5th British Open Table Tantrix Championship
at City University, London
Sat 25 March - Sun 26 March 2006
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The overall top three with their prizes
Intense, exciting and above all very friendly, the British Open is open to players of all standards from all over the world and this year's entrants came from the countries whose flags can be seen below. It was held at City University with most players staying at the LSE's Rosebery Hall and enjoying a group meal on Saturday evening held at Strada restaurant in Exmouth Market.

No. 8 seed Attila 'the Hun' Mikulán (HUN) lived up to his daunting reputation by emerging triumphant from a tumultuous battle with the top three seeds to win the 5th British Open Table Tantrix Championship after a nail-biting final round where he won his own game and two other crucial results went his way. No. 2 seed Zoltán Németh ITM (HUN) won the silver medal by scoring a big enough win against no. 1 seed Niklas Andersson TTM (SWE) to knock him off the top spot that he had held for most of the day. However, Niklas prevented a second consecutive Hungarian clean sweep by hanging on for the bronze.

The top UK finisher was 2004 British Open Champion Rob Morton TTM ITM from Knaresborough, who did everything he could in his final game, creating lookalike after lookalike while trying to defend a 9-tile loop only for the crucial tile to eventually fall into his opponent's hands, leaving him in 4th place. Belfast's Simon Wright (6th), Twickenham's Rick Yagodich (7th) & Aberdeen's Mauro Lazzara (8th) also reached the Final.

Attila also won the under-18 gold medal for the second year running, with Niklas taking silver (and thus completing a set of all three junior medals in the last three years!) and Simon bronze. With the juniors having dominated the main event over the last couple of years as well, there were calls for 'veterans' medals to be introduced next year!

Once again, there was home success in the 'Rising Stars' competition for lower-rated players, with Angharad Taylor (ENG) from Canterbury winning the gold medal and the top newcomer prize by some distance, Graham Purnell (ENG) from Radstock (the husband of last year's Rising Star winner Esther), the silver and Claire Hynde (IoM) from Dersingham the bronze.

The final positions of all entrants can be seen at the bottom of this page, with detailed results available by following the links below. To view some early photos, follow the link to the forum.

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Full list of prizewinners

Final RESULTS SUMMARIES for both days (includes online player nicknames)

Detailed results - Sunday:     The FINAL     Division 1     Division 2
Detailed results - Saturday:     Group A     Group B     Group C

Full list of entrants and where they finished

HALL OF FAME - the top three in each Tantrix tournament ever played

British Open info for participants and discussion forum
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 2006 BRITISH OPEN TABLE TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP Final Positions
Click on division names or the 'Sat. Group' links to see cross-tables & detailed individual game results
Pos. Pos. Ris. Online Name of Player Nation Pre-BO 2-DAY TOTALS Sat. Sun.
Main U18 Stars Nickname (seeding) -ality SPs Pld W D L Group TPs
In FINAL on Sunday
1st 1st blick Attila Mikulán (8) # HUN (1903) 16 10 1 5 B-3rd 103.1
2nd Zormac Zoltán Németh ITM (2)  HUN (2039) 16 12   4 B-1st 102.5
3rd 2nd NiklasA Niklas Andersson TTM (1) # SWE (2044) 16 12   4 A-2nd 101.6
4th skweeki Rob Morton TTM* (3)  ENG (2013) 16 11   5 C-1st 93.9
5th Syagrius Vincent Auger  FRA (1845) 16 10   6 B-2nd 78.4
6th 3rd shunter Simon Wright (7) # NIR (1903) 16 8   8 A-3rd 71.4
7th Rick Rick Yagodich  ENG (1885) 16 8 1 7 A-1st 62.5
8th Soqquadro Mauro Lazzara  SCO (1867) 16 7 2 7 C-2nd 62.2
9th leslie László Harsányi (6)  HUN (1911) 16 6 1 9 C-3rd 44.4
   
In DIV 1 on Sunday
10th Pellepen Lennart Aspelin (5)  SWE (1953) 16 9 2 5 B-4th 99.1
11th SiRPi László Szobonya (4)  HUN (2007) 16 10   6 A-4th 95.8
12th 4th JMSC Joe Ruby # USA (1809) 16 8 2 6 C-4th 91.2
13th benopi Ben Polman ITM (9)  NED (1898) 16 8   8 C-6th 85.0
14th 1st angy Angharad Taylor *n ENG (1512) 16 8   8 A-5th 79.0
15th noodles Esther Purnell  ENG (1864) 16 6 1 9 A-6th 79.0
16th mazzer Marion Scott  ENG (1870) 16 6   10 B-6th 67.4
17th 5th tizz88 Chris Essex n# ENG (1753) 16 7   9 B-5th 65.9
18th cuthbert Kevin Scott  ENG (1882) 16 7   9 C-5th 57.6
   
In DIV 2 on Sunday
19th egmaria Maria Erdey-Gruz  HUN (1844) 16 8   8 C-9th 110.6
20th jade Julia Schwarz ENG (1891) 16 11   5 B-7th 110.5
21st 2nd baboon Graham Purnell *n ENG (1469) 16 6 2 8 C-7th 93.9
22nd humber Petra Wark  NED (1768) 16 6 1 9 A-7th 77.8
23rd 3rd Chrissie Claire Hynde * IOM (1574) 16 4 1 11 C-8th 70.5
24th 4th smaug Steve Tims *n ENG (1434) 16 6 1 9 A-9th 66.7
25th Frogzone1 Eleanor Gordon  ENG (1811) 16 4 2 10 A-8th 66.6
26th flowerpot Lisa Stewart n ENG (1592) 16 5   11 B-9th 62.4
27th 5th godders Mark Godfrey *n ENG (0786) 16 4 1 11 B-8th 61.0
   
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