COUNTDOWN IN LINCOLN

This is the site for the regular annual COuntdown in LINcoln (COLIN) tournament. COLIN 2007 was held on Saturday, January 20th at St Hugh's Church in Harewood Crescent, North Hykeham.

Congratulations to this year's winner with 5 wins out of 6, the hat-trick man, Chris Wills!

Click HERE for full results from the day and HERE for photographs from all three COLIN events (2007 photos are nearest the top).

USEFUL LINKS

C4COUNTDOWN- The internet's premier mailing list for the discussion of all things Countdown.
THE COUNTDOWN PAGE- Mike Brown's website, containing information on every game ever, memories of the show from former contestants (yours truly included!), in short, the ultimate Countdown statistics collection online today!
THE COUNTDOWN CORRAL- Website owned by Soo Reams, general all-round great guy, keeper of the unofficial Countdown ratings table and writer of SwissCheese, the program used to draw the tables at COLIN 2006 and COLIN 2007.
THE COUNTDOWN DOMAIN- Young genius Conor Travers's site featuring tips and tricks to help improve your game- well recommended. Look how much the tips helped him!
TILEFISH- The UK's one-stop Scrabble shop run by Countdown series champion Stewart Holden, also sells amongst its wares the latest edition of the Countdown board game.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Soo Reams for writing the "swiss triplets" program used at COLIN.
Heather Culpin, for the gracious loan of her laptop on which said program was used.
Susie Dent, Carol Vorderman, Des Lynam & The Late, Great Richard Whiteley for bringing the show to life on the screen.
Armand Jammot for having such a brilliant idea all those years ago, and turning his idea into the reality (but not reality TV!) we see on our screens six days a week.
Chris Philpot for once again providing those following the event at home with regular updates at www.c4countdown.co.uk

(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) Click here for details of the 2005 tournament!
Photo courtesy of Stewart Holden Click here for details of the 2006 tournament!

Ben Wilson 2005-6

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