Dinos Sfyris wrote:Quite timidly I can assure youAllan Harmer wrote:I will be watching with keen interest to see how you deal with the 'Wicked Witch'.
What? You mean you never answered her back like I did? You've let me down Dinos.
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Dinos Sfyris wrote:Quite timidly I can assure youAllan Harmer wrote:I will be watching with keen interest to see how you deal with the 'Wicked Witch'.
No it's not! It's today! Most moist.Dinos Sfyris wrote:BUMP! Its tomorrow!
Me too - I even have the afternoon off!Matt Morrison wrote:No it's not! It's today! Most moist.Dinos Sfyris wrote:BUMP! Its tomorrow!
Did you do it? Where will it appear? Really looking forward to this afternoon - don't let me down...Dinos Sfyris wrote:I never wrote a Countdown Experience but will have to do one for the Weakest Link while its still fresh in my brain, then post it when its aired.
Awesome bit of Spanish Greek action there.Derek Hazell wrote:Kostadinos
I was going to make a post, but Phil's basically said everything I was going to.Phil Reynolds wrote:FUCK!
I can't remember when I was last so angry about someone being voted off. You'd done really well with the questions apart from one slightly dodgy round; you stayed focused; and you didn't keep wasting time asking for questions to be repeated like several of your team mates did. It was such blatant tactical voting; those two girls were both as thick as pig shit, and Marlon was a dickhead. You could tell that Anne was annoyed by them too.
Anyway, you came across really well and walked away with your head held high. Brilliant stuff - look forward to seeing the write-up!
Indeed. A creditable performance, you would've taken any of them to the cleaners in the head-to-head.Phil Reynolds wrote:FUCK!
I can't remember when I was last so angry about someone being voted off. You'd done really well with the questions apart from one slightly dodgy round; you stayed focused; and you didn't keep wasting time asking for questions to be repeated like several of your team mates did. It was such blatant tactical voting; those two girls were both as thick as pig shit, and Marlon was a dickhead. You could tell that Anne was annoyed by them too.
Anyway, you came across really well and walked away with your head held high. Brilliant stuff - look forward to seeing the write-up!
That's not indicative of some long-term trend in the show - it was just today's mostly shite contestants.Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:I haven't seen the WL for a couple of years but I couldn't believe how pedestrian it has become, long pauses, repeat the question, what was that all about?
Yes, that one was among today's tougher questions - I only knew it was Ian McEwan because I'd read On Chesil Beach on holiday last month and remembered the other titles from the blurb at the front. As you say, it's all subjective - questions about sports personalities are usually opaque to me.Michael Wallace wrote:There seemed to be a fair bit of inconsistent question difficulty going on too, but I imagine that's hard to avoid (and obviously subjective anyway - what springs to mind is the book question Dinos got in the same round as 'what's the square root of 121?' round, which probably just betrays my ignorance of literature, but eh).
£1220, yeah. It's towards the lower end of the scale; typically the final prize money tends to be in the £2000-£2500 region, but I've seen winners go away with less than £800 and more than £4000.was the prize money for this show abnormally low (£1200ish, I think)?
Haven't written it yet. Hopefully will whip something up this weekend having relived it, and while people are still interested. Think I may rewatch it on iplayer to include all the juicy stats like you did, Phil, with a full breakdown of the players in the green room and voting strategems etc.Phil Reynolds wrote:Did you do it? Where will it appear?Dinos Sfyris wrote:I never wrote a Countdown Experience but will have to do one for the Weakest Link while its still fresh in my brain, then post it when its aired.
You need a televisual version of Connect 4. Oh god, Jason'll probably be along in a minute to tell us there already is one in America. Apologies in advance.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Hmmm maybe I should apply for some game shows where 4 is the optimum outcome!
Please do! I'll feel slightly less of a saddo if at least one other person in netland has done this. I'll be interested to hear how, if at all, things have changed on the show in the five and a half years since I was on.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Think I may rewatch it on iplayer to include all the juicy stats like you did, Phil
Make sure it's a game show then and not the drama 'Skins'Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Countdown episodes appeared in: 4
Position attained on the weakest link: 4th
Questions answered incorrectly: 4
Occasions on which I was the strongest link: 4
Hmmm maybe I should apply for some game shows where 4 is the optimum outcome!
Would jew believe, it's taken me all night to get that joke!Chris Corby wrote:Make sure it's a game show then and not the drama 'Skins'
This must be yet another reincarnation of Richard Brittain! Come forward and tell The Truth!Derek Hazell wrote:Would jew believe, it's taken me all night to get that joke!Chris Corby wrote:Make sure it's a game show then and not the drama 'Skins'
I'll add my IAWTP to the others, and this is exactly the phrase I screamed at my TV set when I watched it this morning.Phil Reynolds wrote: those two girls were both as thick as pig shit!
From the smallest gandiseeg, wise Kais grow.Kai Laddiman wrote:This must be yet another reincarnation of Richard Brittain! Come forward and tell The Truth!
You've attributed an exclamation mark to me that I didn't use. I think this is called Gross Larseny.Julie T wrote:Phil Reynolds wrote:those two girls were both as thick as pig shit!
Hmmm, you did.Phil Reynolds wrote:You've attributed an exclamation mark to me that I didn't use. I think this is called Gross Larseny.Julie T wrote:Phil Reynolds wrote:those two girls were both as thick as pig shit!
Sorry, Phil!!!!!Phil Reynolds wrote:You've attributed an exclamation mark to me that I didn't use. I think this is called Gross Larseny.Julie T wrote:Phil Reynolds wrote:those two girls were both as thick as pig shit!
Phil Reynolds wrote: Brilliant stuff - look forward to seeing the write-up!
Slander!Eoin Monaghan wrote:I always thought your name was pronounced 'd-eye-nos' (not in an offensive way.)
Nice distinction, Phil:Phil Reynolds wrote:You've attributed an exclamation mark to me that I didn't use. I think this is called Gross Larseny.Julie T wrote:Phil Reynolds wrote:those two girls were both as thick as pig shit!
is a bald statement of undeniable fact. Much more telling thanthose two girls were both as thick as pig shit
which is a mere expression of annoyance.those two girls were both as thick as pig shit!
Yeh, it sounded like 'Deano'.Michael Wallace wrote:Didn't one of the people in their closing speech call him 'Dino'?
I'd have asked her out for a fight.Ian Dent wrote:I'd have asked Molly out.
That was Ian IIRC. I thought he said Dino as in the Flintstone's DinoKai Laddiman wrote:Yeh, it sounded like 'Deano'.Michael Wallace wrote:Didn't one of the people in their closing speech call him 'Dino'?
Hahaha, that was great. I think she actually said something like "Calculios", so she couldn't even repeat the word from the question correctly.Kirk Bevins wrote: Edit: Just watched the final. "Question: .....who developed calculus? Answer: Calculus."
Sounded like 'Calcula' to me.Charlie Reams wrote:Hahaha, that was great. I think she actually said something like "Calculios", so she couldn't even repeat the word from the question correctly.Kirk Bevins wrote: Edit: Just watched the final. "Question: .....who developed calculus? Answer: Calculus."
It sounded as if he was forced to say it, not his actual opinion.Kirk Bevins wrote:Your walk-off speech was cheesy as hell, mentioning "chemistry" and "bond". You geek.
It sounded like he'd prepared it himself to me. I thought it was great.Kai Laddiman wrote:It sounded as if he was forced to say it, not his actual opinion.Kirk Bevins wrote:Your walk-off speech was cheesy as hell, mentioning "chemistry" and "bond". You geek.
Haha yeah I remember doing that now. I put my pen down as soon as I'd written down my vote, but then remembered what they'd said about pretending to write so I picked it back up but didn't bother with the lid.Kirk Bevins wrote:Dinos clearly picks up the pen from the tray, doesn't take the lid off and then pretends to write with the lid still on!
Cheers Neil. Although I'm kinda glad Anne cut me off 'cause under the spotlight I feel I would have sold short the beautiful intricacies of the Venn!Neil Zussman wrote:Also, you might like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_Diagram
Absolutely rehearsed yes I used it in the audition too and it got a laugh, so I thought why not! Better than some bitter tirade about how nobody left deserved to win.Michael Wallace wrote:It sounded like he'd prepared it himself to me. I thought it was great.Kai Laddiman wrote:It sounded as if he was forced to say it, not his actual opinion.Kirk Bevins wrote:Your walk-off speech was cheesy as hell, mentioning "chemistry" and "bond". You geek.
The girls were the only plan-hatchers. Marlon was just too dim to see they'd voted the same way EVERY round and would get rid of him next. Caught the tube with him back to London st Pancras and he felt very hard done by. He seemed like a nice guy but he honestly thought he should have wonPhilip Jarvis wrote:Just watched the taped programme this afternoon.
Did you notice they kept on doing rear view shots of Molly? I can't believe she went 2 rounds without answering a question right and yet Dinos gets voted off.
Dinos - the stats show you were clearly the best player. This was surely a case of 3 people hatching a plan beforehand??
Who was the guy who was voted off after you? I think his name was Marlon. He looked shocked - clearly a case of the women having the final say at the end.
Well done Dinos - you were the moral victor.
You can speculate on ifs and buts til the cows come home, Jason. eg If I'd voted Tracey instead of Phillip in the first round as I'd originally intended then Tracey would have been first off and who knows what would have happened. My number also nearly came up in round 4 when I got 2 tough questions wrong so I was lucky to stay then so luck swings both ways. In the end I had a great experience and all my family and friends were pleased with my performance and very supportive and I couldn't ask for much more than that! (Except maybe the prize money )Jason Larsen wrote:Would it have changed if some of the contestants were a lot nicer, Dinos?
If so, how?
You certainly had rotten luck, Dinos. I don't think I've ever known there to be so many utterly dumb candidates on WL - by the skin of their teeth one question each in the final round! - but they also had the best organised voting-you-off machine I've ever encountered.Dinos Sfyris wrote: If I'd voted Tracey instead of Phillip in the first round as I'd originally intended then Tracey would have been first off and who knows what would have happened. My number also nearly came up in round 4 when I got 2 tough questions wrong so I was lucky to stay then so luck swings both ways. In the end I had a great experience and all my family and friends were pleased with my performance and very supportive and I couldn't ask for much more than that! (Except maybe the prize money )
Oi. It's good to have a wide mix of abilities.Jason Larsen wrote:People like that shouldn't even be considered to be contestants!