2nd British Open Table Tantrix Championship
at Mind Sports Olympiad Cambridge
won by Ben Polman (NED)

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The top three with their medals The second British Open Table Tantrix Championship was played at the Mind Sports Olympiad event in Cambridge on Saturday & Sunday 3 & 4 May 2003. 21 Tantrix players played, controlled the tournament or spectated, with 15 actually taking part in an extremely exciting two-day all-play-all where the lead kept on changing hands right up until the final round. A wonderfully friendly atmosphere surrounded the tournament throughout thanks to the entrants who came from the following countries:

       

Ben Polman claimed the trophy for the Netherlands with home representatives Rob Morton and defending champion Tom McCoy in 2nd & 3rd respectively. Last year' runner-up Kevin Scott was 4th. Eleanor Gordon was the top U18 player and Brigitte Empt from Germany the top player with a pre-tournament Elo rating below 1750 and lobby ranking below 850, while Heli Niemi from Finland and Karen King won consolation prizes for the best results on Saturday and Sunday respectively of those not finishing in the top three. Summary results can now be seen below followed by links to more detailed player-by-player and round-by-round results.

* NEW * You can now view the tournament report with lots of photos and if you still have an insatiable appetite for pics (and captions!) after reading the report, why not follow the British Open link on Heli's homepage!
2003 BRITISH OPEN TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP - THE FINAL RESULT
All of the figures in the table below exclude points for byes. For detailed results, see links below the table.
P J U  Player Name (in lobby) Elo Nat Pld W D L TPs % Ld P
1      Ben Polman ("benopi") 1913
14 10 2 2 189.9 68% 2.3 1
2      Rob Morton ("cheekymbk") 1883
14 11 1 2 187.6 67% 3.7 2
3      Tom McCoy ("LittleTom") 1946
14 11 - 3 183.9 66% 7.8 3
4    Kevin Scott ("cuthbert") 1906
14 10 1 3 176.1 63% 5.8 4
5      Rick Yagodich ("RickY") 1741
14 9 2 3 170.3 61% 3.2 5
6      Marion Scott ("mazzer") 1836
14 9 - 5 167.1 60% 10.1 6
7    Heli Niemi ("Helly") 1926
14 6 2 6 157.0 56% 7.4 7
8 1    Eleanor Gordon ("Frogzone1") 1785
14 7 - 7 149.6 53% 9.1 8
9 1  Brigitte Empt ("jolene") 1734
14 6 1 7 140.5 50% 4.1 9
10   2  Karen King ("Salsachick") 1707
14 6 - 8 136.4 49% 2.3 10
11    Alex Thompson ("toddy") 1852
14 4 2 8 134.1 48% 8.2 11
12    Alistair Gorrie ("Allegory") 1837
14 6 1 7 125.9 45% 55.8 12
13 3  Jonathan Jones ("Jonjo") L500
14 2 - 12 70.1 25% 9.9 13
14 4  Sharon Lewis ("frankie") L555
14 2 - 12 60.2 22% 8.9 14
15 2 5  Dale Thompson ("thompster") 1514
14 - - 14 51.3 18% - 15
P = final position overall; J = posn in junior/U18 competition; U = posn in Elo<1750:LR<850 competition
Elo ratings in bold are established, non-bold if provisional, L if no Elo so lobby ranking used
Ld = no. of TPs ahead of the player below
* NEW * Full REPORT and PHOTOS * NEW *
View the CROSS-TABLE & POSITIONS AFTER EACH ROUND, cumulative TP totals & time pen summaries
View the INDIVIDUAL GAME RESULTS in chronological order with tile scores, times, etc
View the LIST OF PRIZEWINNERS
Even more PHOTOS - follow the British Open link on Heli's homepage
View the LIST OF ENTRANTS and where they finished
View a list of the top three players in each Tantrix tournament ever played
Go to last year's (2002) British Open home page
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