COUNTDOWN IN LINCOLN 2005 (COLIN)

(L to R: George Stanhope, Tom Hargreaves, Kevin Thurlow, Jim Bentley, Melanie Beaumont, Conor Travers, Russell Byers, Alex Lacey, Stewart Holden, Soo Reams, Paul Howe, Dave Coulthurst, Ben Wilson (seated), Jeff Clayton, Kirk Bevins, Martin Gardner, Chris Wills, Jon O'Neill, Dan Harris, Mark Tournoff, Mike Brown, Gary Male, Anthony Endsor)
(L to R: George Stanhope, Tom Hargreaves, Kevin Thurlow, Jim Bentley, Melanie Beaumont, Conor Travers, Russell Byers, Alex Lacey, Stewart Holden, Soo Reams, Paul Howe, Dave Coulthurst, Ben Wilson (seated), Jeff Clayton, Kirk Bevins, Martin Gardner, Chris Wills, Jon O'Neill, Dan Harris, Mark Tournoff, Mike Brown, Gary Male, Anthony Endsor)

This is the site for the first-ever Lincoln Countdown Tournament, a.k.a. COLIN for short, which was held on Saturday, 29th January 2005 at the Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln. The tournament, which was won by Series 47 champion Chris Wills, was the first of its kind to be held on such a national scale, with participants making the journey from as far away as Edinburgh to the north and Hove to the south, for the chance to meet fellow Countdown enthusiasts- and take them on at their own game!

FURTHER DETAILS:

Results- full results of how well everyone did on the day.
View the COLIN gallery- photos of the players as they went about their Countdowning!
Classic COLIN games- a selection of some of the games that were played at COLIN.
Download a sample of the Score Sheet that was used on the day (MS Word format)

THANKS:

Many thanks go to Chris Wills and Mike Brown- both of whom were in attendance on the 29th- for plugging COLIN heavily in the run-up to the tournament. Both of them run brilliant sites, so why not give them a click or two?

Thanks also go to Jill Wilson and Sue for helping out on the day- COLIN wouldn't have gone even a tenth as smooth as it had done if it weren't for these two magnificent ladies.

And of course, many thanks go to the 23 people who gave up their Saturday afternoons to play a marathon session of Countdown against each other- in a very literal sense, it wouldn't have been the same without them!

Ben Wilson 2005

All pages on this site were designed using Microsoft FrontPage. Please note- this website is in no way affiliated with Channel 4 or Yorkshire TV, who own the copyright on the show. This is an unofficial site run for fun only, and any resemblance to any websites living or dead is purely coincidental. Countdown is an Armand Jammot game.