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Oliver Garner

January 10th at 23:30.

Oliver Garner

[ but a really tense, serious and quiet C of C for 3 weeks isn't a true representation of the all-year-round product, and given that it goes out in January when TV ratings are at their highest, i want people to see a true representation of the show, so that some of them come back in Feb, March, Apr...

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Marc Meakin wrote::The submitted form was invalid keeps happening (well i spose its better than a ban)

Change your forum skin at your User Control Panel.

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Yes, but they didn't have 900+ points or solve the conundrums in 0.5 seconds like a lot of Octochamps today. Only one contestant scored 900+ points in Series 63 and only 5 have done so ever. One of them was Julian Fell who did so in 2002. Jeffrey Hansford solved a fair few conundrums in less than 0...

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If the problem with recent COCs (and, for that matter, series finals) is that the contestants are getting "too good", a solution could be to increase the series finals from 8 to 16 players, like in Series 2. In Series 60, 61 and 63, more than half of the finalists were Octochamps, and IMH...

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John Gillies wrote:
Yo Ho Fuckin Ho

Oh how we need the Father Christmas DC character back on Apterous.

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Nik Mackintosh wrote:Maybe suggested already,,,

'moonies'

Probably capitalised, if you referring to that Korean church movement.

Oliver Garner

Sorry for forgetting to post this
Innis beat me 139-122
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=366189

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Craig Beevers wrote:All your CSW record are belong to us.

And I should think so too.

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Most different words found in each variant.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:wat

Someone from New Malden.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:Who
remembers
these?

All I'd like is for Channel 4 to repeat this.

Just once.

Please.

Nice to see a New Maldenian on Countdown.

Oliver Garner

I thought I'd open my Secret Santa present first to avoid disappointment, hopefully. I guessed it was probably a mug based on the sticker on the top of the package when it arrived. On the first side was this, http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/1480/039ost.jpg Then I turned it around and saw this, h...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:GOAL

Patrick 0 - 1 Ross County (Richard Brittain 19 PEN)

Or maybe even Partick

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David Roe wrote: I'm pretty sure you're imagining insults where none was intended.

Most probably, but I was just saying how it came across to me.

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it's a unique oasis of intellectual, enjoyable interactivity in a minefield of televisual shit. And it should remain such. I hope that for the sake of the show, the standard keeps on increasing. The better the contestants, the more interesting the game. As I've made the point elsewhere, no-one watc...

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Marc Meakin wrote:I think Apterous has raised the bar so high now that it is unlikely a non apterite will ever be series champion again.
Discuss.
Not sure if this is in correct thread

Apterous will provide the champion until at least Series 70 IMO.

Oliver Garner

Thanks for the plug...I'm not sure how the max increased by 20 points after CHEERING though! Naween chose a fiddlier method for his 314, which I think was basically (105 x 3) - (9 - 8) Cheers for that. In the recapping software, there is not a preset mode for the Aussie format so I had to adapt it ...

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[url=ttp://aphis99.livejournal.com/93141.html#cutid1]From Andrew Fisher's blog - Enjoy[/url] Countdown recap for Thursday 16 December 2010. C1: Challenger Andrew Fisher. Andrew appeared on Series 8 of Countdown and won the second series of Countdown Masters . He has also excelled at Scrabble both he...

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Kirk Bevins commented on Amie Bateen's game with her. 1 day ago.

Kirk Bevins celebrated his 5200th win! 1 day ago.

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Yes, keep playing!

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Ask Dinos

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Countdown recap for Saturday 4 December 2010. C1: Champion Scott Gillies (8 wins, 810 points.) C2: Champion Marcus Hares (8 wins, 837 points.) DC: Susie Dent and Paul Zenon. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: G R E O I S C O F R02: N E I A T N L O P R03: D T S O E U O D A R04: T O ...

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Another observation - Jack got 13 of the first 14 maxes so would be 6 points behind Apterous Rex going into the conundrum. Jack got it in under 0.7 seconds (Rex's average reaction time) so Jack can claim to be the first person to beat Apterous Rex on-screen (Rex would have beaten Kirk to the conundr...

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You guys have made some fair points but I'm still annoyed. However, I didn't intend for it to be a discussion about the new time, as it should be about the excellent final.

Oliver Garner

Well, there is Channel4+1 and 4 On Demand now. When Countdown first got moved from 4.15 to 3.15 there was this same argument brought up. Five or six years on, things have changed. Obviously I can't speak for anyone but when I first saw Kai on Countdown, it was by chance. This would never have happe...

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Did Jack ever face a crucial conundrum :?: if he never did, has this ever happened before, and is this the highest ever 11 game total? I'm pretty sure Julian Fell, Conor Travers and Craig Beevers didn't have to face a crucial in their series (both the first 2 did in CoC's). Julian Fell's 11 game sc...

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2 schoolkids in the last 2 finals. Which bright spark in Channel 4 decided to put it further into the school day? I would never have seen Kai on the TV to inspire me to practice and go on the show. Hope they realise how ridiculous this is. Rant aside, another brilliant performance from Jack. The bes...

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Jon Corby wrote:Coincidentally, RB has been talking (not disparagingly) about DoS attacks over on Gandiseeg...

What's DoS?

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Craig Beevers wrote:I guess the Russian Mafia told him to win this time.

Thanks to Wikileaks, we have now learnt that the Russian government had an influence on the snooker. Thought they would have more important things to attend to.

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Oliver Garner 94 Liam Tiernan 83
Liam Tiernan 85 Oliver Garner 100
Two very good games against a tough opponent. I beat Liam by a fraction to the first crucial and Liam was unlucky getting the second conundrum wrong.

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I posted, and then realised it would probably be of no use since I'd assumed that everyone knew about those pictures and thus would already be on the Wiki.

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Charlie Reams wrote: How many people remember that Linford Christie was an Olympic gold medallist, and how few remember that he was caught doping, twice?

TBF, Linford does his best to remind us with his sanctimonious opinions he seems to offer whenever the notion of doping in sport props up in the press.

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Kai Laddiman wrote:Kai Laddiman 68 - 76 Dinos Sfyris

No comment.

Lol, if you got the conundrum, Dinos would have lost 78-76.

Oliver Garner

Oliver, what should we do in the knockout stage in the case of draws? It seems a shame to decide a numbers tournament on a hypernundrum (particularly since I am probably the worst at unscrambling them of all the quarter finalists :) ), so maybe it could go to a replay? Or are you happy with the hyp...

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Speed Demon
Oliver Garner 101 Lloyd Pettet 74

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Dinos wins group C with Bob second! The only two matches left are: Chris vs Adam Thomas vs Jamie The quarter final lineup is as follows Matthew Tassier vs Kai Laddiman Innis Carson vs Bob de Caux Dinos Sfyris vs Michael Wallace Craig Chittenden vs (2nd Group A) Semi final lineup Matthew/Kai vs Innis...

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Speed Demon
Oliver Garner 91 Tom Barnes 42

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Fuck - didn't even know I had entered this. I've been so busy in recent times I've not been on c4c or apterous much - just popping in to do the duel. Why didn't someone send me an email or a pm so i'd have seen it through email? Sorry mate, completely forgot to do this. Please forgive me as this is...

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It's not an apology. If Derek wants to split hairs about whether he stole the passwords himself or shared information with someone else which allowed them to steal passwords, that's fine with me. It's his forum, he shared the information that he had been entrusted with. In either case, anyone with ...

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A friend from running used to be in the same football team as Greg.

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Kirk do you like this song? Riverside by Sidney Samson I hope not cos I fucking absolutely hate it. I was disgusted to find out it was an actual 'song' that had been 'produced' by a 'musician' as opposed to a bespoke jingle produced for Harry Hill. It makes me very :( My friend from school hummed i...

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Charlie Reams wrote:Jack Hurst.

Peter Godwin.

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Matt T won group A, with Chris playing Adam to decide second. If Chris wins, he's through but if Adam wins by 83 or more (I think), Adam's through. If Adam wins by 82 or less, Ben W is through. Group B was won by Craig Chittenden with Kai finishing second. Still four matches to play in Group C; can ...

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DOD versus some dude I played Ollie Garner too but it seems we had a week off so hopefully Feisty can confirm if this in fact a real match. If we played a real match out of order I don't mind carrying the loss, was outplayed so fair's fair. I read it as Oliver Garner vs David O'Donnell, James Robin...

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Junior Mint
Oliver Garner 107 - 97 Jim Bentley (Tie break conundrum)
Oliver Garner 79 - 67 Jim Bentley
Two good games here, and I was relieved to win both.

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REFUGES r11

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James Hall wrote:Did anything happen about the less-good-people tournament, or were there not enough takers?

Yeah, go ahead and play Ian V in the final. Good luck both.

Oliver Garner

Jack H and Edward McCullagh FWIW

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All of Group C are out of the competition so it now consists of
Dinos Sfyris
Bob de Caux
Thomas Cappleman
Jamie French

Adam Gillard replaces Matt Morrison in Group A.

Innis Carson won Group D and Michael Wallace came second in it.

Oliver Garner

Hi Oliver I don't want to put a spanner in the works, but if the above guys don't play I'd be happy to make group A back up to 4 players. I was 20th in the duel so I think I'm next on the list. I was thinking of doing that, but there was a tie for 20th so I didn't want to discriminate between you a...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Lost on a tie-break hyper conundrum to Kai! Since it's a league should that count as a draw?

Kai Laddiman 170 - 160 Gevin Chapwell

It will go down as a win for Kai but the result will be 160-160 (Before anyone asks, yes, I am making this up as I go along).

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Kirk, Stephen, Edward and Gareth, you have 6 hours, 31 minutes and counting. If you don't start the group before midnight, you will all be kicked out of the tournament. If this happens and Matt decides against playing as well, I will cut Matt's group down to 3 and Group C will look like this. GROUP ...

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Miriam Nussbaum wrote: Yeah, the top 25 people on Most Time Played are also male. (Although…I'm 27th. I end-round-early against Prune quite a lot, though.)

Thought Supee (S J) was on this list.

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I am incredibly proficient at solving nine-lettered anagrams, or finding the longest word from a random selection of nine letters. Not only that, but given six smallish numbers and a larger number, I can usually conceive of a calculation using the smaller ones that equals the bigger one. All of thi...

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Two of my games http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=344472 Innis 131 Oliver 127 http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=345835 Josh 127 Oliver 177 TABLES : GROUP A Wins Losses Points Difference Matthew Tassier 2 0 126 Chris Davies 1 1 -79 Matt Morrison 0 0 0 Ben Wilson 0 2 -47 GROUP B Craig ...

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1 - anything said in a private forum should be private at all times and someone hacking into it should be prosecuted as the last major case of computer hacking ended up on a guy being put on death row (if i remmeber right) 2 - I bet there is thousands of perfectly normal threads in this "sanct...

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There is stuff posted about lots of forumites including myself, by RB, in an attempt to 1) Slander us about things which we may have done which may not have been approved of by all, through a mock up of C4C called the sancty. In my case it was the Facebook group I made taking the piss out of Kirk ma...

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Dinos Sfyris wrote: For real?

I will wait for the 5 ahead of Matt (Matthew T already has) to play before I automatically make you replace him.

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Groups A Matthew Tassier Matt Morrison Ben Wilson Chris Davies B Craig Chittenden Kai Laddiman James Doohan Gevin Chapwell (Gavin Chipper) C Kirk Bevins Stephen Deakin Edward McCullagh Gareth Mitchell (don't know whether he's playing; he's not on the forum and I've never seen him say anything on Apt...

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