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Steven Briers

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Steve Briers in the Championship of Champions XIII final against Charlie Reams.

Steven Briers, known as Steve during CoC XIII, first appeared in series 55 on 3 November 2006, beating Richard Woodward 76 – 62. In his second game, he beat his opponent, Dean Rowley, 136 – 41, setting the fifth highest ever score and the second highest ever winning margin in Countdown history. He won six more games to become an octochamp and #1 seed of series 55, amassing a total of 843 points. However, he was defeated in the quarter-finals by Phil Watson. He is most renowned for his bizarre style of solving numbers rounds.

Briers returned for the Championship of Champions XIII, beating Debbi Flack partly thanks to the nine-letter word ANTIPODES in the first letters game. In the quarter-finals, he faced David O'Donnell, who was unbeaten with 12 wins from 12 games. 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 the semi-final, he faced Nick Wainwright in another close game, including a brilliant six-small numbers solution from Wainwright. However it wasn't enough as Briers was 5 points into the lead going into the conundrum VARIFOCAL, which neither player solved, so it was Briers that went through into the final.

In the final, he faced Charlie Reams. Reams started with LEPTON while Briers has OPULENT for seven. Briers maintained this lead until he had REENACT disallowed. Briers then took the lead, first with SNOOZED, then another seven points when Reams went wrong on the numbers. A seven, a six and a five for both players meant that Reams had to beat Briers on the final numbers game to force a crucial conundrum. However Reams declared nothing, and Briers declared 5 away. Briers had won the tournament, and just the conundrum remained. The conundrum was ELITEBOUT. Briers first buzzed in with LIBOUETTE which was wrong, and then comically Reams buzzed in with GANDISEEG, referring to Richard Brittain's guess at the conundrum in the first round.

He returned to Countdown in 2013, as one of 41 contestants taking part in the 30th Birthday Championship. He lost his only match against Series 61 runner-up Andrew Hulme by a score of 113 – 74.

Briers is from Southampton.

Preceded by
Paul Gallen
Champion of Champions
Championship of Champions XIII
Followed by
Dylan Taylor

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
4227 3/11/2006 P Richard Woodward 62 – 76 Steven Briers Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Jo Brand Susie Dent 127
4228 6/11/2006 P Steven Briers 136 – 41 Dean Rowley Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Tony Christie Susie Dent 142
4229 7/11/2006 P Steven Briers 106 – 56 Vicky Hubble Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Tony Christie Susie Dent 124
4230 8/11/2006 P Steven Briers 116 – 68 Carl Gregory Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Tony Christie Susie Dent 134
4231 9/11/2006 P Steven Briers 108 – 59 Glenda Fullard Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Tony Christie Susie Dent 119
4232 10/11/2006 P Steven Briers 110 – 93 Dan Ward Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Tony Christie Susie Dent 141
4233 13/11/2006 P Steven Briers 92 – 53 Jennifer Brown Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Keith Barron Susie Dent 129
4234 14/11/2006 P Steven Briers 99 – 55 Sue Pascoe Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Keith Barron Susie Dent 127
4256 14/12/2006 QF Steven Briers 72 – 82 Phil Watson Des Lynam Carol Vorderman Ken Bruce Susie Dent 138
4740 21/01/2009 CP Steve Briers 121 – 74 Debbi Flack Jeff Stelling Rachel Riley Alastair Stewart Susie Dent 126
4741 22/01/2009 CQF Steve Briers 118 – 110 David O'Donnell Jeff Stelling Rachel Riley Alastair Stewart Susie Dent 130
4745 28/01/2009 CSF Steve Briers 87 – 82 Nick Wainwright Jeff Stelling Rachel Riley Paul Zenon Susie Dent 119
4747 30/01/2009 CGF Charlie Reams 67 – 88 Steve Briers Jeff Stelling Rachel Riley Paul Zenon Susie Dent 114
5622 16/01/2013 30BP Andrew Hulme 113 – 74 Steven Briers Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Martin Lewis Susie Dent 127

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Championship of Champions Winners

I : Mark Nyman | II : Clive Freedman | III : Harvey Freeman | IV : Nic Brown | V : Tim Morrissey | VI : Wayne Summers | VII : Don Reid | VIII : Chris Rogers | IX : Natascha Kearsey | X : Scott Mearns | XI : Graham Nash | XII : Paul Gallen | XIII : Steve Briers | XIV : Dylan Taylor | XV : Zarte Siempre | XVI : Ahmed Mohamed