May 1999 Tantrix Open Results

Reports from the final week (final table, game scores and review games below) ...
(28 May) A stunning double victory by Jason over Mike took him clear in 4th, challenging Peter, but more importantly put Britta in 1st place, 3 TPs ahead of Mike, with one game left each. They both have the same win/loss record, so Britta's 20 TPs to 0 win against Dave is looking very important
(28 May) Mike beat Laszlo 22-14, so Britta needed a 2-tile or more win v Laszlo to overtake Mike again. She won 21-14. The two Tantrix 'professionals' certainly know how to play well when there's money involved don't they :-) - in fact, though, they have sportingly decided that since no one else would have made a net $ gain, entry fees will be waived ... unless Peter wins by winning has last 3 games by about 18 tiles per game!
(29 May) Justin's 'comeback' started with his first win, v Jason, raising his provisional Elo rating by over 100.
(30 May) Justin played 6 more games - a great start, winning v Dave, but that was all. Laszlo scored a big win v Justin to help take him up from 8th to finish 6th by just 4 TPs from Dave, who finished above Jim by a single TP. Peter won both games v Justin, but by too narrow margins. He needs just 3 TPs v Steven to finish 3rd though, a huge improvement on his performance in the inaugural tournament.
(1 June) Steven beat Peter and in the last game now needs 12 TPs to overtake Jason for 4th.
(2 June) In the last game, Justin got incredibly close to a 40-loop, but Steven won 21-20. In making sure of it, he went over time (15:35), the last time the old rule was in action, so his 13 TPs got reduced to 12, but still enough to take 4th place by a single TP!
* Congratulations to Britta Steude of New Zealand on a great win! *

FINAL MAY OPEN TANTRIX TOURNAMENT TABLE AFTER

ALL 72

GAMES

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Tournament Category = 26

(average Elo rating = 1634)

How the Tournament was won and lost

Pos.

Nick

Name

Country

Elo

Time

Pld

TPs

1st

Bdot

Britta Steude

NZL

(1895)

204

64%

2nd

mikem

Mike McManaway

NZL

(1914)

201

63%

3rd

Pepe

Peter Petrecz

HUN

(1809)

184

58%

4th

steven2

Steven Trezise

GBR

(1805)

169

53%

5th

jzyhk

Jason

AUS

(1816)

168

53%

6th

leslie

Laszlo Harsanyi

HUN

(1588)

138

43%

7th

ddyer

Dave Dyer

USA

(1619)

134

42%

8th

JimT

Jim Tarsi

USA

(1637)

133

42%

9th

Justin

Justin Phillips

NZL

(1602)

109

34%

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2 games against each other player. Time = average time per game (mins)

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TOURNAMENT CROSS-TABLE AFTER						72	GAMES (SCORES IN TPs)
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Name	Country	Britta	Mike	Peter	Stevn	Jasn	Lasz.	Dave	Jim.T	Justn	Totals
Britta	NZL	-	08	10	28	29	32	35	31	31	204
Mike	NZL	32	-	22	19	10	32	29	28	29	201
Peter	HUN	30	18	-	11	21	21	25	31	27	184
Steven	GBR	12	21	29	-	20	27	09	29	22	169
Jason	AUS	11	30	19	20	-	19	20	29	20	168
Laszlo	HUN	08	08	19	13	21	-	28	08	33	138
Dave	USA	05	11	15	31	20	12	-	21	19	134
Jim	USA	09	12	09	11	11	32	19	-	30	133
Justin	NZL	09	11	13	18	20	07	21	10	-	109

FIXTURES & RESULTS : 30 APRIL - 2 JUNE 1999

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	TP = Tournament points this game; T1/T2 = times in whole mins
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Date:	Player 1:	C:	TP:	Game score:			TP:	C:	Player 2:	T1:	T2:	Review:

30-Apr	ddyer	G	(16)	32	-	23	(04)	B	JimT	5	9	Review
30-Apr	JimT	B	(15)	32	-	27	(05)	G	ddyer	10	7	Review
2-May	Bdot	R	(14)	19	-	17	(06)	B	Justin	6	11	Review
2-May	Justin	R	(03)	19	-	36	(17)	B	Bdot	9	7	Review
2-May	mikem	R	(14)	20	-	17	(06)	B	Justin	10	12	Review
4-May	mikem	R	(14)	26	-	24	(06)	G	JimT	12	9	Review
4-May	JimT	G	(06)	18	-	21	(14)	R	mikem	13	9	Review
4-May	Bdot	B	(06)	9	-	12	(14)	R	Pepe	9	14	Review
4-May	jzyhk	G	(05)	18	-	23	(15)	B	Bdot	10	10	Review
5-May	Pepe	R	(15)	24	-	18	(05)	G	ddyer	12	14	Review
5-May	jzyhk	R	(13)	22	-	21	(07)	G	JimT	9	10	Review
5-May	JimT	G	(04)	17	-	26	(16)	Y	jzyhk	9	8	Review
5-May	jzyhk	G	(14)	22	-	19	(06)	B	steven2	11	14	Review
5-May	steven2	B	(14)	25	-	23	(06)	G	jzyhk	13	13	Review
5-May	Pepe	R	(04)	22	-	29	(16)	B	leslie	10	8	Review
5-May	leslie	B	(03)	17	-	30	(17)	R	Pepe	7	5	Review
5-May	mikem	R	(16)	24	-	16	(04)	B	leslie	8	8	Review
5-May	Pepe	G	(13)	24	-	23	(07)	R	mikem	14	12	Review
6-May	mikem	Y	(15)	22	-	16	(05)	R	Pepe	6	13	Review
7-May	steven2	B	(15)	21	-	15	(05)	Y	JimT	8	13	Review
7-May	JimT	Y	(06)	18	-	21	(14)	B	steven2	14	14	Review
7-May	Pepe	R	(13)	21	-	20	(07)	Y	JimT	10	9	Review
7-May	JimT	Y	(02)	10	-	28	(18)	R	Pepe	11	7	Review
9-May	Justin	B	(05)	13	-	17	(15)	R	mikem	13	9	Review
9-May	mikem	R	(13)	24	-	23	(07)	G	ddyer	12	7	Review
9-May	ddyer	G	(04)	19	-	30	(16)	R	mikem	11	9	Review
9-May	Bdot	Y	(16)	25	-	18	(04)	G	leslie	7	13	Review
9-May	leslie	B	(04)	21	-	29	(16)	R	JimT	7	7	Review
9-May	JimT	R	(16)	26	-	17	(04)	B	leslie	6	9	Review
9-May	ddyer	G	(05)	16	-	22	(15)	B	leslie	11	7	Review
9-May	leslie	B	(13)	27	-	26	(07)	G	ddyer	7	8	Review
10-May	Justin	B	(05)	15	-	21	(15)	Y	JimT	13	6	Review
10-May	JimT	Y	(15)	31	-	27	(05)	B	Justin	7	12	Review
11-May	ddyer	G	(10)	27	-	27	(10)	R	Pepe	12	14	Review
12-May	steven2	B	(15)	22	-	16	(05)	R	Pepe	12	14	Review
12-May	steven2	B	(04)	13	-	23	(16)	G	ddyer	14	11	Review
12-May	steven2	Y	(17)	31	-	18	(03)	R	leslie	9	11	Review
13-May	jzyhk	G	(15)	26	-	22	(05)	R	Pepe	10	8	Review
13-May	Pepe	R	(16)	34	-	24	(04)	G	jzyhk	5	11	Review
15-May	jzyhk	G	(16)	27	-	20	(04)	B	leslie	8	11	Review
15-May	leslie	B	(17)	34	-	22	(03)	G	jzyhk	7	12	Review
15-May	leslie	R	(10)	10	-	10	(10)	Y	steven2	13	14	Review
17-May	Bdot	B	(15)	19	-	14	(05)	G	ddyer	9	10	Review
17-May	ddyer	G	(00)	19	-	52	(20)	B	Bdot	12	7	Review
17-May	Bdot	B	(16)	21	-	14	(04)	R	JimT	7	6	Review
17-May	JimT	R	(05)	14	-	19	(15)	B	Bdot	8	7	Review
17-May	Bdot	B	(03)	14	-	29	(17)	R	mikem	8	7	Review
18-May	mikem	R	(15)	22	-	18	(05)	B	Bdot	6	11	Review
18-May	steven2	B	(06)	21	-	23	(14)	R	mikem	12	7	Review
18-May	mikem	R	(05)	27	-	32	(15)	B	steven2	10	14	Review
19-May	jzyhk	R	(05)	16	-	21	(15)	G	ddyer	5	7	Review
19-May	ddyer	G	(05)	26	-	30	(15)	B	jzyhk	10	7	Review
19-May	jzyhk	R	(15)	32	-	27	(05)	B	Justin	9	14	Review
19-May	steven2	Y	(10)	27	-	27	(10)	B	Justin	9	14	Review
26-May	Bdot	R	(14)	24	-	21	(06)	Y	steven2	11	14	Review
26-May	steven2	Y	(06)	17	-	19	(14)	R	Bdot	14	12	Review
26-May	Pepe	R	(16)	24	-	14	(04)	B	Bdot	9	9	Review
26-May	ddyer	G	(15)	22	-	17	(05)	B	steven2	6	10	Review
27-May	Bdot	B	(14)	20	-	18	(06)	G	jzyhk	6	14	Review
28-May	jzyhk	G	(15)	19	-	14	(05)	R	mikem	12	10	Review
28-May	mikem	R	(05)	18	-	24	(15)	G	jzyhk	9	8	Review
28-May	leslie	B	(04)	14	-	22	(16)	R	mikem	10	5	Review
28-May	leslie	G	(04)	14	-	21	(16)	Y	Bdot	11	12	Review
29-May	Justin	B	(15)	22	-	16	(05)	G	jzyhk	13	9	Review
30-May	ddyer	G	(03)	17	-	30	(17)	B	Justin	5	12	Review
30-May	Justin	B	(04)	14	-	23	(16)	G	ddyer	14	8	Review
30-May	Pepe	R	(13)	22	-	21	(07)	B	Justin	9	13	Review
30-May	Justin	B	(06)	15	-	18	(14)	R	Pepe	12	7	Review
30-May	leslie	R	(18)	46	-	24	(02)	B	Justin	6	13	Review
30-May	Justin	R	(05)	11	-	17	(15)	B	leslie	14	7	Review
1-Jun	Pepe	R	(06)	18	-	20	(14)	B	steven2	8	7	Review
2-Jun	Justin	R	(08)	20	-	21	(12)	B	steven2	14	15	Review

Last Updated on 02/06/99

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