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Dinos Sfyris
Dinos Sfyris octochamp statistics | |
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Final position | Champion |
Seeding | 2 |
Points total | 918 |
Conundrums solved | 7 |
Konstadinos "Dinos" Sfyris was a contestant in Series 57 and an octochamp in and the champion of 80. As of his second run on the show, he is a Maths Tutor from Rotherham. He has also been an Apterite since 2008.
Sfyris first appeared on Countdown as a teenager on 11 October 2007, winning three heat games in Series 57 before losing his fourth by just 2 points. He later returned to the Countdown world for the unofficial COLIN 2008 tournament. He subsequently appeared at CoNot 2008, CoLei 2008, COLIN 2009, CoLei2, COLIN 2010, CoLei Summer Special, CoLei3, Co:Lon 2011, COLIN 2012 and was the winner of CoNot 2009.
On both 16 December 2009, during a semi-final, and 15 March 2010 during a special, Sfyris was seen on the show again, as the audience member who solved the conundrum when neither contestant could get it. He then played in a special episode on 2 August 2010, where he beat Series 59 octochamp Kai Laddiman, this time appearing as Dinos as opposed to Konstadinos.
Sfyris has also taken part in various quiz shows: he appeared on The Weakest Link in 2009, followed by an appearance on The Krypton Factor on 2 February 2010 in which he shone in the Mental Agility round. One year later, he appeared on The Chase and Pointless, and then in January 2015 appeared on Tipping Point followed by an appearance on Two Tribes later that same year. His next TV apperance was The Boss on BBC One in 2018.
Sfyris reappeared on Countdown in 2019 in Series 80, hitting the ground running with a debut score of 117 points and defeating his rival David Ellis by close to a hundred points. He then followed this with 7 more sensational victories with six centuries and two scores in the 90s, garnering an aggregate score of 918 points. He spotted impressive nine-letter words such as AMORTISES, DIAPERING, ERECTIONS, and PINAFORES during his run.
As a result of his impressive run, he became the second octochamp of Series 80 and returned in June for the series finals as the number 2 seed. In his quarter-final, he dispatched fellow Series 57 returnee Sandra Pilson, with further 9-letter finds of PROACTIVE and FARMHOUSE helping him to a 118-point total. He then advanced to the semi-finals, facing fellow Apterite Brendan Whitehurst. Despite going wrong in the second numbers, he won 103 - 78 and solved the very difficult conundrum RIPUPROOT. This set up a grand final match between him and multi-record-breaking octochamp and fellow Apterite Elliott Mellor, Countdown’s first contestant to accumulate over 1,000 points across eight heats.
After Mellor discounted FILATURES in round 1, Sfyris took the lead with a very difficult six small solve in round 3. He then lost the subsequent letters round by Mellor’s COALISED, but quickly cancelled the damage out by spotting TREASURE in a 5-vowel selection. He extended his gap to 17 with GOATISH, but his lead shrunk to 10 ahead once again when his gamble of forestudy x backfired. His lead held on until a crucial conundrum solve won him the title of Series 80 Champion and twenty volumes of the OED, and was presented the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy. Clips of his Grand Final game were shown on Celebrity Gogglebox on 5 July 2019.
Preceded by Mike Daysley |
Series winner Series 80 |
Followed by James Haughton |
Episodes
# | Date | Type | Contestant 1 | Score | Contestant 2 | Presenters | Guest | Lex | Max | |||
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4457 | 11/10/2007 | P | John Scott | 57 – 99 | Konstadinos Sfyris | Des O'Connor | Carol Vorderman | Rick Wakeman | Susie Dent | 121 | ||
4458 | 12/10/2007 | P | Konstadinos Sfyris | 86 – 42 | Georgina Parkinson | Des O'Connor | Carol Vorderman | Rick Wakeman | Susie Dent | 115 | ||
4459 | 15/10/2007 | P | Konstadinos Sfyris | 87 – 48 | Marianne Rowntree | Des O'Connor | Carol Vorderman | Johnny Ball | Susie Dent | 122 | ||
4460 | 16/10/2007 | P | Konstadinos Sfyris | 76 – 78 | Dorian Lidell | Des O'Connor | Carol Vorderman | Johnny Ball | Susie Dent | 120 | ||
S28 | 2/08/2010 | S | Kai Laddiman | 84 – 90 | Dinos Sfyris | Jeff Stelling | Rachel Riley | Gary Osborne | Susie Dent | 141 | ||
7017 | 22/02/2019 | P | David Ellis | 23 – 117 | Dinos Sfyris | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Tanni Grey-Thompson | Susie Dent | 135 | ||
7018 | 25/02/2019 | P | Dinos Sfyris | 92 – 25 | Martin Rose | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Tanni Grey-Thompson | Susie Dent | 132 | ||
7019 | 26/02/2019 | P | Dinos Sfyris | 130 – 44 | Dennis Miller | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Tanni Grey-Thompson | Susie Dent | 133 | ||
7020 | 27/02/2019 | P | Dinos Sfyris | 137 – 75 | Jamie Barron | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Michael Whitehall | Susie Dent | 142 | ||
7021 | 28/02/2019 | P | Dinos Sfyris | 98 – 56 | Jake Pacifico | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Michael Whitehall | Susie Dent | 143 | ||
7022 | 1/03/2019 | P | Dinos Sfyris | 120 – 39 | Darren Smith | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Michael Whitehall | Susie Dent | 124 | ||
7023 | 4/03/2019 | P | Dinos Sfyris | 119 – 18 | Pauline Collard | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Michael Whitehall | Susie Dent | 147 | ||
7024 | 5/03/2019 | P | Dinos Sfyris | 105 – 32 | Joe Harrington | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Michael Whitehall | Susie Dent | 135 | ||
7102 | 21/06/2019 | QF | Dinos Sfyris | 118 – 71 | Sandra Pilson | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Rufus Hound | Susie Dent | 147 | ||
7106 | 27/06/2019 | SF | Dinos Sfyris | 103 – 78 | Brendan Whitehurst | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Richard Arnold | Susie Dent | 123 | ||
7107 | 28/06/2019 | GF | Elliott Mellor | 83 – 103 | Dinos Sfyris | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Richard Arnold | Susie Dent | 131 |