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Co:Braintree 2024

From Countdown

Countdown in Braintree 2024, officially Countdown+Quiz 2024, was a co-event hosted by Jeff Clayton and Rachel Perkins on 2 November 2024 as the seventeenth and final preliminary round of the 2024 FOCAL season. It was won by Rob Foster, who had accumulated the most wins and points after the games played. No grand final was played in order to allow extra time for the quiz rounds.

It was held at St Michael's Church House in Braintree, where attendees 27 attendees played five 14-round games in the "Bristol" format, alternating with round of "The Big Weekend Quiz": a format devised by Clayton for pub quizzes he regularly presents. The "PruneMinusOne" "Prune" was added to round up the number of attendees to a multiple of two, oddly winning two games and scoring 184 points.

Final standings

Rank Name Games Wins Points
1 Rob Foster 5 5 543
2 Ronan Higginson 5 4 498
3 Jack Hurst 5 4 476
4 Dave Ryan 5 4 431
5 Tom Cappleman 5 3 488
6 Tom Stevenson 5 3 468
7 Jonathan De Souza 5 3 456
=8 Adam Latchford 5 3 450
=8 Tom Carey 5 3 450
10 Toby Pereira 5 3 414
11 Ian Wray 5 3 405
12 Ashwin Abinashi 5 3 386
13 Jessica Pratesi 5 3 378
14 Matthew S Rutherford 5 3 372
15 Matthew Brockwell 5 2 449
16 Fiona Titcombe 5 2 424
17 Samuel Stock 5 2 397
18 Suzy Turner 5 2 396
19 Sam Prouse 5 2 358
20 Joseph Bartram 5 2 353
21 Jill Thwaites 5 2 328
22 Noel Pereira 5 2 257
23 Mauro Pratesi 5 2 220
24 "PruneMinusOne" 5 2 184
25 Coral Heath 5 1 359
26 Fiona Thorne 5 1 240
27 Matty Deller 5 1 163
28 Lee Grover 5 0 135

Matches

# Date Type Player 1 Score Player 2 Host
Round 1
BRA2024.001 02/11/2024 Table 1 Jill Thwaites 51 – 104 Tom Cappleman
BRA2024.002 02/11/2024 Table 2 Tom Stevenson 93 – 43 Sam Prouse
BRA2024.003 02/11/2024 Table 3 Lee Grover 31 – 54 Noel Pereira
BRA2024.004 02/11/2024 Table 4 Mauro Pratesi 37 – 89 Ian Wray
BRA2024.005 02/11/2024 Table 5 Fiona Thorne 49 – 81 Samuel Stock
BRA2024.006 02/11/2024 Table 6 Matty Deller 26 – 110 Rob Foster
BRA2024.007 02/11/2024 Table 7 Jack Hurst 100 – 44 Joseph Bartram
BRA2024.008 02/11/2024 Table 8 Fiona Titcombe 81 – 25 "PruneMinusOne"
BRA2024.009 02/11/2024 Table 9 Matthew Brockwell 94 – 46 Jessica Pratesi
BRA2024.010 02/11/2024 Table 10 Suzy Turner 61 – 77 Tom Carey
BRA2024.011 02/11/2024 Table 11 Matthew S Rutherford 78 – 84 Dave Ryan
BRA2024.012 02/11/2024 Table 12 Jonathan De Souza 98 – 49 Coral Heath
BRA2024.013 02/11/2024 Table 13 Toby Pereira 77 – 96 Ronan Higginson
BRA2024.014 02/11/2024 Table 14 Adam Latchford 90 – 57 Ashwin Abinashi
Round 2
BRA2024.015 02/11/2024 Table 1 Rob Foster 110 – 81 Tom Cappleman
BRA2024.016 02/11/2024 Table 2 Jonathan De Souza 85 – 103 Jack Hurst
BRA2024.017 02/11/2024 Table 3 Ronan Higginson 94 – 81 Matthew Brockwell
BRA2024.018 02/11/2024 Table 4 Tom Stevenson 102 – 92 Adam Latchford
BRA2024.019 02/11/2024 Table 5 Dave Ryan 91 – 63 Ian Wray
BRA2024.020 02/11/2024 Table 6 Samuel Stock 87 – 96 Fiona Titcombe
BRA2024.021 02/11/2024 Table 7 Tom Carey 99 – 24 Noel Pereira
BRA2024.022 02/11/2024 Table 8 Matthew S Rutherford 67 – 85 Toby Pereira
BRA2024.023 02/11/2024 Table 9 Ashwin Abinashi 84 – 82 Suzy Turner
BRA2024.024 02/11/2024 Table 10 Coral Heath 95 – 66 Jill Thwaites
BRA2024.025 02/11/2024 Table 11 Jessica Pratesi 88 – 51 Fiona Thorne
BRA2024.026 02/11/2024 Table 12 Sam Prouse 69 – 86 Joseph Bartram
BRA2024.027 02/11/2024 Table 13 Lee Grover 18 – 61 Mauro Pratesi
BRA2024.028 02/11/2024 Table 14 "PruneMinusOne" 67 – 20 Matty Deller
Round 3
BRA2024.029 02/11/2024 Table 1 Rob Foster 115 – 78 Jack Hurst
BRA2024.030 02/11/2024 Table 2 Ronan Higginson 97 – 85 Tom Stevenson
BRA2024.031 02/11/2024 Table 3 Tom Carey 106 – 88 Fiona Titcombe
BRA2024.032 02/11/2024 Table 4 Tom Cappleman 114 – 88 Dave Ryan
BRA2024.033 02/11/2024 Table 5 Adam Latchford 99 – 89 Jonathan De Souza
BRA2024.034 02/11/2024 Table 6 Samuel Stock 64 – 107 Matthew Brockwell
BRA2024.035 02/11/2024 Table 7 Ian Wray 80 – 90 Toby Pereira
BRA2024.036 02/11/2024 Table 8 Coral Heath 76 – 83 Ashwin Abinashi
BRA2024.037 02/11/2024 Table 9 Joseph Bartram 81 – 98 Jessica Pratesi
BRA2024.038 02/11/2024 Table 10 Mauro Pratesi 33 – 66 "PruneMinusOne"
BRA2024.039 02/11/2024 Table 11 Noel Pereira 61 – 85 Matthew S Rutherford
BRA2024.040 02/11/2024 Table 12 Suzy Turner 99 – 63 Jill Thwaites
BRA2024.041 02/11/2024 Table 13 Fiona Thorne 58 – 74 Sam Prouse
BRA2024.042 02/11/2024 Table 14 Matty Deller 53 – 32 Lee Grover
Round 4
BRA2024.043 02/11/2024 Table 1 Rob Foster 106 – 96 Ronan Higginson
BRA2024.044 02/11/2024 Table 2 Tom Cappleman 95 – 73 Tom Carey
BRA2024.045 02/11/2024 Table 3 Matthew Brockwell 73 – 79 Adam Latchford
BRA2024.046 02/11/2024 Table 4 Jack Hurst 100 – 78 Tom Stevenson
BRA2024.047 02/11/2024 Table 5 Fiona Titcombe 79 – 89* Dave Ryan
BRA2024.048 02/11/2024 Table 6 Jessica Pratesi 56 – 73 Toby Pereira
BRA2024.049 02/11/2024 Table 7 "PruneMinusOne" 26 – 85 Ashwin Abinashi
BRA2024.050 02/11/2024 Table 8 Suzy Turner 52 – 98 Jonathan De Souza
BRA2024.051 02/11/2024 Table 9 Ian Wray 85 – 64 Samuel Stock
BRA2024.052 02/11/2024 Table 10 Matthew S Rutherford 76 – 70 Coral Heath
BRA2024.053 02/11/2024 Table 11 Noel Pereira 49 – 82 Joseph Bartram
BRA2024.054 02/11/2024 Table 12 Sam Prouse 63 – 69 Mauro Pratesi
BRA2024.055 02/11/2024 Table 13 Jill Thwaites 84 – 42 Matty Deller
BRA2024.056 02/11/2024 Table 14 Fiona Thorne 82 – 31 Lee Grover
Round 5
BRA2024.057 02/11/2024 Table 1 Tom Cappleman 94 – 115 Ronan Higginson
BRA2024.058 02/11/2024 Table 2 Adam Latchford 90 – 102 Rob Foster
BRA2024.059 02/11/2024 Table 3 Tom Carey 95 – 105* Jack Hurst
BRA2024.060 02/11/2024 Table 4 Toby Pereira 89 – 99* Dave Ryan
BRA2024.061 02/11/2024 Table 5 Ashwin Abinashi 77 – 86 Jonathan De Souza
BRA2024.057 02/11/2024 Table 6 Matthew Brockwell 94 – 110 Tom Stevenson
BRA2024.063 02/11/2024 Table 7 Fiona Titcombe 80 – 88 Ian Wray
BRA2024.064 02/11/2024 Table 8 Joseph Bartram 60 – 66 Matthew S Rutherford
BRA2024.065 02/11/2024 Table 9 Jessica Pratesi 90 – 20 Mauro Pratesi
BRA2024.066 02/11/2024 Table 10 "PruneMinusOne" 0 – 101 Samuel Stock
BRA2024.067 02/11/2024 Table 11 Coral Heath 69 – 102 Suzy Turner
BRA2024.068 02/11/2024 Table 12 Jill Thwaites 64 – 0 Fiona Thorne
BRA2024.069 02/11/2024 Table 13 Lee Grover 23 – 109 Sam Prouse
BRA2024.070 02/11/2024 Table 14 Noel Pereira 69 – 22 Matty Deller
* includes 10 points from a tiebreak conundrum

FOCAL standings after the event

The top 8 after this round of the 2024 FOCAL season were as follows:

Pos. Name Points
±0 1 Jack Hurst 7518
±0 2 Tom Carey 6890
+3 3 Tom Cappleman 6706
-1 4 George Armstrong 6589
-1 4 Dylan Taylor 6581
-1 5 Jonathan De Souza 6521
±0 7 Dan Byrom 6305
+3 8 Tom Stevenson 6270



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