The First Big Money Blitz could be marked down as a success. We had 12 players. 2 Experts, 3 Class A players, 3 Class B, 1 C, 1 D and 2 people playing in thier first tournament. 

There were 22 games per player played at 5 minutes with a 1 second delay which led to some very close bullet games. However when all the dust settled Dan V. (Expert) won with a final score of 20 out of 22. Second place was Joe K with 17. Their games can be seen in the first 2 links below. The Standings more or less went well with peoples ratings, no major upsets nor complete dominance by an unknown player -

1.       Dan V        20

2.       Joe K        17

3.       Eric V       16.5

4-6.    Matt J      14

4-6.    Mark K     14

4-6.    Eddie D    14

7-8.    Hank A     11

7-8.    Jaleb J     11   

9.       Tim H      5.5

10.     Cub N       5      

11-12.Josh B      1

11-12.Jonny B    1

We had some good games played as well. Since the time control was too fast we recorded some of the games here are a couple of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ414lIkHGk      (Game 1 of Joe v Dan) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED4mRowY1og (Dan v Hank, Eddie v Joe, Dan v Cub)