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Adam Latchford

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Adam Latchford
Octochamp Statistics
Final position
Seeding3
Points total732
Conundrums solved7 (+1 tiebreak)
Adam Latchford in Series 83.
Adam Latchford holding the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy after winning Series 83.

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 Grand Final – Nick Hewer's last show as presenter – Latchford held his nerve and immediately led 6 – 0 ater Boynton had pawless ☓ disallowed in the first letters round. Boynton then appeared to crumble under pressure, choosing 4 large and missing a low target which Latchford hit. Latchford won two more letters rounds, and he only lost one letters round throughout the game. Latchford beat Boynton in the last numbers round prior to the conundrum WASNOMORE, which Boynton solved, and Latchford lifted the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy at the end of the show after winning 86 – 101. He is also the last recipient of the Oxford English Dictionaries.

With a total of 1,014 points – an average of 92.18 per game – Latchford has the lowest cumulative series point total for a champion of a 15-round series (Series 46 notwithstanding as only a maximum of 6 preliminary wins were allowed then).

Preceded by
Luke Johnson-Davies
Series winner
Series 83


Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
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
* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum