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[[Image:Crucial - A Champion's Tale cover.gif|thumb|195px|The cover of the book, showing 27 seconds on the clock - the time Tournoff took to solve the crucial conundrum in the [[series 52]] grand final.]]
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[[Image:Crucial - A Champion's Tale cover.gif|thumb|195px|The cover of the book, showing 27 seconds on the clock the time Tournoff took to solve the crucial conundrum in the Series 52 Grand Final.]]
  
'''Crucial - A Champion’s Tale''', often simply called '''Crucial''', is a book published by [[Mark Tournoff]] in 2007 by his own publishing firm ''Forestdale Publications''. The book details Tournoff's experiences on Countdown, including winning the [[Series 52]] final on a crucial conundrum against [[Paul Gallen]], and then losing the [[Championship of Champions XII]] final versus Gallen once more, and again on a crucial conundrum. The title of the book is a reference to the number of [[conundrum|crucial conundrums]] he played on the show, a crucial conundrum being when the margin between the players is 10 points or fewer before the final round and therefore that either player can still win.
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'''''Crucial - A Champion’s Tale''''', often simply called '''''Crucial''''', is a book published by [[Mark Tournoff]] in 2007 by his own publishing firm ''Forestdale Publications''. The book details Tournoff's experiences on ''[[Countdown]]'', including winning the [[Series 52]] [[Episode 3840|Grand Final]] on a crucial [[conundrum]] against [[Paul Gallen]], and then losing the [[Championship of Champions XII]] [[Episode 4127|Grand Final]] versus Gallen once more, again on a crucial conundrum. The title of the book is a reference to the number of crucial conundrums he played on the show, a crucial conundrum being when the margin between the players is 10 points or fewer before the final round and therefore that either player can still win.
  
==External link==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.forestdalepublications.co.uk/page4.html A review of ''Crucial: A Champion's Tale''] on ''Forestdale Publications''.
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*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Champions-Tale-Mark-Tournoff/dp/0954507223/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256389633&sr=1-1 ''Crucial - A Champion's Tale''] at {{w|Amazon (company)|Amazon.co.uk}}.
  
 
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Revision as of 16:53, 27 January 2022

The cover of the book, showing 27 seconds on the clock – the time Tournoff took to solve the crucial conundrum in the Series 52 Grand Final.

Crucial - A Champion’s Tale, often simply called Crucial, is a book published by Mark Tournoff in 2007 by his own publishing firm Forestdale Publications. The book details Tournoff's experiences on Countdown, including winning the Series 52 Grand Final on a crucial conundrum against Paul Gallen, and then losing the Championship of Champions XII Grand Final versus Gallen once more, again on a crucial conundrum. The title of the book is a reference to the number of crucial conundrums he played on the show, a crucial conundrum being when the margin between the players is 10 points or fewer before the final round and therefore that either player can still win.

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