Rob Foster

Rob Foster is an apterite.

He has not appeared on Countdown as a contestant, although he has attended a number of Countdown tournaments. In winning the CoNot 2011 tournament, he became the first winner of a tournament not to have appeared previously as a contestant on television. He achieved a second tournament win in 2015 when he took the Co:KL title.

In 2017, he won Countdown in Reading 2017, defeating Graeme Cole in the final, and won again in 2019, beating Thomas Cappleman in the final.

With 12 co-event wins, he is second only to Jack Worsley.

He holds the record for the highest ever score (177) in a 15-round game on Apterous. https://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=2643248