COOT '08 Round Two!

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:22 pm

The COOT Round Two draw has occurred!!!!!!!!!!

Here it is, in full:

Jon O'Neill vs. Martin Gardner
Damian Eadie vs. Dinos Sfyris
Kirk Bevins vs. Richard Brittain
Charlie Reams vs. Rich Priest
Paul Howe vs. Jon Corby
Julian Fell vs. Karen Pearson
Dan Van vs. Jason Cullen
Ben Wilson vs. Matt Coates

Games need to be played before next Sunday, 6th July. All games are 15-rounds. If you can't get in touch with someone, tell me! Jason Cullen is happy to host if you ask him in advance, if not, I'm sure someone will be around.

To:

Howard Somerset,
Matt Green,
Ben Pugh,
Michael Wallace, and
James Hurrel

Hold your horses! Next week the COOT Plate First Round draw will take place and your names are in it.

Lovely stuff guys!

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:26 pm

Yes, I'm more than happy to host any game

. But all games I host must be done before Thursday because I am moving house imminently

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:32 pm

Rich and I will be playing any minute if anyone feels like tuning in.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:51 pm

I'm available a lot this week, just not Monday night and Tuesday I'll be getting my exam results, which will surely call for a drink!

Martin

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:25 pm

Good stuff Martin, I'll send you a PM nearer the time.

The first result is in:

Rich Priest 99-78 Charlie Reams

The scoreline doesn't reflect the closeness throughout, it was a very good game and the lead changed hands more times than an arthritic wanker.

Rich makes it into next weeks QFs, and Charlie goes into the Plate. Good stuff guys.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:44 am

When are you around Paul? I'm available pretty much any evening after around 8pm...

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:52 am

I also don't mind hosting if Jason is not available.

Martin

Matthew Green · Post by **Matthew Green** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:09 pm

Make sure you post here before your games so we know when to watch- especially Eadie vs Sfyris!

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:29 pm

Corby wrote:When are you around Paul? I'm available pretty much any evening after around 8pm...

I'll be online at about 9 tonight if you want to play then. If someone could be there to host that would be dandy.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:19 pm

Paul Howe wrote:
Corby wrote:When are you around Paul? I'm available pretty much any evening after around 8pm...
I'll be online at about 9 tonight if you want to play then. If someone could be there to host that would be dandy.

It's a date!

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:12 pm

I will provisionally host proceedings tonight. I am almost certain that I can host tonight so see you there hopefully

I will prepare your profiles

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:36 pm

Oops, shite can't do tonight actually - how about tomorrow night?

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:42 pm

Corby wrote:Oops, shite can't do tonight actually - how about tomorrow night?

I'll have to check my schedule

Are there any games going on tonight that need a host?

Howard Somerset · Post by **Howard Somerset** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:41 pm

Ginger Jono wrote:To:

Howard Somerset,
Matt Green,
Ben Pugh,
Michael Wallace, and
James Hurrel

Hold your horses! Next week the COOT Plate First Round draw will take place and your names are in it.

Lovely stuff guys!

I'm in Austria at the moment, soaking up the sun and about to go in the hotel pool after a couple of heavy days in the mountains. If the schedule allows, I'll be back and able to play my plate match on evening of Sat 12th July, or any day from Monday 14th. I'll try to log in sometime next week to find who's the lucky person to have drawn me.

Richard Priest · Post by **Richard Priest** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:37 pm

Ginger Jono wrote:Good stuff Martin, I'll send you a PM nearer the time.

The first result is in:

Rich Priest 99-78 Charlie Reams

The scoreline doesn't reflect the closeness throughout, it was a very good game and the lead changed hands more times than an arthritic wanker.

Rich makes it into next weeks QFs, and Charlie goes into the Plate. Good stuff guys.

Yeah, very tough game.When he got ahead with WAZOO in round 2 I thought I'd had it. Very relieved when the conundrum wasn't going to be crucial.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:55 pm

Yeah you played well Richard

Paul Howe · Post by **Paul Howe** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:43 pm

Corby wrote:Oops, shite can't do tonight actually - how about tomorrow night?

Same time tomorrow's good for me.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:33 am

Paul Howe wrote:Same time tomorrow's good for me.

Cool, sorry about that Paul.

I'll be floating around online after 8ish, so I'll see you then (and hopefully a willing host too...)

Julian Fell · Post by **Julian Fell** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:29 am

Hi, it looks like Karen and I will be playing at 8pm-ish on Friday - can anyone host then? Merci

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:54 pm

Julian wrote:Hi, it looks like Karen and I will be playing at 8pm-ish on Friday - can anyone host then? Merci

I will endeavour to be your host Julian

. I want to see my "prediction" in action and I think I might be available that night

. Merci buku

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:29 pm

I'm free tomorrow onwards every evening between 6pm and 8pm as that's when my gf is out. Tonight I have some work to do at that time, they afterwards we're off out to celebrate my exam results (I'll post them on the off-topic board).

Martin

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:10 pm

Matthew Green wrote:Make sure you post here before your games start

Just a reminder that Paul Howe vs Jon Corby will take place tonight at around 8pm. I will be the host so if you want to watch, be there or be square

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:49 pm

I'll be taking on Matt Coates tomorrow at 7pm. JaCu, would you care to do the honours?

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:51 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:I'll be taking on Matt Coates tomorrow at 7pm. JaCu, would you care to do the honours?

Of course I will Ben

. By the way, after your game, I plan to play Dan Van so would you or Matt be our host?

If not, any other volunteers?

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:54 pm

Martin Gardner wrote:I'm free tomorrow onwards every evening between 6pm and 8pm as that's when my gf is out. Tonight I have some work to do at that time, they afterwards we're off out to celebrate my exam results (I'll post them on the off-topic board).

Martin

How is 6.15 tomorrow (Wednesday) for you?

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:56 pm

Paul Howe 108–95 Jon Corby

Good stuff guys.

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:03 am

Kirk and I are planning to play at 5pm on Thursday.

Matt Coates · Post by **Matt Coates** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:35 pm

i will host your game jay, can you give me some info about your opponent as i dont know everyone that well

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:01 pm

Matt Coates wrote:i will host your game jay, can you give me some info about your opponent as i dont know everyone that well

Type Dan Vanniasingham in the google toolbar and it will give you some info. I know he won 1 game on the show

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:09 pm

Just a reminder to everyone about the mouth-watering COOT games taking place tonight

Jon O'Neil vs Martin Gardner 18:15
Ben Wilson vs Matthew Coates 19:00
Jason Cullen vs Dan Vanniasingham 20:00

Hope to see you there.

*Times subject to change *

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:22 pm

Wish I could watch these but I'm working sadly

Also my internet's down

(currently at the library) so I'll be playing any msn games from Emma's. Having said that it looks like the highly anticipated (by Matthew Green at least) Eadie vs Sfyris bout will take place Saturday evening around 7.30pm.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:25 pm

jasoncullen wrote:*Times subject to change and are not approximate*

So which is it?

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:42 pm

Changed Charlie

Dan Vanniasingham · Post by **Dan Vanniasingham** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:22 pm

Thanks for offering to host Matt. As much fun as Jason's well-researched introductions are, you needn't bother for me please! I won one show in series 42 before losing to an eventual octochamp - the end.

8pm is fine Jason, but if we get the chance to start earlier then great - I might have a snooker opponent this eve who I am desperate to put in his place, so the earlier the better.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:52 pm

Shocking result as Martin Gardner beats Jon O'Neill 98 - 94. Well it suprised me, anyway.

Martin

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:51 pm

Here are the full classified results for Wednesday's COOT games

Jon O'Neill 94-98 Martin Gardner
Ben Wilson 96-79 Matt Coates
Dan Vanniasingham 109-112 Jason Cullen

All the above games were of the highest quality with all three matches going to crucial conundrums

Richard Priest · Post by **Richard Priest** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:38 pm

jasoncullen wrote:Here are the full classified results for Wednesday's COOT games

Jon O'Neill 94-98 Martin Gardner
Ben Wilson 96-79 Matt Coates
Dan Vanniasingham 109-112 Jason Cullen*

*The recap for this match will be posted sometime tomorrow*

Sorry I couldn't be there Jason, was otherwise engaged but am very impressed by the scores, looking forward to reading the recap! Hope it makes up for the tennis defeat!

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:07 am

Blimey, goes to show how distorted my odds are. At this rate, I will beat Kirk Bevins.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:18 am

Richard Brittain wrote:Blimey, goes to show how distorted my odds are. At this rate, I will beat Kirk Bevins.

They need amending Richard otherwise you would lose a lot of money on outsiders (if this was real of course!). I would be interested in your odds for the Plate competition with Corby, Ben Pugh and Jono in it. I would like to see you give "correct" odds on that competition

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:36 am

jasoncullen wrote:
Richard Brittain wrote:Blimey, goes to show how distorted my odds are. At this rate, I will beat Kirk Bevins.
They need amending Richard otherwise you would lose a lot of money on outsiders (if this was real of course!).

Perhaps, but I've already made a few grand from the eliminations of Jon O'Neill and Jon Corby.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:54 am

Has anyone done a recap of my game with Jono? If so I could do one sort of with the letters and numbers not in the right order as I have mine and Jono's words written down, but not the letters and numbers themselves, but in most cases you can work out the letters from the two words played.

Martin

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:41 pm

I can post them this evening, about 6PM, if you like.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:01 pm

Richard Brittain wrote:Perhaps, but I've already made a few grand from the eliminations of Jon O'Neill and Jon Corby.

60/40, like we agreed, okay?

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:20 pm

Unfortunately I am busy tonight and will not be able to host any COOT games taking place this evening

. So if Martin or anyone else would do the honours of hosting that would be great.

Good luck to all who are playing tonight

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:28 pm

Ginger Jono wrote:I can post them this evening, about 6PM, if you like.

If you use the recap writer you can just do 'make wiki recap' and overwrite what I've done.

Martin

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:28 pm

jasoncullen wrote:Unfortunately I am busy tonight and will not be able to host any COOT games taking place this evening . So if Martin or anyone else would do the honours of hosting that would be great.

Good luck to all who are playing tonight

Yeah I think I can be there, I have a couple of things to do before then, which I'll try and complete before 6pm so I can get online.

Martin

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:04 pm

Kirk and I are actually planning to start at about 4.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to watch.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:23 pm

Yeah I fckued that up, I wasn't online. Anyway thanks to BW for hosting.

Martin

Julian Fell · Post by **Julian Fell** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:37 pm

Hi everyone, am surprised no-one's posted them on here, but the two most recent results are:

Kirk Bevins 94-68 Richard Brittain (as mentioned on the Wiki and on another thread here)

Julian Fell 101-80 Karen Pearson

I think Ben P's doing a recap of my game (well he said he was anyway...) so I won't say anything else about it for now. Please post game results here as soon as they're finished guys - don't just put them on the Wiki, I know I for one don't check it that much.

Does anyone have the round details for Ben W's and Kirk's games?

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:52 pm

Just gonna do a recap of all the results so far.

Kirk Bevins 94-68 Richard Brittain
Julian Fell 101-80 Karen Pearson
Martin Gardner 98-94 Jon O'Neill
Ben Wilson 96-79 Matt Coates
Jason Cullen 112-109 Dan Vanniasingham
Rich Priest 99-78 Charlie Reams
Paul Howe 108–95 Jon Corby

Still to play:

Damian Eadie vs. Dinos Sfyris

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:02 pm

Still to play:
Damian Eadie vs. Dinos Sfyris

This will take place tonight at 8pm (subject to change). The winner will progress into tomorrow night's COOT quarter final draw

Howard Somerset · Post by **Howard Somerset** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:21 pm

Ginger Jono wrote:Just gonna do a recap of all the results so far.

Kirk Bevins 94-68 Richard Brittain
Julian Fell 101-80 Karen Pearson
Martin Gardner 98-94 Jon O'Neill
Ben Wilson 96-79 Matt Coates
Jason Cullen 112-109 Dan Vanniasingham
Rich Priest 99-78 Charlie Reams
Paul Howe 108–95 Jon Corby

Still to play:

Damian Eadie vs. Dinos Sfyris

Looks like there's been some exciting games there. Looking forward to reading more about them when I get home.

Ben Pugh · Post by **Ben Pugh** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:08 pm

I'm going to struggle to do the recap for the game yesterday - my laptop, which as those who spoke to me last night may now is broken, has gone to the shop and they say that in fixing it, they are going to have to wipe everything off it. Does anyone who was in the conversation last night have a log of it (which you should do if you have chat logs turned on)? If not, then sorry to all involved.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:20 pm

Me and Damian will be ready to roll about 7.30 so get ur sen on msn! Any willing hosts?

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:06 pm

The final second round COOT match has been played

Damian toppled Dinos with an 100-68 win. Damian progresses into tomorrow's COOT quarter final draw meanwhile Dinos drops into the tricky-looking Plate competition with the likes of Corby, Ben Pugh and Jono waiting

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:14 pm

The players who are through to the COOT IV quarter finals are as follows;

Julian Fell
Paul Howe
Damian Eadie
Kirk Bevins
Ben Wilson
Martin Gardner
Richard Priest
Jason Cullen

The players dropping into the Plate contest are;

Howard Somerset
Matthew Green
Michael Wallace
James Hurrell
Jon O'Neill
Jon Corby
Dinos Syfris
Karen Pearson
Dan Vanniasingham
Matthew Coates
Charlie Reams

Ben Pugh · Post by **Ben Pugh** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:42 pm

Unfortunately I have to drop out of the plate competition because of computer issues, my laptop is broken and it will apparently take at least a month to have it fixed and while I can access the Internet from this computer, for some reason it won't allow me to sign into Windows Messenger. On the bright side this means there's now an even number of plate competitors. Best of luck to everyone on both sides of the competition, I look forward to reading some excellent recaps on this forum.

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:24 am

Ben Pugh wrote:Unfortunately I have to drop out of the plate competition because of computer issues, my laptop is broken and it will apparently take at least a month to have it fixed and while I can access the Internet from this computer, for some reason it won't allow me to sign into Windows Messenger. On the bright side this means there's now an even number of plate competitors. Best of luck to everyone on both sides of the competition, I look forward to reading some excellent recaps on this forum.

Richard Brittain is away on Holiday, so I think that makes it 11 now.

Martin

Julian Fell · Post by **Julian Fell** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 5:04 pm

Ah that's a real shame Ben... I'd predicted you to be in the final with Corby and all! I was about to say that the Plate line-up looks possibly stronger than that of the main competition... maybe less so now, but there'll still be some tough competition in the Plate with Corby, Jono, Charlie... and also Karen Pearson! No I'm not joking, she played superbly against me, as you will all see from the recap I'm about to post, and if she maintains that level she could be a dark horse for the title. Go on Karen!

(knowing my luck with predictions, what's the betting that Karen'll be the next one to drop out of the competition...

)

Can I just say that when there are game recaps, I personally would prefer them to be posted on here rather than (or as well as) on the Wiki - it's much easier to 'play along' with recaps on the forum, and surely if you're making a Wiki recap it's just as quick to put it on the forum as well? At the moment Martin's and Damian's game details are on the Wiki only. Just a request that's all.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:06 pm

Julian wrote:Can I just say that when there are game recaps, I personally would prefer them to be posted on here rather than (or as well as) on the Wiki - it's much easier to 'play along' with recaps on the forum, and surely if you're making a Wiki recap it's just as quick to put it on the forum as well? At the moment Martin's and Damian's game details are on the Wiki only. Just a request that's all.

I agree with that.