Carl Williams

Carl Williams

Carl Williams was an octochamp and runner-up of Series 65.

After winning 8 shows including solving the controversially solving the conundrum in his 2nd game with a quarter of a second to go, he returned to the finals in December 2011 as the #4 seed.

After sweeping aside the #5 seed, Jayne Wisniewski in his quarter-final, he caused a major upset by knocking out the #1 seed, Mark Deeks on a crucial in his semi-final, before playing #2 seed, Graeme Cole in the final.

In a tense game, which went back and forth, Williams was 10 points behind going into the conundrum, but solved TIMEUPLAD with 4 seconds to go, to set up a 2nd one, but Cole was too quick for him, unravelling VAANGELIS in 2.5 seconds to become the Series 65 champion.

Preceded by Adam Gillard

Series runner-up Series 65

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
5325	6/09/2011	P	Russell Tompkins	79 – 96	Carl Williams	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Susie Dent	115
5326	7/09/2011	P	Carl Williams	72 – 63	Jeff Probst	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Susie Dent	121
5327	8/09/2011	P	Carl Williams	116 – 43	Beth Tafat	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Susie Dent	139
5328	9/09/2011	P	Carl Williams	84 – 57	Stefan Clarke	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Susie Dent	132
5329	12/09/2011	P	Carl Williams	62 – 59	Campbell Ure	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Zenon	Susie Dent	115
5330	13/09/2011	P	Carl Williams	96 – 54	Janet Beavis	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Zenon	Susie Dent	140
5331	14/09/2011	P	Carl Williams	94 – 45	Peter Austin	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Zenon	Susie Dent	130
5332	15/09/2011	P	Carl Williams	88 – 85	Jayshree Patel	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Paul Zenon	Susie Dent	116
5395	13/12/2011	QF	Jayne Wisniewski	64 – 98	Carl Williams	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	132
5396	14/12/2011	SF	Carl Williams	95 – 81	Mark Deeks	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	119
5398	16/12/2011	GF	Carl Williams	95 – 105*	Graeme Cole	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Jon Culshaw	Susie Dent	125

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum