Current Tantrix Online Tournament Elo Ratings

The end of 2001 tournament Elo ratings for 163 players based on a total of 2445 tournament games played can be found below. Ratings for individual tournaments are taken to the nearest integer and overall ratings are shown to the nearest integer but any ties are split according to extra decimal places held in the ratings spreadsheet. If ratings are exactly equal to many decimal places, the player whose rating is based on the most tournament games takes precedence.

I regret that there were a couple of errors on the list as originally published in December 2001:

a) A very minor error in calculating the ratings for the 2001 WTC means that some players' ratings for that tournament were one or two points lower than they should have been.

b) The ratings for the 1999 WTC were not deweighted enough. Correcting this changed a few overall ratings by up to 10s of points but fortunately the players most affected tended not to be near others in the same country/continent and while a couple of seedings for the early 2002 tournaments would have changed, fortunately it does not appear that anyone would have moved between seeding groups, so the draws for those tournaments would not have been affected. The most noticeable change is that the players in 2nd and 3rd in the table changed places.

These errors were noticed before the 2002 WTTC and have been corrected in the table below. More stringent automatic checks have been put in place for both of these factors and other factors so it should be getting increasingly hard for even minor errors to occur.

For a key to what the columns mean, see below the rating list. Click on one or more of the links at the bottom of the page for notes, explanations, rating rules, tournament categories and Tantrix Master titles - comments are welcome.

Single tournament performances in 2001 of at the original tournament master norm level of 2000 and above - see the
titles section for updated details) are in red, as are the bonus norms for winning the WTC.

The order of individual tournament ratings for all-play-all tournaments will closely match the positions in the tournament itself. However, in a knockout tournament, finishing positions and ratings will sometimes tell a very different story. The player who wins a knockout tournament may well not get the top rating for that tournament, especially if they had a relatively easy draw and/or only just scraped through some of their matches.

TANTRIX TOURNAMENT ELO RATINGS - OFFICIAL LIST (G>=20 & played in 2001) as at end 2001
Introduction to Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings
International Tantrix Master (ITM) norms awarded so far
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History - the Elo Rating List at the end of 2000
History - the Elo Rating List at the end of 1999
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PLAYER DETAILS OVERALL ELO Current INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENTS
Pos Last Chg Name Country T P G * Elo * Lobby 01World 01Contl 01NZ/Aus Prev. Yrs
Rating Nickname G Elo G Elo G Elo G Elo
Tourn. games played in 2001: 1135.0 Time Decay Factors -> 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.25/0.5/1
1 15 up 14 Matt Peek (TGM) NZL
Z*
5 Y 66.0 1989 Pekko 35 2064 10 1813 21.0 1949
2 7 up 5 Shaun Cooper NZL
Z*
5 Y 44.5 1963 scoop 9 1924 4 1829 22 2059 9.5 1834
3 UNO Wolfgang Schwarz GER
3 Y 29.0 1952 space 22 1949 7.0 1960
4 NEW Leah Sanders AUS
1 Y 39.0 1949 Bell 39 1949
5 4 dn 1 Britta Steude NZL
Z*
6 Y 42.5 1946 Bdot 11 1832 18 2034 13.5 1921
6 NEW Garry Laishley AUS
1 Y 23.0 1940 taita 23 1940
7 10 up 3 Phil Sneddon NZL
Z*
8 Y 63.5 1940 Runes 16 1982 4 1843 20 1936 23.5 1930
8 14 up 6 Péter Petrecz HUN
8 Y 86.5 1937 Pepe 32 1940 24 1986 30.5 1895
9 12 up 3 Mike McManaway NZL
Z*
7 Y 55.0 1932 mikem 18 1941 4 1729 33.0 1952
10 UNO Kevin Scott GBR
2 Y 39.0 1923 cuthbert 25 1914 14 1940
11 6 dn 5 Ben Polman NED
3 Y 64.0 1923 benopi 34 1883 22 2004 8.0 1868
12 3 dn 9 Steven Trezise GBR
8 Y 52.0 1918 steven2 10 1796 10 1865 32.0 1973
13 13 same Jamie Sneddon NZL
Z*
8 Y 93.0 1917 Ridcully 30 1924 4 1841 21 1884 38.0 1937
14 UNO Martin Harlow GBR
2 Y 37.0 1912 RufusT 23 1900 14 1932
15 17 up 2 Ben Trumbore USA
5 Y 39.0 1911 Crispy 16 1840 23.0 1960
16 8 dn 8 Andrew Swan AUS
3 Y 36.0 1906 Admiral 5 1707 13 1873 18 1985
17 5 dn 12 Bevan Chong NZL
Z*
5 Y 82.0 1901 Mighty 34 1823 19 2025 22 1914 7.0 1897
18 UNO Pierre Sanchez FRA
2 Y 39.0 1899 Pierre 25 1895 14 1905
19 18 dn 1 Jason USA
7 Y 39.5 1896 Phantom 16 1845 23.5 1931
20 23 up 3 Jérôme Papillon FRA
7 Y 42.0 1890 papillon 16 1900 10 1903 16.0 1872
21 30 up 9 Heli Niemi FIN
4 Y 66.5 1889 Helly 40 1942 10 1833 16.5 1793
22 24 up 2 Irene Dyer USA
4 Y 37.5 1882 idyer 10 1938 16 1853 11.5 1874
23 2 dn 21 Julia Schwarz GBR
5 Y 44.5 1880 jade 10 1656 10 1784 24.5 2011
24 NEW Brett Randall AUS
1 Y 22.0 1880 buck 22 1880
25 22 dn 3 Jacq.-Ol. Haenni SUI
2 Y 29.0 1874 Jaco 5 1856 24 1878
26 25 dn 1 Murray Pharaoh NZL
Z*
7 Y 60.0 1864 Scarab 10 1865 14 1882 14 1946 22.0 1801
27 19 dn 8 Matt Mayoh AUS
3 Y 27.0 1861 Sanabas 5 1717 4 1472 18 1988
28 21 dn 7 Zenon Kowalczyk AUS
5 Y 27.5 1861 Zazza 10 1706 17.5 1949
29 11 dn 18 Yoseph Phillips ISR
6 Y 29.5 1848 yoseph 11 1803 18.5 1874
30 27 dn 3 José Luis Cortina MEX
4 Y 40.5 1845 JoseLuis 14 1892 26.5 1821
31 9 dn 22 Laurent Berguin FRA
4 Y 20.0 1845 lolo 5 1581 15.0 1933
32 26 dn 6 Dave Dyer USA
8 Y 48.0 1842 ddyer 5 1825 16 1887 27.0 1819
33 29 dn 4 Philippe Durand FRA
3 Y 41.5 1832 phildnarud 15 1762 22 1935 4.5 1559
34 33 dn 1 Ragnar Wikman FIN
3 Y 34.0 1828 ragnar 16 1924 10 1644 8.0 1867
35 UNO Simon Wright GBR
2 Y 26.0 1827 Shunter 14 1796 12 1863
36 34 dn 2 Kathy Upton AUS
3 Y 66.0 1820 Ariel 44 1842 4 1584 18 1819
37 31 dn 6 Steven Wiley USA
4 Y 43.0 1807 wily2000 10 1767 16 1901 17.0 1743
38 UNO Lutz Gohmann GER
2 Y 29.0 1795 Othello 15 1726 14 1869
39 35 dn 4 Brad Swanlund USA
3 Y 25.5 1793 ssbsracer 4 1655 16 1905 5.5 1568
40 28 dn 12 Alexei Drummond NZL
Z*
4 Y 32.0 1790 venus 12 1729 20.0 1827
41 41 same Yan Moulin FRA
3 Y 43.5 1789 yanm 27 1794 10 1922 6.5 1566
42 UNO Marion Scott GBR
2 Y 42.0 1771 mazzer 32 1806 10 1657
43 UNO Peter Clay AUS
3 Y 21.5 1756 TedEBare 3 1622 18 1781 0.5 1679
44 40 dn 4 Raymond Hemmecke USA
4 Y 43.0 1756 ramon 22 1788 12 1670 9.0 1792
45 39 dn 6 Alex Kowalczyk AUS
6 Y 26.0 1755 AlexK2000 10 1706 16.0 1785
46 38 dn 8 Brian Colp USA
2 Y 23.0 1750 Birdman 14 1822 9.0 1638
47 32 dn 15 László Harsanyi HUN
8 Y 49.0 1750 leslie 15 1726 12 1679 22.0 1804
48 NEW John Waggott GBR
1 Y 28.0 1748 Ioiad 28 1748
49 NEW Graeme Jolliffe AUS
1 Y 23.0 1743 Thylacine 23 1743
50 43 dn 7 János Püspöki HUN
3 Y 33.0 1740 pusi 18 1744 10 1772 5.0 1660
51 37 dn 14 Pamela Wiley USA
3 Y 32.0 1736 Pamela 9 1722 16 1713 7.0 1806
52 UNO Robin Brown NZL