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Here's your handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the events of October 2012.

In the news...

• 3rd October. Rose Boyle joined.
• 6th October. So, we're back! With another whole new server. This is getting to be an expensive habit. Let's hope this one lasts a bit longer. Things will probably be a bit rocky for the next few days but I decided that the priority was getting the game back online ASAP and then smoothing over the issues. Enjoy!
• 9th October. The legacy front page has become too much work to maintain and is officially dead. To the tiny fraction of you new to the regular front page: welcome!
• 9th October. Mike Whiteoak joined.
• 10th October. Tomorrow will be our first direct democracy Duel -- vote today to determine what it will be!
• 11th October. Our first directly democratic Duel was a great success, thanks to everyone who voted. You can now view yesterday's votes and, of course, vote for tomorrow's Duel as well.
• 13th October. In all-letters games (e.g. Letters Attacks), tiebreakers are now also Letters rounds. Likewise Numbers.
• 13th October. Mocktorun added as a high-score format, available under Challenge in a custom format > Standard > Mocktorun. Enjoy!
• 13th October. A new Vox Ludio is available now. Find out more about Richard Brittain than you ever dreamed!
• 15th October. A new variant appears! Enjoy Instant, the fastest variant in the West. And elsewhere, probably. You'll find it under the new "Harder Variants" menu, too.
• 16th October. Alex Weigall joined.
• 18th October. Tournament organizers can now receive an email or apterous notification whenever a match is completed in their tournament. Set which sort of notification you want on the page for that tourney.
• 25th October. The Direct Democracy Duel now has a better explanation of the voting process used.
• 26th October. You can now mark ticket replies as "nice!" if you think they are, well, nice. This is less formal than the ticket voting system and can be used to mark good ideas, amusing responses, or particularly good spelling. It will also become less ugly at some point. Note that nicing is not anonymous.
• 26th October. Jack Woodfield joined.
• 27th October. You can now opt out from receiving notifications on individual discussions. Note that posting will automatically opt you in, but you can still opt out again if you want. You can also opt in to a discussion without posting.
• 28th October. The Classic Game update is on upon us! This is the culmination of years (and in one case decades) of work by a lot of people, most notable Mike Brown and James Robinson, so major thanks to them and to all the others who've helped. There are over 3500 new games spanning Countdown history back to 1982, including lots of interesting miscellany like Christmas Specials, Masters, and Celebrity Countdown. There are also a few new Editor's Picks, which I'll be adding to in the coming weeks. Enjoy!
• 29th October. Vote cruise! Takes you to a random ticket you haven't voted on before. Vote on that one (Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, or No Vote) and be taken straight to another! A good way to see lots of proposals for apterous' future.
• 29th October. Darryl Francis joined.
• 30th October. Jinphil Cho joined.
• 31st October. apterous is spooktacular. Happy Halloween!
• 31st October. Nina Boyd joined.

Pro Ranks

The top three players at the end of the month:-

Monthly Top Scores

Only the month's 10 most popular formats are shown.

Facts and Figures

This month, apterous gained 106 new users, taking us to 4,515 in total. A total of 362,030 rounds were played over 23,211 games.

The Duel was won by Mark D with 2186 points from 28 games. Second was Innis Carson with 2177 points from 28 games, and third Matt Hamer with 2150 points from 28 games.