Champion shunter (GBR) Simon Wright |
The European Tantrix Championship ("the Euro"), played online, is open to all Tantrix players living in or coming from Europe. Zoltán Németh ITM (HUN) was the defending champion. This year, 136 players from a record 17 countries entered.
Phase 1 involved all but the top 40 players in the seeding list, who qualified for Phase 2 automatically. Phase 2 had the 40 automatic qualifiers joined by the 40 winners and runner-ups from Phase 1, with the two winners of each of the Phase 2 groups, plus the highest placed 3rd, going into the knock-out stage.
Congratulations to the new Champion, no. 8 seed Simon Wright (GBR) who defeated Pierre Sanchez (FRA) in the Final, with László Szobonya (HUN) taking out 3rd.
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