COLIN 2011 results & feedback

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Re: COLIN 2011 results & feedback

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Matt Morrison wrote:I busted out a nice 301, impressing Jim and particularly Jon in a way I didn’t quite expect
Ha, I think I know what you mean here, and it's something I thought about later too. I think I was impressed mainly because I've always considered quiz machines to be tighter than a nun's cunt (see Buzzwords cheating thread), plus I'd've played that Bully "just darts" (gonna be okay, do-do-doo-ooh, just darts spin that record babe, do-do-doo-ooh - yeah, scratch your heads, music snobs) game myself to see if it was "doable with skill" (see Buzzwords cheating thread) and doubtless written it off. So yeah, it was impressive in that sense.

(If we had a time machine or you could somehow find a JPM Red Arrow machine, I could probably impress you back, skillstopping reels doing > 1 rev per second and things like that. Actually since you're into that kind of thing, there are some really good JPM Impact emulators + ROMs knocking about the web.)

Good write-up though mate, I kinda wanted to do something similar but in truth I couldn't really be arsed, plus it's difficult (impossible?) to convey some of the stuff with words, like the Newark station masters. It's a cliche, but you had to be there.

(Edit: PS - I think 'PORTIA' was the only one of those "Planetary Moons" that I did get - my strategy for that is basically to go through the first verse of 'Far Out' by Blur and hope to get lucky. You'd be forgiven for thinking my success rate was higher based on my leaning towards the category.)
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A great write-up - it really gave me an idea of what was like to be there, and what the apterites are like in real life :? :)

If I were about 60 years younger, I'd be putting my name down for next time :!: :roll:
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Peter Mabey wrote:A great write-up - it really gave me an idea of what was like to be there, and what the apterites are like in real life :? :)

If I were about 60 years younger, I'd be putting my name down for next time :!: :roll:
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Peter Mabey wrote:A great write-up - it really gave me an idea of what was like to be there, and what the apterites are like in real life :? :)

If I were about 60 years younger, I'd be putting my name down for next time :!: :roll:
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By the way, if anyone was wondering where all the bedroom action was in that epic post, it wasn't an omission, nor was it a rare moment of tact by Matt, there just wasn't any. None at all, not a sausage.
And come to think of it, there hasn't been any in the fucking week it took him to write that post.
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Heather Badcock wrote:By the way, if anyone was wondering where all the bedroom action was in that epic post, it wasn't an omission, nor was it a rare moment of tact by Matt, there just wasn't any. None at all, not a sausage.
And come to think of it, there hasn't been any in the fucking week it took him to write that post.
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I've just had an email from East Coast trains saying that they're running a direct service from London to Lincoln from May 22nd. Not sure how many though but this may be good news for those, like Jono, travelling from the London direction.
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Kirk Bevins wrote:I've just had an email from East Coast trains saying that they're running a direct service from London to Lincoln from May 22nd. Not sure how many though but this may be good news for those, like Jono, travelling from the London direction.
Me too, obviously the masses of people going from London to attend COLIN have skewed their projections. :)
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Where is this T shirt then Matt ?
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Matt Morrison wrote:Image
He looks tired. You must have been waiting for the train for ages; people only fall asleep standing up when they are extremely tired - like him on that photo. :lol: He must have been having a good dream too, smiley faced man. :lol:
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For those (i.e. none) who are interested, I just did a quick stats run of the event and came up with a few interesting results. Before I proceed, I should stress that games against bots count toward individual scores but not toward whole-event averages.

In total, 95 different people have attended COLIN over its seven years- 4 of whom have competed in all four events, and 53 of whom have only played at the one. COLIN 2011 saw 13 new people participate- which is actually down from 2010 which had 16 new players (but way up from the 9 new players in 2009).

After six years of dominance, Chris Wills has been displaced from the top of the 'highest average score from all COLINs combined' chart- his 61.6 ppg has been trumped by (who else) Jack Hurst's 62.2. Jack scored 386 points this year- the highest of anyone- which has tied the COLIN 'total points from six games' record for about the fourth time. A bit more from the 'highest average from all COLINs'- James Robinson has jumped straight in at third in the list with an average of 60.5, whilst Kai has elevated himself to fourth with an average of 59.7.

The average winning score from COLIN 2011 was 58- down by a tiny margin from 2009 and 2010. The average losing score, however, was 40.3- the first time it's ever creeped above 40, and the average score from the event was 49.2, by far the highest it's ever been. And I think you can probably guess which game had the highest winning and losing scores (both COLIN records, the latter of which by an absolute country mile). :)
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I'm a statto, so was interested. And if you have the whole list of COLIN average ppg for the 95 players, please feel free to share.
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Matt Bayfield wrote:I'm a statto, so was interested. And if you have the whole list of COLIN average ppg for the 95 players, please feel free to share.
Righto.

Name Played Wins Points P.P.Game
Adam Dexter 6 2 223 37.2
Adam Fleetwood 6 1 238 39.7
Alec Rivers 6 2 215 35.8
Alex Lacey 18 5 654 36.3
Alex Nightingale 6 1 112 18.7
Amanda Bowden 6 3 255 42.5
Amie Bateen 6 3 287 47.8
Anna Woodward 6 3 244 40.7
Anthony Endsor 12 4 460 38.3
Barbara Hill 6 2 235 39.2
Ben Wilson 18 11 895 49.7
Carolyn Emery 6 1 250 41.7
Charlie Reams 24 12 1090 45.4
Chris Corby 12 4 375 31.3
Chris Hawkins 6 3 273 45.5
Chris Wills 24 21 1483 61.8
Christine Armstrong 24 10 1096 45.7
Clive Rudd 6 1 210 35.0
Conor Travers 18 12 1001 55.6
Dan Harris 12 4 519 43.3
Daniel Peake 6 3 230 38.3
Daniel Vanniasingham 24 15 1263 52.6
Darren Carter 6 2 228 38.0
Dave Coulthurst 18 6 725 40.3
David O'Donnell 6 4 349 58.2
David Roe 6 4 297 49.5
Dinos Sfyris 18 12 928 51.6
Dominic Gallagher 6 1 228 38.0
Emma Sale 6 0 125 20.8
Gary Male 24 12 1126 46.9
George Stanhope 24 4 713 29.7
Gevin Chapwell 6 3 240 40.0
Heather Badcock 6 2 248 41.3
Heather Culpin 6 2 270 45.0
Helen Aley 6 0 151 25.2
Howard Somerset 24 8 1008 42.0
Ian Dent 6 2 270 45.0
Ivy Dixon-Baird 6 2 234 39.0
Jack Hurst 12 9 746 62.2
James Robinson 6 5 363 60.5
Jeff Clayton 30 18 1416 47.2
Jeremy Miles 6 1 189 31.5
Jerry Humphreys 12 7 654 54.5
Jill Wilson 6 1 192 32.0
Jim Bentley 30 16 1480 49.3
Jon Corby 24 17 1377 57.4
Jon O'Neill 42 29 2313 55.1
Jon Stitcher 6 5 301 50.2
Joseph Bolas 12 6 496 41.3
Joseph Krol 6 3 240 40.0
Josh Hurst 12 6 654 54.5
Julie Taylor 12 5 561 46.8
Junaid Mubeen 6 5 350 58.3
Kai Laddiman 12 8 716 59.7
Kevin Thurlow 12 5 524 43.7
Kirk Bevins 42 32 2421 57.6
Lee Fisher 18 5 656 36.4
Lesley Hines 12 3 556 46.3
Marc Vestey 6 1 219 36.5
Margaret Pritchett 6 3 239 39.8
Mark Tournoff 42 30 2339 55.7
Martin Gardner 6 4 330 55.0
Martin May 6 5 307 51.2
Matt Bayfield 12 8 613 51.1
Matt Morrison 6 4 293 48.8
Matt Vickers 12 4 475 39.6
Matthew Goulding 12 2 436 36.3
Matthew Hall 6 2 267 44.5
Maurice Brown 6 3 258 43.0
Melanie Beaumont 12 7 629 52.4
Michael Bowden 6 4 292 48.7
Mike Brown 42 20 2134 50.8
Nick Deller 6 4 333 55.5
Nick Wainwright 18 10 905 50.3
Paul Howe 30 21 1636 54.5
Paul Thompson 6 2 267 44.5
Peter Straw 6 1 145 24.2
Phil Collinge 6 2 238 39.7
Richard Priest 18 9 942 52.3
Rob Foster 6 5 322 53.7
Ross Allatt 6 3 278 46.3
Russell Byers 6 4 279 46.5
Ryan Taylor 12 8 612 51.0
Sabeeya Dawood 6 1 56 9.3
Sandie Simonis 6 4 284 47.3
Scott Kenyon 12 4 480 40.0
Simon Myers 6 1 206 34.3
Stewart Gordon 24 11 1068 44.5
Stewart Holden 18 13 982 54.6
Sue Sanders 6 0 154 25.7
Supee Juachan 6 1 154 25.7
Tim Fuller 6 4 320 53.3
Tom Hargreaves 6 4 320 53.3
Tom Rowell 6 4 320 53.3
V Chauhan 6 0 121 20.2
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Cheers Ben... you can't beat raw figures...
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How was Prune acted out then?
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Was there a separate total for the numbers games this year (I only ask as I think it was the first year that I didn't totally fuck up a really easy one)? I can't find it if there was.
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JimBentley wrote:Was there a separate total for the numbers games this year (I only ask as I think it was the first year that I didn't totally fuck up a really easy one)? I can't find it if there was.
Sadly not, if you still have your sheets you can check, or I can have a look through my results sheets (erm, assuming I can find them) if you'd like.
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Ben Wilson wrote:
JimBentley wrote:Was there a separate total for the numbers games this year (I only ask as I think it was the first year that I didn't totally fuck up a really easy one)? I can't find it if there was.
Sadly not, if you still have your sheets you can check, or I can have a look through my results sheets (erm, assuming I can find them) if you'd like.
Nah, no need, I was just momentarily curious. I've probably forgotten some monstrous fuckup I made anyway.
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Matt Morrison wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:07 pm
Jon Corby wrote:I dunno if I actually said it at all, but I lost count the number of times I was thinking to myself "I just fucking love this, this is awesome" on Saturday night.
This. The whole thing was touching as fuck.
Jon Corby wrote:I don't want to go into naming people right now as I'm meant to be keeping this brief, but MWM & Heather. Great times. Fucking love you guys. How cool is it that Countdown has brought you together? How doubly cool is it that I got to muscle in on it for a weekend?
Meant to reply to this sooner - probably should do so by PM, but fuck it, let's publicly jack each other off. You were fantastic. We both enjoyed your company A LOT. It was quite interesting that one of the first notable things we said to each other over the weekend was that we barely spent any time in each other's company further than "hello"s at Colon. To me that just somehow proves that this Internet stuff is alright and not completely mental, not completely false and unreal. BFFs.

Also, did you get your muscle in on it? I didn't notice, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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