Apterous Highlander Tournament

[Ben Wilson]

Well, the ticket- http://www.apterous.org/ticket_view.php?ticket=727 - got a lot of positive response and even got officially 'accepted' today by the powers that be. So, I am hereby making this a thing.

The way it works is simple. Each round, everybody plays Prune in a different randomly-chosen variant. The person who scores the lowest each round drops out, so as the tournament goes on, the field gets thinner until at the end, when- as the tournament name suggests- there can be only one. The final round will be a head-to-head in a marathon format.

Games will start at 12pm on Saturday, August 18th and will go on as long as it takes. This is very much an endurance event- I reckon a round should take on average no more than 20 minutes.

In a nice twist, I've decided that as there will be roughly as many players as there will be rounds, you get to pick your variant when you sign up. As long as it's at least 9 rounds long it can be any variant on apterous that has a high score table, with the exception of non-English conundrum attacks because, well, no one wants to play 50 tie-breakers against Prune in a language they don't understand.

If you're interested, sign up below!

[Charlie Reams]

Seems like it would be a lot easier to use the sign up thing built into apterous.

[Thomas Carey]

I'll sign up, and please can I have a German Letters Attack?

[Steve Balog]

Bullet Hyper Numbers Attack gogogogo

[Jennifer Steadman]

Think I might be on holiday during this Might try and smuggle my laptop away with me. If I can make it, though, I'd like to reserve an Unlimited Letters Attack for everyone's [read: my] enjoyment

[Marcus Hares]

Sign me up too please (I'll do it on the main page) - can I request Duckdown LA?

[Gavin Chipper]

as the tournament name suggests

Does it?

[Martin Long]

I'm in and my request is Aegilops Numbers Attack.

[Ian Volante]

In, hypertouch LA please.

[Jordan F]

Signed up, and may I please add Lockdown Numbers Attack?

[Ben Wilson]

Numbers now stand at 34 players and we're still over a month away. But entries are still being accepted, and will continue to be accepted right up until the event itself starts...

[Ben Wilson]

14 showed up to play, and 4 hours and 14 minutes later, there could be only one, and that one was Mark Deeks, who beat Jen Steadman 199-170 in the final marathon to seal the victory. Well done Mark, and well played all (who showed up)!

[Grant Waters]

Well done Mark. Does that mean you can now hear the thoughts of everyone in the world?