Glen Webb

Glen Webb Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Semi-finalist
Seeding	3
Points total	945
Conundrums solved	6

Glen Webb in his Series 69 quarter-final game...

...and again in the Championship of Champions XIV.

Glen Webb was a finalist in Series 23, a contestant in Series 68 and an octochamp in 69, and a participant in the Championship of Champions XIV.

Appearances on the programme

Series 68/69

On his return in 2013, Webb won eight games and accumulated a total of 945 points, notably the highest when not all of the games were a century or higher. He also became the first contestant to have qualified for the finals of multiple series (besides the Supreme Championship and the 30th Birthday Championship). Notably, in his fifth game in Series 68, he scored 141 points, the most ever achieved in a heat game as well as in any game in the new 15-round format at the time.

In the past, champions who were undefeated at the end of the series could elect to either enter the finals or carry over to the next series. At some point the former option was eliminated and all champions must now carry over. Webb's run was the first time the carry-over rule was enforced; had he been able to enter the Series 68 finals unbeaten, he would have been No.5 seed for the series.

Finals

Webb returned for the finals as No.3 seed, scoring in every round but one in his quarter-final victory against Jonathan Liew. In his semi-final against No.7-ranked Callum Todd, he nabbed a small lead in the first numbers round, but failed to score in five rounds prior to the conundrum and was defeated by Round 13; Todd would go on to win what turned out to be one of the strongest ever series of Countdown.

Championship of Champions XIV

Webb returned to Countdown in 2016 for Championship of Champions XIV, where he was knocked out by Tom Cappleman in the opening round despite having spotted three nine-letter words.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
1202	3/01/1992	P	Alan Harston	52 – 56	Glen Webb	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Brian Johnston	Judy Pearsall	73
1203	6/01/1992	P	Eric Emslie	28 – 60	Glen Webb	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Bill Tidy	Judy Pearsall	73
1204	7/01/1992	P	Romilly Stuart-Jervis	60 – 50	Glen Webb	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Bill Tidy	Judy Pearsall	73
1256	19/03/1992	QF	Gareth Williams	69 – 36	Glen Webb	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jan Harvey	Catherine Clarke	74
5708	5/06/2013	P	Chris Ball	91 – 125	Glen Webb	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Helen Skelton	Susie Dent	145
5709	6/06/2013	P	Glen Webb	91 – 58	Mike Bailey	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Helen Skelton	Susie Dent	136
5710	7/06/2013	P	Glen Webb	122 – 59	Richard Vaughan	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Helen Skelton	Susie Dent	143
5711	10/06/2013	P	Glen Webb	114 – 50	Mike Stone	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Snow	Susie Dent	131
5712	11/06/2013	P	Glen Webb	141 – 49	Martin Wilsdon	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Snow	Susie Dent	145
5713	12/06/2013	P	Glen Webb	109 – 48	Mark Williams	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Snow	Susie Dent	134
5714	13/06/2013	P	Glen Webb	128 – 52	Anne Whitehead	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Snow	Susie Dent	133
5722	1/07/2013	P	Glen Webb	115 – 73	Kevin Safford	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Penny Smith	Susie Dent	126
5835	16/12/2013	QF	Glen Webb	107 – 45	Jonathan Liew	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Richard Madeley	Susie Dent	128
5838	19/12/2013	SF	Callum Todd	107 – 82	Glen Webb	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Richard Madeley	Susie Dent	138
6278	4/01/2016	CP	Tom Cappleman	133 – 115	Glen Webb	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Susie Dent	147