apterous history: January 2013
Here's your handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the events of January 2013.
In the news...
- 2nd January. There's now a handy list of keyboard shortcuts.
- 3rd January. The all-new all-sexy aptomail private messaging system is now rolled out to everyone. Enjoy!
- 4th January. Vox Ludio with Jim Bentley. It's a good'un!
- 4th January. In a blogging-themed day, Michael Wallace has written an excellent blog post in which he attempts to predict the eventual winner of Countdown's 30th Birthday Tournament. We've produced an associated prediction tool that you can play with and argue with our predictions! Enjoy.
- 5th January. All formats now have a most max games leader board, which includes everyone who's ever got a max game. Fun!
- 9th January. Anna W joined.
- 10th January. We've made some substantial behind-the-scenes improvements. Please report bugs particularly assiduously in the next few days.
- 11th January. We have a new bot: please welcome Apterous Soap. Soap is the exact opposite of Sponge; he's starting out with perfect word knowledge, but he can only offer each word once and then he forgets it forever. Let's see how long it takes someone to beat him.
- 11th January. Abby Ann joined.
- 16th January. The prize for the 30th Birthday Championship sweepstake has been announced!
- 17th January. The game should continue to run fairly snappily now, even when someone completes a very large game (eg a Mocktorun). Please do test this out! You may now notice a longer delay between your game finishing and the rounds showing up on the website, but fear not, it will appear eventually.
- 20th January. Anthony Endsor joined.
- 21st January. You can now follow apterous on Google+! We'll be posting various informal bits and pieces there, and it's also a good way for us to communicate with you if (God forbid!) apterous happens to be down for any reason.
- 25th January. Ross R joined.
- 29th January. Sean D joined.
- 30th January. New blog post on how ticket ideas get turned into real things.
Pro Ranks
The top three players at the end of the month:-
1st. Innis Carson
2nd. Kirk Bevins
3rd. Conor Travers
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Monthly Top Scores
| Format | Top score | Popularity |
|---|---|---|
| Old 15 | 152 by Bob De Caux | 17,523 games with 294 players |
| Conundrum Attack | 200 by Conor Travers ×60 200 by Francis Peterson ×15 200 by Jack Worsley ×13 200 by Dan McColm ×12 200 by Rob Foster ×11 200 by Chris Davies ×9 200 by Jonathan Rawlinson ×4 200 by Jack Hurst ×2 200 by Kirk Bevins ×2 200 by Adam Gillard 200 by Bob De Caux 200 by John Gordon 200 by Jon O'Neill | 2,278 games with 111 players |
| Numbers Attack | 200 by Susan Morton ×2 200 by Barry Bridger 200 by Bob De Caux 200 by Chris Davies 200 by Jen Steadman 200 by Mark D 200 by Martin Long | 421 games with 80 players |
| 9 Rounder | 92 by Andy Platt | 574 games with 79 players |
| Letters Attack | 179 by Jack Hurst | 528 games with 54 players |
| Speed 15 | 141 by Dan McColm | 339 games with 53 players |
| Goatdown Standard | 172 by Rob Foster | 120 games with 51 players |
| Touchdown 15 | 133 by Chris Hare | 127 games with 43 players |
| Octorock 15 | 107 by Eddie McCullagh | 99 games with 41 players |
| Nice Letters Attack | 160 by Jack Worsley | 336 games with 39 players |
Only the month's 10 most popular formats are shown.
Facts and Figures
This month, apterous gained 132 new users, taking us to 4,977 in total. A total of 498,967 rounds were played over 32,433 games.
The Duel was won by Innis Carson with 2826 points from 31 games. Second was Adam Gillard with 2685 points from 31 games, and third Matt Hamer with 2635 points from 31 games.
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