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Conor Travers
Conor in the 25th Anniversary Episode.

Conor Travers became the youngest ever series champion by winning Series 54 in 2006, at the age of fourteen.

He won his first game with a score of 99, followed by 111 against John Archer and 99 against Geoff Alderman. His remaining 5 games were all centuries, with a top score of 124 and a low score of 111. Out of the 8 games of his Octochamp run, only two were less than 110. He beat Daniel Peake by 69 points in the quarter-final, Paul Howe by 24 points in the semi-final before meeting Matthew Shore in the series final. There he won narrowly 98 – 83 to become the youngest ever series champion, at 14 years old. He also holds the record for winning the longest series, as the series started the previous year due to the death of Richard Whiteley, which delayed the start of the series being filmed. In total, 153 episodes were filmed, the most ever for one series.

One week later, he returned for CofC XII beating John Hunt and John Brackstone in the first two rounds. Considered one of the favourites after his 890 aggregate as an octochamp (the sixth highest ever), he lost 118 – 102 to the eventual winner Paul Gallen in the semi-final (on a crucial conundrum). In 14 games, Travers' lowest score was 98 and his average was 110.4 points per game.

Since losing to Paul Gallen, he appeared on Countdown's 25th anniversary special against Chris Wills and won the game 69 – 58. He then started playing Countdown online again and spent some time in the #1 position on Apterous, and until recently had the highest ever score of 161.

He returned to Countdown in 2013, as one of 41 contestants taking part in the 30th Birthday Championship. He won his first match against Series 46 champion Ben Wilson, then beat Series 52 champion Mark Tournoff, just missing one maximum in the whole game. His next match saw him go one better, as he scored a perfect 119 against Series 28 quarter-finalist Chris Hawkins. He then defeated the Series 60 champion Kirk Bevins in the quarter-final, again scoring a perfect 119 points. He then took on the Series 53 semi-finalist Jon O'Neill in the semi-final, being held in place for all the game, before eventually breaking clear by solving the conundrum INFIGHTER to achieve a 3rd consecutive perfect game, this time with 120 points.

Travers has also competed in several tournaments, including COLIN 2005, COLIN 2006, CoBris 2006 and CoLei3, was the winner of COLIN 2008 and CoBris 2005, and came 2nd in CoBris 2007.

Travers was the first octochamp to be crowned with Des Lynam as a presenter.

Preceded by
John Mayhew
Series winner
Series 54
Followed by
Richard Brittain


Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
3977 23/11/2005 P Ray Oakley 58 – 99 Conor Travers Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Jan Ravens Susie Dent 114
3978 24/11/2005 P Conor Travers 111 – 35 John Archer Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Jan Ravens Susie Dent 134
3979 25/11/2005 P Conor Travers 99 – 58 Geoff Alderman Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Jan Ravens Susie Dent 122
3980 28/11/2005 P Conor Travers 114 – 57 Jane Capie Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Jan Ravens Susie Dent 131
3981 29/11/2005 P Conor Travers 111 – 53 Steven Whitaker Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Rick Wakeman Susie Dent 129
3982 30/11/2005 P Conor Travers 124 – 69 Andrew Christley Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Rick Wakeman Susie Dent 139
3983 1/12/2005 P Conor Travers 115 – 53 Judy Bursford Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Rick Wakeman Susie Dent 124
3984 2/12/2005 P Conor Travers 117 – 61 Vicky Prime Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Rick Wakeman Susie Dent 128
4106 18/05/2006 QF Daniel Peake 38 – 107 Conor Travers Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Susie Dent 130
4110 24/05/2006 SF Conor Travers 124 – 100 Paul Howe Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Susie Dent 130
4112 26/05/2006 GF Conor Travers 98 – 83 Matthew Shore Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Susie Dent 118
4115 31/05/2006 CP Conor Travers 124 – 91 John Hunt Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Ron Atkinson Susie Dent 138
4123 12/06/2006 CQF Conor Travers 101 – 80 John Brackstone Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Kim Woodburn Susie Dent 130
4126 15/06/2006 CSF Paul Gallen 118 – 102 Conor Travers Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Kim Woodburn Susie Dent 120
4473 2/11/2007 S Chris Wills 58 – 69 Conor Travers Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman none Alison Heard 110
5618 10/01/2013 30BP Ben Wilson 91 – 117 Conor Travers Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Dave Myers Susie Dent 126
5637 6/02/2013 30B1 Conor Travers 112 – 62 Mark Tournoff Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Kate Adie Susie Dent 119
5642 13/02/2013 30B2 Chris Hawkins 85 – 119 Conor Travers Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Ken Bruce Susie Dent 119
5650 25/02/2013 30BQF Conor Travers 119 – 94 Kirk Bevins Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jenny Eclair Susie Dent 119
5653 28/02/2013 30BSF Jon O'Neill 102 – 120 Conor Travers Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jenny Eclair Susie Dent 120