Clive Spate

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Clive Spate (born 16 January 1952) is a British game show contestant. He was the winner of the eighth series of Countdown and has won many other TV quizzes, including the 2003 series Grand Slam, 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 highest rated UK player in 1991, 1994 and 1995. He competed at the World Scrabble Championship in 1993, finishing ninth. The winner that year was Countdown Champion of Champions, Mark Nyman - the only UK Scrabble player to date to hold the World Championship title.

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

Although no longer playing Scrabble; together with his wife Sheila, he runs the twice-yearly Nottingham Nomads weekend tournament.