Ned Pendleton

Ned Pendleton octochamp statistics
Final position	Quarter-finalist
Seeding	5
Points total	664
Conundrums solved	1

Ned Pendleton

Ned Pendleton was an octochamp and quarter-finalist in Series 64. He was a travel enthusiast from London. He is also an Apterite and a member of c4countdown.

Pendleton debuted on 17 February 2011 in a game against Mark Jones. Despite having offered invalid words in the first two rounds, a good performance on the numbers (his preferred selection was four large) helped him to a 69 – 62 victory. His next two games were fairly close, but his scores improved and he completed an octochamp run on 28 February, notably also beating Dan McColm, who would become a series champion and CoC runner-up on his return.

Pendleton returned as number five seed for the quarter-finals, meaning that he drew fellow octochamp Andy McGurn. The game was extremely close and the scoreline was dead level going into a crucial conundrum which neither got right. It was ultimately decided on the sudden death conundrum ONIONPIGS, to which Pendleton buzzed in first, but under pressure offered an eight-letter answer. McGurn correctly found POISONING immediately after Pendleton's blunder, meaning that Pendleton suffered his only ever defeat. He also holds the dubious honour of being the first player to ever guess multiple conundrums incorrectly during the same game (outside of the Countdown Masters).

After appearing on the show, he has appeared at many Co-events, making his debut at Co:Lon 2011.

Pendleton has also appeared on Hive Minds as part of the "Lutrophiles" team for four episodes between July and September 2015, making the semi-finals (in the first of these appearances, he faced Series 54 and 78 contestant Andy Christley). On 24 August and 28 September 2015, he appeared on Only Connect as captain of the "Road Trippers" team, facing Series 52 contestant Jon Stitcher in his first game. He also appeared on Two Tribes in 2015. On 12 July 2016, he appeared on Fifteen to One alongside Series 75 contestant Ikenna Oguguo, in 2017, he appeared on Eggheads, and in 2019, he appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? but failed to win a Faster Finger First question.

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
5207	17/02/2011	P	Mark Jones	62 – 69	Ned Pendleton	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Debra Stephenson	Susie Dent	141
5208	18/02/2011	P	Ned Pendleton	70 – 48	Colin Cox	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Debra Stephenson	Susie Dent	116
5209	21/02/2011	P	Ned Pendleton	70 – 63	Andy Johnson	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Mark Foster	Susie Dent	119
5210	22/02/2011	P	Ned Pendleton	92 – 59	Greg Bowler	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Mark Foster	Susie Dent	127
5211	23/02/2011	P	Ned Pendleton	91 – 83	John Cornforth	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Mark Foster	Susie Dent	122
5212	24/02/2011	P	Ned Pendleton	89 – 66	Dan McColm	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Mark Foster	Susie Dent	118
5213	25/02/2011	P	Ned Pendleton	91 – 57	Jon Edmondson	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Mark Foster	Susie Dent	120
5214	28/02/2011	P	Ned Pendleton	92 – 54	Emmet Masterson	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Mark Durden-Smith	Susie Dent	131
5275	31/05/2011	QF	Ned Pendleton	89 – 99*	Andy McGurn	Jeff Stelling	Rachel Riley				Lucy Summers	Gregg Wallace	Susie Dent	118

*includes 10 points from a tiebreak conundrum