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Steve Williams

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Steve Williams
Octochamp Statistics
Final positionSemi-finalist
Seeding1
Points total412
Conundrums solved4

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
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
* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum
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