Andy Evans

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Andy Evans Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Quarter-finals
Seeding	5
Points total	750
Conundrums solved	4 (out of 9; 3 excluding tie-breaks)

Andy Evans was an octochamp in Series 81. He's a Politics Student at the University of Leeds, from Newbury in Berkshire. He is also an Apterite.

He first appeared on 17 September 2019 against Matt Sykes winning with a strong 100 points. He then won his second heat game on a tiebreak conundrum. Following this, he put in several more great performances and obtained 750 points to become the fifth Octochamp of the series, eventually ranking 5th.

He took on 4th seed Morgan Sauer in the last quarterfinal of the series. Both players fought nip and tuck throughout; after the second commercial break, Evans converted a 13-point deficit into a 9-point lead between rounds 12 and 14 by taking successful gambles on MOLASSED and APORIAS, followed by managing 1 away on the last difficult one-large numbers round while Sauer only managed 7 away. Unfortunately for Evans, Sauer unravelled the crucial conundrum THEFRIDGE in 15 seconds to end Evans's unbeaten run and win by one point. Evans garnered an overall total of 827 points in his run.

While waiting for his finals appearance to be screened after his heats were shown, Evans made twelve appearances on ITV's Cash Trapped, which were filmed approximately a year before airing.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Guest	Lex	Max
7163	17/09/2019	P	Matt Sykes	65 – 100	Andy Evans	Len Goodman	Susie Dent	127
7164	18/09/2019	P	Andy Evans	83* – 73	Gerry Gray	Len Goodman	Susie Dent	145
7165	19/09/2019	P	Andy Evans	94 – 53	Steve Taylor	Nina Hossain	Susie Dent	133
7166	20/09/2019	P	Andy Evans	114 – 61	Bekki Peckett	Nina Hossain	Susie Dent	125
7167	23/09/2019	P	Andy Evans	80 – 58	Abbie Arrowsmith	Nina Hossain	Susie Dent	118
7168	24/09/2019	P	Andy Evans	88 – 68	Daniel Smith	Nina Hossain	Susie Dent	126
7169	25/09/2019	P	Andy Evans	112 – 50	David Lee	Nina Hossain	Susie Dent	123
7170	26/09/2019	P	Andy Evans	89 – 74	Geoff Pinney	Pam Ayres	Susie Dent	137
7228	17/12/2019	QF	Morgan Sauer	78 – 77	Andy Evans	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	123

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum