2003 WORLD TEAM TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP
CAPTAINS AND TEAMS
The results of the recent tournaments survey suggested that people would like to see each country's captain selected
by a vote of the top five players in the tournament seeding list for each country, and all of those votes have now taken
place, with the names of the captains selected shown below.
This year, one "overall captain" will be in charge of all of the teams for their country. This is to avoid things like the A,
B & C team captains all choosing the same players, creating lots of confusion. However, the overall captain for a
country will be able to delegate parts (or all) of the job of captaining any of their teams to other people and each team
should end up with a captain and a deputy captain.
The closing date for entries has now passed. I have accepted late entries to take us up to a multiple of four, so
Guadeloupe now have a team (expect them to be headline news on Guadeloupe TV if they win!) and there is also
a Rest of the Americas team.
NB. Reserves are only needed for the lowest team from each country because, subject to certain restrictions,
reserves for higher teams can be recruited from the teams below them if necessary.
Advance info about the draw:
Seedings will be based on the average seeding points of all five players in each team as at 30 April 2003 - the
vote of the captains who had entered teams by the start of last week as to whether to average over the top four or
all five was very close so I have stuck to the original plan this time around. When I later checked, it turned out
that it would only have affected the seeding band of two teams, FRA A & NZL B, who were within 5 SPs of each
other on either measure and are still effectively both seeded to reach the QFs. Otherwise only the order WITHIN
seeding bands of a handful of other teams would have changed, with no effect on the draw.
One minor change was made to the seeding system, which was to underpin SPs used in the averages at 1400
rather than 1500, otherwise the seeding bands into which some of the lower teams were placed would
effectively have been decided by the ratings of just one (or in one case zero!) players. This change did not
affect any of the teams in the top three seeding bands. The seedings have now been published at:
http://tournaments.tantrix.co.uk/results/03wttcsl.htm
Each group of six teams will end up with one team from each of the six seeding bands, with the further proviso
that teams from the same country will be kept apart in the group phase (except the lone E team, obviously,
since there are only four groups!), which should make for an intriguingly messy draw on Wednesday!
AUSTRALIA AUS
Overall captain: Kathy Upton A team:
Graeme Jolliffe ("Thylacine")
A team captain: Paul Hirst Josh Button ("yoshi")
Deputy captain: Kathy - see above Leah Sanders ("Bell")
Paul Hirst ("phirst")
B team captain: Kathy - see above Janette MacKenzie ("janette")
Deputy captain: Garry Laishley
B team:
Kathy Upton ("Ariel")
Garry Laishley ("taita")
Brett Randall ("buck")
Peter Clay ("TedEBare")
Anthony Sanders ("Paintman")
Res: Phil O'Brien ("Robbie")
Res: Brett Laishley ("brett")
FINLAND FIN
Overall captain: Heli Niemi A team:
Heli Niemi ("Helly")
A team captain: Heli - see above Markku Saarikoski ("albicolon")
Deputy captain: Kati Karlsson Riku Nykänen ("raigaard")
Kati Karlsson ("Katti")
B team captain: Tuomo Niemi Ragnar Wikman ("ragnar")
Deputy captain: Markus Karlsson
B team:
Monika Kangas-Siira ("Mona")
Markus Karlsson ("Markus")
Matti Vaismaa ("Matti")
Tuomo Niemi ("player1")
Ilkka Ylitie ("iite")
FRANCE FRA
Overall captain: Marc Abramson A team:
Jérôme Papillon ("papillon")
A team captain: Marc - see above Fany Buisan ("fany")
Deputy captain: Pierre Sanchez Frank Heyer ("blob")
Pierre Sanchez ("pierre")
B team captain: Philippe Durand Marc Abramson ("redrackam")
Deputy captain: Alex Heyer
B team:
Jean Louis Potier ("iznogoud")
Francois Pacull ("francois")
Laurence Pacull ("lorene")
Philippe Durand ("phildnarud")
Alex Heyer ("looping")
GERMANY GER
Overall captain: Lutz Göhmann A team:
Wolfgang Schwarz ("space")
A team captain: Lutz - see above Lutz Göhmann ("Othello")
Deputy captain: Matthias Neumeister Matthias Neumeister ("voogel")
Christine Dreesen ("Zephyr")
B team captain: Brigitte Empt Ilona Halbach ("fraufuchs")
Deputy captain: Lutz - see above
B team:
Andreas Kemerle ("bricks")
Sascha Kummer ("NAK")
Brigitte Empt ("jolene")
Holger Gräfe ("holgihasi")
Thorsten Grams ("Dennis")
GUADELOUPE GDL
Team captain: Sylvie Banuls A team:
Deputy captain: Franck Torset Sylvie Banuls ("montblanc")
Franck Torset ("franck")
Gilles Brazzalotto ("bodhran")
Pierre Favre ("Burgot")
Michel Castera ("Mimoon")
HUNGARY HUN
Overall captain: Zoltán Németh A team:
Péter Petrecz (ITM) ("Pepe")
A team captain: Zoltán - see above Zoltán Németh ("Zormac")
Deputy captain: Péter Petrecz (ITM) János Püspöki ("pusi")
László Szobonya ("SiRPI")
B team captain: Mária Erdey-Grúz Miklós Hansel ("mikellos")
Deputy captain: László Harsányi
B team:
C team captain: Krisztina Csabai László Harsányi ("leslie")
Deputy captain: Béla Illanicz Attila Mikulán ("blick")
Mária Erdey-Grúz ("egmaria")
Zoltán Nedeczky ("Zotya")
Géza Gyócsy ("frodo")
C team:
Béla Illanicz ("zumimaci")
Olga Secerov ("picur")
Krisztina Csabai ("Csopi")
Tamás Gombkötő ("TommG")
László König ("Gulu")
Res: Sarolta Fazekas ("red")
NETHERLANDS NED
Team captain: Ben Polman A team:
Deputy captain: Petra Wark Ben Polman ("benopi")
Petra Wark ("humber")
Johan Polman ("jopoh")
Hans Polman ("hapo")
Gerard de Vries ("djoox")
NEW ZEALAND NZL
Overall captain: Matt Peek (TGM) A team:
Matt Peek (TGM) ("Pekko")
A team captain: Matt - see above Shaun Cooper ("scoop")
Deputy captain: Murray Pharaoh Murray Pharaoh ("Scarab")
Cat Moxham ("Bastet")
B team captain: Mike McManaway Bevan Chong ("Mighty")
Deputy captain: Robin Brown
B team:
Mike McManaway ("mikem")
Britta Steude ("Bdot")
Chris Hill ("fear")
Robin Brown ("robin")
Stacy Henwood ("monkeybob")
REST O/T AMERICAS RoA
Team captain: Walter Haselmann A team:
Deputy captain: James Preen James Preen (CAN) ("bluedog")
Walter Haselmann (ARG) ("Argentino")
Marcelo Viton (ARG) ("elzorro")
Luis Morfin (MEX) ("abyss")
Darryl Bartie (CAN) ("helmet")
REST OF EUROPE RoE
Team captain: Yoseph Phillips A team:
Deputy captain: Paweł Siwak Yoseph Phillips (ISR) ("yoseph")
Marek Reniers (POL) ("1kornik21")
Paweł Siwak (POL) ("pawel")
Katarina Krausova (SVK) ("katka")
Ela Sikudova (SVK) ("fcielka")
Res: Mark Harris (IRL) ("harrysnet")
SWEDEN SWE
Team captain: Oskar Green A team:
Deputy captain: Jens Ekengren Thomas Jarl ("mavve")
Jens Ekengren ("kashieda")
Monica Andersson ("Nica")
Niklas Andersson ("NiklasA")
Markus A [u] ("MarkusA")
UNITED KINGDOM GBR
Overall captain: Steven Trezise (ITM) A team:
Tom McCoy ("LittleTom")
A team captain: Tom McCoy Steven Trezise (ITM) ("steven2")
Deputy captain: Steven - see above Kevin Scott ("cuthbert")
Rob Morton ("cheekymbk")
B team captain: Simon Wright Kevin Baird ("Bhoys")
Deputy captain: Marion Scott
B team:
C team captain: Rick Yagodich Martin Harlow ("RufusT")
Deputy captain: Eleanor Gordon Marion Scott ("mazzer")
Julia Schwarz ("jade")
D team captain: Neal Bolton Simon Wright ("shunter")
Deputy captain: Glynn Ridley Al Gorrie ("Allegory")
E team captain: Neil Jenner C team:
Deputy captain: Paul Farley Rick Yagodich ("RickY")
Lewis Palmer ("luigi")
Will Brooks ("WillBrooks")
Alex Thompson ("toddy")
Eleanor Gordon ("Frogzone1")
D team:
Neal Bolton ("MrTwister")
Glynn Ridley ("Puddleglum")
Karen King ("Salsachick")
Melinda Barry ("melinda")
James Else ("ta56636")
E team:
Neil Jenner ("Neilj")
Paul Farley ("fannyadams")
Michael Baker ("mwb")
Daniel Goldhill ("mibbledee")
Malcolm Preen ("proon")
USA USA
Team captain: Brad Swanlund A team:
Deputy captain: Roger Campbell Jed Mihalisin ("Jed00")
Dave Dyer ("ddyer")
Brad Swanlund ("brad")
Irene Dyer ("idyer")
Roger Campbell ("rmanpv")
Res: Joe Ruby ("JMSC")