 | Florence C-L If Waldorf can share with me the secret to declaring away from the target in Instant I'd be most grateful |
 | Thomas Carey Maybe one day he'll find the secret to using more than two or three numbers |
 | Dave Kempshall Tried to declare and wait until the clock ran down on three rounds. Schoolboy. |
 | Chris Hare If I'd known the earlier rounds had unlimited time, I'd have spent longer on them. |
 | Matthew Tassier :) You know what I mean. |
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 | Eoin Jackson I feel my likely sub-100pt haul won't cut it this year. (Parting is such sweet sorrow...) |
| Matthew Tassier Strongest Link Tom just misses out on being the first to max an Instant game in WL numbers with round 20 catching him out, but he is now the only player to have been a Strongest Link at least once in all 7 editions of this tournament. |
| Matthew Tassier In a rapid-fire variant where momentum plays its part, the final player, Eoin, held his nerve to hit his last 5 targets and sneak past the three players left stranded on 110 points, all of whom had dramatic good and bad runs in their games. So, Tony, Joe and Jon you are the Weakest Links. Goodbye! |
 | Jon Elmer oh well, didn't think i deserved to get through the lockdown round anyway. good luck everyone |
 | Tony Atkins Matthew, thanks for organising. This has been my bogey round before - as they are all solvable you would think it easy, but some of them I would never solve in 30s even. |
Tourney round: Weakest Link Numbers Tournament 2022: Round 13 - Instant
Notes from the organizer: With half of the tournament completed, we're overdue the first of the limited-time rounds. In at the deep end, round thirteen will see you play an Instant format game against Apterous Waldorf. No thinking time, it's straight to the input interface with every round being solvable. Waldorf will pick one large and be quite confused by the task.
Some stats for this round:
Expected competitors: 36
Weakest Links required: 3
Previous Instant max games: 0
Historic average Instant score: 142.71
Highest scoring Instant Weakest Link: 130 - Dave Robjohns & Vincent Barcet (2020), Sean Fletcher (2019), J E (2018)
Lowest scoring Instant survivor: 90 - Eoin Jackson (2021)
For more stats see spreadsheet linked below.
THREE 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/1ad92aABLro4p9NlD3RFLPhID3u1vtKc0Qmn2CTVA-9A/edit?usp=sharing
Good luck!
Ran from: 10 – 23 October 2022. Format: Instant Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 36. Completed: 36.
Results and fixtures
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser.
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