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Craig Beevers

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Craig Beevers playing Scrabble.

Craig Beevers is champion of Series 57. He is the second contestant ever to score eight centuries in heat games, the first being Julian Fell in Series 48. He scored 907 points, which works out as 113 points a game. He beat Mikey Lear in the quarter-final and David Edwards in the semi-final. The final was a close game, but turned out not to be a classic. Craif beat Jeffrey with AMMONITE and SNIFTER which gave him a 15-point lead after 5 rounds. He only beat Jeffrey in one other letters game, OUTRANGE from ANOGRETPU where Jeffrey only had a seven. In round 14, the final number game Jeffrey declared nothing and Craig took the ten points for himself. Up to this point, Craig had scored 105 from a possible 108 points with all maximums on the letters. The conundrum RULEAGAIN revealed itself but it was Jeffrey who buzzed in straight away to score 10 points, and narrow the winning margin to 105-82. Craig dropped 13 points - three from the first numbers game and ten from the conundrum. His total points score in 11 games was 1236, which works out as 112.4 points per game. This compares with 1307 points for Julian Fell.

Away from Countdown, Craig is a member of the Association of British Scrabble Players, and has been the Cleveland club Scrabble champion on three occasions.


Preceded by
Nick Wainwright
Series winner
Series 57

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
4465 23/10/2007 P Baz Hunt 48 – 108 Craig Beevers Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Barry Norman Susie Dent
4466 24/10/2007 P Craig Beevers 109 – 24 Thomas Baldwin Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Barry Norman Susie Dent
4467 25/10/2007 P Craig Beevers 103 – 33 Chris Bibby Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Barry Norman Susie Dent
4468 26/10/2007 P Craig Beevers 128 – 36 Peter Watts Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Barry Norman Susie Dent
4469 29/10/2007 P Craig Beevers 104 – 70 Martin Larter Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Paul Zenon Susie Dent
4470 30/10/2007 P Craig Beevers 118 – 71 Stuart Hamilton Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Paul Zenon Susie Dent
4471 31/10/2007 P Craig Beevers 120 – 57 Allan Millington Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Paul Zenon Susie Dent
4472 1/11/2007 P Craig Beevers 117 – 40 Shemina Kirby Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Paul Zenon Susie Dent
4502 13/12/2007 QF Mikey Lear 69 – 106 Craig Beevers Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Henry Blofeld Alison Heard
4506 19/12/2007 SF David Edwards 60 – 118 Craig Beevers Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Pam Ayres Alison Heard
4508 21/12/2007 F Craig Beevers 105 – 82 Jeffrey Hansford Des O'Connor Carol Vorderman Pam Ayres Alison Heard