European Tantrix Championship 2002 - Group D

Reigning European Champion and no. 3 seed Ben Polman (NED) and the other seeded player in the group, Marion Scott (GBR) at no. 16, both qualified from this group, and looked likely to do so from an early stage. Marion held a narrow lead until Ben won two close games in the match between them, though that at least means that Marion has ended up in the opposite half of the KO draw from husband Kevin!

Indeed, this small group (it already included a bye from the draw then one of the players had to withdraw through illness) turned out to be the most predictable of all the groups. The players finishied in seeding order apart from Matthias Neumeister (GER) who was in the sixth seeding group but finished 3rd (after Alex Heyer (FRA) had looked for a long time like he would fill that place) and Neal Bolton (GBR) who was in the 3rd seeding group but had a disappointing tournament - in the end Kati Karlsson (FIN) took 5th ahead of him by just 1.2 TPs.
EUROPEAN TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP GROUP D 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 -> EF4 benopi Ben Polman (3) NED
(1922) 10 7 1 2 123.7 62%
2nd -> EF7 mazzer Marion Scott (16) GBR
(1770) 10 6 4 116.6 58%
3rd voogel Matthias Neumeister GER
10 5 2 3 100.1 50%
4th looping Alex Heyer FRA
10 4 6 93.0 47%
5th katti Kati Karlsson FIN
10 3 7 83.9 42%
6th nealbolton Neal Bolton GBR
(1714) 10 3 1 6 82.7 41%
ShadowWolf Jukka Heikkilä FIN
withdrew on 12 March
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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
TOURNMNT GROUP CROSS-TABLE AFTER ALL 30 GAMES, IN TPs
(bold if winner in 2-game match)
Name Nat. ben maz voo loo kat nea Totals
benopi NED - 27.0 16.7 30.3 29.7 20.0 123.7
mazzer GBR 13.0 - 22.5 21.4 29.0 30.7 116.6
voogel GER 23.3 17.5 - 29.9 16.4 13.0 100.1
looping FRA 9.7 18.6 10.1 - 20.3 34.3 93.0
katti FIN 10.3 11.0 23.6 19.7 - 19.3 83.9
nealbolton GBR 20.0 9.3 27.0 5.7 20.7 - 82.7
FIXTURES & RESULTS : 11 MARCH - 8 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 mazzer G (14.3) 20 - 17 (05.7) Y katti 12 6 katti-mazzer-2002-03-12-1201
11-Mar katti Y (05.3) 17 - 21 (14.7) G mazzer 10 9 mazzer-katti-2002-03-12-1216
11-Mar looping B (15.3) 20 - 14 (04.7) Y katti 4 5 katti-looping-2002-03-12-1242
11-Mar katti Y (15.0) 31 - 26 (05.0) B looping 8 8 katti-looping-2002-03-12-1252
11-Mar mazzer G (15.3) 18 - 12 (04.7) B looping 9 10 mazzer-looping-2002-03-12-1359
12-Mar mazzer G (16.5) 23 - 16 (03.5) B voogel 12 15 mazzer-voogel-2002-03-13-1739
12-Mar benopi R (10.0) 24 - 24 (10.0) B voogel 12 12 voogel-benopi-2002-03-13-1828
12-Mar voogel B (13.3) 22 - 21 (06.7) R benopi 14 10 voogel-benopi-2002-03-13-1902
12-Mar benopi R (13.9) 24 - 22 (06.1) B looping 12 11 voogel-benopi-2002-03-13-1930
12-Mar looping B (03.6) 23 - 34 (16.4) R benopi 9 10 M!benopi-looping-2002-03-13-2004
12-Mar looping B (13.9) 15 - 13 (06.1) G mazzer 8 14 looping-mazzer-2002-03-13-2028
13-Mar voogel G (14.0) 25 - 20 (06.0) B mazzer 15 12 mazzer-voogel-2002-03-14-1105
13-Mar benopi R (14.7) 24 - 20 (05.3) B katti 12 5 benopi-katti-2002-03-14-1220
13-Mar katti B (05.0) 20 - 25 (15.0) R benopi 10 12 benopi-katti-2002-03-14-1228
13-Mar nealbolton G (03.2) 19 - 32 (16.8) B looping 13 10 looping-nealbolton-2002-03-14-1741
13-Mar looping B (17.5) 30 - 13 (02.5) G nealbolton 9 10 nealbolton-looping-2002-03-14-1808
14-Mar nealbolton G (17.0) 24 - 15 (03.0) B voogel 8 15 voogel-nealbolton 2002-03-15-1703
14-Mar katti Y (18.3) 38 - 22 (01.7) B voogel 5 15 voogel-katti-2002-03-15-1736
14-Mar benopi R (13.9) 14 - 12 (06.1) G nealbolton 14 11 nealbolton-benopi-2002-03-15-1802
14-Mar nealbolton G (13.9) 23 - 21 (06.1) R benopi 7 12 nealbolton-benopi-2002-03-15-1849
1-Apr benopi R (12.3) 24 - 23 (07.7) G mazzer 15 11 benopi-mazzer-2002-04-02-1508
1-Apr mazzer G (05.3) 20 - 24 (14.7) R benopi 11 9 benopi-mazzer-2002-04-02-1539
1-Apr mazzer Y (13.9) 23 - 21 (06.1) R nealbolton 7 8 mazzer-nealbolton-2002-04-02-1812
1-Apr nealbolton R (03.2) 10 - 23 (16.8) Y mazzer 7 9 nealbolton-mazzer-2002-04-02-1832
1-Apr nealbolton G (04.7) 13 - 19 (15.3) Y katti 7 10 katti-nealbolton-2002-04-02-1844
1-Apr katti Y (04.0) 19 - 28 (16.0) G nealbolton 5 6 katti-nealbolton 2002-04-02-1924
3-Apr voogel B (14.7) 25 - 21 (05.3) Y katti 14 8 voogel-katti-2002-04-04-1709
3-Apr looping B (04.0) 19 - 28 (16.0) R voogel 5 6 looping-voogel-2002-04-04-1753
4-Apr voogel B (13.9) 16 - 14 (06.1) R looping 12 6 looping-voogel-2002-04-05-1734
8-Apr voogel B (10.0) 21 - 21 (10.0) G nealbolton 14 10 voogel-nealbolton-2002-04-09-1707