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So, it's the final week of Countdown in 2013, and after the "mini-shock" of Friday's quarter-final, I wonder what we can expect from these final 5 matches.....

Today's quarter-final is the 3 vs. 6 quarter-final, which in most recent years, has definitely favoured the higher seed, as in the previous 10 series, the only two #3 seeds to not win their quarter-finals were Dave Wilkinson in Series 62 and Tom Barnes in Series 64.

So, the #3 seed, Glen Webb, will fancy his chances today against the most recent of the octochamps in this series, in the #6 seed, Jonathan Liew. Will those stats hold true today, I wonder

Now, time for those all important stats:

Firstly, No.3 Seed Glen "The Cradley Heath Cleaver" Webb - 8 Wins, 945 Points. (Average: 118.13)
Highest Score: 141 vs. Martin Wilsdon (5th Game)
Lowest Score: 91 vs. Mike Bailey (2nd Game)
9's Achieved: 5/9
Total Points/Max/%: 945/1093 (86%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 593/696 (85%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 292/317 (92%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 60/80 (75%)

Secondly, No.6 Seed Jonathan "The London Luminary" Liew - 8 Wins, 754 Points. (Average: 94.25)
Highest Score: 120 vs. Richard Allan (6th Game)
Lowest Score: 68 vs. Robin Gray (5th Game)
9's Achieved: 1/6
Total Points/Max/%: 754/1034 (73%)
Letters Points/Max/%: 448/643 (70%)
Numbers Points/Max/%: 256/311 (82%)
Conundrum Points/Max/%: 50/80 (63%)

Join Graeme for his last ever recap later on.

Rare miss by Jonathan in first numbers with two other methods at least: 92x10+14 and 10x100-(6x11)

That old favourite STODGIER for a leveller R4

Many times have had peridots disallowed on apterous - DIOPTRES is the correct anagram

SCOPAE for an alt to SPACEY in R5

TOTALISE plus H is a 9.....

HELIOSTAT? In the time as well!

Gavin Chipper wrote:HELIOSTAT? In the time as well!

That's the one - well done!

It has been so long since we saw Glen, one forgets how good he is. Well played and shame about that last numbers.

ZEBROID in penultimate letters round (offspring of male horse and female zebra)

Well done Glen, good ton there. The semi-final should be a great match, tricky one to call. Well done to Jonathan also for making the quarters.

LACQUER as an alt in R2.

Well done Glen one of my favorite players of this series, but he's going to have to go some to beat Callum never mind Dylan in the final.

An example of consistently spotting the sevens and eights, which makes you very difficult to beat.

Just got me with ESTUFAS. It's not in the Collins Scrabble Dictionary, so unfortunately wouldn't be in my wordy studying.

Dave Preece wrote:Well done Glen one of my favorite players of this series, but he's going to have to go some to beat Callum never mind Dylan in the final.

He's strong with letters but might come up short with the numbers.

Mark Kudlowski wrote:ZEBROID in penultimate letters round (offspring of male horse and female zebra)

Unfortunately, not in our dictionary, Mark, but it sounds well impressive.

GRACILE in round 2 and SUAVEST in round 13.

Well played Glen, very solid performance and the outcome never looked in doubt. Jonathan was a bit off though, particularly on his six small, most uncharacteristically. His episodes hadn't been broadcast at the time of filming so none of us knew how dangerous he could be on them.

BOERIE for an equaller in round (12?).

Very impressive performance, Glen. ESTUFAS was excellent and certainly had me beat. Jonathan, I'll be honest and say this is the first of your shows I've seen, but what I can say is someone came up to me today and said how impressed they were with your performances on Countdown. Well done on making it to the finals and earning your 'kryptonite'.

Yeah I thought Nick got banned from saying kryptonite?

I wish he had - it's not funny after the first time.