Clive Spate

Clive Spate (born 16 January 1952) is a British game show contestant. He was the winner of the eighth series of Countdown^[1] and has won many other TV quizzes, including the 2003 series Grand Slam,^[2] a contest between previous quiz show champions which also featured Olav Bjortomt, Mark Labbett, Graham Nash and David Edwards, among others.

Spate is also a former tournament Scrabble player. He was the top rated UK player in 1991, 1994 and 1995.^[3] He competed at the World Scrabble Championship in 1993, finishing ninth out of sixty-four. The winner that year was Countdown Champion of Champions, Mark Nyman - the only UK Scrabble player to date to hold the World Championship title.^[4]

Spate gradually retired from the game, although he made a brief comeback in 2003, when he was the runner-up at the National Scrabble Championship.^[5]

References

1. ^ http://wiki.apterous.org/Clive_Spate
2. ^ http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Grand_Slam_%28TV_series%29
3. ^ http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-scrabble/message/33867
4. ^ http://cross-tables.com/tourney.php?t=1408
5. ^ http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-scrabble/message/48645

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Name	Spate, Clive
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Short description	British game show and Scrabble expert
Date of birth	16 January 1952
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