apterous history: October 2011
Here's your handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the events of October 2011.
In the news...
- 1st October. Jonathan Rawlinson joined.
- 2nd October. Octolock variant: as you might imagine, a combination of Lockdown with Octorock. Enjoy!
- 3rd October. Ben Maggie joined.
- 4th October. Altered selection of conundrums for Duels so that there is more of a balance of new, old, easy, and hard ones. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this discussion, hopefully this will placate all sides.
- 4th October. Joy Harries joined.
- 6th October. Drew H joined.
- 19th October. Stuart Moore joined.
- 20th October. Andrew Millman joined.
- 21st October. Report bugs, request new features and so on, all through the new ticket system. I've decided to launch this early and refine it as we go so be aware that it's fairly rough.
- 21st October. Phyl Styles joined.
- 23rd October. The Rocky Road: Nasty star path.
Pro Ranks
The top three players at the end of the month:-
1st. Innis Carson
2nd. Jack Hurst
3rd. Ahmed M
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Monthly Top Scores
| Format | Top score | Popularity |
|---|---|---|
| Old 15 | 145 by Innis Carson | 11,279 games with 258 players |
| Conundrum Attack | 200 by Adam Gillard ×10 200 by Dan Johnson ×2 200 by Mark D ×2 200 by Ahmed M 200 by Marcus Hares | 1,435 games with 79 players |
| 9 Rounder | 82 by Jayne Wisniewski | 573 games with 77 players |
| Numbers Attack | 200 by Peter Wolf | 424 games with 57 players |
| Letters Attack | 170 by Mark D | 473 games with 42 players |
| Octolock 9 | 67 by Liam Tiernan | 42 games with 20 players |
| Goat Attack | 253 by Josh Hurst | 165 games with 18 players |
| Octolock 15 | 103 by Adam Gillard | 83 games with 17 players |
| Speed 9 | 79 by Ryan Taylor | 59 games with 17 players |
| Goatblitz | 168 by Adam Gillard | 128 games with 16 players |
Only the month's 10 most popular formats are shown.
Game of the Week
Facts and Figures
This month, apterous gained 90 new users, taking us to 3,357 in total. A total of 311,152 rounds were played over 21,056 games.
The Duel was won by Innis Carson with 2441 points from 30 games. Second was Matt Hamer with 2299 points from 31 games, and third Edward McCullagh with 2294 points from 30 games.
Other months
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