Mark Finnerty

Mark Finnerty Octochamp Statistics
Final position	TBC
Seeding	TBC
Points total	876
Conundrums solved	5

Mark Finnerty in Series 89.

Mark Finnerty was an octochamp in Series 89. He was a consultant psychiatrist from Newry in County Down, and his son Owen has been a contestant on Junior Mastermind in Ireland. He will almost certainly return for the end-of-series finals in June.

Appearances

Series 89 Heat games

He made a shaky debut, albeit with a century against two-time winner Jan Scowcroft, only maxing out in three of the numbers rounds in the process. After that, he then racked up seven more consistent performances; those remaining heat wins also ended with century scores and with an average of 9 rounds maxed per game.

With a high of 128 points, which also included the only 9-letter spot of his heats in PREDATION, and a low of 102 which was achieved twice, Finnerty has one of the most consistent runs of preliminary scores among non-Apterous subscribers. In fact, it was the second-highest non-Apto octotal during the Apterite era, with only Stephen Briggs having a higher score.

After wrapping up with 10-maxes in his last game and an eighth century to his name, Mark racked up a final tally of 876 points. This gave him an average of 109.5 per game, and set him up as the provision No.1 seed; as a final note, those points were also the lowest total where all the scores were centuries, tallying just under the 882 that Toby McDonald achieved roughly 6 years prior.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
8187	16/01/2024	P	Jan Scowcroft	72 – 102	Mark Finnerty	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Prue Leith	Susie Dent	137
8188	17/01/2024	P	Mark Finnerty	108 – 12	Georgina Heath	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Prue Leith	Susie Dent	133
8189	18/01/2024	P	Mark Finnerty	128 – 45	Alison Fairclough	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Prue Leith	Susie Dent	155
8190	19/01/2024	P	Mark Finnerty	105 – 53	Kevin Cornell	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Prue Leith	Susie Dent	142
8191	22/01/2024	P	Mark Finnerty	113 – 81	Mike Courtney	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	138
8192	23/01/2024	P	Mark Finnerty	113 – 32	David Finch	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	121
8193	24/01/2024	P	Mark Finnerty	102 – 20	Sharon Redrobe	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	131
8194	25/01/2024	P	Mark Finnerty	105 – 36	Matthew Cox	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	119