We have an exciting day here on Countdown today. Not only could Dave Taylor become an octochamp today, but if he does so, he will be the first non-apterite octochamp since Brian Selway all the way back in October of 2009, a gap of nearly two years. exciting stuff methinks.
Join Rhys and his dancing yellow man for the recap later.
Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
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Michael Wallace
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
Unless he is an apterite who plays under a pseudonym 
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Jojo Apollo
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
Well done Dave, on becoming an octochamp. 
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Well played Dave. Was I the only one who thought that Richard had a resemblance to John Malkovich? Some nice beaters out there include INARCHES (round 7), and UROPOD (round 13). BOUVIERS was a nice DC equaller in round 1 too.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
I was thinking he would make a good cool criminal or spy in a film, but I can see what you mean. SHOWMEN and TONTINE as equallers wherever.Josh Hurst wrote:Well played Dave. Was I the only one who thought that Richard had a resemblance to John Malkovich?
Good contest, and well done to Dave - very entertaining.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
Dave is James Nguyen.Michael Wallace wrote:Unless he is an apterite who plays under a pseudonym
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Actually, come to think of it, I never got the chance to discuss apterous with Dave. I wonder does he even know it exists?
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There is a an account for a Dave Taylor on apterous. Only played 11 games though.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
I'm very pleased Dave did so well, he came across as a thoroughly likeable guy, unlike the oppo in his 8th game who was a decent player but just didn't seem to tune into the banter around the studio at all.
Having said that Cillian came across very well too the previous day and it's a shame that he didn't nick it; Dave would almost certainly still have come back as a seed.
Having said that Cillian came across very well too the previous day and it's a shame that he didn't nick it; Dave would almost certainly still have come back as a seed.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
What would he have grown into?Keith Bennett wrote: Dave would almost certainly still have come back as a seed.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
A very nice octochamp run by Dave there. Shame I had to watch on catch-up, but it does mean a mega-morsel of Countdown, which is never a bad thing. 
Interesting nerdy statistics: The last 5 octochamps, that's the 3 from this series and Tom and Andy from the last one, all started their octochamp runs on a Tuesday.
Interesting nerdy statistics: The last 5 octochamps, that's the 3 from this series and Tom and Andy from the last one, all started their octochamp runs on a Tuesday.
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Having nothing better to do with my Saturday evening, I've got the data from Mike Brown's Octochamps and Viscounts page, added Dave Taylor's information, fed it through a bit of Perl and got the start days of all the octochamps and viscounts:James Robinson wrote:Interesting nerdy statistics: The last 5 octochamps, that's the 3 from this series and Tom and Andy from the last one, all started their octochamp runs on a Tuesday.
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NAME SERIES START DATE DAY
William Bradford 3 1983-10-17 Monday
Mark Nyman 3 1983-11-14 Monday
John Wallace 5 1984-11-28 Wednesday
Darryl Francis 6 1985-01-21 Monday
Clive Freedman 6 1985-03-12 Tuesday
David Trace 9 1986-04-09 Wednesday
Harvey Freeman 10 1986-10-31 Friday
Jon Marsh 12 1987-04-28 Tuesday
Nic Brown 14 1987-10-22 Thursday
John Hadfield 14 1987-11-04 Wednesday
Stephen Deakin 14 1987-12-01 Tuesday
Allan Saldanha 15 1988-04-11 Monday
Dick Green 15 1988-05-13 Friday
Steve Williams 16 1988-07-08 Friday
Tim Morrissey 17 1989-01-24 Tuesday
Lawrence Pearse 17 1989-02-22 Wednesday
Jonathan Anstey 18 1989-08-03 Thursday
Richard Evans 18 1989-09-14 Thursday
Lindsay Denyer 19 1990-01-08 Monday
Derek Coombs 20 1990-07-16 Monday
Lew Schwarz 21 1991-03-04 Monday
Chris Waddington 22 1991-08-28 Wednesday
Phil Jordan 23 1992-02-07 Friday
Gareth Williams 23 1992-03-09 Monday
Norman Christian 24 1992-08-12 Wednesday
James Sinclair 25 1993-02-01 Monday
Don Reid 25 1993-02-18 Thursday
Richard Campbell 27 1994-02-25 Friday
Sharon Bridge 27 1994-03-21 Monday
Suzanne Miles 28 1994-07-21 Thursday
Anthony Jenkin 31 1996-01-04 Thursday
David Acton 31 1996-02-27 Tuesday
Satbir Gupta 32 1996-08-08 Thursday
James Martin 34 1997-03-10 Monday
Natascha Kearsey 35 1997-04-14 Monday
Dag Griffiths 35 1997-05-01 Thursday
Maria Boyes 36 1997-07-16 Wednesday
Bhavin Manek 36 1997-09-08 Monday
Ray McPhie 37 1997-11-21 Friday
Kate Ogilvie 39 1998-09-11 Friday
Terry Knowles 39 1998-11-10 Tuesday
Glynn Leaney 39 1998-12-09 Wednesday
Peter Hutchings 40 1999-05-11 Tuesday
Scott Mearns 41 1999-06-28 Monday
Simon Cooper 41 1999-09-14 Tuesday
Sanjay Mazumder 41 1999-10-25 Monday
Lucy Roberts 41 1999-11-05 Friday
Margaret Foster 41 1999-11-17 Wednesday
Melvin Hetherington 41 1999-11-30 Tuesday
Michael Calder 42 2000-01-31 Monday
David Ballheimer 42 2000-02-14 Monday
Terence O'Farrell 42 2000-03-17 Friday
Graham Nash 43 2000-07-20 Thursday
David Williams 43 2000-08-23 Wednesday
Kevin McMahon 44 2001-03-07 Wednesday
Ian McMenzie 46 2001-09-24 Monday
Phil Wass 46 2001-10-25 Thursday
Ben Wilson 46 2001-11-06 Tuesday
Loz Sands 46 2001-11-19 Monday
Paul Ryan 46 2001-11-28 Wednesday
Tom Hargreaves 47 2001-12-26 Wednesday
Chris Wills 47 2002-01-14 Monday
Kevin Thurlow 47 2002-01-28 Monday
Lee Hartley 47 2002-02-18 Monday
Brenda Jolley 47 2002-03-01 Friday
Rupert Stokoe 47 2002-03-25 Monday
Wendy Roe 47 2002-04-23 Tuesday
Mike Pullin 47 2002-05-10 Friday
Julia Wilkinson 47 2002-06-06 Thursday
Grace Page 48 2002-07-02 Tuesday
Danny Hamilton 48 2002-07-24 Wednesday
Julian Fell 48 2002-10-16 Wednesday
George Greenhough 48 2002-11-01 Friday
Joe Zubaidi 48 2002-11-21 Thursday
John Davies 49 2003-05-02 Friday
Martin Gardner 49 2003-05-14 Wednesday
Chris Cummins 50 2003-07-21 Monday
Jim Bentley 50 2003-08-28 Thursday
Stuart Solomons 50 2003-10-28 Tuesday
Stuart Earl 50 2003-11-14 Friday
Richard Pay 51 2004-02-06 Friday
Stewart Holden 51 2004-02-23 Monday
Gary Male 51 2004-03-23 Tuesday
Nik Von Uexkull 51 2004-04-21 Wednesday
Sweyn Kirkness 51 2004-05-05 Wednesday
David Thirlwall 51 2004-06-08 Tuesday
Jack Welsby 52 2004-07-21 Wednesday
Paul Gallen 52 2004-08-31 Tuesday
John Gray 52 2004-09-27 Monday
John Hunt 52 2004-10-14 Thursday
Steven Moir 52 2004-11-03 Wednesday
Mark Tournoff 52 2004-11-15 Monday
Judith Young 53 2005-01-21 Friday
John Mayhew 53 2005-02-17 Thursday
Jon O'Neill 53 2005-04-01 Friday
Ross Allatt 53 2005-04-14 Thursday
John Brackstone 53 2005-05-12 Thursday
Richard Heald 53 2005-06-02 Thursday
Conor Travers 54 2005-11-23 Wednesday
Keith Maynard 54 2006-01-16 Monday
Michael Bowden 54 2006-01-25 Wednesday
Paul Howe 54 2006-02-04 Saturday
Matthew Shore 54 2006-02-17 Friday
Jon Corby 54 2006-04-28 Friday
Tony Warren 54 2006-05-10 Wednesday
Richard Brittain 55 2006-09-11 Monday
Stu Horsey 55 2006-10-05 Thursday
Steven Briers 55 2006-11-03 Friday
Chris McHenry 55 2006-11-22 Wednesday
Amey Deshpande 56 2007-01-16 Tuesday
Jean Webby 56 2007-02-26 Monday
Aaron Webber 56 2007-04-23 Monday
Nick Wainwright 56 2007-05-07 Monday
James Hurrell 56 2007-06-07 Thursday
David Edwards 57 2007-07-13 Friday
Jeffrey Hansford 57 2007-08-27 Monday
David Von Geyer 57 2007-09-17 Monday
Craig Beevers 57 2007-10-23 Tuesday
James Roberts 57 2007-11-21 Wednesday
Michael Macdonald-Cooper 58 2008-01-08 Tuesday
David O'Donnell 58 2008-01-24 Thursday
Tim Reypert 58 2008-02-08 Friday
Jonathan Coles 58 2008-05-27 Tuesday
Junaid Mubeen 59 2008-09-22 Monday
Kai Laddiman 59 2008-10-02 Thursday
Charlie Reams 59 2008-10-15 Wednesday
Martin Bishop 59 2008-11-04 Tuesday
Neil Zussman 60 2009-02-16 Monday
Kirk Bevins 60 2009-03-02 Monday
Cate Henderson 60 2009-03-23 Monday
Shane Roberts 60 2009-04-09 Thursday
Jimmy Gough 60 2009-05-11 Monday
James Doohan 60 2009-05-22 Friday
Innis Carson 61 2009-06-25 Thursday
Andrew Hulme 61 2009-07-09 Thursday
Chris Davies 61 2009-08-28 Friday
Jeffrey Burgin 61 2009-09-16 Wednesday
Steve Wood 61 2009-10-06 Tuesday
Brian Selway 61 2009-10-19 Monday
Ryan Taylor 61 2009-11-05 Thursday
Oliver Garner 62 2010-01-12 Tuesday
Danny Pledger 62 2010-05-14 Friday
Scott Gillies 62 2010-06-03 Thursday
Tom Rowell 63 2010-07-22 Thursday
Daniel Pati 63 2010-09-03 Friday
Eoin Monaghan 63 2010-09-15 Wednesday
Jack Hurst 63 2010-10-13 Wednesday
Marcus Hares 63 2010-11-01 Monday
Adam Gillard 64 2011-01-12 Wednesday
Edward McCullagh 64 2011-02-02 Wednesday
Ned Pendleton 64 2011-02-17 Thursday
Andy McGurn 64 2011-03-08 Tuesday
Tom Barnes 64 2011-05-10 Tuesday
Graeme Cole 65 2011-06-07 Tuesday
Mark Deeks 65 2011-07-12 Tuesday
Dave Taylor 65 2011-08-23 Tuesday
Totals:
Monday 41
Tuesday 28
Wednesday 31
Thursday 29
Friday 26
Saturday 1
Sunday 0
Incidentally, this is the first time five (or even four) consecutive octochamps have started on the same day of the week.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
If my run had not started on a Tuesay I doubt I would have been able to beome an octochamp because both recording days I was really tired going into my fourth game of the day and could not have managed a fifth. Maybe the second game of the day slot is the best opportunity to be an octochamp.James Robinson wrote: The last 5 octochamps, that's the 3 from this series and Tom and Andy from the last one, all started their octochamp runs on a Tuesday.
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James Robinson
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
Yeah, I tried that. Didn't work for me.Andy McGurn wrote:If my run had not started on a Tuesay I doubt I would have been able to beome an octochamp because both recording days I was really tired going into my fourth game of the day and could not have managed a fifth. Maybe the second game of the day slot is the best opportunity to be an octochamp.James Robinson wrote: The last 5 octochamps, that's the 3 from this series and Tom and Andy from the last one, all started their octochamp runs on a Tuesday.
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Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
Awesome.Graeme Cole wrote:Having nothing better to do with my Saturday evening, I've got the data from Mike Brown's Octochamps and Viscounts page, added Dave Taylor's information, fed it through a bit of Perl and got the start days of all the octochamps and viscounts:James Robinson wrote:Interesting nerdy statistics: The last 5 octochamps, that's the 3 from this series and Tom and Andy from the last one, all started their octochamp runs on a Tuesday.
Over the years, Monday has been the most octochampful day at 41, with the other weekdays clustering around the 30 mark. Paul Howe has the distinction of being the only octochamp ever to start his run on a Saturday.Code: Select all
NAME SERIES START DATE DAY William Bradford 3 1983-10-17 Monday Mark Nyman 3 1983-11-14 Monday John Wallace 5 1984-11-28 Wednesday Darryl Francis 6 1985-01-21 Monday Clive Freedman 6 1985-03-12 Tuesday David Trace 9 1986-04-09 Wednesday Harvey Freeman 10 1986-10-31 Friday Jon Marsh 12 1987-04-28 Tuesday Nic Brown 14 1987-10-22 Thursday John Hadfield 14 1987-11-04 Wednesday Stephen Deakin 14 1987-12-01 Tuesday Allan Saldanha 15 1988-04-11 Monday Dick Green 15 1988-05-13 Friday Steve Williams 16 1988-07-08 Friday Tim Morrissey 17 1989-01-24 Tuesday Lawrence Pearse 17 1989-02-22 Wednesday Jonathan Anstey 18 1989-08-03 Thursday Richard Evans 18 1989-09-14 Thursday Lindsay Denyer 19 1990-01-08 Monday Derek Coombs 20 1990-07-16 Monday Lew Schwarz 21 1991-03-04 Monday Chris Waddington 22 1991-08-28 Wednesday Phil Jordan 23 1992-02-07 Friday Gareth Williams 23 1992-03-09 Monday Norman Christian 24 1992-08-12 Wednesday James Sinclair 25 1993-02-01 Monday Don Reid 25 1993-02-18 Thursday Richard Campbell 27 1994-02-25 Friday Sharon Bridge 27 1994-03-21 Monday Suzanne Miles 28 1994-07-21 Thursday Anthony Jenkin 31 1996-01-04 Thursday David Acton 31 1996-02-27 Tuesday Satbir Gupta 32 1996-08-08 Thursday James Martin 34 1997-03-10 Monday Natascha Kearsey 35 1997-04-14 Monday Dag Griffiths 35 1997-05-01 Thursday Maria Boyes 36 1997-07-16 Wednesday Bhavin Manek 36 1997-09-08 Monday Ray McPhie 37 1997-11-21 Friday Kate Ogilvie 39 1998-09-11 Friday Terry Knowles 39 1998-11-10 Tuesday Glynn Leaney 39 1998-12-09 Wednesday Peter Hutchings 40 1999-05-11 Tuesday Scott Mearns 41 1999-06-28 Monday Simon Cooper 41 1999-09-14 Tuesday Sanjay Mazumder 41 1999-10-25 Monday Lucy Roberts 41 1999-11-05 Friday Margaret Foster 41 1999-11-17 Wednesday Melvin Hetherington 41 1999-11-30 Tuesday Michael Calder 42 2000-01-31 Monday David Ballheimer 42 2000-02-14 Monday Terence O'Farrell 42 2000-03-17 Friday Graham Nash 43 2000-07-20 Thursday David Williams 43 2000-08-23 Wednesday Kevin McMahon 44 2001-03-07 Wednesday Ian McMenzie 46 2001-09-24 Monday Phil Wass 46 2001-10-25 Thursday Ben Wilson 46 2001-11-06 Tuesday Loz Sands 46 2001-11-19 Monday Paul Ryan 46 2001-11-28 Wednesday Tom Hargreaves 47 2001-12-26 Wednesday Chris Wills 47 2002-01-14 Monday Kevin Thurlow 47 2002-01-28 Monday Lee Hartley 47 2002-02-18 Monday Brenda Jolley 47 2002-03-01 Friday Rupert Stokoe 47 2002-03-25 Monday Wendy Roe 47 2002-04-23 Tuesday Mike Pullin 47 2002-05-10 Friday Julia Wilkinson 47 2002-06-06 Thursday Grace Page 48 2002-07-02 Tuesday Danny Hamilton 48 2002-07-24 Wednesday Julian Fell 48 2002-10-16 Wednesday George Greenhough 48 2002-11-01 Friday Joe Zubaidi 48 2002-11-21 Thursday John Davies 49 2003-05-02 Friday Martin Gardner 49 2003-05-14 Wednesday Chris Cummins 50 2003-07-21 Monday Jim Bentley 50 2003-08-28 Thursday Stuart Solomons 50 2003-10-28 Tuesday Stuart Earl 50 2003-11-14 Friday Richard Pay 51 2004-02-06 Friday Stewart Holden 51 2004-02-23 Monday Gary Male 51 2004-03-23 Tuesday Nik Von Uexkull 51 2004-04-21 Wednesday Sweyn Kirkness 51 2004-05-05 Wednesday David Thirlwall 51 2004-06-08 Tuesday Jack Welsby 52 2004-07-21 Wednesday Paul Gallen 52 2004-08-31 Tuesday John Gray 52 2004-09-27 Monday John Hunt 52 2004-10-14 Thursday Steven Moir 52 2004-11-03 Wednesday Mark Tournoff 52 2004-11-15 Monday Judith Young 53 2005-01-21 Friday John Mayhew 53 2005-02-17 Thursday Jon O'Neill 53 2005-04-01 Friday Ross Allatt 53 2005-04-14 Thursday John Brackstone 53 2005-05-12 Thursday Richard Heald 53 2005-06-02 Thursday Conor Travers 54 2005-11-23 Wednesday Keith Maynard 54 2006-01-16 Monday Michael Bowden 54 2006-01-25 Wednesday Paul Howe 54 2006-02-04 Saturday Matthew Shore 54 2006-02-17 Friday Jon Corby 54 2006-04-28 Friday Tony Warren 54 2006-05-10 Wednesday Richard Brittain 55 2006-09-11 Monday Stu Horsey 55 2006-10-05 Thursday Steven Briers 55 2006-11-03 Friday Chris McHenry 55 2006-11-22 Wednesday Amey Deshpande 56 2007-01-16 Tuesday Jean Webby 56 2007-02-26 Monday Aaron Webber 56 2007-04-23 Monday Nick Wainwright 56 2007-05-07 Monday James Hurrell 56 2007-06-07 Thursday David Edwards 57 2007-07-13 Friday Jeffrey Hansford 57 2007-08-27 Monday David Von Geyer 57 2007-09-17 Monday Craig Beevers 57 2007-10-23 Tuesday James Roberts 57 2007-11-21 Wednesday Michael Macdonald-Cooper 58 2008-01-08 Tuesday David O'Donnell 58 2008-01-24 Thursday Tim Reypert 58 2008-02-08 Friday Jonathan Coles 58 2008-05-27 Tuesday Junaid Mubeen 59 2008-09-22 Monday Kai Laddiman 59 2008-10-02 Thursday Charlie Reams 59 2008-10-15 Wednesday Martin Bishop 59 2008-11-04 Tuesday Neil Zussman 60 2009-02-16 Monday Kirk Bevins 60 2009-03-02 Monday Cate Henderson 60 2009-03-23 Monday Shane Roberts 60 2009-04-09 Thursday Jimmy Gough 60 2009-05-11 Monday James Doohan 60 2009-05-22 Friday Innis Carson 61 2009-06-25 Thursday Andrew Hulme 61 2009-07-09 Thursday Chris Davies 61 2009-08-28 Friday Jeffrey Burgin 61 2009-09-16 Wednesday Steve Wood 61 2009-10-06 Tuesday Brian Selway 61 2009-10-19 Monday Ryan Taylor 61 2009-11-05 Thursday Oliver Garner 62 2010-01-12 Tuesday Danny Pledger 62 2010-05-14 Friday Scott Gillies 62 2010-06-03 Thursday Tom Rowell 63 2010-07-22 Thursday Daniel Pati 63 2010-09-03 Friday Eoin Monaghan 63 2010-09-15 Wednesday Jack Hurst 63 2010-10-13 Wednesday Marcus Hares 63 2010-11-01 Monday Adam Gillard 64 2011-01-12 Wednesday Edward McCullagh 64 2011-02-02 Wednesday Ned Pendleton 64 2011-02-17 Thursday Andy McGurn 64 2011-03-08 Tuesday Tom Barnes 64 2011-05-10 Tuesday Graeme Cole 65 2011-06-07 Tuesday Mark Deeks 65 2011-07-12 Tuesday Dave Taylor 65 2011-08-23 Tuesday Totals: Monday 41 Tuesday 28 Wednesday 31 Thursday 29 Friday 26 Saturday 1 Sunday 0
Incidentally, this is the first time five (or even four) consecutive octochamps have started on the same day of the week.
Re: Spoilers for Thursday September 1st 2011
My starting show (Friday) was actually the first recording of the day - the Saturday shows had fucked the system up in that respect.Andy McGurn wrote:If my run had not started on a Tuesay I doubt I would have been able to beome an octochamp because both recording days I was really tired going into my fourth game of the day and could not have managed a fifth. Maybe the second game of the day slot is the best opportunity to be an octochamp.James Robinson wrote: The last 5 octochamps, that's the 3 from this series and Tom and Andy from the last one, all started their octochamp runs on a Tuesday.