 | Michael Oldham Well this was my first venture into octorock and I absolutely despise it, so unsatisfying how few rounds can be perfected. When practising had a few rounds where it was impossible to even score wish the system wouldn't waste my time sitting through the 30 seconds in vain, either don't give impossible targets or just skip the round IMO. |
 | Elizabeth Beer Octorock is good discipline in declaring what you actually have. It is pretty obvious when a round is not solvable within 10, so you can ERE - and just make sure that you pick the optimal number of large numbers to lessen such an occurence! |
 | Eoin Jackson Marcus, it seems I am your last hope. Practise games have been 95 and 109... but that's no guarantee of anything. (My practise games for Rd8 - Instant were both 140pts.)
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 | Dave Kempshall I could never plan that much. See game, play game (probably why I'm getting the Anne wink this round). |
| Eoin Jackson I have serious problems. This tournament is like life or death to me. I always do practise games (unless it's normal or a junior variant) |
 | Tim Down I have previously done that but am enjoying it much more this year with a strict no-practice-games rule. It'll be interesting to see if I can keep that up if I get close to the business end of the tournament. |
| Elizabeth Beer Well I'm glad I did my practise game today, because that is where the personal bests will turn up 😂 |
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| Dave Kempshall I just have zero self control. I did practice for one of the Olympic events, which did help but it ramped up the pressure when I actually did my run as I then had a PB to try and meet which I inevitably bottled. Practice is wise though, the amount of round 1s I completely screw up because of I have no idea of the rules... |
 | Matthew Tassier Setting a new record for highest WL Octorock score, Elliott is the Strongest Link for the second round in a row and pulls ahead in total tournament points. |
| Matthew Tassier Octorock's always a tricky challenge in WL with Marcus and Dave K. in particular here pretty unlucky to narrowly miss out partly due to having games with particularly low available maxes. But Marcus, Dave, Andy and Wesley you are the Weakest Links. Goodbye! |
 | Marcus Hares Cheers as ever MLT, always a lot of fun :) |
| Dave Kempshall Thanks Matthew, looking forward to seeing how the rest of tournament pans out. |
Tourney round: Weakest Link Numbers Tournament 2021: Round 9 - Octorock
Notes from the organizer: Round nine will be in Octorock format played against Apterous Waldorf. Large numbers are 10 and 20 and Waldorf likes to pick 1 large, which may well not be your favoured selection, and performs erratically. Bear in mind, there's every chance that you may get a round or two where it's impossible to score ... just bad luck I'm afraid.
Some stats for this round:
Expected competitors : 60
Weakest Links required : 4
Previous Octorock max games : 1 - Elliott Mellor (2020)
Highest Octorock WL Score : 171 - Tom Cappleman (2020)
Previous rounds v this bot : 2018 Round 9 ( https://www.apterous.org/to_tourney.php?tourney=2123 )
For more stats see spreadsheet linked below.
FOUR lowest scoring Weakest Links will be removed from the tournament this round. If there is a tie for lowest scores then margin of victory/defeat will be taken into account amongst tied players followed, if necessary, by total score in the tournament so far (see notes by matches).
Tournament progress can be followed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pqAQJDitytZj8B10sNHwKs6ZF7LPqH9qcx0cHYoCpgM/edit?usp=sharing
Good luck!
Ran from: 4 – 17 October 2021. Format: Octorock Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Level scores: Drawn. Approved.
Fixtures: 60. Completed: 60.
Results and fixtures
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Struck-out names and scores are players who have since been deactivated.
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