Steve Williams

Steve Williams Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Semi-finalist
Seeding	1
Points total	412
Conundrums solved	4

Steve Williams was an octochamp in Series 16, and a semi-finalist in Championship of Champions IV.

A computer programmer, he beat Frederick Sellers in his first appearance, and won seven more games to become an octochamp and No. 1 seed for the finals. He beat Gareth Hughes in the quarter-final, but was beaten in the semi-final by Roger Wales.

Williams returned for Championship of Champions IV, and beat Hilary Hopper in the first round before losing to Tony Vick in the semi-final by way of a sudden death conundrum. Williams' losing score of 70 remains to this day the joint-highest losing score of the 9 round era.

Williams did not take part in the Supreme Championship.

Earlier in 1988, he took part in the first series of Fifteen to One. In 1992, four years later, Steve won Mastermind with the specialist subject of Pre-Socratic Philosophy.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
772	8/07/1988	P	Steve Williams	52 – 36	Frederick Sellers	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Brian Johnston	Della Thompson	73
773	11/07/1988	P	Steve Williams	51 – 30	Roy Anderson	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Barbara Taylor Bradford	Catherine Clarke	95
774	12/07/1988	P	Steve Williams	51 – 46	Norman Armitage	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Barbara Taylor Bradford	Catherine Clarke	69
775	13/07/1988	P	Steve Williams	53 – 29	Beryl Owen	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Barbara Taylor Bradford	Catherine Clarke	74
776	14/07/1988	P	Steve Williams	59 – 36	Derek Baxter	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Barbara Taylor Bradford	Catherine Clarke	72
777	15/07/1988	P	Steve Williams	45 – 25	Margaret Baker	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Barbara Taylor Bradford	Catherine Clarke	72
778	18/07/1988	P	Steve Williams	53 – 16	Paul Taylor	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Sylvia Syms	Catherine Clarke	74
779	19/07/1988	P	Steve Williams	48 – 36	Steve Maginn	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Sylvia Syms	Catherine Clarke	73
806	25/08/1988	QF	Steve Williams	52 – 44	Gareth Hughes	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Bill Tidy	Della Thompson	81
810	31/08/1988	SF	Steve Williams	52 – 55	Roger Wales	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Karen Loughlin	Carol Thatcher	Della Thompson	74
816	5/01/1989	CQF	Hilary Hopper	41 – 56	Steve Williams	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Catherine Clarke	68
817	6/01/1989	CSF	Tony Vick	80* – 70	Steve Williams	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Catherine Clarke	81
M5	1/05/1989-5/05/1989	M	Jon Marsh	59 – 102	Steve Williams	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman					none	Catherine Clarke	135
M80	8/10/1990-12/10/1990	M	Allan Simmons	85 – 44	Steve Williams	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman					none	Mark Nyman	137

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum