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Countdown:Featured articles
A featured article is of one the Countdownwiki's finest articles. These are selected by the editors of the Countdownwiki on this very page. A featured article could be a player, a game or a piece of terminology. The article should be of a certain length and preferably contain images and external links to make the article more readable.
Contents
List of featured articles
- Championship of Champions XI, chosen by User:Mglovesfun
- Championship of Champions XII, chosen by User:Reams
- Countdown, chosen by User:Reams
- Des chiffres et des lettres, chosen by User:Mglovesfun
- Jon O'Neill, chosen by User:Reams
- Conor Travers, chosen by User:Mglovesfun
Proposed featured articles
- If we need more articles for the main page, let's think of a bunch of them. I'd go for Julian Fell, Ben Wilson, Martin Gardner (vanity!), Conor Travers, Harvey Freeman etc. Mglovesfun 21:26, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Yeah, maybe we should have a Project of the Week and try to bring some of those articles up to full strength for future FAs. We'd have to pick the more recent players I suspect, because for a lot of the older one we don't have any more than the scores. Soo 22:31, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Yes I could start that project right now, we need to decide how often to change the featured article. One thing I noticed is that the <ref></ref> doesn't seem to work on here, or doesn't that matter? As for players with games, there's me, Ben and Conor that all have round details. I will think more about which players have round details as well, and of course series and CofCs are another good source of FA's. Mglovesfun 13:35, 9 April 2008 (BST)
- Yeah, maybe we should have a Project of the Week and try to bring some of those articles up to full strength for future FAs. We'd have to pick the more recent players I suspect, because for a lot of the older one we don't have any more than the scores. Soo 22:31, 8 April 2008 (BST)
- Graham Nash - there's now a photo and the articles a lot longer with more detail. Mglovesfun 17:25, 29 April 2008 (BST)
- Mark Tournoff is another possible one, although we nearly have enough for a year already. My next project will be to get the Paul Gallen article up to the same standard. Mglovesfun 15:35, 3 May 2008 (BST)
How to make a now proposal
Follow this edit link, or the one at the top of the page, and add your own suggestion. The name of the article should be placd between two square brackets to make a blue link (example: [[Jon O'Neill]]).
Future featured articles
When an article is featured, it is given a short write-up on the front page. This is not editable by ordinary users (the risk of vandalism to the front page is too high.) But we will post a draft here well in advance, so please feel free to edit that and who knows -- your words may appear on the front page!
Previous featured articles
September 2008
Julian Fell was the winner of Series 48 and is widely considered to be among the greatest Countdowners of all time. He holds a cornucopia of records, including the highest single score (146) and the highest octochamp score (924). He is particular renowned for his astonishing word knowledge, including definitions, coupled with fast conundrums. His numbers strength is often underestimated in comparison to the other disciplines.
His debut came on Wednesday 16th October 2002, when he posted an impressive 117. Six more centuries followed, and by the following Friday only Carl McDermott stood between Fell and octochampdom. This game is remembered as one of the greatest drubbings in Countdown history, as Fell racked up 138, winning by 109. His place as #1 seed and favourite for the series was assured, and his feat of eight centuries in eight heats has been matched only by Series 57 contestant Craig Beevers.
Fell won his quarter-final against Mike Brown with ease, beforegetting four nines against Danny Hamilton in the semi-final. Fell got SALMONIDS, DEPORTING, INGATHERS and DEFLATION and had 146 before the conundrum THEIRCOPY but failed to solve it and was left with 146 points, still 8 points better than the second highest score, 138 by Fell and Mark Tournoff. Fell went onto win the final against Grace Page after spotting MANTICORE in the first round, which Page missed.
Fell returned for the Championship of Champions XI as the favourite and won his first match against Terence O'Farrell with ease before losing a nail-biting quarter-final to Graham Nash 120-109. Despite losing, Julian maintained his streak of scoring 100 in every game. Since this quarter-final, Julian has filmed just once, a special against Chris Wills which he won 100-92 on a crucial conundrum. 100 was Julian's lowest ever score on Countdown.
October 2008
Episode 4121 featured Matthew Shore and Mark Tournoff in the Championship of Champions XII first quarter-final. Shore had just beaten the previously unbeaten Chris Cummins and Tournoff had beaten Steve Graston. The game started gently with a six and three sevens, before Tournoff beat his opponent on the numbers game. After another seven, the game came alive with PAINTIEST in round 7, followed by OVERRUN and QUIETEN. A difficult numbers game failed to beat either player, and Tournoff was on a score of 86 out of a possible 86, while Shore was on 76, only dropping points on the first numbers game. In round 11, both players got another nine with HERNIATES and Tournoff had 104 out of a possible 104. In the next round, Tournoff missed PISTEURS opting for the invalid PURSIEST instead, and in the next round had FLOOK disallowed, although Shore had FORMAL for six anyway. After an easy numbers game ((25×10)+4+1) the players were on 117 and 114 with Shore leading by 3 points. The highest ever losing score was 111 by David Williams, losing to Chris Wills in the Championship of Champions XI and both players had already surpassed that, meaning that even if neither player got the conundrum, Tournoff would set the new highest losing score record with 114. Des Lynam informed them of this and the conundrum SILLYQUOO was revealed, solved in 1 second by Tournoff won won the game 124 - 117, 117 is still the highest ever losing score in a game of Countdown.
