Champion jungle (NZL) Jungle Payne |
December 8-9, 2007
The 1st Australian Open Tantrix Championship was held in Windsor NSW.
Day 1 started out with a random draw to see which rounds would be played at what times. After the 4th round in day 1, Brad Kast (kasty) took the lead, and never let it go. At the end of the day he led Jungle Payne (Jungle) by only 11.5 TP's, closely followed by the New World Champion and inventor, Mike McManaway (mikem) only 13.0 TP's further in arrears.
Day 2 saw another random draw to determine the running order for the day. Brad held the lead all day, with Jungle always close behind and 3rd place swapping occassionally.
As it turned out the last round would see Position 1 verse position 2. Jungle needed to win by 5 tiles and have no penalties to take the title. Instead he won by 9 tiles, and ended up just 2.2 TP's in front.
Congratulations to the 1st Australian Open Champion Jungle Payne from NZ. Brad Kast (VIC) took second with Mike McManaway (NZ) taking 3rd.
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