Jamie Wing

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Jamie Wing
octochamp statistics
Final position Runner-up
Seeding 2
Points total 899
Conundrums solved 6 (+1 tiebreak)
Jamie Wing during his eighth game.

Jamie Wing was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 81. He was a Sixth Form Student from Godalming, Surrey. He is also an Apterite.

At seventeen years of age at the time of broadcasts, Wing made his debut on 22 November 2019 against fellow Apterite Paul Anderson and won the game on a tiebreak conundrum.

He then put in seven sensational performances with six centuries. He wrapped up his heat game run with an octotal of 899 (just one point short of joining the 900 club) to become an octochamp — the last of a record nine to become in a six-month series.

He also became the second octochamp that was born in the 21st century, following Toby McDonald in Series 78.

Ten days later, Wing returned and started his finals run against Tom Silverlock. Here, Wing proved to be unstoppable by scoring in every letters and numbers round as he pulled away with his grandiose Round 6 numbers solution plus his word spot of ROUTINISE. The only round that he didn't score in, was the conundrum that Silverlock solved.

He next squared off against Paul Nixon; though the game's score was dead level from the first break straight up to before the final letters round, PACEMEN and a one-away solve on a complex Round 14 numbers round meant that Wing avoided a crucial conundrum.

In the grand final, Wing played close to James Haughton. They levelled in the first two letters rounds until Haughton nicked the lead with the first numbers round. Wing stayed close to Haughton throughout the game until it was game over by an easy last numbers round. But as a consolation, he unscrambled TREATRASH to EARTHSTAR to finish in the runner-up position with 95 points. Wing amassed 1,206 points in his run.

Wing did not participate in Championship of Champions XVI, thus preserving his record of ten wins out of eleven. But he permanently stands as the first ever series runner-up that was born in the 21st century.

Preceded by
Elliott Mellor
Series runner-up
Series 81
Followed by
Sam Cappleman-Lynes

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
7211 22/11/2019 P Paul Anderson 90 – 100* Jamie Wing Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tanni Grey-Thompson Susie Dent 134
7212 25/11/2019 P Jamie Wing 117 – 23 Sharif Dougramaji Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tanni Grey-Thompson Susie Dent 126
7213 26/11/2019 P Jamie Wing 114 – 53 Greg Folgate Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tanni Grey-Thompson Susie Dent 135
7214 27/11/2019 P Jamie Wing 120 – 62 Peter Jackson Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tanni Grey-Thompson Susie Dent 147
7215 28/11/2019 P Jamie Wing 118 – 68 Alan Jones Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Hannah Fry Susie Dent 129
7216 29/11/2019 P Jamie Wing 122 – 44 Barbara Wylde Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Hannah Fry Susie Dent 132
7217 2/12/2019 P Jamie Wing 96 – 53 Joseph Bennett Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Hannah Fry Susie Dent 138
7218 3/12/2019 P Jamie Wing 122 – 86 Alex Stuart Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Hannah Fry Susie Dent 148
7226 13/12/2019 QF Jamie Wing 121 – 78 Tom Silverlock Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jon Culshaw Susie Dent 146
7230 19/12/2019 SF Jamie Wing 91 – 77 Paul Nixon Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Vine Susie Dent 125
7231 20/12/2019 GF James Haughton 110 – 95 Jamie Wing Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Vine Susie Dent 125
* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum