Weekly summary: Episodes 114 to 118

The week started off well, as I managed to match David and Lily in the solo totals.  The rest was closer than the scores might make it seem: On Tuesday I saw a full monty but was not sure about it, which accounts for eleven points of difference.  On Wednesday I ended up a point behind, again due to a word I had written down but not been confident enough in.  Thursday's difference was again due to a single full monty, and on Friday I had an invalid answer that would have given me a tie if it were valid.  Regardless of all that, might solo totals were all above seventy, and that's always nice.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	64	72	77	83	78
Champion	33	10	44	25	40
Challenger	17	45	10	23	29
David + Lily	74	87	78	94	86
Me (solo)	74	72	77	83	78

Matthew became the first retiring champion of the series, and then the rest of the week was all about Jack.  He started with two strong wins, then had two very close games to follow.  He survived them both with a combined total that should put him into the finals regardless of what happens in his next game.

Matthew Thomason	46	64	49	44	52	65	310
Brett Chaiyawat	25	59	28	42	34		188
Jack Dell*	59	73	40	50			222
Luke Brattoni	53	52	44				149
Kathryn James	46	41	36				123
Jason Dunn	59	43					102
Raf Goodens	59	39					98
Jodi Knight	48	34					82

It was a good week for the full monties, and David found all four of them.  Lily was in good shape too, with only one numbers round proving troublesome.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Full Monties		1		2	1	4
Missed Full Monties						0
Tough Numbers				1		1
Impossible Numbers						0

I was close to maximal games twice this week, and even had the missing maximum written down on Wednesday but was not sure about it.  I managed to get all the conundrums this week, but dropped a couple of numbers maxima that I should have found.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Maximums: L	4	2	4	3	3
N	3	2	3	2	3
C	1	1	1	1	1
Invalid: L	-	-	-	-	1

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Jack Dell*	222	4	55.50
Matthew Thomason	310	6	51.67
Jason Dunn	102	2	51.00
Luke Brattoni	149	3	49.67
Raf Goodens	98	2	49.00
Ryan Turk	48	1	48.00
Jonathan Goodman	44	1	44.00
Kathryn James	123	3	41.00
Jodi Knight	82	2	41.00
Brett Chaiyawat	188	5	37.60
Janine Huan	37	1	37.00
Aram Kalyanasundaram	36	1	36.00
David Waddell	71	2	35.50
Jayden Spudvilas-Powell	34	1	34.00
Bryce Lawrence	30	1	30.00
Liam Murphy	18	1	18.00
Seb Dworkin	17	1	17.00
Dane Watkins	15	1	15.00
Rhys McCaig	13	1	13.00
Matt Bolton	12	1	12.00