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Revision as of 19:08, 10 January 2023
Dan Byrom octochamp statistics | |
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Final position | Champion |
Seeding | 1 |
Points total | 967 |
Conundrums solved | 4 |
Dan Byrom was an octochamp in and the champion of Series 85, the third octochamp to be crowned in under five weeks. A member of Apterous from Sheffield, he was a gap year student, part-time tutor and Business Development assistant for his father's audiology firm at the time of his Series 85 games. At the time of his Championship of Champions XVI appearances, he was a PhD Student at the University of Warwick.
Appearances on the programme
Byrom made his TV debut on 6 November 2017 as the audience member who solved the conundrum after a failed attempt from both contestants.
When he himself became a contestant on 27 January 2022, he scored 140 points – the highest ever debut score in Countdown history. In his second game, he maxed the first 14 rounds, but his opponent Dave Root prevented him from achieving only the 12th ever max game by solving the conundrum. Byrom equalled his personal best of 140 in his fifth game, before seeing off stiff competition against fellow Apterite Gabriel Thallon in his sixth. Byrom completed his run of 8 games undefeated, all with centuries, and climbed to the top of the seed table with 967 points – a total shared with Zarte Siempre.
Maintaining his No. 1 position in the seed table, Byrom comfortably won his quarter-final match against five-time winner Craig Fawcett by a 79-point margin. His semi-final affair against Ryan Carlsen was much closer: both players matched each other in all 10 letters games, and Byrom found himself seven points down after losing the third numbers round. Crucially, though, he turned ISNOMERCY into CRONEYISM to march on to the Grand Final against No. 2 seed Matt O'Connor.
In a very close and nail-biting Final, it was O'Connor who came off the blocks first with OCTOPINE to lead Byrom eight points to zero. However, Byrom took a large chunk of points off the opposition by solving a six-small numbers game in Round 3, followed by a brilliant nine in EMPAESTIC to establish a 20-point advantage. In the third numbers round, Byrom declared 2 away from the target, however his maths method was actually revealed to be the desired target of 684. The gap swung back and forth many times from then on but, after both players missed the final numbers target by one, Byrom – by a mere three points in the end – clinched the title, with his final points total across his 11 games being 1,251 points.
Byrom will return to the programme in January 2023 to participate in Championship of Champions XVI. He will take on fellow Series 85 finalist Steve Hyde.
ZoomDown
Prior to his Countdown debut, Byrom participated in Series 1, Series 2 and Series 4 of ZoomDown.
Preceded by Ahmed Mohamed |
Series winner Series 85 |
Followed by Tom Stevenson |
Episodes
# | Date | Type | Contestant 1 | Score | Contestant 2 | Presenters | Guest | Lex | Max | |||
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7685 | 27/01/2022 | P | Crispin Salfarlie | 41 – 140 | Dan Byrom | Anne Robinson | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon | Ruby Wax | Susie Dent | 153 | ||
7686 | 28/01/2022 | P | Dan Byrom | 123 – 74 | Dave Root | Anne Robinson | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon | Ruby Wax | Susie Dent | 133 | ||
7687 | 31/01/2022 | P | Dan Byrom | 117 – 54 | Joe Slade | Anne Robinson | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon | Ruby Wax | Susie Dent | 150 | ||
7688 | 01/02/2022 | P | Dan Byrom | 121 – 50 | Heather Marsh | Anne Robinson | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon | Tim Vine | Susie Dent | 134 | ||
7689 | 02/02/2022 | P | Dan Byrom | 140 – 59 | Stuart Fenwick | Anne Robinson | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon | Tim Vine | Susie Dent | 143 | ||
7690 | 03/02/2022 | P | Dan Byrom | 108 – 87 | Gabriel Thallon | Anne Robinson | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon | Tim Vine | Susie Dent | 125 | ||
7691 | 04/02/2022 | P | Dan Byrom | 114 – 32 | David Moseby | Anne Robinson | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon | Tim Vine | Susie Dent | 129 | ||
7692 | 07/02/2022 | P | Dan Byrom | 104 – 40 | Iain Andrews | Anne Robinson | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon | Tim Vine | Susie Dent | 146 | ||
7780 | 09/06/2022 | QF | Dan Byrom | 106 – 27 | Craig Fawcett | Anne Robinson | Rachel Riley | Jay Rayner | 124 | |||
7784 | 15/06/2022 | SF | Dan Byrom | 97 – 94 | Ryan Carlsen | Anne Robinson | Rachel Riley | Jay Rayner | 120 | |||
7786 | 17/06/2022 | GF | Dan Byrom | 81 – 78 | Matt O'Connor | Anne Robinson | Rachel Riley | Robert Rinder | 136 | |||
7928 | 10/01/2023 | CP | Steve Hyde | 70 – 108 | Dan Byrom | Colin Murray | Rachel Riley | Heather Small | Susie Dent | 135 |