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August's Featured Article Scott Mearns from Montrose in Scotland was champion of Series 41 and Championship of Champions X. A student at Leeds University when he appeared, Mearns foreshadowed his form on the programme by passing his audition with a 100% score. Famously wanting to "put Montrose on the map", Mearns became an octochamp with an aggregate score of 510, before running out victorious in three relatively tight finals games to win the series. He later returned for the five game Championship of Champions X, wherein he was seeded to automatically reach the semi-final. He defeated Series 39 octochamp Terry Knowles and champion Kate Ogilvie to win the mini-series and claim the title of Countdown's tenth Champion of Champions. Along the way, Mearns demonstrated his prowess with the 6 small selection in numbers rounds. He is arguably one of the best players to have not contested the Supreme Championship nor the 30th Birthday Championship. He first appeared on Countdown in the very first game of Series 41, beating incumbent champion Bobby Johnson by 80 points to 12 in a phenomenal debut performance that included the nine letter word SERRATING. Johnson had amassed his 12 points by the end of round two and failed to score again throughout the rest of the contest, including having compense ☓ disallowed. Mearns unravelled the conundrum VIPERWEED in little more than a second, offering a preview of what was yet to come. His next five games featured scores of 50+, peaking at 76 in his third heat game against Sarah Houchin. Mearns suffered an uncharacteristically low score in his his penultimate heat game, beating William Brewer 34 – 30, but he outplayed Lesley Millar 61 – 27 to become the first octochamp of Series 41, averaging 63.75 points a game. Having secured the third-highest total of the nine round era, Mearns entered the series finals as #1 seed. (More...) More Featured Articles... Did you know... ...that in Series 30, Ben Cooke beat Sue Renwick 60 – 26 in her sixth heat game but lost against her in the third quarter-final by 56 – 24, a record rematch score difference of 66 points? ...that due to five episodes of Countdown being recorded in a day, a slight ailment caused Rachel Riley to appear to lose her voice for three weeks during Series 62? ...that Sweyn Kirkness faced three numbers rounds in which it was impossible to score any points – round 5 of his third heat, his fifth heat, and his quarter-final? ...that Series 59 champion Junaid Mubeen (pictured) had previously appeared on the show ten years earlier as a fourteen-year-old boy? Nominate an article Today in Countdown History edit  2021: Jeremy Slaney beat Shireen Ahmed, with the game finishing 95 – 56. 2020: Sian Keys beat Jonny Eccles, scoring 74 – 60. 2019: David Law beat Nina Gunton with scores of 95 – 77. 2018: Adam Rolston beat Mike Grundy with a score of 99 – 71. 2014: Mark Davies beat Simon Bryan in a 98 – 86 game. 2013: Gemma Church beat Karl Pryor with final score 78 – 28. 2007: Steve Baines beat Alex Morrison, by a score of 89 – 74. 2003: Brian McKeon beat Reg Harding, scoring 93 – 51. 2002: Martin Oliver beat Paul McGeown in a game that ended 100 – 53. 1998: Zoran Blackie beat Iain Forbes with scores of 50 – 25. 1997: Ann Franklin beat John Carmichael in a 50 – 48 game. 1996: Mike Llewellin beat June Ruskin with a score of 58 – 54. 1993: Peter Franklin beat Theresa McKeown with final score 39 – 38. 1992: Norman Christian beat Bernard Rogers, by a score of 58 – 35. 1991: Jim Saunders beat Michael Meenehan, scoring 42 – 34. 1990: Stephen Mack beat Iris Denon with scores of 53 – 42. 1990: George Head played Christine Jones in the first leg of a Countdown Masters game. 1987: Nita Marr beat Cath Powell in the first Series 13 quarter-final.

Popular Articles edit  A brief overview of Countdown and some of its records and terminology. The team: Colin Murray, Rachel Riley, and Susie Dent. The show's institutions: the conundrum, the pencam, and the Teatime Teaser. Dan Byrom, reigning series champion, and his series grand final against Matt O'Connor. The most recent Championship of Champions Final between Zarte Siempre and Bradley Horrocks, which was won by Siempre. The 30th Birthday Championship final between Conor Travers and Jack Hurst. Carol Vorderman, Richard Whiteley, Des Lynam, Des O'Connor, Jeff Stelling, Nick Hewer, Anne Robinson and Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, the show's former presenters. The highest ever score, Elliott Mellor's 152. Series 86, the current series of Countdown. Editors edit  Everyone can edit the Countdown Wiki, just register and then click the edit link at the top of any page (except this one!) and start editing. Here are some useful links: Learn about this wiki and how to use it. Episode style guide - if you want to help us edit the episode pages, this style guide gives comprehensive help. Suggest a featured article which will in turn be featured on the Main Page. Other Countdown websites edit  Apterous, an online game from the same people that run this site. The Countdown Android App, Created by Series 63 champion Jack Hurst. The Countdown Database, detailed statistics and round-by-round details of over 7,700 episodes. FOCAL, regular in-person events that anyone can enter. C4Countdown, Countdown's main online forum, populated by many past octochamps. Quantum Tombola, a numbers game solver designed by Graeme Cole. A mobile version of the above. Greem, a website listing nearly all co-event scores. Upcoming Countdown tournaments edit  The full list of FOCAL tournaments for 2022 is here. The next scheduled event is Countdown in Lincoln on 29 January 2022. Almost all online tournaments are now held on Apterous: the list of ongoing tournaments is here.

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