Final report: In the first NZ or World Championship Final not to involve a player from Auckland, no. 3 seed Murray Pharaoh from Wellington, last year's NZ runner-up, faced no. 8 seed Chris Hill from Gisborne, this year's World Junior Championship runner-up. Given that Murray had survived the half of the KO draw which contained all of the top four seeds (even if this strange situation had partly arisen because he himself had not won his qualifying group) and had convincingly ended the reigning NZ & double World Champion's two-year unbeaten run in individual tournaments in the SFs, it looked like Chris would need to put Murray under pressure and undermine his confidence early on if he was to mount a serious challenge. Murray, though, was in commanding, even merciless form and won five of the six games (the other was drawn) to storm to his first NZ Championship.

No. 6 seed Cat (who, in a curious twist, finished above Murray in Group C!) won her first three games v no. 1 seed Matt to take a very big lead in the 3/4 play-off but Matt won g4 & g5 to leave himself in with a chance of forcing a tie-break. However, Cat drew a very tense final game to take a very impressive 3rd place, the first female player ever to finish in the top 3 in the NZ.

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4th NEW ZEALAND TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP 2003 - KNOCKOUT PHASE - RESULTS
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Start date 01-Apr-03 07-Apr-03 13-Apr-03 THREE
Deadline date 07-Apr-03 13-Apr-03 26-Apr-03 PLAYERS
ROUND -------> QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS THE FINAL
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Group winners in gold, runners-up in silver, best two 3rd placed players in bronze
4th NEW ZEALAND
2035 Matt Peek (TGM)
NZL
1 Pekko
73.0 TANTRIX
1797 Stacy Henwood
NZL
4 MonkeyBob
47.0 1 Pekko
47.9 CHAMPIONSHIP 2003
v ROLL OF HONOUR
1866 Murray Pharaoh
NZL
3 Scarab
76.4 3 Scarab
72.1 3 Scarab
89.0
1897 Bevan Chong
NZL
2 Mighty
63.6 v 3 Scarab
Champion
1774 Catherine Moxham
NZL
6 Bastet
wd
1209 Greg Bennett
NZL
u Cynosure
def 6 Bastet
57.0 8 fear
31.0 8 fear