3rd British Open Table Tantrix Championship
at Mind Sports Olympiad Cambridge
Won by Rob Morton (ENG)
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The top three with their prizes
The third British Open Table Tantrix Championship took place at the provincial Mind Sports Olympiad event in Cambridge on Saturday & Sunday 1 & 2 May 2004. Nearly 50 Tantrix players played, controlled the tournament or spectated, with 35 actually taking part in the biggest table Tantrix tournament yet. It was a fantastic tournament from top to bottom, with the play more intense than ever and the atmosphere friendlier than ever. The Tantrix-themed clothing was once again brought out for the occasion - you can see some of it on the group photo. 21 entrants from the UK were joined by 14 players from overseas, with the countries represented being:



After losing the trophy to the Netherlands last year, the UK players were determined to keep it at home this year. Six of them qualified for the final eight along with two Scandinavian players - neither the Dutch nor the Hungarian ITMs made it that far. The eventual winner, going one better than last year with a stunning 14 wins out of 14 over the two days, was no. 2 seed Rob Morton (ENG). Perhaps the most amazing performance of the weekend though came from 14-year-old no. 14 seed Niklas Andersson (SWE) who finished 2nd. No. 5 seed Tom McCoy (ENG) took the bronze medal and has now finished in the top three every year - his 1st/3rd/3rd sequence mirrors that of a famous Hungarian player in the first three European Championships ...

Niklas Andersson (SWE) also won the junior gold medal, followed by Eleanor Gordon (ENG) and Simon Wright (NIR), while the 'Rising Stars' gold went to Kati Karlsson (FIN), the silver to Paul Smith (ENG) and the bronze to Karen King (ENG), with Niklas, Eleanor and Paul all managing to finish more than ten places higher than expected in the overall classification!

For a full list of the players in finishing order and another picture, please see the table below the following set of results links:

Full list of prizewinners
List of entrants, where they finished, links to their results
Group photo
Press and radio coverage
* NEW * Knaresborough Post article added in May 2005, after we finally got hold of it via Rick :-) - see second picture at the above link

Sunday - Top 16:   1st-8th place group   9th-16th place group
 Sunday - Consolation:   Gp W   Gp X   Gp Y   Gp Z   KO phase
 Saturday - Qualification:   Group A   Group B   Group C   Group D

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* NEW * Simon Wright's personal diary of this year's BOTTC

 2004 BRITISH OPEN TABLE TANTRIX - FINAL POSITIONS
This list shows all players with their final positions in the overall BOTTC, Junior and Rising Star competitions.
It also shows their pre-BOTTC SPs, their number of games played and won (0.5 for a draw), with the TP
scores in each game (after time pens) determining these figures, and how they did in their groups each day.
If you scored a lot better on one day than on the other, please see the "Note on Elos" below this table.
Main Jun. R.Str Player Name (seed) Country PreSP Pld Won Sat. Sun.
In 1st - 8th place group on Sunday ("Sun." scores are TPs in 1st - 8th group)
1st Rob Morton (2) ENG
(1933) 14 14.0 B-1st 99.2
2nd 1st Niklas Andersson (14) SWE
 
(1802) 14 11.0 B-2nd 92.5
3rd Tom McCoy (5) ENG
(1912) 15 9.5 C-2nd 76.6
4th Neil Jenner (3) ENG
(1931) 15 11.0 C-1st 69.9
5th Rick Yagodich (6) ENG
(1911) 15 8.0 D-1st 58.7
6th 2nd Eleanor Gordon ENG
(1769) 15 7.5 A-2nd 56.0
7th Heli Niemi (7) FIN
 
(1880) 15 10.0 A-1st 55.7
8th Marion Scott (10) ENG
(1853) 15 7.5 D-2nd 51.4
In 9th - 16th place group on Sunday ("Sun." scores are TPs in 9th - 16th group)
9th Zoltán Németh ITM (1) HUN
 
(1940) 15 11.0 A-4th 103.8
10th 3rd Simon Wright (11) NIR
(1849) 15 11.0 A-3rd 91.3
11th Kevin Scott (8) ENG
(1875) 14 10.0 B-3rd 86.7
12th Ben Polman ITM (4) NED
 
(1916) 15 9.0 D-4th 70.6
13th Lewis Palmer (13) ENG
(1822) 15 7.0 C-4th 65.7
14th Monica Andersson (9) SWE
 
(1861) 15 6.5 C-3rd 50.5
15th 1st Kati Karlsson FIN
 
(1713) 14 3.5 B-4th 49.6
16th 2nd Paul Smith ENG
(1528) 15 6.0 D-3rd 41.8
In consolation comp (17th - 34th) on Sunday ("Sun." = posn in pre-KO group)
17th 3rd Karen King ENG
(1712) 13 8.0 B-6th Y-1st
18th 4th Thomas Bächle GER
 
(1670) 16 8.5 A-6th X-1st
19th Mauro Lazzara (16) SCO
(1770) 16 11.0 D-5th Z-1st
20th 4th Markus Andersson SWE
 
(1729) 14 7.0 D-6th W-1st
21st 5th Jens Ekengren SWE
 
(1680) 16 8.5 A-8th Z-2nd
22nd Alex Thompson (12) ENG
(1838) 15 6.5 B-5th X-2nd
23rd 6th Malcolm Preen SCO
(1641) 14 7.5 C-7th W-2nd
24th 7th Tuomo Niemi FIN
 
(1708) 14 5.5 C-5th Y-2nd
25th 8th Brigitte Empt GER
 
(1757) 16 7.0 C-6th Z-3rd
26th 9th Victoria Close ENG
(0936) 16 7.5 D-7th X-3rd
27th Vincent Auger FRA
 
(1686) 14 4.0 D-8th Y-3rd
28th 10th Mike Gwilliam ENG
(0750) 14 2.0 A-9th W-3rd
29th 11th Polly Mackay ENG
(1475) 14 7.0 A-7th Y-4th
30th Petra Wark (15) NED
 
(1772) 14 6.0 A-5th W-4th
31st 5th 12th Dale T [u] ENG
(1432) 16 4.5 C-8th X-4th
32nd 6th 13th Kate Pallas ENG
(0750) 16 2.0 D-9th Z-4th
33rd 14th Daniela Pohl GER
 
(1148) 12 3.0 B-8th W-5th
34th 15th Sarah Jackson ENG
(0750) 13 2.0 C-9th Y-5th
Also played - Saturday only
David Lawrence ENG
(1552) 7 3.0 B-7th DNP
Note on Elos: Those who finished outside the top 4 in a Saturday group played in a consolation tournament on Sunday
where their position on Saturday made no difference except that those who finished in 5th place in a group will not have
 had to play anyone else who finished 5th, and so on. Hence, 17th-34th places are based almost solely on Sunday play.
However, the Elo ratings for this tournament will weight Saturday and Sunday play equally, so those who did well on
Saturday but not on Sunday are likely to find that their Elos will be higher than some of those who finished above them.
Equally, those with high finishes in the 9th-16th place group may well find themselves with higher BOTTC-only Elos than
those near the bottom of the 1st-8th place group. The number of game wins is shown as a rough guide (and it is good to
see that everyone won at least two games!), but the actual TP scores and who you played against will have a big effect.

Yes, that's right, they are all playing Tantrix!

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