[[Image:CTC25.jpg|thumb|Conor in the [[Episode 4473|25th Anniversary Episode]].]]
'''Trevor Montague''' was a [[contestant]] in [[Series 38]].
[[Image:CT30BC.jpg|thumb|Conor in the [[30th Birthday Championship]].]]
'''Conor Travers''' was an [[octochamp]] in and the champion of [[Series 54]], a semi-finalist in [[Championship of Champions XII]] and the champion of the [[30th Birthday Championship]]. He is the youngest ever series champion, having won at the age of 14, and is one of the most popular and talented contestants in the show's history.
Travers was originally planned to make his début in the first episode of Series 54, but due to illness his appearance was pushed back by several days and he instead began his run on 23 November 2005 against [[Ray Oakley]]. He won his first game with a score of 99 after solving the conundrum in half a second, followed by 111 against [[John Archer]] and 99 against [[Geoff Alderman]]. His remaining 5 games were all [[century|centuries]], with a top score of 124 and a low score of 111. During his run he beat [[Series 73]] finalist [[Judy Bursford]]. His [[octochamp]] total was 890.
He is most famous as the man who appeared on ''Fifteen-to-One'' using a fake ID, and after winning a series using his real name, had his first prize confiscated by [[William G Stewart|William G. Stewart]]. He has also appeared on many other game shows.
He returned to Countdown in May 2006 as number 1 seed. He beat [[Daniel Peake]] by 69 points in the quarter-final, [[Paul Howe]] by 24 points in the semi-final before meeting [[Matthew Shore]] in the series final. There he won narrowly {{score|98|83}} to become the youngest ever series champion, at 14 years old. He also holds the record for winning the longest series, as the series started the previous year due to the death of [[Richard Whiteley]], which delayed the start of the series being filmed. In total, 153 episodes were filmed, the most ever for one series. Travers was the first to be crowned with [[Des Lynam]] as a presenter.
One week later, he returned for [[Championship of Champions XII|CofC XII]] beating [[John Hunt (Series 52)|John Hunt]] and [[John Brackstone]] in the first two rounds. Considered one of the favourites after his 890 aggregate as an octochamp (the sixth highest ever), he lost {{score|118|102}} to the eventual winner [[Paul Gallen]] in the semi-final (on a crucial [[conundrum]]). In 14 games, Travers' lowest score was 98 and his average was 110.4 points per game.
Since losing to Paul Gallen, he appeared on [[Countdown]]'s 25th anniversary [[Episode 4473|special]] against [[Chris Wills]] and won the game {{score|69|58}}. He then started playing Countdown online again and spent some time in the #1 position on [[Apterous]], and until recently had the highest ever score of 161.
He returned to Countdown in 2013, as one of 41 contestants taking part in the [[30th Birthday Championship]]. He won his first match against [[Series 46]] champion [[Ben Wilson]], then beat [[Series 52]] champion [[Mark Tournoff]], just missing one maximum in the whole game. His next match saw him go one better, as he scored a perfect 119 against [[Series 28]] quarter-finalist and [[Scrabble]] expert [[Chris Hawkins]]. He then defeated the [[Series 60]] champion [[Kirk Bevins]] in the quarter-final, again scoring a perfect 119 points. He then took on the [[Series 53]] semi-finalist [[Jon O'Neill]] in the semi-final, being held in place for all the game, before eventually breaking clear by solving the conundrum {{word|INFIGHTER}} to achieve a 3rd consecutive perfect game, this time with 120 points.
The [[Episode 5654|grand final]] of the championships took place on 1 March, when Travers played the [[Series 63]] champion [[Jack Hurst]]. Travers took an early lead in round 3, when he spotted the [[niner]] {{word|PONYTAILS}}, and the only points he dropped from thereon were the 3 for not reaching the target in the first numbers game. Hurst's challenge ended when he missed {{word|POMADES}} in round 13, leaving Travers to max the final 2 rounds to equal the highest ever score in the show's history with 146, a feat achieved by [[Julian Fell]] over 10 years earlier in the [[Series 48]] [[Episode 3387|semi-final]].
Travers is still interested in Countdown, and regularly participates in unofficial Countdown tournaments. His first was [[COLIN 2005]], followed by [[COLIN 2006]], [[CoBris 2006]] and [[CoLei3]]. He won [[COLIN 2008]] and [[CoBris 2005]], and came 2nd in [[CoBris 2007]]. He finished runner-up in COLIN 2017 where he was beaten in a crucial conundrum by fellow [[Apterite]] [[Dylan Taylor]].
Travers has the record for highest total score in any number of appearances, having scored 2,279 cumulative points in 20 appearances. However, [[Jon Richardson]] claims to have broken this record over several series of ''[[:Category:Episodes presented by Jimmy Carr|8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]'', following [[8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Series 5, Episode 3|a game]] where he scored 890 due to a conundrum worth 834 points.
He is most famous as the man who appeared on Fifteen-to-One using a fake ID, and after winning a series using his real name, had his first prize confiscated by William G. Stewart. He has also appeared on many other game shows.
