Citations:octochamp

English citations of octochamp, octo-champ, octo-champs, and octochamps

• 2009 March 17th, “John Rowland” (user name), “Countdown” in uk.media.tv.misc, Usenet:

  Anyway, octochamp Kirkulator just got the highest ever total score for his eight matches… so Dom’s dad has no reason to feel bad about losing…

• 2010, Alex Horne, Word Watching: One Man’s Quest for Linguistic Immortality, Virgin Books (2011), →ISBN, 151:

  If someone manages to win eight games in a row they secure the title ‘octo-champ’ and the respect of all Countdowners across the land. // At the end of the six-month-long series the eight players with the best cumulative scores over their successful games (which inevitably include the few octo-champs that may emerge) are called back for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and then, the climactic tension-ridden grand final for which the hosts dress up even more smartly than normal.

• 2012, Mark Rice-Oxley, Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery, Hachette Digital, →ISBN, chapter 6: “The thought police”:

  These barren months are unsettling me, so I am finding different ways to measure the lost time: in haircuts, doctor’s appointments, Countdown octochamps.

• 2013, Clarke Carlisle, You Don’t Know Me, But… A Footballer’s Life, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN (physical book), →ISBN (e-book), chapter 10: “Stiffs and Stinkers”:

  I won a show and that was all that mattered. I actually went on to win a second in a much more relaxed and confident manner, and when I was 21 points up in the third I thought I was destined to become an octo-champ.