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Jon O'Neill

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Carol marvels at another of the ginger genius's outrageous solutions.
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Jon O'Neill was an Octochamp from Series 53. He started off with a narrow 20 point win over Steve Smith before scoring 96 against Peter Wallis. All of his next 5 games were centuries including a high score of 114 against Theresa Turrell. In his final game, he dropped to 94 but still qualified for the finals as #3 seed with 804 points.

In the quarter-finals he played Judith Young which was a close game. The game hinged on Jon getting 209 from 75 100 25 6 10 50, which involved Jon going up to 5075 and coming back down again. Both players scored in every round until the conundrum, where Jon failed to solve the conundrum IRONCASTS which was all that stood between him and a score of 100.

In the semi-final he faced John Mayhew, #2 seed with 811 points. Jon led by 7 points going into round 13, where he was beaten by THEOREMS and trailed by 1 point going into his choice of numbers. Controversially he didn't choose 4 large and went for just one large number. Both players scored 10 points and the lights were dimmed for a crucial conundrum (EROGENICC), but neither player could solve it and John won the game by a solitary point. It was the second conundrum of French origin in a row that Jon had failed to solve.

One year later, Jon was invited back to the Championship of Champions and faced Series 52 Octochamp Jack Welsby. Jon started badly missing AMOEBAS. Jon couldn't beat Jack in any letters round, and uncharacteristically was beaten by Carol in both choices of 4 large numbers. Jon did get the conundrum PROFANITY but it was Jack that won the game by just 5 points.

Since appearing on Countdown, Jon O'Neill has played at a number of real life Countdown tournaments, including COLIN 2005, CoBris 2005, COLIN 2006, COLIN 2007, CoNot 2008, CoNot 2009, and he achieved second place at both COLIN 2008 and COLIN 2009. In 2008 he also appeared in the Countdown Online Masters via MSN Messenger, and lost 100-99 to Series 47 champion Chris Wills in the quarter-final.

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
3898 1/04/2005 P Steve Smith 67 – 87 Jon O'Neill Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Mitch Murray Susie Dent
3899 4/04/2005 P Jon O'Neill 96 – 72 Peter Wallis Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Nicholas Owen Susie Dent
3900 5/04/2005 P Jon O'Neill 106 – 54 William Moore Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Nicholas Owen Susie Dent
3901 6/04/2005 P Jon O'Neill 102 – 46 Ola Odutola Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Nicholas Owen Susie Dent
3902 7/04/2005 P Jon O'Neill 101 – 61 Gill Johns Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Nicholas Owen Susie Dent
3903 8/04/2005 P Jon O'Neill 104 – 66 Phil Squires Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Nicholas Owen Susie Dent
3904 11/04/2005 P Jon O'Neill 114 – 43 Theresa Turrell Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Julia McKenzie Susie Dent
3905 12/04/2005 P Jon O'Neill 94 – 58 Gary McEnaney Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Julia McKenzie Susie Dent
3955 28/06/2005 QF Judith Young 74 – 90 Jon O'Neill Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Philip Franks Susie Dent
3958 30/06/2005 SF John Mayhew 89 – 88 Jon O'Neill Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Philip Franks Susie Dent
4116 1/06/2006 CP Jack Welsby 99 – 94 Jon O'Neill Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Ron Atkinson Susie Dent

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