Final & 3PPO Report: No. 5 seed Jerome won the first two games of the Final but no. 6 seed and 2001 Champion Ben recovered to win g3 and keep himself in the match. Jerome extended his lead at the start of the final session by winning g4 but Ben won g5 to give himself a chance of forcing a tie-break if he won g6 by more than 5 tiles. He would have needed a smaller win had the complex nature of the match not led him to lose time penalties in games 3 & 4, but in the end that did not matter because Jerome won the exciting final game by a single tile to win his first ever Tantrix tournament!

In the 3/4 playoff, no. 3 seed Heli came back from 3 games to 1 down v no. 12 seed Zoltan to force a tie-break game (in fact she led slightly going into it) which she won to take 3rd place. It looks like a first ITM norm will be Zoltan's consolation for what for him must have been a disappointing end to the tournament after he caused such a stir during the group phase that more than a few people had him down as the favourite to win the title.

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5th EUROPEAN TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP 2003 - KNOCKOUT PHASE - RESULTS
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Start date 02-Apr-03 07-Apr-03 12-Apr-03 17-Apr-03 THREE
Deadline date 07-Apr-03 12-Apr-03 17-Apr-03 22-Apr-03 PLAYERS
ROUND -------> EIGHTH-FINALS/LAST 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS THE FINAL TOP THREE
SPs Player/Email Nat. S Nickn. Nat. TPs S Nickn. Nat. TPs S Nickn. Nat. TPs S Nickn. Nat. TPs S Nickn. Nat.
1730 Rob Morton
GBR
u cheekymbk
62.7 5TH EUROPEAN
1890 Wolfgang Schwarz
GER
7 space
57.3 u cheekymbk
53.3 TANTRIX
v 6 benopi
76.8 CHAMPIONSHIP
1758 Marc Abramson
FRA
u redrackam
44.4 6 benopi
66.7 v 2003
1894 Ben Polman
NED
6 benopi
75.6  
6 benopi
50.2 ROLL OF
1884 Martin Harlow
GBR
8 RufusT
76.7 v HONOUR
1777 Raymond Hemmecke
GER
u ramon
63.3 8 RufusT
51.6
v 3 Helly
63.2
1570 Markku Saarikoski
FIN
u albicolon
56.5 3 Helly
68.4 CHAMPION
1912 Heli Niemi
FIN
3 Helly
63.5  
5 papillon
1910 Kevin Scott
GBR
4 Cuthbert
80.3  
1661 Lewis Palmer
GBR
u Luigi
39.7 4 Cuthbert
37.5
v 12 Zormac
66.3 RUNNER-UP
1881 Kevin Baird
GBR
9 Bhoys