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2ND WORLD JUNIOR TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP (2003) |
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shunter (GBR)
Simon Wright |
Congratulations to 13-year-old Simon Wright (GBR) from Belfast, Northern Ireland, the no. 1 seed, who retained his World Junior title by staging a spectacular comeback against 12-year-old Chris Hill (NZL) in the second session of the Final. Two games down after the first session, he first ended Chris's amazing 16-game unbeaten run in the tournament by winning game 3 then won three more games as well to win by 70.6-49.4 TPs. Both players played well though, riding their luck expertly when the tiles were with them and keeping things tight when they were not.
Áron H (HUN) came 3rd for the second year in a row, beating last year's runner-up Brett Laishley (AUS) in the 3rd place match.
For *NEW* press coverage of Simon's victory, please click here and for full results and more reports, please see below.
Archived data retrieved from The Original Pages
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Runner-Up
fear (NZL)
Chris Hill |
Third
Ronny (HUN)
Áron H [u] |
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Entries for this tournament have now closed
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| The 22 entrants for this tournament come from the following 7 Countries/States: |
NZL (7) |
GBR (6) |
AUS (3) |
HUN (3) |
USA (1) |
SWE (1) |
FRA (1) |
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THE DRAW, RESULTS and PLAYER DETAILS
Phase 1 Group Summary
FINALS Summary
LIST OF ENTRANTS:
by LOCATION order
by SEED order
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TOURNAMENT RULES & CONTROLLERS
Summary tournament rules
FULL TOURNAMENT RULES
*TIEBREAKS*
'Decisive victory' rule - applies to KO Phase (knockout) ONLY
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Group phase report: All of the quarter-finalists are now known - 2 from NZL, 2 from GBR and one each from AUS, HUN, SWE, USA. The European qualifying groups were particularly close. Reigning champion and no. 1 seed Simon Wright (GBR) finished 1st in E1 and will play no. 3 seed Joe Ruby (USA) who was 2nd in P1. Fast-improving Niklas Andersson (SWE) edged out Attila Mikulán (HUN) for 2nd place in E1 despite winning less games than Atilla. Some high margin wins made the difference for Niklas (who won every two-game match but despite only winning one of the two games in each case) and he will play Chris Hill (NZL), who won P1 quite convincingly.
E2 was amazingly close with one player winning 5 games, three winning 4 and one winning 3. No. 5 seed Áron H (HUN), 3rd overall last year, won E2 and will play no. 4 seed Seb M (NZL) and Dale T (GBR) will play last year's runner-up, no. 6 seed Brett Laishley (AUS) after edging out Ellouise K (GBR) for 2nd place by just 1 TP. However, the World Junior Champion as far as fair play is concerned has to be Adam Petrecz (HUN), who was offered the chance to claim a default against no. 2 seed William Brooks (GBR) after two no-shows which would have put him 1st in the group but very sportingly persevered in trying to get the game played to be fair to the other players in the group, only to lose the game and end up in 5th place - that is how close the group was!
QF & SF report: No. 1 seed Simon Wright (GBR) continued to defend his title in style in the first semi-final, winning the last 5 games against no. 6 seed Brett Laishley (AUS) in a rematch of last year's Final, winning even more emphatically this time by 83.1-36.9 TPs. Simon's QF against no. 3 seed Joe Ruby (USA) had gone right to the wire - Joe actually led by 40.5-39.5 TPs before Simon won the last game. Brett had had a much easier QF, thrashing unseeded Dale T (GBR) by 5 games to 0.
Unseeded dark horse Chris Hill (NZL) despatched no. 5 seed Áron H (HUN) fairly easily, in his SF to continue an amazing run that has seen him sweep all before him. In the QFs, Chris had put an abrupt end to the challenge of Niklas Andersson (SWE) by winning all five games while Áron had beaten no. 4 seed Seb M (NZL) in a much closer match.
In complete contrast to last year when the group runners-up both beat the group winners in the KO phase, this year the group winners each managed to win their QFs and (even more unusually for a Tantrix tournament), the top three in last year's WJTC all reached the SFs once again!
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Boring but important ...
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