Moose Rosser - Revision history

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 {{octostats|Runner-up|3|828|6 (+1 tiebreak)}}
 [[File:Moose Rosser.png|thumb|350px|right|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, and retired police officer from Essex who became known as “The Moose” during his time on the show due to his sense of humour.
+'''Moose Rosser''' was an [[octochamp]] in and the runner-up of [[Series 76]]. He is a Welsh/Australian Head of Risk Management, and retired police officer from Essex who became known as “The Moose” during his time on the show due to his sense of humour. He is also one of the few non-[[Apterous|Apterites]] to have made a series final since Apterous was founded.
 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.

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 {{octostats|Runner-up|3|828|6 (+1 tiebreak)}}
 [[File:Moose Rosser.png|thumb|350px|right|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.
+'''Moose Rosser''' was an [[octochamp]] in and the runner-up of [[Series 76]]. He is a Welsh/Australian Head of Risk Management, and retired police officer 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.

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 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 [[letters game|nine-letter word]] {{word|ETHNICIST}} and sneaking through on the unsolved crucial conundrum {{word|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]] {{score|88|84}} by spotting that {{word|LOSTMYCAP}} became {{word|CYTOPLASM}}. Unfortunately, for the Moose, he was outclassed in the [[Episode 6614|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.
+In the quarter-finals, Rosser prevailed over [[Wesley Jardine]] in a very close match, picking out the [[letters game|nine-letter word]] {{word|ETHNICIST}} and sneaking through on the unsolved crucial conundrum {{word|POLICECAR}} (which was appropriate, as 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]] {{score|88|84}} by spotting that {{word|LOSTMYCAP}} became {{word|CYTOPLASM}}. Unfortunately, for the Moose, he was outclassed in the [[Episode 6614|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.
 He did not return for the [[Championship of Champions XV]].

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	In the quarter-finals, Rosser prevailed over [[Wesley Jardine]] in a very close match, picking out the [[letters game\|nine-letter word]] {{word\|ETHNICIST}} and sneaking through on the unsolved crucial conundrum {{word\|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]] {{score\|88\|84}} by spotting that {{word\|LOSTMYCAP}} became {{word\|CYTOPLASM}}. Unfortunately, for the Moose, he was outclassed in the [[Episode 6614\|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.		In the quarter-finals, Rosser prevailed over [[Wesley Jardine]] in a very close match, picking out the [[letters game\|nine-letter word]] {{word\|ETHNICIST}} and sneaking through on the unsolved crucial conundrum {{word\|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]] {{score\|88\|84}} by spotting that {{word\|LOSTMYCAP}} became {{word\|CYTOPLASM}}. Unfortunately, for the Moose, he was outclassed in the [[Episode 6614\|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.
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		+	He did not return for the [[Championship of Champions XV]].

	{{series runner-up\|preceded_by=Andrew Macleod\|followed_by=Bradley Horrocks\|series=76}}		{{series runner-up\|preceded_by=Andrew Macleod\|followed_by=Bradley Horrocks\|series=76}}

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-{{octostats|Runner-up|3|828|6 (+1 tiebreaker)}}
+{{octostats|Runner-up|3|828|6 (+1 tiebreak)}}
 [[File:Moose Rosser.png|thumb|350px|right|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.

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		+	{{octostats\|Runner-up\|3\|828\|7 (out of 9; 6 excluding tie-breaks)}}
	[[File:Moose Rosser.png\|thumb\|350px\|right\|The Moose in [[Series 76]].]]		[[File:Moose Rosser.png\|thumb\|350px\|right\|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.		'''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.

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 In the quarter-finals, Rosser prevailed over [[Wesley Jardine]] in a very close match, picking out the [[letters game|nine-letter word]] {{word|ETHNICIST}} and sneaking through on the unsolved crucial conundrum {{word|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]] {{score|88|84}} by spotting that {{word|LOSTMYCAP}} became {{word|CYTOPLASM}}. Unfortunately, for the Moose, he was outclassed in the [[Episode 6614|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.
-{{series runner-up|preceded_by=Andrew Macleod|series=76}}
+{{series runner-up|preceded_by=Andrew Macleod|followed_by=Bradley Horrocks|series=76}}
 ==Episodes==