Citations:octochamp


 * 2009 March 17th, “John Rowland” (user name), “Countdown” in, :
 * 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,, Word Watching: One Man’s Quest for Linguistic Immortality, (2011), ISBN 9780753515754, :
 * 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 9781405511247, 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,, You Don’t Know Me, But… A Footballer’s Life, , ISBN 9781471128547 (physical book), ISBN 9781471128837 (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.