Chris Sports the Mastermind Title
| Published: 31st August 2008 23:29 |
Congratulations to Grange Road resident and sports fan, Chris Bell, who was recently crowned the first ever BBC Sports Mastermind Champion.
Chris successfully navigated three preliminary rounds and television heats before he was finally crowned champion of a competition that originally received 9,000 entrants.Chris said "I had put a lot of pressure on myself and it was such a feeling of relief. I obviously got talking to the other contestants and thought I had a real chance of winning, and to become the first ever makes it extra special". He went on "The show was filmed about three weeks ago and I was so tired I went straight off to Canada for three weeks to recharge the batteries."
The format of the programme saw question master Des Lynam, test each contestant twice. Firstly they face a 2 minute grilling on their specialist subject before facing a further 120 seconds of general sporting questions
