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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!

Runs from: 14 – 27 November 2025. Format: Hyper Nasty Numbers Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 7. Completed: 1.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)