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Bradley Horrocks
Bradley Horrocks was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 77. He is also an Apterite.
Bra, as he is known on Apterous, amassed 864 points during his run, finishing his unbeaten streak during the penultimate week of preliminaries in Series 77 to qualify as the #2 seed for the finals as well as the eighth and final octochamp of the series.
Eleven days later, Horrocks returned for the finals stage, where he first prevailed over #7-ranked James Kennedy in a very close quarter-final, sealing victory on a crucial conundrum. Barely a week after that, he returned for the semi-finals where he faced the "strong 6 small" man John Cowen. In spite of this, he managed to defeat him through several letters round by spotting words such as OVERFIT, RETINOID and SIDEWAY. Finally, the day after his semi-final, he reached the grand final of Series 77, where he took on #1 seed Tom Chafer-Cook. In the first round, he beat Chafer-Cook with the five-letter GREED after the latter had a word disallowed, and he kept up tenaciously with the top seed in all numbers and most letters rounds thereafter to force a crucial conundrum with the score standing 100 – 91 in Chafer-Cook's favour. However, neither contestant was able to spot that RILEYISMS unscrambled to MISSILERY within the allotted time, meaning that Horrocks finally fell at the final hurdle but still finished as runner-up of a very strong series.
Prior to his début as a contestant, Horrocks had appeared on Countdown during the previous series as the audience member who unscrambled the conundrum COOLCIDER on 23 February 2017.
Preceded by Moose Rosser |
Series runner-up Series 77 |
Episodes
# | Date | Type | Contestant 1 | Score | Contestant 2 | Presenters | Guest | Lex | Max | |||
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6715 | 22/11/2017 | P | Bradley Horrocks | 109 – 40 | Liam Dwek | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Gyles Brandreth | Susie Dent | 124 | ||
6716 | 23/11/2017 | P | Bradley Horrocks | 113 – 57 | Peter Buckley | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Dr Linda Papadopoulos | Susie Dent | 122 | ||
6717 | 27/11/2017 | P | Bradley Horrocks | 116 – 49 | Alenka Butkovicova | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Dr Linda Papadopoulos | Susie Dent | 124 | ||
6718 | 28/11/2017 | P | Bradley Horrocks | 82 – 70 | Laurie Dyer | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Dr Linda Papadopoulos | Susie Dent | 124 | ||
6719 | 29/11/2017 | P | Bradley Horrocks | 102 – 68 | Steve Harris | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Dr Linda Papadopoulos | Susie Dent | 133 | ||
6720 | 30/11/2017 | P | Bradley Horrocks | 122 – 42 | Leah Holroyd | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Dr Linda Papadopoulos | Susie Dent | 164 | ||
6721 | 1/12/2017 | P | Bradley Horrocks | 111 – 37 | Jason Hill | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Richard Madeley | Susie Dent | 144 | ||
6722 | 4/12/2017 | P | Bradley Horrocks | 109 – 40 | Luke O'Reilly | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Richard Madeley | Susie Dent | 147 | ||
6731 | 15/12/2017 | QF | Bradley Horrocks | 86 – 80 | James Kennedy | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Paul Zenon | Susie Dent | 121 | ||
6735 | 21/12/2017 | SF | Bradley Horrocks | 95 – 83 | John Cowen | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Rufus Hound | Susie Dent | 134 | ||
6736 | 22/12/2017 | GF | Tom Chafer-Cook | 100 – 91 | Bradley Horrocks | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Rufus Hound | Susie Dent | 122 |