Wanted: Awesome Dudes

[Howard Somerset]

Can someone with access to the NODE please check WAGERED. Recap writer suprisingly didn't find it.

[James Robinson]

Ben Wilson [series 47]
Thu 21-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 117 - 54 Peter Dimond
Fri 22-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 93 - 46 Andy Cooper
Mon 25-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 93 - 50 Jane Williams
Tue 26-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 100 - 41 Philip Whitehead
Wed 27-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 105 - 42 Bob Sainsbury

Ben Wilson [series 47]
Fri 22-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 93 - 46 Andy Cooper
Mon 25-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 93 - 50 Jane Williams
Tue 26-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 100 - 41 Philip Whitehead
Wed 27-Feb-02 Lee Hartley 105 - 42 Bob Sainsbury

I just checked Ben's posts and I don't see the 21st Feb recap anywhere
I assume you're getting round to that, Ben, since you've just done the 22nd Feb one.

[Peter Mabey]

Can someone with access to the NODE please check WAGERED. Recap writer suprisingly didn't find it.

WAGER is in as both noun and verb, so although WAGERED is not mentioned explicitly the NODE accepts that as a regular form.

[Mike Brown]

Hmmm, must've been an odd time in the 19th Century. Oh well.

(resists rant about 21st Century education...)

[Charlie Reams]

Hmmm, must've been an odd time in the 19th Century. Oh well.

I've heard it was the best of times. And also the worst of times. It's funny like that.

[Charlie Reams]

Since Series 47 is now complete, we have a record of every game featuring a 15 round octochamp, and this page is therefore complete Most interestingly (to me), Chris Wills' then-record score of 875 is somewhat put into perspective by the discovery that he had (and still has) the highest max ever available to an octochamp, 1085, which is only 15 points short of the highest available to anyone. By contrast Craig Beevers scored 907 with a max of 985, the 11th lowest of any octochamp.

[Jon O'Neill]

Wicked, congratulations all.

Can we do % of maxes? On letters and numbers separately?

[Charlie Reams]

Wicked, congratulations all.

Can we do % of maxes? On letters and numbers separately?

I think Kai did partial figures on this, he might feel like updating them. Would be nice to automate it a bit more but I've had enough of processing Countdown recaps for now.

Incidentally, I've just extended http://www.apterous.org/cdb/octomax.php to show the lowest available possible octochamp max. Turns out the record was set only a few months ago. Hard luck Bill!

[Gavin Chipper]

Since Series 47 is now complete, we have a record of every game featuring a 15 round octochamp, and this page is therefore complete Most interestingly (to me), Chris Wills' then-record score of 875 is somewhat put into perspective by the discovery that he had (and still has) the highest max ever available to an octochamp, 1085, which is only 15 points short of the highest available to anyone. By contrast Craig Beevers scored 907 with a max of 985, the 11th lowest of any octochamp.

He had the same percentage as you. Really puts things into perspective.

[Kai Laddiman]

Wicked, congratulations all.

Can we do % of maxes? On letters and numbers separately?

I think Kai did partial figures on this, he might feel like updating them.

orly?

Actually I think I know what you mean. I'll have a stab at it. Although I mainly trial out stuff on the Series 59 octochamps' data, I could branch out a bit.

[James Robinson]

James, I've allocated you a big chunk so you don't get stuck waiting for me again. Hope that's okay.

All done, Charlie. When you're ready, I'll gladly do some more, if there are any left.

[Charlie Reams]

Good work as ever, James. Here's 10 more. We've got only a few more waiting to be done. (Two of them are indexed already but they're not in the modern format so it'd be nice to have them updated.)

James Robinson
Tue 27-Nov-01 Mark Roper 99 - 72 Maeve Mulryan
Wed 28-Nov-01 Mark Roper 72 - 98 Paul Ryan
Thu 29-Nov-01 Paul Ryan 89 - 68 Jeff Butcher
Fri 30-Nov-01 Paul Ryan 96 - 86 Andrew Clayton
Mon 3-Dec-01 Paul Ryan 80 - 73 Turlough McConnell
Tue 4-Dec-01 Paul Ryan 101 - 65 Mandy Buck
Wed 5-Dec-01 Paul Ryan 95 - 57 Eleanor Grafton
Thu 6-Dec-01 Tony Owen 90 - 80 Reg Jewitt
Fri 7-Dec-01 Tony Owen 87 - 49 Colleen Russ
Mon 10-Dec-01 Tony Owen 42 - 87 Nick Billington

Andrew Feist:
Tue 11-Dec-01 Nick Billington 75 - 99 Jean Goodman
Wed 12-Dec-01 Jean Goodman 89 - 99 Donald Isles
Thu 13-Dec-01 Donald Isles 88 - 72 Michael Weekes

Wanting A Home
Mon 5-Nov-01 Rosemarie Loveridge 51 - 91 Peter Wilson
Fri 14-Dec-01 Donald Isles 59 - 83 Terance Carey
Mon 17-Dec-01 Ben Wilson 83 - 68 Simon Cartwright
Tue 18-Dec-01 Phil Wass 80 - 99 Brian Capper
Wed 19-Dec-01 Loz Sands 66 - 82 Steve Sandalls
Thu 20-Dec-01 Paul Ryan 90 - 69 Ian McMenzie
Fri 21-Dec-01 Ben Wilson 101 - 81 Paul Ryan 130
Mon 24-Dec-01 Brian Capper 84 - 99 Steve Sandalls
Tue 25-Dec-01 Steve Sandalls 75 - 84 Ben Wilson 117

[Andrew Feist]

I will claim these:
Tue 11-Dec-01 Nick Billington 75 - 99 Jean Goodman
Wed 12-Dec-01 Jean Goodman 89 - 99 Donald Isles
Thu 13-Dec-01 Donald Isles 88 - 72 Michael Weekes

instead of grading final projects.

[Innis Carson]

Having had a bit of a break from this, I'll happily take another 5 episodes now. Cheers.

[Andy Wilson]

Mon 5-Nov-01 Rosemarie Loveridge 51 - 91 Peter Wilson
Fri 14-Dec-01 Donald Isles 59 - 83 Terance Carey
Mon 17-Dec-01 Ben Wilson 83 - 68 Simon Cartwright

These ones have my name on em. Twice.

EDIT: Didn't see Innis' message there. Let me know if he's already been assigned the above. Won't do em til tomorrow anyway.

[James Robinson]

Mon 5-Nov-01 Rosemarie Loveridge 51 - 91 Peter Wilson
Fri 14-Dec-01 Donald Isles 59 - 83 Terance Carey
Mon 17-Dec-01 Ben Wilson 83 - 68 Simon Cartwright

I've already done that one, so it doesn't need doing again.

[Andy Wilson]

Grand Job, hey, can you point me to the scans for the 2nd part of the series?

[James Robinson]

Grand Job, hey, can you point me to the scans for the 2nd part of the series?

Right here, Andy:
http://www.thecountdownpage.com/scans/series46pt2.pdf

[Andy Wilson]

cheers dude.

[Mike Brown]

(Two of them are indexed already but they're not in the modern format so it'd be nice to have them updated.)

Would you like me to re-recap the Series 48 grand final (and maybe some others) if you're referring to those that still link to TCP?

[James Robinson]

James Robinson
Tue 27-Nov-01 Mark Roper 99 - 72 Maeve Mulryan
Wed 28-Nov-01 Mark Roper 72 - 98 Paul Ryan
Thu 29-Nov-01 Paul Ryan 89 - 68 Jeff Butcher
Fri 30-Nov-01 Paul Ryan 96 - 86 Andrew Clayton
Mon 3-Dec-01 Paul Ryan 80 - 73 Turlough McConnell
Tue 4-Dec-01 Paul Ryan 101 - 65 Mandy Buck
Wed 5-Dec-01 Paul Ryan 95 - 57 Eleanor Grafton
Thu 6-Dec-01 Tony Owen 90 - 80 Reg Jewitt
Fri 7-Dec-01 Tony Owen 87 - 49 Colleen Russ
Mon 10-Dec-01 Tony Owen 42 - 87 Nick Billington

All sorted. Will do the remaining ones, if no-one else wants them.

[Charlie Reams]

(Two of them are indexed already but they're not in the modern format so it'd be nice to have them updated.)

Would you like me to re-recap the Series 48 grand final (and maybe some others) if you're referring to those that still link to TCP?

Yes please, that'd be grand.

And James, go right ahead.

[James Robinson]

All done now.

What a pleasure that was.

[Andrew Feist]

Probably not actually the right place for this, but it seemed fitting enough: The cdb page for series stats seems to be off by one -- i.e. the people for series 48 show up in the row for series 49, etc. I didn't feel like going all the way down to see where the first error is though.

[Charlie Reams]

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Probably not actually the right place for this, but it seemed fitting enough: The cdb page for series stats seems to be off by one -- i.e. the people for series 48 show up in the row for series 49, etc. I didn't feel like going all the way down to see where the first error is though.

Oh that page has been junk for literally years, I don't know if I'll ever get around to fixing it.