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Pacific Online Tantrix Championship
22 August 1999 - Mike McManaway wins
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This page contains links to the results of the Pacific Championship, review games (one of them commented) and a report. For news of future tournaments, click here and page down.
Congratulations to Mike McManaway of New Zealand, who showed that, unfortunately, we can't count the inventor out just yet by winning the Pacific Championship and doing well enough to take over the No. 1 seeding for the World Championship at the last moment. Chris Peek, also from New Zealand pushed him very close - both ended up with 113 TPs and Mike won on tiebreak, having beaten Chris 16-10 in the game between them in round 6.
There were five players from Australia & five from New Zealand, so there was a team match too. The result was clear from very early on and New Zealand ran out the winners by 498-402.
Results
Please click on the links below:
Games Scores, Times & Review Games
Top Three in each Tantrix Tournament ever played
New Elo Rating List & World Championship Seeding Notes
Updated Tournament Records List of Pacific Championship Entrants
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Notes for Entrants
These original notes have been retained here for reference. All the notes are on this page - if you only want a specific section, click on one of these links:
Times you need to be able to play:
Games will be played between 05.00-10.00 GMT(=UT) / 15.00-20.00 Sydney (AUS) time / 17.00-22.00 New Zealand time on Sunday 22 August 1999. The exact time required will depend on the number of entrants and there will be short breaks between rounds and a rest break of half an hour.
If there are a lot of entrants, you may need to play a couple of games between the closing date and 22 August (arranging a mutually convenient time with your opponent/s), so if you will not be available to play at all during those two weeks, please let me know on the entry form. If any games do have to be played early, you will be informed by midnight GMT on Wednesday 11 August.
Tournament format:
The tournament will be played in an all-play-all format. If there are a lot of entrants, it will be split into seeded groups with Final Groups to follow. It is possible, but unlikely, that there will be pre-tournament qualifying for this tournament.
Rules:
The standard tournament rules will apply, with 15 minutes allowed per player per game and scoring using the Tournament Point system.
Click here to see the full rules - they changed slightly at the end of May.
Entry fee / Prizes:
There is no entry fee and therefore no prizes, but if you win, you will be able to call yourself "1999 Pacific Tantrix Champion" and hopefully will have a lot of fun playing in a really competitive tournament. In fact, Mike reminded me that since there won't be another Pacific Championship this century and this is the first, the winner can call themselves "20th Century Pacific Tantrix Champion" - impressive, huh? :-)
Once we have a longer track record, we hope we might be able to get sponsorship for some tournaments. For now, however, they have to be self-financing, so some tournaments may have a small entry fee and some prizes. Others, like this one, will be played for "honour" and Elo rating points!
Entrants from the same family:
Because of the number of games that have to be played in a short time, it is not practical for two people to play using the same computer. In the March tournament, people found ways around this, e.g. one member of the family playing at a friend's house or at a cyber-café.
If this is impossible, we suggest family members play against each other to decide who enters. Playing a five game match, scoring each game according to the tournament points table in the rules, is now the standard way to do this. On your entry forms, please say if this is what you intend to do. Such games WILL be Elo rated if full results are sent in.
Tournaments like the May Open one and the World Championship (details later) are designed to make it easier for lots of members of the same family to play, but we do want to play some tournaments in the "all play at once format" because they are more exciting.
Elo ratings:
All games played will count towards the Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings which are to be used to decide seedings for future tournaments. This event will be your last chance to earm rating points before the 1999 World Championship seedings are finalised. See Tantrix Elo ratings for further information and the current rating list.
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