Toby Byfield

Toby Byfield Octochamp Statistics
Final position	TBC
Seeding	TBC
Points total	830
Conundrums solved	5

Toby Byfield in Series 89.

Toby Byfield was an octochamp in Series 89. He was a political statistician and not-for-profit company director from Guildford, Surrey. He is also an Apterite, has spent time in different countries as an elections observer, and will almost certainly return for the end-of-series finals in June.

Appearances

Series 89 Heat games

Toby made a very confident debut against six-time winner and fellow Apterite Lucas Glanville; he achieved a century and maxed 10 rounds to finish with 111 while restricting Lucas to his lowest score of 44. After that, he then racked up seven more winning performances which included three further centuries to his name.

He stood out by his frequent choosing of 4L numbers games, and spotted the nine-letter-words MATERIALS and OPERATING. He also achieved a personal best of 117 points in his fourth game, with the latter being made more impressive in that it was gained despite missing both of the available nine's RIVALISED and OUTSMILES in that heat.

It wasn't wholly smooth sailing though; in fact, he had to overcome two particularly stern tests against challengers Bernard Greep and Jonno Smith in his third and eighth games respectively to secure octochamp status and membership of the 800 club, which he did in his last heat after Smith blanked on a 6S numbers gamble. This left Byfield with a final total of 830 points, provisionally set him as the No. 2 seed for the finals, and also made him the sixth octochamp of the series in a little under three months.

He made his co-event debut at Co:Reading 2024.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
8233	20/03/2024	P	Lucas Glanville	44 – 111	Toby Byfield	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Neil Delamere	Susie Dent	120
8234	21/03/2024	P	Toby Byfield	98 – 51	Nigel Gardner	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Neil Delamere	Susie Dent	136
8235	22/03/2024	P	Toby Byfield	92 – 86	Bernard Greep	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Neil Delamere	Susie Dent	124
8236	25/03/2024	P	Toby Byfield	117 – 40	Stuart Ingham	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Sinha	Susie Dent	146
8237	26/03/2024	P	Toby Byfield	113 – 58	Andy Wilkinson	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Sinha	Susie Dent	153
8238	27/03/2024	P	Toby Byfield	108 – 59	Gerry Kelly	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Sinha	Susie Dent	145
8239	28/03/2024	P	Toby Byfield	95 – 65	Sonia Dari	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Sinha	Susie Dent	129
8240	29/03/2024	P	Toby Byfield	96 – 84	Jonno Smith	Colin Murray	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Sinha	Susie Dent	119