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