeme Cole wrote:In true CoEdi tradition, this must take place after round 1.

It is also not the number of votes that counts, but how high each hand is raised.

Gavin Chipper

Because he's a celebrity they might have to keep him in an isolated cell - also known as "box 23".

Gavin Chipper

Fancy an apterite getting a question on the Mohs scale (although there was one mentioned that isn't used on apterous)! Well done Hugh and Team Magdalen, your opponents gave you a good run for a fair while there until you pulled away in the end. I noticed that too, but there's always an obvious gues...

Gavin Chipper

They're calling it "Brittains Law".

Gavin Chipper

Missed it. Which box was it in?

Gavin Chipper

Peter Mabey wrote:Non-standard method for last numbers: (9x3+7)x(8+9)

Straight in with the factorisation as always. I wonder how many you get that don't factorise.

Gavin Chipper

The whole show is fixed. It was the +£10,000 in box 23 again? I've got a very exciting idea for a new gameshow, based on Deal Or No Deal but with elements of The Crystal Maze. You'd still have 22 contestants (or however many it is) but instead of standing around with boxes and trotting out sob stor...

Gavin Chipper

He's taken it down and issued an apology.

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:Well I was winning until he turned up the gas for the last 3 rounds. Nice finish!

You must have missed the standard method in the last numbers then. 576+2 rather than 567+11 was the standard method.

Gavin Chipper

I'm guessing that the conclusion will be "no". You can come back and tell us what it said.

Gavin Chipper

I got it after the time but the 932 was doable - (75+10)×(9+7-5)-3=932

Gavin Chipper

Can we please have updated links based on: "tracked down and attacked" (almost sounded literal!) someone for a negative review on goodreads.com (Corby) serious suggestions of arrest? (Jono) "he's just told you he was trying to get publicity" (Gevin) Thanks guys. In Richard's pos...

Gavin Chipper

Jon O'Neill wrote:Sometimes I think the world is trolling me. How the fuck could he be arrested for writing that? What law has he broken? Who's to say if his blog is fact or fiction? Is it illegal to imagine a fake kidnapping?

He's not been arrested has he? Or have people suggested it?

Gavin Chipper

I think the journalists writing about this are totally missing the point, whether this story has any truth or not. He's just told you that he was trying to get publicity by being a dickhead, and you're giving it to him.

Gavin Chipper

Excellent game throughout. Not sure what the Gevin scoring record is but 128 can't be far off. Pity about those two missed maxes at the end. I don't know if it was a max game up to then but it's always more frustrating if the misses come in the end rounds.

Gavin Chipper

What's the record for consecutive 8s? I think we're up to 6 now. Also he must be in with a shot of the Gevin scoring record.

Gavin Chipper

It's quite good trolling if that's what it is. It would mean that the fake kidnap was fake all along, making it a fake fake kidnap, and the real way of making himself famous and getting publicity for his book was the blog post itself.

Gavin Chipper

But anyway I would tend to agree that the actual recap post shouldn't have attacks in. It should be more neutral. Plus I wouldn't agree with the particular comment anyway. "Attacks" FFS? That's a bit hysterical. I like recaps with a bit of personality, character and opinion in them. Andy'...

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Could have stuck the S on MILEAGE.
I went for that but ODE3 says mass noun.

It is but it's found in the search bar. Some mass nouns are pluralisable and that's as good a reason as any for saying that this is. Especially since lots of them aren't found.

Gavin Chipper

But anyway I would tend to agree that the actual recap post shouldn't have attacks in. It should be more neutral. Plus I wouldn't agree with the particular comment anyway.

Gavin Chipper

Could have stuck the S on MILEAGE.

Gavin Chipper

He looks more like Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

Gavin Chipper

That question about the cost. Surely it's the total cost. I don't care about the breakdown. I get exactly what you are saying but you're truly an excellent man if you can see things that way. I think people still typically judge each separate element rather than the overall event. We're small-pictu...

Gavin Chipper

I think people read too much into people's behaviour sometimes.

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote:Link doesn't work without the http://, so:

https://www.justgiving.com/kirk-bevins/

I think it was that he put an underscore instead of a hyphen.

www.justgiving.com/kirk-bevins

Gavin Chipper

That question about the cost. Surely it's the total cost. I don't care about the breakdown.

Gavin Chipper

One thing that worried me about going on was people saying stuff like "OMG you can break the record easily" and "you could get a max mocktorun!" To be honest, I switched off as soon as you missed your first max and assumed you'd probably walked out of the studio in shame. I'm su...

Gavin Chipper

The problem with this dictionary is that it doesn't really reflect usage. They leave out "boring" words like LAGGY, and bring in words like OMNISHAMBLES that no-one uses because it makes good press. WHATEVS and WHATEV presumably came in because they're the sort of words that newspapers wou...

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Dan's had a few awkward numbers games already in his run.
In the second numbers, seeing Rachel laughing gave a clue that it was actually easy if you spotted the trick.
I hadn't until then.

They're all easy if you spot the trick! (This one wasn't particularly simple relatively speaking.)

Gavin Chipper

With CoC I, ignoring Mark Nyman, it could be done by how far they got, followed by highest score in the heats. So: 2. Joyce Cansfield - Champion, 65 3. Andrew Guy - Champion, 61 4. Ash Haji - Champion, 58 5. Brian Hudson - Champion, 55 6. Russell Byers - Finalist, 59 7. Christine Hunt - Finalist, 56...

Gavin Chipper

Dan's had a few awkward numbers games already in his run.

Gavin Chipper

Great game Dan. The early flattish rounds made it tense for a while, and the champion played quite solidly, so it made for an entertaining game.

Gavin Chipper

Steven M. McCann wrote:Apparently Tony Jacklin is hearing impaired, which would explain him not seeming to know Vicky had already said SMEARING, when he said it.
Hopefully Nick won't bring up the 1972 Open!

How much of a cunt does Corby look now?

Gavin Chipper

Missed out on the max game, by missing one of the 7's in round 11, but ah well. :) What about the other 7? What other 7........... :?: :? You said you didn't get the max because you missed one of the 7s. So there must have been at least two. And if you only missed one of the 7s, then you must have ...

Gavin Chipper

James Robinson wrote:Missed out on the max game, by missing one of the 7's in round 11, but ah well.

What about the other 7?

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