European Tantrix Championship 2002 - Group A

Group A was won by tournament newcomer Kevin Baird (GBR) who started with a lobby ranking of 846. He and Franky Heyer (FRA) looked likely to take the two qualifying places from quite early on in the tournament and so it turned out. They finished very close and had Mikko Juutinen (FIN) not defaulted towards the end having only played three games, it might have all hinged on Kevin's match with Mikko.

This group also saw the bid of no. 1 seed Péter Petrecz (HUN) to finish in the top three of the European Championship for the fourth year in a row come to a very premature end. He had to settle for 3rd in the group with a W5 L5 record. He will have been disappointed that a group with three Hungarians in it did not manage to produce any Hungarian qualifiers. It was not a good group for the seeded players at all, with new World Junior Champion and no. 12 seed Simon Wright (GBR) suffering from the usual pressure which comes after a first big tournament win and only winning two games.
EUROPEAN TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP GROUP A TABLE AFTER 30 OF 30 GAMES = 100%
Submit a new result Deadline for group games : 9 April
List of Entrants, Email Addresses, Unavailable Dates, Time Zones
Pos. QUAL Nick Name (Seed) Nat. PreElo Pld W. D. L. TPs %
1st -> EF1 Bhoys Kevin Baird GBR
10 6 2 2 122.8 61%
2nd -> EF6 blob Franky Heyer FRA
(1728) 10 7 1 2 119.4 60%
3rd pepe Péter Petrecz (1) HUN
(1933) 10 5 5 104.8 52%
4th Judit31 Judit Pap HUN
10 4 6 90.2 45%
5th shunter Simon Wright (12) GBR
(1826) 10 2 2 6 82.7 41%
6th zolaty Zoltán Borbély HUN
10 3 1 6 80.1 40%
Mikko Mikko Juutinen FIN
withdrew after three games
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2 games against each player. Draw with time penalty = a loss.
PreElo = Pre-tournament Elo rating - in bold type if official
TOURNMT GROUP CROSS-TABLE AFTER ALL 30 GAMES, IN TPs
(bold if winner in 2-game match)
Name Nat. bho blo pep jud shu zol Totals
Bhoys GBR - 15.7 26.6 22.7 25.0 32.8 122.8
blob FRA 24.3 - 21.1 18.8 28.0 27.2 119.4
pepe HUN 13.4 18.9 - 20.3 30.9 21.3 104.8
Judit31 HUN 17.3 21.2 19.7 - 20.0 12.0 90.2
shunter GBR 15.0 12.0 9.1 20.0 - 26.6 82.7
zolaty HUN 7.2 12.8 18.7 28.0 13.4 - 80.1
FIXTURES & RESULTS : 11 MARCH - 2 APRIL 2002
Key: C = Colour used; TP = Tournament points this game; T1/T2 = times in whole mins
Date: Player 1: C: TP: Game score: TP: C: Player 2: T1: T2: Review game
11-Mar shunter G (05.3) 23 - 27 (14.7) R blob 5 6 M!blob-shunter-2002-03-12-2019
11-Mar blob R (13.3) 19 - 18 (06.7) B shunter 4 4 M!blob-shunter-2002-03-12-2047
12-Mar pepe R (06.7) 19 - 20 (13.3) Y Bhoys 11 9 pepe-bhoys-2002-03-13-1216
12-Mar Bhoys Y (13.3) 22 - 21 (06.7) R pepe 10 13 pepe-bhoys 2002-03-13-1240
12-Mar blob R (14.3) 18 - 15 (05.7) Y Bhoys 5 5 blob-bhoys-2002-03-13-1705
12-Mar Bhoys Y (10.0) 15 - 15 (10.0) R blob 8 6 blob-bhoys-2002-03-13-1721
12-Mar pepe R (17.0) 26 - 12 (03.0) B shunter 10 6 M!shunter-pepe-2002-03-13-2029
12-Mar shunter Y (06.1) 16 - 18 (13.9) R pepe 6 9 M!pepe-shunter-2002-03-13-2055
13-Mar Judit31 G (13.9) 19 - 17 (06.1) R Bhoys 10 13 Judit31-bhoys-2002-03-14-1834
13-Mar shunter G (10.0) 18 - 18 (10.0) R Bhoys 8 9 shunter-bhoys-2002-03-14-1902
13-Mar Bhoys R (15.0) 18 - 13 (05.0) Y shunter 9 4 bhoys-shunter-2002-03-14-1930
14-Mar pepe R (15.8) 26 - 18 (04.2) G Judit31 5 10 M!Judit31-pepe-2002-03-15-2130
14-Mar Judit31 G (15.5) 23 - 16 (04.5) R pepe 7 7 M!Judit31-pepe-2002-03-15-2153
15-Mar Bhoys R (16.6) 33 - 21 (03.4) G Judit31 5 10 bhoys-Judit31-2002-03-16-2116
16-Mar Bhoys Y (16.4) 31 - 20 (03.6) R zolaty 8 10 bhoys-zolaty-2002-03-17-1350
16-Mar zolaty R (03.6) 14 - 25 (16.4) Y Bhoys 8 5 bhoys-zolaty-2002-03-17-1446
16-Mar pepe Y (16.0) 23 - 14 (04.0) R zolaty 7 11 zolaty-pepe-2002-03-17-1636
16-Mar zolaty R (14.7) 24 - 20 (05.3) Y pepe 7 7 pepe-zolaty-2002-03-17-1707
16-Mar pepe Y (05.0) 14 - 19 (15.0) R blob 13 10 M!pepe-blob-2002-03-17-1941
16-Mar blob B (06.1) 12 - 14 (13.9) R pepe 13 14 M!pepe-blob-2002-03-17-2010
18-Mar shunter R (06.7) 20 - 21 (13.3) G Judit31 3 7 M!Judit31-shunter-2002-03-19-2040
18-Mar Judit31 G (06.7) 19 - 20 (13.3) Y shunter 9 4 M!shunter-Judit31-2002-03-19-2058
21-Mar blob B (13.9) 17 - 15 (06.1) R zolaty 9 13 zolaty-blob-2002-03-22-1933
21-Mar zolaty R (06.7) 19 - 20 (13.3) B blob 11 8 zolaty-blob-2002-03-22-2008
21-Mar shunter Y (16.6) 36 - 24 (03.4) R zolaty 5 9 zolaty-shunter-2002-03-22-2028
21-Mar zolaty R (10.0) 17 - 17 (10.0) Y shunter 10 4 zolaty-shunter-2002-03-22-2040
23-Mar blob R (15.0) 21 - 16 (05.0) G Judit31 6 7 Judit31-blob-2002-03-24-2149
23-Mar Judit31 G (16.2) 26 - 16 (03.8) R blob 6 5 blob-Judit31-2002-03-24-2205
2-Apr Judit31 G (06.7) 18 - 19 (13.3) R zolaty 9 10 zolaty-Judit31-2002-04-03-1850
2-Apr zolaty R (14.7) 24 - 20 (05.3) G Judit31 8 7 zolaty-Judit31-2002-04-03-1913
Under tournament rule 7c, the results of the three games played by Mikko before he withdrew have been excluded
from the group table (so that the scores for the remaining players include only like-for-like matches) but the
results of these three games, shown below, will be included in the Elo rating calculations for this tournament:
12-Mar blob R (15.8) 22 - 14 (04.2) B Mikko 8 5 Mikko-blob-2002-03-13-2006
18-Mar pepe R (15.0) 25 - 20 (05.0) B Mikko 8 12 Mikko-pepe-2002-03-19-1938
24-Mar Mikko B (01.2) 18 - 44 (18.8) R pepe 4 5 pepe-Mikko-2002-03-25-1709