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Congratulations! Good Tourney All :)

Posted by Pistoleer on Tuesday, Jun 10 at 5:45am

We have our winners!
Winners:

#1 1st Place LB1964 (1850)

#2 2nd Place abstinence (1658)

#3 3rd Place Hammers (1619)

 

Well played everyone, especially our 3 finalists, Hammers, Abstinence and of course special congratulations to The Prof LB1964 fer winning!

I hope ye all enjoyed it and maybe even made a few mates (pun intended ;)

When i get back from holidays ill set up a new Fast Play tourney fer those interested so keep an eye out or feel free to shoot me a friend request so ye will automatically see when i create it. Cheers!


Winners:

#1 1st Place LB1964 (1762)

#2 2nd Place abstinence (1624)

#3 3rd Place Hammers (1606)

TD: Pistoleer Started on Apr 30, 2008 @ 10:00am

Players: 16   Time Control: 1 day/move
Max Group Size: 4   Rating Range: Open
# Advance: 1   Tie Breaks: Yes
Points Available: 180   Games Rated: Yes
Max Avg Time/Move: 4 hours

TOURNAMENT FINISHED!
Tournament Stats
Starting Players: 16 Completed Games: 74 (tournament is 100% complete)
Eliminated Round 1: 8 (50% of field) Games in Round 1: 48
Eliminated Round 2: 6 (37% of field) Games in Round 2: 24
Eliminated Round 3: 2 (12% of field) Games in Round 3: 2
Players Withdrawn: 0 (0%) # Timeouts: 5 (6%)
Remaining Players: 1 (6%) Remaining Games: 0 (current round)
Average Rating: 1503 Biggest Upset: 1575 defeats 1806

A small and quick play tourney for those who don't want to have too many games at once but like to move frequently during the day.

4 groups of 4 with 1 going through from each group to the final four.

2 games at once against each player, with 3 players means this tourney will give you 6 games at once, which is more manageable than 14 or more!

Limited to players with at least 20 games under the belts and a maximum average move time of 4 hours, to try and ensure the games move along quickly.

If you must use vacation time, especially over weekends that is fine, but please try and be courteous and let people know how long you might be away if you can. Do not abuse vacation time!

If this works out quickly enough and people enjoy it I might run this each month (and if need be, increase player numbers to 32 if there is the interest) and keep unoffical records. Cheers :)



 

Comments:

by Pistoleer - 28 days ago
Ireland
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 440

We are almost finished this tourney guys, good games cheers :)

Unfortunately i have to go away for 2 weeks from the 16th-30th June. I will try and log in  when i can, perhaps every few days if there is internet nearby but i do not know if there will be or not. So apologies if i miss the end to this tourney to congratulate the winner, i just didn't expect to be going on holiday so soon (last minute cheap deals)

Cheers fer understanding.


by MarkForbes - 55 days ago
Guatemala City Guatemala
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 23
Sounds great, Tim!  Better start making your initial mental notes for your annotated game, then ;)  I for one could use the experience, lol! Laughing
by Pistoleer - 56 days ago
Ireland
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 440

Hiya Mark :) ahh looks like ye did tie indeed. I think so... this is the first tourney ive ran which has had a 2nd round. I imagine that there will be 6 (or 7 if another tie) in the next round.. hmm will be interesting to find out :P

Perhaps the winner could post their game with some annotation for us all to learn?

 


by MarkForbes - 56 days ago
Guatemala City Guatemala
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 23

A question: since there are ties in at least 2 of the groups so far, is a tie-break match played to determine who qualifies.  Or do both qualify for the final round?  If both qualify, does that mean the final round is among 6 people (so far) instead of 4?

Thanks!!


by MarkForbes - 56 days ago
Guatemala City Guatemala
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 23

Hello to all!  Great games so far, and all the best to all of you!

Mark


by Pistoleer - 58 days ago
Ireland
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 440

Interesting games thus far! Cheers to all who are playing,great fun thanks.

So far 2 of the 4 groups have finished, myself won the 1st group, with Erik narrowly avoiding equalling me, having beaten me in one of our two games. Twas good sportsmanship and fun among all the games.

In group 2 we have a hard fought tie it seems! Both Dozy and Abstinence go through.

Group 3 is still a 3 way race with most games not yet complete.

Group 4 is is looking close between Hammers and MarkForbes. If Mark wins then i imagine it will be a tie in that group also.

 


by Pistoleer - 2 months ago
Ireland
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 440
Nice to see ye all :) A good turnout already and funnily enough we are all premium members thus far, including one special member, our esteemed leader ;) tis a pleasure to have ye with us Erik.