Jonathan Wynn
| Jonathan Wynn octochamp statistics | |
|---|---|
| Final position | Champion |
| Seeding | 2 |
| Points total | 922 |
| Conundrums solved | 6 |
Jonathan Wynn was a contestant in Series 63, an octochamp in and the champion of Series 73, and a quarter-finalist in Championship of Champions XV. As of his first appearance, he was a maths supply teacher from Kenilworth, Warwickshire. As of his Series 73 appearances, he was a maths teacher from Oxford. As of his Championship of Champions appearances, he was still working as a teacher in Brighton. He has also been an Apterite since 2009, and is a regular Co-event player.
Appearances on the show
Heat games
In his first show, Wynn showed some strong word knowledge but lost on the crucial conundrum of WINTERNUT.
He returned to the show in August 2015 and after more practice on Apterous, he carded a century in all eight of his heat wins.
Finals
Wynn is notable as the first octochamp to have always been ahead of his opponent in all 120 rounds of his run.
He continued this pattern into the finals – having a higher score than his quarter-final opponent, Liam Moloney, at every juncture (although Wynn failed to attain a century there).
This record only ended in his semi-final, in which both he and Stephen Briggs scored in the first round – nonetheless, Wynn went on to achieve his highest score and was denied the new 15-round record score on a wrong answer to the conundrum of LIDLTENSE.
The next day – Wynn faced the numbers whizz of Matthew Tassier in the grand final. After Tassier could only come up with waiged ☓ in Round 4, he turned it round with his specialist numbers choice of six small in Round 6 to take a four-point lead over Wynn. Wynn later regained the lead with REQUIEM in Round 12 and SALMONID (beating Tassier's offering of mondials ☓) in Round 13 but Tassier's pick of six small beat Wynn again, forcing a crucial conundrum. But neither player could unravel TTHESCORE to give Wynn, the victory.
Championship of Champions XV
Wynn returned in January 2019 for Championship of Champions XV.
He took on Phil Davies in the first preliminary round of the tournament. Despite the game's fairly low maximum score – Wynn amassed a century here, achieving maximum points in all but one of the letters rounds (missing only FOOTSURE, which he did have noted) to take the game by 103 – 68.
He then played Philip Aston in his quarter-final, where – largely due to a very obscure but misspelled nine-letter word – he suffered his only defeat since his original one to Ryan Loughborough.
Co-events
He made his Co-event debut at CO:REA 2013, placing 14th out of 34. Wynn competed in the 2018 FOCAL finals as the No. 6 seed and finished in second place in the heats, winning five out of seven games. This was followed by a victory over his opponent in the grand final, Tom Cappleman, and therefore he became the 2018 FOCAL finals champion. In 2020, he won COLIN XVI.
ZoomDown
After his Countdown appearances – he participated on ZoomDown in Series 1 (becoming the runner-up to Conor Travers in the grand final), Series 3 and the Championship of Champions.
| Preceded by Tom Cappleman |
Series winner Series 73 |
Followed by Paul Erdunast |
Episodes
| # | Date | Type | Contestant 1 | Score | Contestant 2 | Presenters | Guest | Lex | Max | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5072 | 01/07/2010 | P | Ryan Loughborough | 77 – 74 | Jonathan Wynn | Jeff Stelling | Rachel Riley | Tim Vine | Susie Dent | 132 | ||
| 6194 | 24/08/2015 | P | Chris Roy | 30 – 100 | Jonathan Wynn | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Gyles Brandreth | Susie Dent | 136 | ||
| 6195 | 25/08/2015 | P | Jonathan Wynn | 107 – 46 | Mark Ainsley | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Gyles Brandreth | Susie Dent | 123 | ||
| 6196 | 26/08/2015 | P | Jonathan Wynn | 111 – 55 | Steve Heeney | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Gyles Brandreth | Susie Dent | 124 | ||
| 6197 | 27/08/2015 | P | Jonathan Wynn | 119 – 49 | Will Irvine | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Greg Rusedski | Susie Dent | 122 | ||
| 6198 | 28/08/2015 | P | Jonathan Wynn | 112 – 79 | Daniel Morris | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Greg Rusedski | Susie Dent | 132 | ||
| 6199 | 31/08/2015 | P | Jonathan Wynn | 131 – 55 | Paul Curtayne | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Greg Rusedski | Susie Dent | 134 | ||
| 6200 | 01/09/2015 | P | Jonathan Wynn | 113 – 65 | David Vernon | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Greg Rusedski | Susie Dent | 134 | ||
| 6201 | 02/09/2015 | P | Jonathan Wynn | 129 – 33 | Hannah Short | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Greg Rusedski | Susie Dent | 132 | ||
| 6272 | 16/12/2015 | QF | Jonathan Wynn | 90 – 84 | Liam Moloney | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | David Baddiel | Susie Dent | 122 | ||
| 6276 | 22/12/2015 | SF | Jonathan Wynn | 134 – 100 | Stephen Briggs | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Tim Rice | Susie Dent | 157 | ||
| 6277 | 23/12/2015 | GF | Jonathan Wynn | 98 – 94 | Matthew Tassier | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Tim Rice | Susie Dent | 130 | ||
| 6980 | 02/01/2019 | CP | Jonathan Wynn | 103 – 68 | Phil Davies | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Kate Humble | Susie Dent | 116 | ||
| 6988 | 14/01/2019 | CQF | Jonathan Wynn | 92 – 110 | Philip Aston | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Dr Linda Papadopoulos | Susie Dent | 132 | ||
