Tony Warren

Tony Warren Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	4
Points total	712
Conundrums solved	7

Warren in Championship of Champions XIII.

Tony Warren was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 55, and a participant in Championship of Champions XIII. He was a retired computer systems engineer from Somerton, Somerset.

He started his run by defeating Jenny Turner on 10 May 2006 towards the end of Series 54 to secure his first victory. Warren followed this with five more wins. After making way for the series finals and Championship of Champions XII, Warren completed two more victories to attain octochamp status with 712 points, to become the eventual number four seed.

Warren came back to face an off-form Chris McHenry in the quarter-finals, running out an easy 75 – 37 winner. Phil Watson was next – this time, Warren had a bad start, finding himself 16 points behind after just three rounds. However, by the end of Round 11, the scores were level again. Watson retook a slight edge, going into the conundrum seven points ahead, but Warren turned LYFETREES into FREESTYLE in 10.5 seconds to book his final berth. In the grand final, Richard Brittain made sure the series victory was his, pulling away from Warren in the second part and never looking back.

He returned for Championship of Champions XIII, facing the unbeaten Junaid Mubeen in the first round, but lost 80 – 55 in one of the lowest scoring games in the competition.

In 2009, Tony's wife, Carol, appeared as a contestant.

Preceded by Matthew Shore

Series runner-up Series 55

Followed by Anita Freeland

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
4100	10/05/2006	P	Tony Warren	88 − 55	Jenny Turner	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Stilgoe	Susie Dent	130
4101	11/05/2006	P	Tony Warren	100 − 47	Sheila Goodwin	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Richard Stilgoe	Susie Dent	142
4102	12/05/2006	P	Tony Warren	96 − 58	Sophi Harrison	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Diarmuid Gavin	Susie Dent	124
4103	15/05/2006	P	Tony Warren	71 − 64	Michael Gordon	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Diarmuid Gavin	Susie Dent	139
4104	16/05/2006	P	Tony Warren	98 − 86	Richard Green	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Diarmuid Gavin	Susie Dent	140
4105	17/05/2006	P	Tony Warren	72 − 58	Richard Knight	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Diarmuid Gavin	Susie Dent	122
4128	19/06/2006	P	Tony Warren	79 − 45	Jill Todd	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Ricky Tomlinson	Susie Dent	139
4129	20/06/2006	P	Tony Warren	108 − 92	Danny Shears	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Ricky Tomlinson	Susie Dent	134
4259	19/12/2006	QF	Chris McHenry	37 − 75	Tony Warren	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Paul Zenon	Susie Dent	116
4260	20/12/2006	SF	Phil Watson	82 − 85	Tony Warren	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Paul Zenon	Susie Dent	121
4262	22/12/2006	GF	Tony Warren	60 − 103	Richard Brittain	Des Lynam	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Paul Zenon	Susie Dent	118
4734	13/01/2009	CP	Junaid Mubeen	80 − 55	Tony Warren	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Andrew Sachs	Susie Dent	116

External Links

• Warren's account of his Countdown experience on The Countdown Page