Matt Peek is the 2001 World Champion
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Reports on the Final - now complete, with champion's pic added
Other Reports (incl. Plate & 3/4, with analysis) - now complete
Assistant Controller's Report by Jamie Sneddon
THE FULL DRAW AND MATCH RESULTS:
ROUNDS 4 -> FINAL (seeds 1-16 join) - Draw & Results - now complete
The PLATE (for those KO'd in R1-R4) - Results: Prelims R2 -> Final
FANTASY TANTRIX: Home Results so far
ROUND 1 (unseeded) ROUND 2 (unseeded) ROUND 3 (seeds 17-32 join)
Individual game results for: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Rounds 4+
DEADLINES & no. of games per match (Engl./fran.)
THE PLAYERS AND CONTROLLERS:
HELP WITH ARRANGING GAMES (email addresses, time details, etc)
Tantrix strategy advice & hints - newly updated
LIST OF ENTRANTS (with seedings, rankings, ages, locations, etc
TOURNAMENT CONTROLLERS (who to contact if you have problems)
Add or change timeslot preferences or dates unavailable
TOURNAMENT RULES IN 3 LANGUAGES:
SHORT TOURNAMENT RULES FULL TOURNAMENT RULES
RÈGLEMENT REGELN FÜR TURNIERE
PRE-TOURNAMENT ELO RATINGS:
Elo rating list Tournament seeding list
OTHER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LINKS:
Top three in each Tantrix tournament ever played
Tournament World Records
Click here to find out all about the 2000 World Championship
RETURN TO THE TANTRIX TOURNAMENTS HOME PAGE
There are 41 entrants from Europe, 32 from Oceania, 11 from the Americas and 2 from Asia. The city with the most entrants is Auckland (NZL) (which produced the last two losing finalists) with 8. We extend an especially big welcome to the entrants from the four countries new to Tantrix tournaments, Israel, Indonesia, Turkey and Belgium:
In the past, the World Tantrix Championship has been mentioned on TV, radio and in the press in various parts of the world and the web pages for last year's event received about 10,000 hits altogether.
Notes for Entrants (retained here for reference only)
If you only want a specific section, please click on one of these links:
Free Entry/Prizes Elo ratings/Seeding method Final note
Who can enter: Click here to add/change time details if you have already entered Click here to send an email if you have any questions Click here to find out all about last year's World Championship Return to Tantrix Tournaments Home Page The date and time are: This file was last modified on Monday, 31-Mar-2003 00:20:42 BST
The World Tantrix Championship is open to everyone. There is no entry fee and no specific date or time you have to play each round (you arrange this with your opponent and there is a deadline for each round) so we hope all Tantrix players, from the strongest to the newest, will enter!
Even if you are new to Tantrix, if you enter now, you have plenty of time to become a proficient player - and with Tantrix there is always a chance of springing a surprise even against the top players.
Assuming you make progress in the event, you will need to play an average of one match every week or two between the end of August and mid-November, but don't worry if you are on holiday for a week or two during that period - we can allow for that if you let us know in advance. If you are away for longer than a week, you might need to hunt for the local internet café or find a friend with a computer for a game or two but that is not always necessary.
Tournament format:
The tournament will be a knockout competition, with the strongest players seeded to avoid each other in the early rounds. As last year, to avoid totally one-sided matches in the early rounds and to avoid those most likely to reach the later stages from getting 'tournament fatigue', the top 16 seeds will enter the tournament in round of the last 32 and seeds 17-32 in the round of the last 64 where they will play the 16 unseeded players who have survived the first two rounds.
Matches will consist of 4 games against the other player in Round 1 (such matches usually take under an hour), rising in the later rounds - 4 in R2, 5 in R3 & R4, 6 in R5, 7 in QFs, 8 in SFs and 9 games in the Final. To allow for margins of victory, the games will be scored on the Tournament Point system, which means that (for example) in a 5 game match, 2 very big wins and 3 small losses can sometimes be just enough to win.
When the tournament starts, there will be links on this page to fixture lists and results, which will be updated frequently.
Rules:
The standard tournament rules apply, with time penalties if a player takes 15 minutes or more for a game and scoring using the Tournament Point system. Click to see the full rules in English, in French or in German - they include notes on how to arrange games, what to do if an opponent does not show up and so on. There is now a shortened summary of the rules in English too.
Free Entry / Prizes:
There is no entry fee.
As well as the prestigious title of 2001 World Tantrix Champion, there is a trophy to keep for a year, the (in)famous feeding kiwi on tiptoe you can see on the right. If you are really lucky, the defending champion will have left all her money in the secret compartment at the back when she returns the trophy, but don't bank on it!:-) In the past, at least one other prize has been added before the start of the tournament, though we are not promising anything yet. The Plate winner wins a Tantrix CD-ROM, the most plate-shaped thing we can think of ...
Elo ratings / Seeding method:
It is currently envisaged that all games played will count towards the Tantrix Tournament Elo Ratings which will be used to decide seedings for future tournaments. See Tantrix Elo ratings for further information. The now final pre-WTC seeding points list can be found by clicking Seeding method & list.
Final note:
In the case of disputes, the decision of the controller will be final. Controllers may play in the tournament, but no controller will be responsible for the section of the draw in which they are playing. In the final stages, the controller will be someone who has already been knocked out.
We have to reserve the right to default at our discretion people whom we have very good reason to think are either cheating or not making an effort to arrange a match, even if (given the nature of the Internet) we cannot prove it. We will not, however, abuse this right. In previous tournaments it has not been necessary to make use of it and we very much hope that will continue to be the case.:-)
Thursday, 02-Sep-2010 21:33:48 GMT
Thursday, 02-Sep-2010 22:33:48 BST (local)