| 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") | ||||