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2000 Pacific Online Tantrix Championship
Murray Pharaoh(NZL) wins the Final on 13 Aug.
This tournament covered the players in Oceania and there were 9 entrants from two countries. With none of the top 6 eligible players taking part (some of them are currently on the other side of the world!) it was always going to be a very open tournament. Jason (AUS), playing from Washington DC between midngiht and 6 am, lost to Murray Pharaoh (NZL) in Round 1 but won his next four games to build up a seemingly unassailable lead. A draw and a loss in the last two rounds saw Jason leave the door open for Murray who took full advantage! Justin Phillips (NZL) was 3rd, just one tournament point ahead of NZ champion Phil Sneddon. For full results, please click on the first link below.
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Final Table and Game Results
List of Entrants
Notes for Entrants (retained here for reference)
All the notes are on this page - if you only want a specific section, click on one of these links:
Tournament timing:
The all-play-all final will be played on Sunday 13 August 2000 between:
04.00-10.00 GMT(=UT)
14.00-20.00 Sydney (AUS) time
16.00-22.00 New Zealand time
There will be a rest break of about 50 minutes in the middle.
You may need to play a couple of short qualifying matches between Thursday 27 July and Friday 11 August, with players arranging times to play between themselves as in the 1999 World Championship. It should be easier to arrange games with your opponent/s in this case because you will all be in similar time zones.
Qualification:
Mike McManaway (NZL), the defending champion, will qualify for the final all-play-all automatically if he enters by the closing date.
Of the other entrants, the three with the highest numbers of seeding points (click the BACK button on your browser to return here after viewing the seedings page) will also qualify automatically. Seeding points will be updated in July after the NZ Championship.
The remaining six players in the final will be decided by knockout qualifying matches, to be played between 27 July and 11 August. Seeding points will also be used to seed the qualifying competition. Those who lose qualifying matches will be reserves for the final if a qualifier withdraws before the final starts.
Rules:
The standard tournament rules will apply, with time penalties applying after 16 minutes per player per game and scoring using the Tournament Point system.
Click here to see the full rules.
Entry fee / Prizes:
There is no entry fee and therefore no prizes, but if you win, you will be able to call yourself "2000 Pacific Tantrix Champion" and hopefully will have a lot of fun playing in a really competitive tournament.
The 1999 World Championship had sponsored prizes and once we have a longer track record, we hope we might be able to get sponsorship for other tournaments too. For now, though, you are playing for 'honour' and Elo rating points!
Elo ratings:
All games played will count towards the Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings which are used to decide seedings for future tournaments, including the World Championship, and to decide the Tournament World No. 1 player. See Tantrix Elo ratings for further information.
Details of the 2000 New Zealand Championship
Click here to send an email if you have any questions
Results and reports from the 1999 Pacific Championship
List of previous tournament 1-2-3's
Tournament comments - Tantrix 'Discus' forum
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The date and time are :
Thursday, 02-Sep-2010 21:30:05 GMT
Thursday, 02-Sep-2010 22:30:05 BST (local)
This file was last modified on Monday, 31-Mar-2003 00:20:45 BST