apterous history: July 2011
Here's your handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the events of July 2011.
In the news...
- 1st July. apterous history: May 2011.
- 10th July. Kieran Bray joined.
- 11th July. Tony Atkins joined.
- 13th July. R. p Goffin joined.
- 15th July. Niall Waters joined.
- 18th July. Dylan Taylor joined.
- 19th July. Denis McGee joined.
- 21st July. Jimmy Porter joined.
- 25th July. Sorry for the lack of updates lately. My house was broken into and the faithful apterous laptop was taken. Everything is safely backed up on an external hard disk... 5,000 miles away. So I'm working on getting everything back to normal. Thanks for your patience.
- 25th July. Games with tie-break conundrums are no longer given the wrong format, and older miscategorised games have been cleaned up. (They may be given the right format in the future.)
- 25th July. Fiona H joined.
- 26th July. Matt Cole joined.
- 30th July. By way of a small experiment, game pages now include the Google +1 button. You can +1 games that you like or want to remember for some reason, and see how many other people have +1'd each game. If you use Google+, you can see games you've +1'd in the past, and browse your friends +1s as well (it's a tab on their profile). See what you think.
- 31st July. New variant: Octorock. Enjoy! (And please be patient, the site may be a little slow while people download the new variant.)
- 31st July. Most Multi-talented and associated leader boards now include Octorock.
Pro Ranks
The top three players at the end of the month:-
1st. Innis Carson
2nd. Conor Travers
3rd. Edward McCullagh
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Monthly Top Scores
| Format | Top score | Popularity |
|---|---|---|
| Old 15 | 149 by Jack Hurst | 12,077 games with 266 players |
| 9 Rounder | 97 by John Gillies | 633 games with 94 players |
| Conundrum Attack | 200 by Nick Deller ×3 200 by Ahmed M 200 by Jack Hurst 200 by Rob Foster 200 by Ryan Taylor | 1,385 games with 87 players |
| Numbers Attack | 200 by Martin Long ×2 | 396 games with 52 players |
| Letters Attack | 165 by Chris Hare | 533 games with 45 players |
| Octorock 9 | 68 by Marcus Hares 68 by Matt Hamer 68 by Ryan Taylor | 105 games with 37 players |
| Octorock 15 | 106 by Innis Carson | 75 games with 35 players |
| Goat Attack | 247 by Innis Carson | 194 games with 30 players |
| Aegilops Letters Attack | 194 by Matt Hamer | 241 games with 27 players |
| Junior Conundrum Attack | 200 by John Gordon | 46 games with 27 players |
Only the month's 10 most popular formats are shown.
Facts and Figures
This month, apterous gained 109 new users, taking us to 3,124 in total. A total of 306,692 rounds were played over 20,885 games.
The Duel was won by Adam Gillard with 2412 points from 31 games. Second was Edward McCullagh with 2405 points from 31 games, and third Ryan Taylor with 2323 points from 31 games.
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