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

In the news...

• 8th September. Over the last few years, Pro Ranks has gradually become swamped with inactive trial players (see Discussion) whose ratings are probably not statistically significant. As of today, Pro Ranks will only include subscribers, former subscribers, and trial members who have played in the last two weeks. Many of you will find this has given you a substantial ranking boost -- enjoy it!
• 12th September. Reminder that the site will be unavailable from 8pm today for a few hours. We should be back by midnight but depending on your ISP you might have to wait a bit longer. I'll be posting updates on the aptodev blog, which will remain online all the time, so keep an eye on that for the latest news.
• 13th September. And we're back online! Thanks for your patience. More good news to follow.
• 13th September. I hope by now everyone is enjoying the fruits of the new server set-up, which should be faster, less laggy, more reliable and more easily upgraded in the future. To pull this off has meant a significant increase in running costs at our end so we've had a bit of a price hike on subscriptions as well. But all is not lost! For the first time ever we've done the most basic commercial thingy and you can now get a 50% discount if you buy Superstats at the same time as your subscription. So it's now only £3 for a whole heap of stats! And there's lots of good new stuff in the pipeline, so we'll do everything possible to make it worth it. Phew!
• 18th September. Well, that was a painful few days, but... we're back! I've built a temporary server to get the game back up ASAP. It's not perfect but hopefully it'll tide us over while the serious metal gets repaired. Thanks for your patience, you guys are awesome.
• 21st September. Congratulations to Giles Hutchings, recipient of the fourth Spoon of Awesome. Well deserved!
• 23rd September. Bots can now be forced to solve the conundrum, if you're of an impatient nature.
• 27th September. crucialconundrum.com will henceforth be a redirect to here. Useful if you (like me) have friends who can't spell "apterous". Or "org". (I meant to announce this for the fourth birthday celebrations but got distracted, sorry.)
• 29th September. Long-overdue acknowledgements for contributors to the various dictionaries.
• 30th September. All formats now have a Bot Bashing page. Those poor bots.

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 53 new users, taking us to 4,409 in total. A total of 300,336 rounds were played over 19,214 games.

The Duel was won by Dan McColm with 2252 points from 27 games. Second was Innis Carson with 2248 points from 27 games, and third Adam Gillard with 2246 points from 27 games.