 | George Ford This is genuinely terrifying |
 | Chris Butler I thought we were done with the 4 weakest links, eek |
 | George Armstrong Well I'm probably off home, but will take some solace that out of the 3 rounds I beat Prime on, one was an LNAFP, and another ended with add the solitary large :) |
| George Ford Very happy with that, a few easy misses balanced out with a few really friendly targets... Hoping to cling on!!! |
| George Armstrong Ok having seen the next round can everyone else score above 110 please thank you... I wouldn't wanna beat my Spoilage PB score of 3/200... |
| George Armstrong What did I just say Jamie?...*nervously biting fingernails*... |
 | Ben H Have fun, George |
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| George Armstrong I hope you crash and burn in the series finals ;) |
 | Chris Hare I tried my best, but unfortunately I seem to have scored too many points. Can I have another go? |
 | Matthew Tassier Pipping Elliott by 3 points, Chris B is the Strongest Link for the 3rd time this year showing great form heading into the latter stages. Also, Kudos to Dave for handing Prime a defeat. |
| Matthew Tassier The dramatic finish this round saw Matthew and George A overtake Ronan, Ben and Brendan in the final three rounds of their games to both be safe by 10 points and earn the questionable reward of a place in the Spoilage round. Jamie completes an impressive 9th top 20 finish while our other 3 departees have each achieved their highest WL numbers position. But Brendan, Ben, Ronan and Jamie you are the Weakest Links. Goodbye! |
 | Brendan Whitehurst Thanks as always Matthew. Great fun to play as always. Definitely didn't expect to make it this far. Good luck to the final 10. 🙂 |
Tourney round: Weakest Link Numbers Tournament 2025: Round 20 - Hypernasty
Notes from the organizer: The final 14 players have a tricky challenge to try to claim their places in the top 10 this year as in round twenty-one they will take on Apterous Prime in a Hyper Nasty format game. The large numbers range from the useless to the unwieldy, providing a real test of calculation and focus. Prime initially will choose 3 large numbers and max a lot of rounds, plus if you can't keep up he will switch to the arguably more difficult 1 large selection. And we're looking for 4 Weakest Links this round. That is nasty.
Some stats for this round:
Expected competitors: 14
Weakest Links required: 4
Historic average Hypernasty WL score: 142.02
Highest Hypernasty WL score: 190 - Elliott Mellor (2020,2023), Adam Latchford (2022), Dave Robjohns (2024)
Highest average score (this year's entrants): 169.25 - Dave Robjohns (4 games)
Most Weakest Links: 3 - Gevin Chapwell
For more stats see spreadsheet linked below.
FOUR lowest scoring Weakest Links will be leaving 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/1nqXFt20TYWIgYR9W_ZHqE1XVsHlVYOMlY7dLflGOSbc/edit?usp=sharing
Good Luck!
Ran from: 14 – 27 November 2025. Format: Hyper Nasty Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 14. Completed: 14.
Results and fixtures
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)
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