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David O'Donnell (Series 58)

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David in the process of missing LATTICES.

David O'Donnell was the winner of Series 58. He first appeared on the 24th of January 2008 and scored 110 against Marjorie Hillman, winning by 56 points. In his next two games he fell below 100 but came back with 117 against Bill Barrack. His next game turned out to have the second largest winning margin of all-time, David beat Hazel Wheeler by 98 points, winning 111 - 13. He scored 114 against Rick Ruegg before scoring 122 against Ian Browning, the second highest score of the series. On the 4th of February, David finished his Octochamp run with a score of 117 - his total of 880 is the seventh highest ever achieved.

O'Donnell returned for the finals as #1 seed and saw off the challenge of Ben Hanks and then very narrowly beat Jonathan Coles on a crucial conundrum, despite having ULTIMATI disallowed. In the final, Richard Priest gave a good performance but was 13-0 after two rounds and never recovered. After David beat him in the later rounds with EPIDOTE the game was effectively over and O'Donnell became the Series 58 champion, winning the final game of the series 91-61, although he failed to solve the conundrum SCORELINE.

O'Donnell returned for the Championship of Champions XIII, beating James Hurrell on a crucial conundrum solved in less than a second. In the quarter-finals, he faced Steven Briers. The scores were close all the way, until Briers spotted the nine-letter word PESTICIDE when O'Donnell only had a seven. The players continued to score in every round, until the conundrum, where Briers led by 18 points. O'Donnell solved the conundrum in 0.5 seconds, but it wasn't enough as he lost 118 - 110, one of the highest ever losing scores.

In January 2010, David attended his first unofficial Countdown tournament, COLIN 2010.

Preceded by
Craig Beevers
Series winner
Series 58
Followed by
Junaid Mubeen

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
4525 24/01/2008 P Marjorie Hillman 54 – 110 David O'Donnell Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Trudie Goodwin Alison Heard
4526 25/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 97 – 49 Brian Kay Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Trudie Goodwin Alison Heard
4527 28/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 92 – 62 Martin Smith Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Trudie Goodwin Alison Heard
4528 29/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 117 – 45 Bill Barrack Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Trudie Goodwin Alison Heard
4529 30/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 111 – 13 Hazel Wheeler Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Alison Heard
4530 31/01/2008 P David O'Donnell 114 – 44 Rick Ruegg Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Alison Heard
4531 1/02/2008 P David O'Donnell 122 – 62 Ian Browning Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Alison Heard
4532 4/02/2008 P David O'Donnell 117 – 48 Steve Jepp Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Richard Digance Alison Heard
4621 12/06/2008 QF David O'Donnell 92 – 46 Ben Hanks Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Alastair Stewart Susie Dent
4625 18/06/2008 SF David O'Donnell 95 – 82 Jonathan Coles Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Phil Hammond Susie Dent
4627 20/06/2008 GF David O'Donnell 91 – 61 Richard Priest Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Phil Hammond Susie Dent
4733 12/01/2009 CP David O'Donnell 101 – 82 James Hurrell Jeff Stelling Rachel Riley Andrew Sachs Susie Dent
4741 22/01/2009 CQF Steven Briers 118 – 110 David O'Donnell Jeff Stelling Rachel Riley Alastair Stewart Susie Dent