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May's Featured Article Martin Gardner was an octochamp and semi-finalist in Series 49. Before appearing as a contestant on the show, Gardner had a prominent presence in the online Countdown community; he organised Countdown Advance (the forerunner to Hypercountdown on the Gevincountdown web forum, served as a moderator on this website, and ran the now-defunct Countdown fan site Countdown Update UK. After finding the address to send off for an application form on Ben Wilson's website, he applied for the televised show and was invited to an audition at the end of 2002. Although he failed his audition, Gardner was invited to the studios as a replacement contestant after John Davies became an octochamp, leaving one seat vacated on 14 May 2003. In this opening game Gardner achieved his highest televised score of 107, with offerings including the eight-letter words ATOMISER and ACONITES; Martin found no nine-letter words during his appearances on the show. Seven more victories followed, including three further centuries. Gardner returned to the series finals as #2 seed behind Davies, his forerunner in the heats. In his quarter-final, the eight letter word POTHEADS and conundrum SCOOPGREY helped Gardner to convincingly defeat Peter Jeffery by 101 points to 64. He faced David Wilson in the semi-final and went ahead after three rounds courtesy of the seven-letter word UPRATED. However, he was pegged back in the next round with MORGUES. Thereafter, David scored in every round apart from the conundrum and won the game 98-86. (more...) More Featured Articles... Did you know... Nominate an article Today in Countdown History edit  2024: Alex Call beat Mark Summersmith with scores of 116 – 45. 2023: Lorraine Conway beat Talaha Modak with scores of 61 – 59. 2020: Rhyl Jones beat Archana Desurkar with a score of 86 – 67. 2019: Sarah Delap beat Hattie Wright, by a score of 76 – 56. 2018: Dave Ashton beat David O'Neill in a 82 – 62 game. 2017: Sarah Holey beat Tony Enright with scores of 95 – 79. 2013: Natalie Corriette beat Sam Felda with final score 84 – 49. 2009: Bob De Caux beat Alex Richards in a game that ended 88 – 60. 2008: Mike Lambert beat Paul Norton with a score of 75 – 41. 2007: Natalie Underwood beat Gay Black, scoring 81 – 65. 2006: Richard Brittain beat Sarah Duncan, by a score of 116 – 67. 2003: Linda Dawe beat Melanie Beaumont in a special episode. 2002: Bryan Thirkell beat Priscilla Munday in a 82 – 78 game. 2001: Geraldine Hylands beat Geoff Clarke with a final score of 36 – 22. 2000: Sybil Thomson beat Anthony Smith with scores of 46 – 30. 1998: Kate Ogilvie beat Neil Doherty in a game that ended 48 – 42. 1997: Bhavin Manek beat Alf Berry with a score of 51 – 39. 1996: Mark Tripp beat Bella Wilson, scoring 45 – 23. 1995: Chris Colsmann beat Maggie Desogus with final score 61 – 51. 1992: Alan Payne beat Tom Martland, by a score of 42 – 30. 1991: Barbara Kent beat Tamsin Rawlins with scores of 53 – 37. 1990: Billy Ward beat Maureen Pollard in a 34 – 31 game. 1990: Tony Vick played Stephen Deakin in the second leg of a Countdown Masters game. 1989: Margaret Budden beat Patrick Lindfield in a game that ended 58 – 30. 1989: John Widdowson played Vicki McCarthy in the first leg of a Countdown Masters game.

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