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Notes from the organizer: Welcome to the 10th annual running of the Apterous Weakest Link Numbers Tournament.

Last December Tal Lessner claimed the 2024 title to become the 7th different WL Numbers champion.
ROLL OF HONOUR:
2016 - Chris Butler https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5106
2017 - Thomas Carey https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5149
2018 - Bradley Horrocks https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5202
2019 - Bradley Horrocks https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5245
2020 - Elliott Mellor https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5311
2021 - Edward Ashcroft https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5351
2022 - Edward Ashcroft https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5397
2023 - Sam Cappleman-Lynes https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5441
2024 - Tal Lessner https://www.apterous.org/to_meta.php?meta=5476
Can Tal defend his title? Will 2025 see one of our previous winners return to conquer again? Is it time for another new champion? By the end of this year we will find out!

Starting with the easier variants this tournament will be a journey through 24 apterous numbers formats with the lowest scorer(s) being eliminated each round.
One bot will be randomly chosen for each round and all players will play a numbers attack in that round's variant against that bot.
The lowest scoring player (or more likely two, three or four players depending on how many entrants we get) will be knocked out each round. If there is a tie for lowest score then the tiebreaks will be:
1) Performance against opponent this round(i.e. margin of victory/loss over 20 rounds).
2) Total player score over all tournament rounds so far.

With the first round beginning on September 8th, there should be a new round every Monday and Friday for about 3 months making for a more relaxed pace than other Weakest Link tournaments. Rounds will be overlapping with a two week time limit giving some flexibility in case of holidays etc. If you are going to be away from apterous for more than a week then aptomail me and you will be able to play round(s) early if necessary.

NOTE : Games should be played in a single sitting (barring unforeseen problems), after all there's no passing and coming back later in The Weakest Link. Any penalties for anyone repeatedly failing to do this will be at the organiser's discretion.

Whether you have designs on winning the tournament, or you're just challenging yourself to get through the first few rounds, please don't hesitate to throw your hat into the ring.
Sign-ups will remain open until the end of the first week of the first round.
Let's be having you!

Runs from: 22 August – 14 September 2025. Format: Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 0. Completed: 0.