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Well, if all goes to plan, there should be no more Preliminaries to air for this Series given that we don't know whatever happened to the final one with Steven Etherington (and it'll probably leave us in suspense as to whether he survived to make it to Series 86 or not). I should also thank Craig Fawcett for his tweet (Link: https://twitter.com/jorgalbertz/status/ ... aXNHXxvAtc) which gives us the solid confirmation we need at this point, who are the final eight and here they are!

Quarter-Finals #1 (09 June): Dan Byrom (#1 Seed) vs Craig Fawcett (#8 Seed)
Quarter-Finals #2 (10 June): Matt O'Connor (#2 Seed) vs Dan Hall (#7 Seed)
Quarter-Finals #3 (13 June): Steve Hyde (#3 Seed) vs Ronan Mackrory (#6 Seed)
Quarter-Finals #4 (14 June): Ryan Carlsen (#4 Seed) vs Adrian Fletcher (#5 Seed)

Who knew this would be Anne Robinson's second and final Finals plus the fact that not all the regular cast will be present, with Susie having contracted COVID-19 at the time these episodes were filmed. This Series, like the last, has been pretty strong, with one contestant even achieving a century but still unfortunately lost, but we had outliers too, not to mention that zero score which stunned us all. We've got not one, not two, but three former contestants in the lineup as well! I bet all of us can't wait to see how this plays out.

I'm not going to be sharing any predictions and will be writing a review of the episode each day as per the last seven Series, so if you have any feel free to post them here!

Due to the late reveal of who are the finalists (even though Craig posted it last week but was discovered days later by our community), the poll will close on the day BEFORE the third Quarter-Final airs (i.e. Sunday, 12 June) AND you will be allowed to change your vote until then. Finally, if you happen to be reading this in the near future, apologies but you will not be able to vote.

Ryan Lam wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:43 pm Well, if all goes to plan, there should be no more Preliminaries to air for this Series given that we don't know whatever happened to the final one with Steven Etherington (and it'll probably leave us in suspense as to whether he survived to make it to Series 86 or not).

According to the wiki, he won the game.

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 6:36 pm

Ryan Lam wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:43 pm Well, if all goes to plan, there should be no more Preliminaries to air for this Series given that we don't know whatever happened to the final one with Steven Etherington (and it'll probably leave us in suspense as to whether he survived to make it to Series 86 or not).

According to the wiki, he won the game.

Yup indeed, the question is how big was the margin, we will never know unless someone has insider information that we so wish we had on our hands...

Congratulations, most of you were right again this time round, Dan has become the Grand Champion! That was a great match!