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Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:02 pm
by Joseph Krol
I cannot believe that I am saying this, but Series 29 is complete. Just a few duplicate entries to be deleted. I'll take the first five episodes of series 30. Or as James would say:

SERIES 29: DONE :D

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:10 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Next up: 20 more episodes. April 28 - May 23 1997.
Done. Finally in this series, the final 25.

That's May 26 - June 27 1997.

Will probably take a bit longer as it's Christmas. :D

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:37 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:That's May 26 - June 27 1997.

Will probably take a bit longer as it's Christmas. :D
So much for being longer. :lol:

That's Series 35: DONE. :D

Next up: The first 20 from Series 34, December 30 1996 - January 24 1997.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:47 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Next up: The first 20 from Series 34, December 30 1996 - January 24 1997.
Done.

Next up, another 20. January 27 - February 21 1997.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:34 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Next up, another 20. January 27 - February 21 1997.
Done.

Next up, the final 25 of Series 34. That's February 24 - March 28 1997.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:00 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Next up, another 20. January 27 - February 21 1997.
Done.

Next up, the final 25 of Series 34. That's February 24 - March 28 1997.
SERIES 34: DONE :D

A nice way to end 2010.

So, for the start of 2011, the first half of Series 33, as the 2nd half has already been done, more or less.

That's 32 episodes, I make it. October 9 - November 21 1996, followed by a better version of the final.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE. ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-)

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:24 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:That's 32 episodes, I make it. October 9 - November 21 1996, followed by a better version of the final.
Done the episodes above.

Will do Group G Final and Finals episodes for better quality purposes. 8-)

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:32 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:
James Robinson wrote:That's 32 episodes, I make it. October 9 - November 21 1996, followed by a better version of the final.
Done the episodes above.

Will do Group G Final and Finals episodes for better quality purposes. 8-)
All sorted, or should I say, SERIES 33: DONE :D

Next up: The first 20 in Series 32, that's July 1 - 26 1996.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:07 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Next up: The first 20 in Series 32, that's July 1 - 26 1996.
Done, despite me being under the weather today, but there you go. Recaps are the new healers, or it is for me at least.

20 more, but I've already done some of them, so the dates are July 29 - August 28 1996.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:24 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:20 more, but I've already done some of them, so the dates are July 29 - August 28 1996.
Done.

Just 20 to go. August 29 - September 27 1996, if you discount the 2 I've already done.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:41 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Just 20 to go. August 29 - September 27 1996, if you discount the 2 I've already done.
SERIES 32: DONE :D

Next up, the first 20, bar the first 2, which have already been done.

That's January 3 - 30 1996.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:34 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:That's January 3 - 30 1996.
Done.

Next up: January 31 - February 27 1996. That's 20.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:30 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
I'll go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back and do the first one (on record (Week 9)) in Series 7.

And I'll bookend it by doing the grand final but none inbetween.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:36 pm
by James Robinson
Rhys Benjamin wrote:I'll go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back and do the first one (on record (Week 9)) in Series 7.

And I'll bookend it by doing the grand final but none inbetween.
Unfortunately, I've already done the grand final, but feel free to do the others. :D

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:44 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Next up: January 31 - February 27 1996. That's 20.
Done.

Time to finish off Series 31. February 28 - March 29 1996. 21 episodes to do, as I've already done 2 in this bunch. :D

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:42 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Time to finish off Series 31. February 28 - March 29 1996. 21 episodes to do, as I've already done 2 in this bunch. :D
SERIES 31: DONE :D Which I believe means that the last 15 years of Countdown data is now available to all. 8-)

Onto OED8 territory now, with Series 30.

I'll take the first 20 that are after the first 5, which I believe Joseph has booked out.

So, that's July 10 - August 4 1995.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:48 pm
by Joseph Krol
Feel free to do those 5, James. I'm not going to get round to it any time soon.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:54 pm
by James Robinson
Joseph Krol wrote:Feel free to do those 5, James. I'm not going to get round to it any time soon.
OK, Joseph. I'll get those sorted too. ;) :) :D

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:03 am
by Mike Brown
I'm going to have a bash at Series 6, starting today. The notes have proved difficult to scan quickly (because they're double-sided foolscap), so I'm not expecting them to be added the the scans folder for some time (although I hope to do so eventually). Also, they're pretty hard to read, but as it's my handwriting I'm hopefully best placed to interpret them. The good news is that the notes are just about complete, so we should have quite a good record of the series when I'm done.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:49 pm
by Joseph Krol
Need to get back into recapping soon, so i'll book out the first five of series 26 and hope to get round to them soon.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:31 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Joseph Krol wrote:Need to get back into recapping soon, so i'll book out the first five of series 28 and hope to get round to them soon.
Joseph the first 10 were done by JohnnyCanuck.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:38 pm
by Joseph Krol
Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:Need to get back into recapping soon, so i'll book out the first five of series 28 and hope to get round to them soon.
Joseph the first 10 were done by JohnnyCanuck.
Series 26 then.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:07 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
I'm bored.


I'll take....... Series 8, The semi finals and finale.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:10 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:Feel free to do those 5, James. I'm not going to get round to it any time soon.
OK, Joseph. I'll get those sorted too. ;) :) :D
James Robinson wrote:So, that's July 10 - August 4 1995.
All sorted.

Next up, another 20, dependent on missing episodes. That's August 7 - September 1 1995.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:14 pm
by Mike Brown
Apologies if this has already been said, but I've just realised we now have recaps for over 50% of all 9-round games ever - great stuff!!!

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:37 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Excuse me, Mike, but why are you recapping Series 6 when it's not up in your notes? Is there a problem with the scan?

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:52 pm
by Mike Brown
Rhys Benjamin wrote:Excuse me, Mike, but why are you recapping Series 6 when it's not up in your notes? Is there a problem with the scan?
If you scroll up a bit, you will find out! The story's pretty much the same for all the earlier series too, I'm afraid. Having done the first seven, I definitely think I'm the best person to read the handwriting I was using at the time - I might do a sample scan and put it up for you to read and see what you make of it!

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:55 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Mike Brown wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:Excuse me, Mike, but why are you recapping Series 6 when it's not up in your notes? Is there a problem with the scan?
If you scroll up a bit, you will find out! The story's pretty much the same for all the earlier series too, I'm afraid. Having done the first seven, I definitely think I'm the best person to read the handwriting I was using at the time - I might do a sample scan and put it up for you to read and see what you make of it!
Sorry, seem to have missed that post. :oops: :?

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:12 pm
by Mike Brown
Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Mike Brown wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:Excuse me, Mike, but why are you recapping Series 6 when it's not up in your notes? Is there a problem with the scan?
If you scroll up a bit, you will find out! The story's pretty much the same for all the earlier series too, I'm afraid. Having done the first seven, I definitely think I'm the best person to read the handwriting I was using at the time - I might do a sample scan and put it up for you to read and see what you make of it!
Sorry, seem to have missed that post. :oops: :?
No problem... And to satisfy your curiosity, take a look at this: http://www.thecountdownpage.com/scans/s ... xample.pdf. :)

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:54 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Next up, another 20, dependent on missing episodes. That's August 7 - September 1 1995.
Done.

The final 20 now, although some have already been done I believe.

Still, September 4 - 29 1995 is what they are. :D

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:13 pm
by Mike Brown
Congratulations James on reaching your 1500th recap (give or take - it's what the CDB says, anyway)... a remarkable achievement.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:58 am
by James Robinson
Mike Brown wrote:Congratulations James on reaching your 1500th recap (give or take - it's what the CDB says, anyway)... a remarkable achievement.
Thanks, Mike.

It really is a pleasure bringing these recaps into the main domain. :D

Let's hope we can have every single one done one day. 8-)

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:40 pm
by Joseph Krol
I'll do 11th and 12th July '94 as well.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:44 pm
by Joseph Krol
Joseph Krol wrote:I'll do 11th and 12th July '94 as well.
Just realised that these were missed due to poor reception, but i'll do placeholder recaps anyway.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:04 pm
by Joseph Krol
Joseph Krol wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:I'll do 11th and 12th July '94 as well.
Just realised that these were missed due to poor reception, but i'll do placeholder recaps anyway.
Done.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:32 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Still, September 4 - 29 1995 is what they are. :D
SERIES 30: DONE :D

I believe Series 29 has already been done, so I'll go into Series 28.

So, I'll start off with July 18 - August 12 1994.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:50 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
No disrespect to Mike, but I am slightly annoyed about no clues.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:36 pm
by Mike Brown
Rhys Benjamin wrote:No disrespect to Mike, but I am slightly annoyed about no clues.

:( :?

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:18 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
Mike Brown wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:No disrespect to Mike, but I am slightly annoyed about no clues.

:( :?
TTT clues.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:58 pm
by Mike Brown
Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Mike Brown wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:No disrespect to Mike, but I am slightly annoyed about no clues.

:( :?
TTT clues.
Do you mean the fact that I don't put them on my paper recaps? Tbh, I never foresaw the fact that we would end up doing all these historical recaps or I probably would have done. It's a shame we may never have a complete record, but you never know...

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:10 am
by Charlie Reams
Rhys Benjamin wrote:No disrespect to Mike, but I am slightly annoyed about no clues.
No disrespect to you, but you're an ungrateful shit.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:50 pm
by Ian Volante
When did TTTs start anyway? My grainy memory is telling me somewhere around 1993, but it's very grainy.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:02 pm
by James Robinson
Ian Volante wrote:When did TTTs start anyway? My grainy memory is telling me somewhere around 1993, but it's very grainy.
2001, Series 46, when the 15-round episodes began.

There were unofficial ones when Seven Seas Pure Cod Liver Oil was the sponsor in the late 90's. :ugeek:

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:50 pm
by Ian Volante
Gawd. It's the unofficial ones I was thinking of, that's the last time I watched regularly, before 15 to 1 got canned.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:42 pm
by Joseph Krol
Why don't we do all the QFs, SFs and GFs of all series first, as they are (most likely) the most important ones. When they are done, we can do the preliminaries. What do you think?

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:33 pm
by Mike Brown
Joseph Krol wrote:Why don't we do all the QFs, SFs and GFs of all series first, as they are (most likely) the most important ones. When they are done, we can do the preliminaries. What do you think?
I suppose I'm pretty ambivalent, although I'm not sure it would be fair for one person to cherry-pick all the finals and leave all the prelims for others to do - not that I necessarily think they're the most important or most interesting games, anyway, as there other key things like octochamp runs for example. Personally, I'm going to carry on ploughing through the early (and part illegible) stuff in order and do the finals as I come to them. Basically, as long as we get through everything between us in the end without too many upsets, I'll be happy, so as far as I'm concerned if you want to do some of the finals then go for it, but it might be nice to see what others think too.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:00 am
by Charlie Reams
Mike Brown wrote:I'm not sure it would be fair for one person to cherry-pick all the finals and leave all the prelims for others to do
Agreed.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:45 am
by Joseph Krol
Charlie Reams wrote:
Mike Brown wrote:I'm not sure it would be fair for one person to cherry-pick all the finals and leave all the prelims for others to do
Agreed.
Very true tbh.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:20 am
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:So, I'll start off with July 18 - August 12 1994.
Done.

Already a week into the next lot. But, I'll finish off the series, so that's 30 more, following on from the 5 I've already done.

That's August 22 - September 30 1994.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:32 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:That's August 22 - September 30 1994.
That's Series 28: DONE. :D

Series 27 next. The first 20, January 3 - 28 1994 will go first.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:57 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:Series 27 next. The first 20, January 3 - 28 1994 will go first.
Done. Next up, January 31 - February 25 1994. That's 20 more.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:33 am
by Joseph Krol
For a bit of fun, I'm gonna do Harvey Freeman's octorun, right back in series 10. That's 31-Oct-86 to 11-Nov-86, but 3-Nov-86 has already been recapped so that's seven games. Should be interesting. :D

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:16 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Joseph Krol wrote:For a bit of fun, I'm gonna do Harvey Freeman's octorun, right back in series 10. That's 31-Oct-86 to 11-Nov-86, but 3-Nov-86 has already been recapped so that's seven games. Should be interesting. :D
:o Cherry-picking! Actually it will be very interesting to see his % of max and stuff.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:44 pm
by Soph K
I've done the 1st Prelim of Series 11 (Tuesday 3rd February 1987). Please could you add my name to the list of recappers so I can add it to the Countdown Database?

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:29 pm
by Charlie Reams
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:For a bit of fun, I'm gonna do Harvey Freeman's octorun, right back in series 10. That's 31-Oct-86 to 11-Nov-86, but 3-Nov-86 has already been recapped so that's seven games. Should be interesting. :D
:o Cherry-picking!
Yeah, I think this is a bit unfair on people like James who have put in the hours and then you nip in and do the most interesting episodes.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:41 pm
by Joseph Krol
Yeah, see your point to be honest... I'll finish them then I'll go back to normal games. Btw, does doing CoCs count as cherrypicking?

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:45 pm
by Charlie Reams
Joseph Krol wrote:Btw, does doing CoCs count as cherrypicking?
Probably. I would just do the episodes in chronological order unless there's a good reason not to.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:52 pm
by Joseph Krol
Charlie Reams wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:Btw, does doing CoCs count as cherrypicking?
Probably. I would just do the episodes in chronological order unless there's a good reason not to.
OK, I know it's not chronological order but I'll continue with series 26 after this octorun is complete.

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:07 pm
by Mike Brown
Soph K wrote:I've done the 1st Prelim of Series 11 (Tuesday 3rd February 1987). Please could you add my name to the list of recappers so I can add it to the Countdown Database?
Thanks for joining the Recap Gang, Sophie. Your recap(s) will also need to be added to the wiki. Maybe your brother can show you what to do. :)

Re: Return of the Awesome Dudes

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:12 pm
by Joseph Krol
Mike Brown wrote:
Soph K wrote:I've done the 1st Prelim of Series 11 (Tuesday 3rd February 1987). Please could you add my name to the list of recappers so I can add it to the Countdown Database?
Thanks for joining the Recap Gang, Sophie. Your recap(s) will also need to be added to the wiki. Maybe your brother can show you what to do. :)
Thing is her name hasn't been added to the list of recappers.