2003 TEAM CHALLENGE - HUNGARY A v REST of the WORLD - Sun 7 Sep 2003
A 'friendly' challenge match between the 2003 World Team Champions and some of the winners of individual tournaments over the last 12 months.
The Rest of the World team comprised reigning World Champion Matt Peek TGM (NZL), British Open Champion Ben Polman (NED),
European Champion Jérôme Papillon (FRA), Blitz Q2 winner Rick Yagodich (GBR) and Pan-American Champion James Preen (CAN)
Amazingly, the pre-match average Elos were almost identical - 1916.4 for Hungary A & 1916.8 for the Rest of the World team, but HUN A's team spirit won through!
Key: W = games won, TP = total TP score, Tiles = tile scores, T1/T2 = times taken in whole minutes rounded down - lose 1 TP per whole minute over 14; C = colour used
TOTALS for the WHOLE MATCH and for EACH ROUND
Round T1 Nat. Team 1 Nat W TPs Tiles TPs W Nat Team 2 Nat. T2 Total playing time
TOTAL 219 HUN A HUNGARY A
15 (287.1) 498 - 451 (212.9) 9
REST of the WORLD RoW 282 Total playing time = 8 h 21 m 
ROUND 1 37 HUN A HUNGARY A
4 (66.4) 114 - 90 (33.6) 1
REST of the WORLD RoW 51 Total playing time = 1 h 28 m 
ROUND 2 45 HUN A HUNGARY A 3 (55.1) 100 - 91 (44.9) 2 REST of the WORLD RoW 50 Total playing time = 1 h 35 m 
ROUND 3 36 HUN A HUNGARY A 3 (57.0) 111 - 98 (43.0) 2 REST of the WORLD RoW 58 Total playing time = 1 h 34 m 
ROUND 4 53 HUN A HUNGARY A 2 (45.3) 78 - 83 (54.7) 3 REST of the WORLD RoW 57 Total playing time = 1 h 50 m 
ROUND 5 48 HUN A HUNGARY A 3 (63.3) 95 - 89 (36.7) 1 REST of the WORLD RoW 66 Total playing time = 1 h 54 m 
TOTALS for EACH PLAYER - click the player's name in this section to email them
No. in Order T1 Nickname HUN A Player Nat W TPs Tiles TPs W Nat RoW Player Nickname T2 Elo ratings
No. 1 41 pepe Péter Petrecz (ITM)
4 (64.7) 103   85 (45.4) 2
Matt Peek (TGM) Pekko 54 Péter's Elo : 1959             Matt's Elo : 2017
No. 2 48 Zormac Zoltán Németh 3 (61.3) 100   96 (37.6) 2 Ben Polman benopi 66 Zoltán's Elo : 1940            Ben's Elo : 1912
No. 3 50 pusi János Püspöki 3 (62.3) 107   97 (60.5) 3 Jérôme Papillon papillon 50   János' Elo : 1915       Jérôme's Elo : 1942
No. 4 43 Sirpi László Szobonya 3 (56.6) 90   80 (33.5) 1 Rick Yagodich RickY 46 László's Elo : 1900            Rick's Elo : 1832
No. 5 37 mikellos Miklós Hansel 2 (42.2) 98   93 (35.9) 1 James Preen bluedog 66   Miklós' Elo : 1868          James' Elo : 1881
INDIVIDUAL GAME RESULTS, round by round
Round T1 Nickname Player 1 Nat C TPs Tile score TPs C Nat Player 2 Nickname T2 Review game
ROUND 1 6 pepe Péter Petrecz (ITM)
R (17.5) 36 - 19 (02.5) B
Ben Polman benopi 9 TM!pepe-36-benopi-19-2003-09-08-2105
ROUND 1 6 Zormac Zoltán Németh R (04.5) 15 - 22 (15.5) B Jérôme Papillon papillon 12 TM!papillon-22-Zormac-15-2003-09-08-1905
ROUND 1 10 pusi János Püspöki R (15.8) 24 - 16 (04.2) B Rick Yagodich RickY 5 TM!RickY-16-pusi-24-2003-09-08-1907
ROUND 1 8 Sirpi László Szobonya R (13.9) 16 - 14 (06.1) B James Preen bluedog 14 TM!bluedog-14-SiRPi-16-2003-09-08-1904
ROUND 1 7 mikellos Miklós Hansel R (14.7) 23 - 19 (05.3) Y Matt Peek (TGM) Pekko 11 TM!Pekko-19-mikellos-23-2003-09-08-1905
ROUND 2 10 pepe Péter Petrecz (ITM)
R (13.3) 17 - 16 (06.7) B
Jérôme Papillon papillon 9 TM!pepe-17-papillon-16-2003-09-08-1935
ROUND 2 11 Zormac Zoltán Németh R (16.8) 30 - 17 (03.2) Y Rick Yagodich RickY 8 M!RickY-17-Zormac-30-2003-09-08-1934
ROUND 2 7 pusi János Püspöki R (15.8) 21 - 13 (04.2) B James Preen bluedog 10 TM!bluedog-13-pusi-21-2003-09-08-1932
ROUND 2 8 Sirpi László Szobonya R (05.0) 14 - 19 (15.0) Y Matt Peek (TGM) Pekko 11 M!Pekko-19-SiRPi-14-2003-09-08-1933
ROUND 2 9 mikellos Miklós Hansel R (04.2) 18 - 26 (15.8) B Ben Polman benopi 12 TM!benopi-26-mikellos-18-2003-09-08-1933
ROUND 3 8 pepe Péter Petrecz (ITM)
R (13.9) 16 - 14 (06.1) G
Rick Yagodich RickY 13 TM!pepe-16-RickY-14-2003-09-08-2002
ROUND 3 7 Zormac Zoltán Németh R (06.1) 22 - 24 (13.9) B James Preen bluedog 14 TM!Zormac-22-bluedog-24-2003-09-08-2000
ROUND 3 8 pusi János Püspöki R (16.0) 29 - 20 (04.0) Y Matt Peek (TGM) Pekko 9 TM!pusi-29-Pekko-20-2003-09-08-2002
ROUND 3 8 Sirpi László Szobonya R (16.0) 25 - 16 (04.0) B