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Was just reading the following thread: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 91&start=0 and thought that the general premise was a very good idea. For about a year now the people have been voting and we seem in favour of it going ahead. If anyone else wants to lay claim to the idea, so be it, but if no-one else can be bothered/wants to I'm happy to. Assuming it goes ahead, PM me with any nominations, I'll come up with a few, and I'll post them a soon as I can after Series 63 is over. All awards will have an 'other' option, but please specify! Voting is done by PMing me with the category and recipient and closes at 2200 hrs 25 Dec 2010, but may be extended if necessary. The results will be posted on either 30 Dec or 31 Dec, depending on when I can do it.

The current categories are listed here (this list is subject to change, please PM me before 17 Dec if you have any suggestions):

Best player of 2010
Best player of Series 62 (other than best player of 2010)
Best player of Series 63 (other than best player of 2010)
Best non-finalist (player who didn’t reach the QFs)
Best word by player
Best numbers solution by player
Best conundrum solve by player
Rachel’s best outfit
Rachel’s best numbers solve
Funniest Jeff joke
Most entertaining DC guest
Most annoying DC guest
Best DC find
Worst miss by player
Worst miss by DC
Worst miss by Rachel
Best conundrum scramble
Best comeback

As I have said before, anyone who claims to have originally come up with the idea/ wants to help organising it please comment and I'll pass all/some of the duties onto you.

Joseph

Best dressed and worst dressed contestant.

Most likeable and least likeable players.

Thanks for your contributions Jack! Would really help to get some more nominations though... hint hint

Best word by player: ZETETIC by Oliver, IMAMATE By Eoin.
Rachel’s best outfit: I always try to leave out the Rachel comments as I find them a bit creepy, but watch out for her Dress in the final of s63.
Most annoying DC guest: John Gaunt
Best DC find: QUODLIBET
Worst miss by player: REFINED, by me.

Edit: There's also stuff from the finals still to come that would be worth nominating. Sorry If it makes me a prick to nominate myself, but SHITFACE has to be one of the most memorable words of the year, whether that makes it one of the best or not I don't know.

JackHurst wrote:Best word by player: ZETETIC by Oliver, IMAMATE By Eoin.
Rachel’s best outfit: I always try to leave out the Rachel comments as I find them a bit creepy, but watch out for her Dress in the final of s63.
Most annoying DC guest: John Gaunt
Best DC find: QUODLIBET
Worst miss by player: REFINED, by me.

Edit: There's also stuff from the finals still to come that would be worth nominating. Sorry If it makes me a prick to nominate myself, but SHITFACE has to be one of the most memorable words of the year, whether that makes it one of the best or not I don't know.

Cheers Jack. Made a new category (Funniest find by contestant) just for you.

Rachel's best numbers solution has got to be 299 from this game.

Kai Laddiman wrote:Rachel's best numbers solution has got to be 299 from this game.

Coincidentally, I added that to the nomination list myself Kai!

By the way, I added at least one nomination to each category, and I am withdrawing the option to vote 'other' apart from if there is only one nomination for a category. Currently, the categories with a single nomination are:

Rachel’s best outfit (but if Jack is true to his word, I will probably add her outfit for the final too)
Rachel’s best numbers solve
Best Jeff joke
Funniest find by contestant
Most entertaining DC guest
Worst miss by player
Worst miss by DC
Worst miss by Rachel
Best comeback
Most likable player

Please can you suggest ideas for these categories before the others. Otherwise, feel free to nominate for the other categories.


Thanks,

Joseph

Joseph Krol wrote:Most entertaining DC guest

Tim Vine, Dr Phil Hammond, David Lloyd, Penny Smith, Dave Spikey

Rachel’s best outfit

In desperate search for a non-creepy suggestion, I've come up with those tights that were different back and front.

Worst miss by player

Daniel Pati's 912
The entire game between Michael Chadwick and Andrew Greenway

Most likeable player

Martha Stephenson, Rebekah Larner, Clarke Carlisle

Best non-finalist (player who didn’t reach the QFs)

James Rawson

JackHurst wrote:Most likeable and least likeable players.

Least likeable player seems a bit mean-spirited to me.

JackHurst wrote: Best DC find: QUODLIBET

Don't think it counts if they found it with the computer.

Charlie Reams wrote:

JackHurst wrote: Best DC find: QUODLIBET

Don't think it counts if they found it with the computer.

Damian's a computer, is he, Charlie

Thanks to some substantial nominations by James Robinson, there are now only two categories with a single nomination in:

-Worst miss by DC
-Worst miss by Rachel

Please send me some nominations, then I can get rid of all the 'Other' things in the word document I typed them all into.

Thanks for your help,

Joseph

Martin Bishop wrote:

JackHurst wrote:Most likeable and least likeable players.

Least likeable player seems a bit mean-spirited to me.

Yes, good point, scrap that suggestion.

JackHurst wrote:

Martin Bishop wrote:

JackHurst wrote:Most likeable and least likeable players.

Least likeable player seems a bit mean-spirited to me.

Yes, good point, scrap that suggestion.

Too late - you're down for least likeable layer now.

Gavin Chipper wrote:least likeable layer

I nominate that annoying half-skin-half-flesh layer you sometimes get just under the skin of an onion. Always worth being a bit brutal with taking the outer layers off to get the best part of it, nothing worse than a bit of skinny onion in your meal.

Matt Morrison wrote:

Gavin Chipper wrote:least likeable layer

I nominate that annoying half-skin-half-flesh layer you sometimes get just under the skin of an onion. Always worth being a bit brutal with taking the outer layers off to get the best part of it, nothing worse than a bit of skinny onion in your meal.

When I saw MWM had quoted this I did not expect the post to revolve around onions.

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:

Gavin Chipper wrote:least likeable layer

I nominate that annoying half-skin-half-flesh layer you sometimes get just under the skin of an onion. Always worth being a bit brutal with taking the outer layers off to get the best part of it, nothing worse than a bit of skinny onion in your meal.

When I saw MWM had quoted this I did not expect the post to revolve around onions.

Are you calling Jack an onion? My brother has a little cuddly monkey someone gave him once called Mr. Onions. It was named after a client he had on a database at his work called Lesley Onions.

P.S. I absolutely fucking love red onions.

Matt Morrison wrote: P.S. I absolutely fucking love red onions.

This.

Matt Morrison wrote:I nominate that annoying half-skin-half-flesh layer you sometimes get just under the skin of an onion.

Take that back IT boy. That layer is essential to every student on earth learning to use a microscope.

Matt Morrison wrote: P.S. I absolutely fucking love red onions.

^what he said.

Charlie Reams wrote:computer

Whoa - back up there! Com- what?! Thought they took pride in not using one? I was chuffed to bits with that one - don't burst my bubble!*
*Unless that's a fact in which case please produce your pin.

Lesley Hines wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:computer

Whoa - back up there! Com- what?! Thought they took pride in not using one? I was chuffed to bits with that one - don't burst my bubble!*

Sorry to be a prick, but I'll have to burst your bubble. They have software in the production room for checking words against an electronic version of the ODE, although the print version is still canonical in the event of a dispute. The software can also find anagrams, so if you check BLOTIQUED it will suggest QUODLIBET, or something like that. It might be able to do longest-word-from type things, or maybe just exact anagrams, I don't exactly know the details. One way or another, QUODLIBET came from the computer.

Charlie Reams wrote:I don't exactly know the details. One way or another, QUODLIBET came from the computer.

How can you be so sure of that?

Charlie Reams wrote:One way or another, QUODLIBET came from the computer.

I remember sticking it in lexplorer at the time to see if it had been spotted on apterous and from who had spotted it I was pretty sure it was genuinely spotted and not found using a computer.

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:One way or another, QUODLIBET came from the computer.

I remember sticking it in lexplorer at the time to see if it had been spotted on apterous and from who had spotted it I was pretty sure it was genuinely spotted and not found using a computer.

Dude, "Dictionary Corner" on apterous is not the same as on the show.

Matt Morrison wrote:Dude, "Dictionary Corner" on apterous is not the same as on the show.

How can you be so sure of that?

IIRC, that game was filmed at the end of February (the day after the specials were filmed) so anything after that doesn't count. That does mean that Charlie was in the studio at the time, when he and Damian were young and still in love ( ) but all other circumstances are - er - circumstantial.

Jon Corby wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:I don't exactly know the details. One way or another, QUODLIBET came from the computer.

How can you be so sure of that?

Damian told me at the time. I think someone else was there too, maybe Kirk.

Man, I'm bummed.

It's ARPEGGIOS all over again.

Most annoying person with the initials RB

So wait, Damian cheated in our game? Rematch!

Kai Laddiman wrote:So wait, Damian cheated in our game? Rematch!

LOL you missed sleepsuit.

JackHurst wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:So wait, Damian cheated in our game? Rematch!

LOL you missed sleepsuit.

So wait, Dinos cheated in our game? Rematch!

Best conundrum scramble - the 4th QF one. I won't say the scramble here as it's a spoiler.

I'm removing worst miss by DC and worst miss by Rachel as no-one is nominating anything and it seems a bit rude too. Bye bye 'other'!

Joseph Krol wrote:I'm removing worst miss by DC and worst miss by Rachel as no-one is nominating anything and it seems a bit rude too. Bye bye 'other'!

This. Also DC sometimes leave out some words they get (so I hear) if they're constantly beating opponents as to not put them down. Also, sometimes Jeff doesn't ask DC if they had anything else.

My scroll lock is currently knackered but here are a few categories i would like to see:
Worst act of cheating
Best act of fudgery
Most unlikely DC spot
Worst waffler (i mean DC not me lol)
best jeff one liner
best Rachel one liner
Funniest moment
ugliest audience conundrum spotter
Fittest audience member
most surprising contestant hobby

Marc Meakin wrote:My scroll lock is currently knackered

Is this relevant?

Votes can be cast whenever I have posted the nominations, which I'm gonna do tomorrow at some point.

Joseph Krol wrote:Votes can be cast whenever I have posted the nominations, which I'm gonna do tomorrow at some point.

Just realised that I've said I would post the nominations as soon as I could after Series 63 is over. Remembered my instructions incorrectly. Sorry, for the belatedness, but here the nominations are:

Best player of 2010
-Oliver Garner
-Jack Hurst
-Eoin Monaghan
Best player of Series 62 (other than best player of 2010)
-Oliver Garner
-Nicki Sellars
-Dave Wilkinson
-Danny Pledger
Best player of Series 63 (other than best player of 2010)
-Jack Hurst
-Eoin Monaghan
-Daniel Pati
-Marcus Hares
Best non-finalist (player who didn’t reach the QFs)
-Michael Chadwick
-Ryan Loughborough
-Richard Harris
-Oliver Moore
-James Rawson
Best word by player
-ANORTHITE (Eoin Monaghan)
-IMAMATE (Eoin Monaghan)
-INDICTEES (Jack Hurst)
-ESTANCIA (Jack Hurst)
-NARIYALS (Jack Hurst)
-ZETETIC (Oliver Garner)
Best numbers solution by player
-(9 × 6 − 10 − 1) × 8=344 (Oliver Garner)
- (50 ÷ 25 × 10 + 100) × 7=840 (Jack Hurst)
- 278 = (((100-8)*75)+50)/25 (Jack Hurst)
- (100 − 3) × 9 − (7 − (4 − 3))= (Eoin Monaghan)
- (((8*3)-1)*7*5)-2 = 803 (Craig Chittenden)
Best conundrum solve by player
-VOUCHSAFE (Eoin Monaghan)
-ANTIPASTI (Oliver Garner)
-SPONDULIX (Jack Hurst)
-INAUGURAL (Nicki Sellars)
-MARCASITE (Jack Hurst)
Rachel’s best outfit
- The tights that were different back and front
- Jack Hurst vs. Peter Godwin QF
- The outfit she wore on her birthday
- The outfit she wore in the final
Rachel’s best numbers solve
- 299 = (100 × 75 − 50 ÷ (9 − 7)) ÷ 25
- 542 = ((75*4*9)+10)/5
Best Jeff joke
-Body Parts Poem (http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... yes#p92159)
-Cole’s Law
Funniest find by contestant
-SHITFACE (Jack Hurst)
-FANNIES (Daniel Pati and Barry Hughes)
Most entertaining DC guest
-Gino D’Acampo
-Tim Vine
-David Lloyd
-Penny Smith
-Dave Spikey
-John Parrott
Most annoying DC guest
-Dave Spikey
-John Gaunt
Best DC find
-UROLOGIST
-QUODLIBET
Worst miss by player
-7 from EIAFWDREN (Jack Hurst)
-912 from 25, 100, 9, 9, 6, 6 (Daniel Pati)
-Tuesday 12th October (Series 62, Prelim 67) (Whole game, Michael Chadwick & Andrew Greenway)
-EMIGRATES when he had MIGRATES (Niall Young)
Best conundrum scramble
RHANDYGIT -> HYDRATING
UGLYHINTS -> UNSIGHTLY
BEDISCLUE -> SEDUCIBLE
LARGEBAPS -> GRASPABLE
Best comeback
-19-45 -> 81-75 (Oliver Garner)
- Mike Pickering with two v. fast conundrums
Most likeable player
-Marcus Hares
-Martha Stephenson
-Rebekah Larner
-Clarke Carlisle

A few rules:
1) Votes must be PMed to me.
2) One vote for each person per category.
3) Feel free to abstain from any categories.
4) Votes to me before 25 December. May be extended.
JK

Voting has been extended to midnight 27th December.