Kirk Bevins

Kirk Bevins down his local pub with his darts team.

Kirk Bevins, a recent Maths graduate, originally appeared on Countdown near the start of Series 51. He played reasonably well, though not brilliantly, and was beaten by octochamp Richard Pay. In one round he went blank as he could only see SHAGMAN, and comically guessed TURROTING for the conundrum instead of TORTURING.

He has been a prominent member of the online scene for several years, participating in numerous major tournaments and winning the first ever Goatdown Championship against Conor Travers. He has yet to win a COLIN or COBRIS event, despite turning up to every one thus far; however until very recently he was ranked #1 on Apterous with a previous top score of 149.

Due to his success at Countdown tournaments and online, Bevins appeared on the show again in Series 60. In his first show he set the record for the highest score for a challenger of 127, beating Jonathan Coles's earlier 124 record. His next show was not a century - he fell to 97 including only solving one of the numbers rounds correctly. His third show is widely believed to be the first ever 'perfect game' in the 15-round format, meaning no potential points were lost in any of the fifteen rounds. In his fourth game, he produced 3 nine-letter words and at one point could potentially have beaten Julian Fell's record of 146. However, he missed BEHOVE, then his opponent Peter Bennett controversially chose four large in the final numbers game. This left Bevins on 130 before the conundrum. Although he now couldn't beat Fell's record, solving the conundrum would have given him the second highest ever score of 140, a position currently held jointly by Fell and Mark Tournoff with 138. However, in the event it was Bennett that got the conundrum and lost 130 - 55.

Bevins' fifth, sixth and seventh games were all centuries, meaning that in his final heat game he needed 113 to equal Fell's record 924, and 114 to beat it. With his final numbers round and conundrum he got exactly 114 and beat Fell's long-standing record of 924 points for an octochamp run by just a single point, solving the conundrum in under a second to secure his place in Countdown history.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
3642	11/02/2004	P	Richard Pay	90 – 69	Kirk Bevins	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Michael Aspel	Susie Dent
4768	02/03/2009	P	Ann Abel	54 – 127	Kirk Bevins	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Phil Hammond	Susie Dent
4769	03/03/2009	P	Kirk Bevins	97 – 67	Fiona Shaw	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Phil Hammond	Susie Dent
4770	04/03/2009	P	Kirk Bevins	126 – 47	Ben Nicholas	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Phil Hammond	Susie Dent
4771	05/03/2009	P	Kirk Bevins	130 – 55	Peter Bennett	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Phil Hammond	Susie Dent
4772	06/03/2009	P	Kirk Bevins	111 – 39	Barrie Robinson	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Phil Hammond	Susie Dent
4773	09/03/2009	P	Kirk Bevins	114 – 53	Anne Adams	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Colin Murray	Susie Dent
4774	16/03/2009	P	Kirk Bevins	106 – 71	Ian Payn	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Colin Murray	Susie Dent
4775	17/03/2009	P	Kirk Bevins	114 – 31	Rosie Owen	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Colin Murray	Susie Dent

External links

• Kirk is God, the Facebook group.