Tracey Mills

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Tracey Mills
octochamp statistics
Final position Runner-up
Seeding 3
Points total 836
Conundrums solved 4
Tracey Mills in Series 72...
...and just under a year later in Championship of Champions XIV.
Tracey Mills (fifth left) with the other contestants and the team, during her appearance in Series 47.

Tracey Mills was a contestant in Series 47, an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 72, and a participant in Championship of Champions XIV. She has appeared in the Countdown audience numerous times as the conundrum solver and owns seven Countdown mugs, probably more than anyone else. She is also an Apterite.

Appearances on the programme

Heat games

After narrowly losing in her first appearance in January 2002, Mills returned for her second debut thirteen years later as part of Series 72. Despite falling behind against fellow Apterite Neil Stephenson, she found FEATURING later on to secure a century. Five more centuries followed in her octorun, including in her ninth overall game against Wendy Cooke where she held her opponent to the lowest ever 15-round score on the show at the time.

Finals

Mills entered the finals as the No. 3 seed and despite a nervous start to her quarter-final, she defeated Jordan Barker which included her impressive spot of MINIATURE. In her semi-final, she proved too strong for No. 2 seed Gerry Tynan to set up a clash with No. 1 seed Tom Cappleman. Despite taking an early lead with BEACONS, Mills fell behind after the first numbers round. While keeping Cappleman in her sights, she was unable to force a crucial conundrum and finalised as the series runner-up.

Championship of Champions XIV

Mills returned in January 2016 for Championship of Champions XIV. In the first round, she was given a tough draw against Dylan Taylor. Here, Mills demonstrated excellent knowledge in a tough mix of letters and numbers rounds. But she made the two unfortunate offerings with iodcrase ☓ and servuga ☓, as both of which were very slight misspellings of valid words spotted by Taylor and Dictionary Corner. The Series 69 runner-up went on to score in every round and emerge the victor by 120 – 73.

Co-events

Mills made her Co-event debut at COHUD and CoChest2 in 2012. She competed in the 2018 FOCAL finals as the No. 3 seed and finished in seventh place, winning two out of seven games.

Appearances on quiz shows

In 2003, Mills participated in the final series of Fifteen to One of the William G Stewart era. She also appeared on BrainTeaser on Channel 5, and on TV Scrabble on Challenge.

Preceded by
Antoinette Ryan		 Series runner-up
Series 72		 Followed by
Matthew Tassier

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
3165 11/01/2002 P Jeremy Slaney 81 – 77 Tracey Mills Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Don Black Richard Samson 137
6069 21/01/2015 P Neil Stephenson 83 – 104 Tracey Mills Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Wonnacott Susie Dent 133
6070 22/01/2015 P Tracey Mills 101 – 25 Sean Chenery Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Wonnacott Susie Dent 142
6071 23/01/2015 P Tracey Mills 97 – 37 Keith Taylor Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Tim Wonnacott Susie Dent 121
6072 26/01/2015 P Tracey Mills 109 – 59 Mickie Wynne-Davies Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Helen Skelton Susie Dent 146
6073 27/01/2015 P Tracey Mills 107 – 69 Gary Coroner Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Helen Skelton Susie Dent 121
6074 28/01/2015 P Tracey Mills 116 – 58 Daniel Rhymer Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Helen Skelton Susie Dent 127
6075 29/01/2015 P Tracey Mills 98 – 77 Martin McConachie Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Helen Skelton Susie Dent 119
6076 30/01/2015 P Tracey Mills 104 – 6 Wendy Cooke Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Helen Skelton Susie Dent 122
6152 8/06/2015 QF Tracey Mills 99 – 66 Jordan Barker Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jo Brand Susie Dent 158
6155 11/06/2015 SF Gerry Tynan 89 – 101 Tracey Mills Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jo Brand Susie Dent 124
6156 12/06/2015 GF Tom Cappleman 107 – 89 Tracey Mills Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Jo Brand Susie Dent 126
6281 7/01/2016 CP Dylan Taylor 120 – 73 Tracey Mills Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Gloria Hunniford Susie Dent 124
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