 | Matthew Tassier With the 69 entrants this year including all 5 previous champions and featuring the return of 3 or 4 top class players who missed last year's edition, it's looking like possibly the strongest line-up in WL Numbers history. Round 1 sets a new record for most max games in a round with a pretty astonishing 42, including the final entrant Elwin who nips in to become the first Strongest Link of the tournament. |
| Matthew Tassier It's always a shame to have to lose someone first round, and here matching the highest score for a first round Weakest Link with a 170 the unfortunate player is Adam P. Adam, you are the Weakest Link. Goodbye! |
 | Chris Hare Elwin winning Strongest Link here is particularly noteworthy after he was unlucky enough to be Weakest Link in the Touchdown Jnr round in both the 2022 and 2021 editions. |
| Matthew Tassier Great spot! |
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 | Adam Dexter What's the ruling for Strongest Link when there is a tie? How is it decided? |
| Matthew Tassier In common with the television version, the Strongest Link is awarded to the "statistically" strongest player, decided by unpublished criteria that may or may not be relevant to the task in hand. |
 | Eoin Jackson I hope that prettiness is sometimes a criterion. It's my best chance... |
 | Elwin Carlos Wow, those are some great stats, I had no idea, Chris! Is Matt just being kind after I completely ballsed up round 2? 😂 |
 | Chris Butler As in 'pretty good bullsh*tter'Â Eoin? :P |
Tourney round: Weakest Link Numbers Tournament 2023: Round 1 - Touchdown Junior
Notes from the organizer: The bots have been randomly allocated to the variants and the round order optimised. As usual we will be starting off relatively easy, with round one being played in Touchdown Junior format against Apterous Waldorf. Waldorf will pick 1 large and should find the max about half of the time.
Some stats for this round:
Competitors: 64+
Weakest Links required: 1
Historic average score: 188.23
Previous Touchdown Junior max games: 115
Most Touchdown Junior WL max games: 5 - Sean D & Tom Cappleman
Lowest scoring Touchdown Junior survivor: 160 - Mike Lee & Bernard Lee (2021)
For more stats see spreadsheet linked below.
Just ONE lowest scoring Weakest Link will be removed from the tournament this round and if there is a tie for lowest score then I shall allow the tied players through as it's the first round. However, any players failing to play their game within the time limit will definitely be eliminated, taking the Weakest Link spot.
The numbers by each fixture below are the total points each player has scored in the history of Weakest Link Numbers tournaments. Just for fun, they have no bearing on the outcome of the round.
Tournament progress can be followed here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11oBYfp992UUT0Q0Ed8AEwOFaJ4wFlFcoOkelS2rUPOI/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks all for entering!
Ran from: 22 September – 2 October 2023. Format: Touchdown Jnr Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Level scores: Drawn. Approved.
Fixtures: 69. Completed: 69.
Results and fixtures
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Bold: max game. Struck-out names and scores are players who have since been deactivated. A struck-out individual score is an excluded performance.
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