Jamie Wing

Jamie Wing octochamp statistics
Final position	Runner-up
Seeding	2
Points total	899
Conundrums solved	6 (+1 tiebreak)

Jamie Wing during his eighth game.

Jamie Wing was an octochamp in and the runner-up of Series 81. He was a Sixth Form Student from Godalming, Surrey. He is also an Apterite.

Aged 17 at the time of broadcasts, Wing made his debut on 22 November 2019 against six-time winner and fellow Apterite Paul Anderson and won the game on a tiebreak conundrum. He then put in seven sensational performances with six centuries. He wrapped up his heat run with 899 points (just one point short of joining the 900 club) to become an octochamp — the last of a record nine to become in a series. He also became the second octochamp following Toby McDonald in Series 78, that was born in the 21st century.

Ten days later, Wing returned for the series finals and started his finals run against No. 7 seed Tom Silverlock. Wing proved unstoppable here by scoring in every letters and numbers round, and pulling away with a very good six-small solve plus a spot of ROUTINISE. His only no-score occurred in the conundrum that Silverlock beat him to, but a strong 121 points booked Wing a place in the semi-finals. He next squared off against Paul Nixon, the No. 3 seed; though the game's score was dead level from the first break straight up to before the final letters, PACEMEN and a one-away solve on a complex six-small selection meant that Wing avoided a crucial conundrum and confirmed a finals spot against No. 1 seed James Haughton.

In the final, Wing played close to Haughton. They levelled in the first two letters rounds until Haughton nicked the lead with the first numbers round. Wing stayed close to Haughton throughout the game until it was game over by an easy last numbers round. But as a last consolation, he unscrambled TREATRASH to EARTHSTAR to finish in the runner-up position with 95 points. Wing amassed 1,206 points in his run.

He did not participate in Championship of Champions XVI, thus preserving his record of ten wins out of eleven. But he permanently stands as the first ever series runner-up that was born in the 21st century.

Preceded by Elliott Mellor

Series runner-up Series 81

Followed by Sam Cappleman-Lynes

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
7211	22/11/2019	P	Paul Anderson	90 – 100*	Jamie Wing	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tanni Grey-Thompson	Susie Dent	134
7212	25/11/2019	P	Jamie Wing	117 – 23	Sharif Dougramaji	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tanni Grey-Thompson	Susie Dent	126
7213	26/11/2019	P	Jamie Wing	114 – 53	Greg Folgate	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tanni Grey-Thompson	Susie Dent	135
7214	27/11/2019	P	Jamie Wing	120 – 62	Peter Jackson	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tanni Grey-Thompson	Susie Dent	147
7215	28/11/2019	P	Jamie Wing	118 – 68	Alan Jones	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Hannah Fry	Susie Dent	129
7216	29/11/2019	P	Jamie Wing	122 – 44	Barbara Wylde	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Hannah Fry	Susie Dent	132
7217	2/12/2019	P	Jamie Wing	96 – 53	Joseph Bennett	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Hannah Fry	Susie Dent	138
7218	3/12/2019	P	Jamie Wing	122 – 86	Alex Stuart	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Hannah Fry	Susie Dent	148
7226	13/12/2019	QF	Jamie Wing	121 – 78	Tom Silverlock	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	146
7230	19/12/2019	SF	Jamie Wing	91 – 77	Paul Nixon	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tim Vine	Susie Dent	125
7231	20/12/2019	GF	James Haughton	110 – 95	Jamie Wing	Nick Hewer	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Tim Vine	Susie Dent	125

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum