Moose Rosser

Moose Rosser Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	3
Points total	828
Conundrums solved	6 (+1 tiebreak)

The Moose in Series 76.

Moose Rosser was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 76. He is a Welsh/Australian Head of Risk Management from Essex who became known as “The Moose” during his time on the show due to his sense of humour.

On his début, he scored 83 before winning a tiebreak conundrum in his second game. He increased his winning score from his third show to his seventh, where he scored 132 to better highest score of the series set by Stephen Read by 1 point. The Moose garnered a total of 828 points and qualified to return to the show in June for the series finals as #3 seed.

In the quarter-finals, Rosser prevailed over Wesley Jardine in a very close match, picking out the nine-letter word ETHNICIST and sneaking through on the unsolved crucial conundrum POLICECAR (ironically he previously served 31 and a half years in the police). He then achieved an upset in the semi-finals, knocking out #2 seed Jeff Clayton 88 – 84 by spotting that LOSTMYCAP became CYTOPLASM. Unfortunately, for the Moose, he was outclassed in the grand final - the last game to be played in the long-lived original version of the blue Countdown set - by 900-club member, Apterite and FOCAL player Stephen Read by 50 points. His runner-up finish arguably makes him among the strongest non-Apterites to appear on Countdown during the 2010s.

Preceded by Andrew Macleod

Series runner-up Series 76

Followed by Bradley Horrocks

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
6586	19/05/2017	P	Amber Cotton	36 – 83	Moose Rosser	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Chris Hollins	Susie Dent	120
6587	22/05/2017	P	Moose Rosser	90* – 80	Michael Hooker	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Chris Hollins	Susie Dent	127
6588	23/05/2017	P	Moose Rosser	104 – 35	Bob Saunders	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Chris Hollins	Susie Dent	123
6589	24/05/2017	P	Moose Rosser	106 – 44	Ellie Foster	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Walker	Susie Dent	127
6590	26/05/2017	P	Moose Rosser	111 – 76	Peter Sheridan	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Walker	Susie Dent	147
6591	29/05/2017	P	Moose Rosser	119 – 33	Sam Green	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Walker	Susie Dent	144
6592	30/05/2017	P	Moose Rosser	132 – 30	Gareth Davies	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Walker	Susie Dent	136
6593	31/05/2017	P	Moose Rosser	93 – 71	Michael Metcalf	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Dan Walker	Susie Dent	158
6610	26/06/2017	QF	Moose Rosser	81 – 71	Wesley Jardine	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Colin Murray	Susie Dent	136
6613	29/06/2017	SF	Jeff Clayton	84 – 88	Moose Rosser	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Colin Murray	Susie Dent	121
6614	30/06/2017	GF	Stephen Read	108 – 58	Moose Rosser	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Colin Murray	Susie Dent	121

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum