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

In the news...

• 1st April. Barry French joined.
• 2nd April. Stuart Wright joined.
• 3rd April. Most Classic Games has been revamped, and now actually makes sense.
• 3rd April. Laurence Rigney joined.
• 5th April. As of yesterday, the best Top Dog performance in a given day will be given a dog bone and recorded in the new Boneyard archive. Happy dogging! (Thanks Matthew Tassier.)
• 7th April. All-time leaderboard for most 9s offered (thanks Matt Bayfield).
• 8th April. New post on the Making Apterous blog: some thoughts on the ticket system.
• 8th April. Josh Masterson joined.
• 9th April. Michael Lachime joined.
• 10th April. You can now vote on tickets you like (or don't like). Let us know what you think about proposed ideas and stuff like that.
• 12th April. Mr Dog and The Duellist will now helpfully buzz in for you if you get it wrong, saving some time. (Thanks Dave Mattingly.)
• 12th April. You can now sort tickets by voter popularity. Wilson score go go go!
• 12th April. Graham Glamourhats joined.
• 15th April. Tia Corkish joined.
• 16th April. Dicky Boy joined.
• 17th April. Everyone has now been opted-in to the new front page. You can opt out (again) if you don't like it. Either way, please vote or comment on the change to help us improve it.
• 18th April. Watchwords have been updated for the last few series. Some of these are getting a bit tenuous now.
• 18th April. Trevor MacEoin and Eddie McCullagh joined.
• 19th April. You can now sign up for new tournaments in advance and without messing about with forums and such like. In fact there's one at the top of this page right now. Go on, I dare you.
• 19th April. There's now a tutorial for new users (or old ones, if you fancy a refresher). (Thanks Mark Deeks and everyone who encouraged me to get on with this.)
• 19th April. The Most Time Played leader board now shows your position even if you're not in the top 25. I'll do more things like this if the feedback is good.
• 20th April. Have a Nice day!
• 24th April. Ken Gibson joined.
• 25th April. Major dictionary update (thanks to Giles Hutchings amongst many others). [Full listing]
• 25th April. All languages now have a flag in the background of the "Noted words" box. Also, the Finnish flag is my new favourite flag.
• 25th April. When you complete a game, you now get a nice "Rematch" link to immediately challenge the same opponent in the same format.
• 25th April. A certain much-requested item is now awarded for offering a max that was spelled out in the selection.

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 145 new users, taking us to 3,964 in total. A total of 351,837 rounds were played over 23,600 games.

The Duel was won by Innis Carson with 2562 points from 30 games. Second was Matt Hamer with 2362 points from 30 games, and third Chris Hare with 2348 points from 30 games.