Birthday Championship Spoilers For Friday February 8th 2013

[James Robinson]

So, we're now about to reach the end of the 1st round proper of the 30th Birthday Championships, and what a way to finish this off

Two of the most impressive winners of the prelims are back to face each other, before having a quick breather over the weekend, so they can be ready to play Tom Rowell on Monday.

This battle of the series runners-up is between Andrew Hulme and Jonathan Rawlinson from Series 61 & 66 respectively.

Here are the stats:

Firstly, Series 61 Runner-Up Andrew Hulme - 12 Games, 11 Wins, 1,310 Points. (Average: 109.17) (Just His Series 61 Games, No 9 Rounders)
Highest Score: 133 vs. Micheal Harris (1st Game)
Lowest Score: 86 vs. Jacqueline Baker (Quarter-Final) & Chris Davies (Grand Final)
9's Achieved: 8/12
Total Points/Max/%: 1310/1558 (84%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 905/1078 (84%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 325/360 (90%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 80/120 (67%)

Secondly, Series 66 Runner-Up Jonathan Rawlinson - 12 Games, 11 Wins, 1,223 Points (Average: 101.92 - Not Including Tie-Break Conundrum)
Highest Score: 120 vs. Stewart Calver (3rd Game)
Lowest Score: 70 vs. Jack Worsley (Grand Final)
9's Achieved: 3/5
Total Points/Max/%: 1223/1466 (83%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 837/989 (85%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 286/357 (80%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 100/120 (83%)

Heather will be giving the recap later on.

[Adam Gillard]

[Adam Gillard]

Good tnetennbaing from Eri-Kate there, unlucky!

[Adam Gillard]

PALESTRAS as a beater just before OoW.

[Jordan F]

PALESTRAS as a beater just before OoW.

Not to be be nitpicky but I thought there was only one S.

[Matt Coates]

Are you playing touchdown Adam?

[Chris Philpot]

The alphabetically-linked teasers conspiracy theory, as raised the other day, holds true! How exciting.

[Adam Gillard]

Heh oops, wasn't there PALESTRA though? That's what I meant.

[Jordan F]

Getting painfully slow now Jonathan. What'd that take you? 5 seconds? Regardless of this painfully slow reaction, another hard fought win for you, very well done. Unlucky Andrew, you played very well, just happened to come across a very hard conundrum against someone who seems to be developing quite the conundrum niche.

[Jojo Apollo]

Great game, well played lads.

[Adam Gillard]

Great game guys! You both played very well. Jonathan is proving hard to beat on these conundrums!

[Jack Worsley]

Very well played to both of you, particularly to Jonathan for the excellent conundrum spot! Andrew was very unlucky to lose that.

[Innis Carson]

Who's this stranger

[Martin Long]

Another excellent game and an excellent conundrum spot by Jonathan at the end. I wouldn't have got that conundrum had I had a whole day to get it, so for someone to get it in 5 seconds is absolutely awesome.

[Grant Waters]

Another cracking game. We have come to expect nothing less in this series. That was an impressive scoreline with what were IMHO an awkward set of letters.
Good to see Dudley getting lots of airtime.

[Adam Gillard]

Who's this stranger

I was just going to link this game when I realised that Rawlo wouldn't be able to see it without logging in to apterous. So I took a screenshot as well. We miss you!

[JackHurst]

This was such an exciting game to watch from the audience. Jonathan must have been shitting himself when Susie was looking up UNMIXES! Very good solve on the conundrum under the pressure. I think it's one that's very difficult if you haven't seen it before, so I guess all Jonathan's conundrum practice has paid off. Great performance from Andrew to take it all the way, and he was unfortunate his risks didn't pay off in the end. Before this game I would have tipped the winner to get to the semi final, but lets see!

[David O'Donnell]

A great game.

My workmate just text me asking why Andrew would risk a seven and not play a safe six (he's definitely getting into Countdown if that's the type of comment he's making).

[Tom]

Great game guys and I loved watching this from the audience - thanks for treating us to a cracker! Brilliant conundrum spot too with a word I'd never heard of.

I genuinely don't know any other results after this match as it was the last recording of the day but having knocked out Ed and now Andy, I'm thinking Jonathan could well be a dark horse in the favourites to win this tournament as on his day he's pretty damn good on his day and I was never able to get anywhere near him on Apterous.

[Gavin Chipper]

25×10-100/(75-50)+3=249 for the standard method.

Also I got the disallowed icewater in one of the rounds. Shame.

[James Robinson]

First Round Game 15 2020 Word Update

The max would have increased by one (from 115 to 116), if played today, as there was 7's available in Round 4, that weren't available in 2013.

Notably, Andrew would've had UNMIXES allowed in Round 12 if played today, so instead of losing by 7 points, he'd have won by 6 points, as a 98-91 defeat would've turned into a 98-92 win for him...

New Words Now Allowed:

R1: OUVERTS, RETOURS, ROUSTER, SOUTHER
R2: MARUDI, MURAJI, RUMAKI
R3: PEICEN, PETUNE, PICEIN, PICINE, PIECEN, PIETIC, PINCIE, PINITE
R4: OVALOID, OVOIDAL (increases MAX from 6 to 7)
R6: IATRIC
R7: GODISES, MISDOES
R9: AGRESTAL, PARTAGES
R11: LEPROSED
R12: MAXINAS, UNMIXES
R13: RENEGATE