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| − | + | Luke first appeared on television in the [[Episode 7102|second quarter-final of Series 80]] as the audience member who solved the conundrum {{word|LOVECRISP}} with the answer {{word|COVERSLIP}}, which also had {{word|SLIPCOVER}} as a valid solution. | |
| − | + | Nearly 6 months later, he made his debut as a player on 5 December 2019 against one-game winner [[Zach Hart]]. Two nine-letter words and scoring points in every round helped him beat Hart convincingly and catapult to 139 points. His score broke [[Hamish Williamson]]'s 10-year-old record for the highest ever score set by a challenger against a champion by 5 points and [[Elliott Mellor]]'s 7-month-old [[Episode 7076|record debut score]] by 8 points. Luke earned four more victories, all with scores well over a century and at least one nine-letter word, before stepping aside for the finals of Series 81. | |
| − | + | Luke soon returned to the programme on 2 January 2020 to carry over his unbeaten run in the first heat of Series 82, kicking off the new year in style with spots of the nine-letter words {{word|MONTICULE}} and {{word|ESTIMATOR}} to win his sixth game with 143 points, the fourth-highest ever achieved in the "new" 15-round format. In the third show of the series, he became the standout provisional number 1 seed and only the second octochamp to join the "1,000 club", setting the second-highest ever cumulative score of 1,024 points (an average of 128 per game) after Mellor himself in the process. | |
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Luke is the first ever octochamp to declare a nine-letter word in every heat prior to the finals, and has declared more nine-letter words than any other contestant across eight heat games: 11. He will return in June 2020 to compete in the series finals. | Luke is the first ever octochamp to declare a nine-letter word in every heat prior to the finals, and has declared more nine-letter words than any other contestant across eight heat games: 11. He will return in June 2020 to compete in the series finals. | ||
Revision as of 13:41, 20 January 2020
Luke Johnson-Davies solving the conundrum in Episode 7102.
Luke Johnson-Davies was an octochamp in Series 82 who debuted in Series 81. He is an Apterite and a Student at Durham University, from Cambridge.
Johnson-Davies began attending Co-events in 2018 and was the runner-up of only his second event, CoNuT, in 2019.
