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Adam Latchford
Adam Latchford Octochamp Statistics | |
Final position | — |
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Seeding | 3 |
Points total | 732 |
Conundrums solved | 7 (+1 tiebreak) |
Adam Latchford was a octochamp in and the champion Series 83. He's an Accounts Assistant who lives in London, but is originally from Bolton. He became an Apterite after recording his heat games.
Latchford first appeared on 1 February 2021 against Conor Morgan, winning the game on a tie-break conundrum with 82 points. From here, he continued an unbeaten run of 7 more wins, including a personal best of 115 points. In his seventh game, he was three points behind at the crucial conundrum against Arran Smith, but after Smith buzzed in with an incorrect guess, Latchford buzzed in with half a second left with TARANTULA to win. Ultimately, he became the second octochamp of the series with a total of 732 points.
Latchford returned for the finals in June as No. 3 seed, despite officially having 6 points fewer than No. 4 seed Louis Ross. Latchford's practice on Apterous clearly paid dividends, as he took a dominant victory in the third quarter-final over No.6 seed Declan McGurk without losing a round. He next squared off against No. 2 seed James Burley in the second semi-final, and achieved a seeding "upset" by building a good lead early on and winning by 17 points to advance to the Grand Final against top-seeded prospect Luke Boynton.
In the final, Latchford nicked the lead after beating Luke on the first numbers game, after matching the two letter rounds. From here, Latchford held onto the lead while Boynton managed to catch up and, as a last consolation, solved the conundrum. Latchford, however, won the series with 101 to Boynton's 86 to become the last champion under Nick Hewer, and was given the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy. He amassed an overall score of 1,014 points in his run and thus remains unbeaten.
Preceded by Luke Johnson-Davies |
Series winner Series 83 |
Episodes
# | Date | Type | Contestant 1 | Score | Contestant 2 | Presenters | Guest | Lex | Max | |||
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7434 | 1/02/2021 | P | Conor Morgan | 72 – 82* | Adam Latchford | Colin Murray | Rachel Riley | Adrian Chiles | Susie Dent | 137 | ||
7435 | 2/02/2021 | P | Adam Latchford | 87 – 49 | Aneesh Aggarwal | Colin Murray | Rachel Riley | Adrian Chiles | Susie Dent | 121 | ||
7436 | 3/02/2021 | P | Adam Latchford | 115 – 51 | Jacky Treacy | Colin Murray | Rachel Riley | Jenny Eclair | Susie Dent | 148 | ||
7437 | 4/02/2021 | P | Adam Latchford | 95 – 56 | Chiedza Mutongwizo | Colin Murray | Rachel Riley | Jenny Eclair | Susie Dent | 126 | ||
7438 | 5/02/2021 | P | Adam Latchford | 96 – 40 | Charles Biggs | Colin Murray | Rachel Riley | Jenny Eclair | Susie Dent | 122 | ||
7439 | 8/02/2021 | P | Adam Latchford | 100 – 62 | Louis Moen | Colin Murray | Rachel Riley | Jenny Eclair | Susie Dent | 123 | ||
7440 | 9/02/2021 | P | Adam Latchford | 82 – 75 | Arran Smith | Colin Murray | Rachel Riley | Jenny Eclair | Susie Dent | 155 | ||
7441 | 10/02/2021 | P | Adam Latchford | 85 – 70 | Jeremy Bradley | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Pasha Kovalev | Susie Dent | 145 | ||
7534 | 21/06/2021 | QF | Adam Latchford | 99 – 40 | Declan McGurk | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Rufus Hound | Susie Dent | 137 | ||
7537 | 24/06/2021 | SF | James Burley | 65 – 82 | Adam Latchford | Nick Hewer | Rachel Riley | Rufus Hound | Susie Dent | 118 |