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So, we've now reached the final quarter-final, and even though it's normally the tightest battle, some might say that one of these players' letters abilities put him ahead of the other, while others will say that the other players' numbers abilities put him ahead.

You can probably guess who is who, but our final quarter-final is between the #4 seed, Andy "The St. Helens Storm" Noden and the #5 seed, Kevin "The Plymouth Powerhouse" Steede.

Statistics Corner:

Firstly, No.4 Seed Andy "The St. Helens Storm" Noden - 8 Wins, 828 Points. (Average: 103.5)
Highest Score: 118 vs. Mark Benyon (8th Game)
Lowest Score: 82 vs. Michael Smith (5th Game)
9's Achieved: 2/3
Total Points/Max/%: 828/1006 (82%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 563/606 (93%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 205/320 (64%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 60/80 (75%)

Secondly, No.5 Seed Kevin "The Plymouth Powerhouse" Steede - 8 Wins, 792 Points. (Average: 99)
Highest Score: 108 vs. Terry Stapleton (4th Game)
Lowest Score: 85 vs. Lois Pattison (7th Game)
9's Achieved: 1/2
Total Points/Max/%: 792/979 (81%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 498/582 (86%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 264/317 (83%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 30/80 (38%)

Join James Laverty for the recap later.

Alt 1st numbers to avoid the paper showing: (25+(5x5)-1)x10=490

IS SOUNDMEN ok? (it is in Scrabble)

Is it true that when Andy was getting his Countdown tattoo, the tattooist started doing an outline of Gyles Brandreth on his arm, alarmed at this, Andy said "What do you think your doing?" the tattooist replied "What are you complaining about? I thought you said you wanted a tattoo of the Countdown cock!"

Peter Mabey wrote:IS SOUNDMEN ok? (it is in Scrabble)

No it is not.

The moral of today's show is:
Never say "probably the same 8" when there are three possible answers (the other is ISOTHERE).

Steven M. McCann wrote:Is it true that when Andy was getting his Countdown tattoo, the tattooist started doing an outline of Gyles Brandreth on his arm, alarmed at this, Andy said "What do you think your doing?" the tattooist replied "What are you complaining about? I thought you said you wanted a tattoo of the Countdown cock!"

Badum-tish!

Fantastic game today - I was gripped to the end. The relief on Kevin's face when he secured 7 from the last numbers round tells a story

CountMax currently has less than 100,000 words for a contestant to learn. There are, however, over 33 million ways to combine the 6 numbers and 4 mathematical operators. To me, that means that becoming a numbers ninja is going to be the way forward for future champions

Well done chaps, this was the best of the quarter finals.