Here's an old top 20 list I came up with. It seems that Paul Gallen,
Mark Tournoff, Conor Travers, Paul Howe and Matthew Shore have
replaced David Trace, Wayne Summers, Andrew Perry, David Acton and
Natascha Kearsey. A correct decision?

--- In gevincountdown@..., "gevinchapwell"
<gevinchapwell@...> wrote:
>
> If 20 top Countdowners of all time, all playing at their best (it
> doesn't matter that they played at different times - this is just
a
> hypothetical situation where they are all at their peak), competed
> against each other in a league, what do you think the results
would
> be? In the league everyone would play everyone else, so it
wouldn't
> have the random factor of a knockout. Here are 20 of the all time
> greats (not necessarily the top 20 but I think the top handful
would
> be in this list) - what do you think the top few on the
leaderboard
> would be?
>
> 1. Mark Nyman
> 2. David Trace
> 3. Harvey Freeman
> 4. John Clarke
> 5. Nic Brown
> 6. Allan Saldanha
> 7. Tim Morrissey
> 8. Wayne Summers
> 9. Don Reid
> 10. Andrew Perry
> 11. David Acton
> 12. Natascha Kearsey
> 13. Scott Mearns
> 14. Graham Nash
> 15. David Williams
> 16. Tom Hargreaves
> 17. Chris Wills
> 18. Julian Fell
> 19. Chris Cummins
> 20. Stewart Holden
>
> Personally I think Julian Fell would come out on top. He's
obviously
> beatable as Graham Nash proved, but over the long haul I think
he'd
> come out on top. As for second, I think the two most likely
> candidates would be Harvey Freeman and Allan Saldanha (playing
like
> he did at the supreme championships).
>