Weekly summary: Episodes 141 to 145

I'm finally back in sync, although not fully caught up -- the previous week's episodes are not properly written up yet.  I hope to fill those in over the coming week.  I came close to matching David and Lily a couple of times this week, with the sad case being Tuesday, where I would have outdone them if I had only solved the conundrum.  Still, this feels like improvement over previous weeks.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Me	72	65	83	74	57
Champion	28	16	15	0	27
Challenger	16	30	15	0	5
David + Lily	74	74	84	87	77
Me (solo)	72	65	83	74	64

Brian saw off Daniel, then lost to Kannan who swept the rest of the week.  He is very likely to overtake Brett unless he gets overwhelmed in his next game, and a win will see him into the finals.  Even a loss may well do so, although his total is a little low.

Barry Harridge	75	51	45	54	39	59	323
Matthew Thomason	46	64	49	44	52	65	310
Oli Bryant	71	46	60	55	54	32	318
Jack Dell	59	73	40	50	36		258
Brett Chaiyawat	25	59	28	42	34		188
Kannan Sethuraman*	42	53	45	41			181
Samuel Hastings	46	58	58	24			186
Avi Chanales	53	37	43	30			163

Just a couple of full monties on offer this week to liven things up.  That said, Lily did some excellent solving -- there were some rounds that could easily have tripped her up (as they did me).

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

This was a much better week for the maxima, with Tuesday being the highlight.  A couple of oversights on the numbers at the end of the week, but the letters performance is getting better.

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Maximums: L	3	5	3	3	3
N	3	3	3	2	2
C	1	0	1	1	1

Contestants sorted by average score:

	Total	Games	Average
Barry Harridge	323	6	53.83
Oli Bryant	318	6	53.00
Matthew Thomason	310	6	51.67
Jack Dell	258	5	51.60
Jason Dunn	102	2	51.00
Colwyn Buckland	51	1	51.00
Brian Morgan	151	3	50.33
Luke Brattoni	149	3	49.67
Raf Goodens	98	2	49.00
Gary Beer	49	1	49.00
Ryan Turk	48	1	48.00
Samuel Hastings	186	4	46.50
Daniel Drumm	92	2	46.00
Kannan Sethuraman*	181	4	45.25
Jonathan Goodman	44	1	44.00
Kathryn James	123	3	41.00
Jodi Knight	82	2	41.00
Avi Chanales	163	4	40.75
Peter Stephenson	78	2	39.00
Brett Chaiyawat	188	5	37.60
Janine Huan	37	1	37.00
Aram Kalyanasundaram	36	1	36.00
David Waddell	71	2	35.50
Damien Chua	35	1	35.00
Jayden Spudvilas-Powell	34	1	34.00
Nathan Boadle	33	1	33.00
Cameron Ling	32	1	32.00
Neil McInnes	32	1	32.00
Ben Ripley	32	1	32.00
Felix Johnson	95	3	31.67
John Marsiglio	31	1	31.00
Bryce Lawrence	30	1	30.00
Matt Pitcher	29	1	29.00
Anna Gunn	27	1	27.00
Nicky Henderson	24	1	24.00
Louise Kuchmar	23	1	23.00
Rob Carter	20	1	20.00
Liam Murphy	18	1	18.00
Basil Theophilos	18	1	18.00
Seb Dworkin	17	1	17.00
Frank Rice	15	1	15.00
Vanessa Rule	15	1	15.00
Dane Watkins	15	1	15.00
Susan Bee	13	1	13.00
Mali Konda	13	1	13.00
Rhys McCaig	13	1	13.00
Matthew Ball	12	1	12.00
Matt Bolton	12	1	12.00