Jonathan Rawlinson

Jonathan Rawlinson Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	1
Points total	850
Conundrums solved	8

Jonathan Rawlinson in Series 66...

...and again under a year later in the 30th Birthday Championship.

Jonathan Rawlinson was an octochamp in and runner-up of Series 66, and was a semi-finalist in the 30th Birthday Championship. He made his Co-event debut at COHUD in 2012, which was then followed up by an appearance at CobliviLon.

Rawlinson was the seventh contestant in recorded history to solve all eight conundrums in their heat games, after Darryl Francis, Harvey Freeman, David Williams, Julian Fell, Kai Laddiman and Daniel Pati. He also became only the fourth person in the show's history, after Gareth Williams, James Martin and Bhavin Manek, to win the last eight preliminaries of the series and return the following day as the No. 1 seed for the series finals. Rawlinson won his quarter- and semi-finals with centuries but, in a low-scoring Grand Final against No. 2 seed Jack Worsley, Rawlinson lost the ultimate match by 10 points following an incorrect answer to the crucial conundrum TINYROLES.

Rawlinson returned to Countdown a year later, as one of 41 contestants taking part in the 30th Birthday Championship. He won his first match against the previously undefeated champion of Series 64, Ed McCullagh, after beating him on a second conundrum by a score of 104 – 94. Rawlinson next beat Series 61 runner-up Andrew Hulme on a crucial conumdrum in the first round proper, then beat Series 63 quarter-finalist Tom Rowell in round 2. He then defeated the Series 60 semi-finalist Neil Zussman in the quarter-finals, dropping just 1 solitary point in the process. He then played Series 63 champion Jack Hurst in a fantastic semi-final battle, which remained level for the first 10 rounds, before Rawlinson took a 6 point lead, which became a 1 point deficit a round later, before Hurst nicked in with the conundrum TURNMOIST after 3 seconds to win by a score of 116 – 105.

Preceded by Carl Williams

Series runner-up Series 66

Followed by Heather Styles

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
5503	11/06/2012	P	Ben Nicholson	43 – 110	Jonathan Rawlinson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Saira Khan	Susie Dent	117
5504	12/06/2012	P	Jonathan Rawlinson	107 – 71	Robin Gardner	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Saira Khan	Susie Dent	118
5505	13/06/2012	P	Jonathan Rawlinson	120 – 31	Stewart Calver	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Saira Khan	Susie Dent	128
5506	14/06/2012	P	Jonathan Rawlinson	119 – 24	Max Eyre	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Saira Khan	Susie Dent	128
5507	15/06/2012	P	Jonathan Rawlinson	104 – 49	Barry Page	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Saira Khan	Susie Dent	128
5508	18/06/2012	P	Jonathan Rawlinson	96 – 26	Gavin Dare	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Penny Smith	Susie Dent	128
5509	19/06/2012	P	Jonathan Rawlinson	93 – 69	James Kelk	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Penny Smith	Susie Dent	115
5510	20/06/2012	P	Jonathan Rawlinson	101 – 34	Ceris Phillips	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Penny Smith	Susie Dent	120
5511	21/06/2012	QF	Rob Gibney	77 – 101	Jonathan Rawlinson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Penny Smith	Susie Dent	120
5515	27/06/2012	SF	Nick Hall	54 – 108	Jonathan Rawlinson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dr Phil Hammond	Susie Dent	130
5517	29/06/2012	GF	Jack Worsley	80 – 70	Jonathan Rawlinson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dr Phil Hammond	Susie Dent	117
5623	17/01/2013	30BP	Ed McCullagh	94 – 104*	Jonathan Rawlinson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Martin Lewis	Susie Dent	117
5639	8/02/2013	30B1	Andrew Hulme	91 – 98	Jonathan Rawlinson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Kate Adie	Susie Dent	115
5640	11/02/2013	30B2	Tom Rowell	65 – 94	Jonathan Rawlinson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Ken Bruce	Susie Dent	128
5648	21/02/2013	30BQF	Jonathan Rawlinson	118 – 53	Neil Zussman	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dr Phil Hammond	Susie Dent	119
5652	27/02/2013	30BSF	Jonathan Rawlinson	105 – 116	Jack Hurst	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jenny Eclair	Susie Dent	126

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum