Darts ref was record-breaking Countdown ‘octochamp’ and appeared on Weakest Link
Darts referee Kirk Bevins proved his credentials by turning into a file breaker on Countdown.
Bevins, 37, had two desires rising up. One was to change into a maths trainer, which he lived till he achieved his second – counting scores subsequent to the oche.
But the transition from one to the opposite happened because of his penchant for attempting out recreation exhibits. He went on Channel 5’s Memory Bank and Brain Teaser in 2004 as a young person.
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And that very same 12 months he made his Countdown debut. But he was defeated on his first look and did not return till 5 years later, at which era he got here again with a vengeance.
During the sixtieth collection he turned an octochamp, a participant who’s gained all eight of their warmth video games, and likewise scored the file variety of factors in a single present for a challenger with 127. His exploits earned him the nickname ‘The Kirkulator’.
Bevins went on to change into each the collection and 2009 champion and that did not go unnoticed within the darts neighborhood, with a number of gamers calling for him to be signed up by the PDC – together with the game’s GOAT.
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“Phil Taylor said to me ‘you need to be on TV’,” he recalled to Palatinate in 2021. “I said to him ‘you’re the man to get me there’, so he went off and had a word with (former tournament director) Tommy Cox who asked me to do it on TV as a marker, and by that time the Countdown thing had got around and I knew the TV cameras don’t bother me, so I thought I’d become a marker.”
Bevins has been a PDC common ever since, however he hasn’t let that get in the best way of extra recreation present appearances. He returned to Countdown in 2013 as certainly one of 41 contestants collaborating within the thirtieth Birthday Championship, being knocked out within the quarter-finals.
As properly as an look on The Weakest Link in 2008, he joined a good friend on the BBC present The Code in 2016 and extra lately had a crack at Eggheads.
