Hyper Numbers Tourney + Duel

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:39 am

Gevin Chapwell 150 - 164 Craig Chittenden

Craig won but I was pleased to be in the lead after 13 rounds against arguably the tournament favourite (along with Matthew Tassier).

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:29 pm

Kirk, Stephen, Edward and Gareth, you have 6 hours, 31 minutes and counting. If you don't start the group before midnight, you will all be kicked out of the tournament. If this happens and Matt decides against playing as well, I will cut Matt's group down to 3 and Group C will look like this.

GROUP C, if it doesn't start by midnight
Dinos Sfyris
Bob de Caux
Adam Gillard
Thomas Cappleman

If some but not all of Group C start tonight, then only the first 1/2 names listed will play.

Oliver

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 6:56 pm

Lost on a tie-break hyper conundrum to Kai! Since it's a league should that count as a draw?

Kai Laddiman 170 - 160 Gevin Chapwell

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:37 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote:Lost on a tie-break hyper conundrum to Kai! Since it's a league should that count as a draw?

Kai Laddiman 170 - 160 Gevin Chapwell

It will go down as a win for Kai but the result will be 160-160 (Before anyone asks, yes, I am making this up as I go along).

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:49 pm

Oliver Garner wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Lost on a tie-break hyper conundrum to Kai! Since it's a league should that count as a draw?

Kai Laddiman 170 - 160 Gevin Chapwell
It will go down as a win for Kai but the result will be 160-160 (Before anyone asks, yes, I am making this up as I go along).

Fair enough, I'm happy to call it a draw though. Maybe a 170-160 draw?

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:25 pm

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Oliver Garner wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Lost on a tie-break hyper conundrum to Kai! Since it's a league should that count as a draw?

Kai Laddiman 170 - 160 Gevin Chapwell
It will go down as a win for Kai but the result will be 160-160 (Before anyone asks, yes, I am making this up as I go along).
Fair enough, I'm happy to call it a draw though. Maybe a 170-160 draw?

I think Oliver's solution is fine. You won, but the 10 points from the conundrum don't count towards goal difference.

Jamie French · Post by **Jamie French** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:52 pm

Hi Oliver

I don't want to put a spanner in the works, but if the above guys don't play I'd be happy to make group A back up to 4 players.

I was 20th in the duel so I think I'm next on the list.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:55 pm

Jamie French wrote:Hi Oliver

I don't want to put a spanner in the works, but if the above guys don't play I'd be happy to make group A back up to 4 players.

I was 20th in the duel so I think I'm next on the list.

I was thinking of doing that, but there was a tie for 20th so I didn't want to discriminate between you and the other guy. Now you've expressly asked, I think it's only fair now to offer you the place. (There's still just over 1 hour left though)

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:16 am

Group D:

Michael Wallace 182 - 127 Oliver Garner

I'm going to pretend the max calculation is correct and say I got 182/185

Michael Wallace 147 - 170 Innis Carson

In what was basically the decider for who'd win the group (although I needed to avoid a thrashing to make sure I got second place on goal difference), nothing very exciting happened. Innis was just a bit too solid for me.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:26 am

All of Group C are out of the competition so it now consists of
Dinos Sfyris
Bob de Caux
Thomas Cappleman
Jamie French

Adam Gillard replaces Matt Morrison in Group A.

Innis Carson won Group D and Michael Wallace came second in it.

craig · Post by **craig** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:35 pm

James 144 - Craig 160

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=347614

Cheers for the game James.

Bob De Caux · Post by **Bob De Caux** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:57 am

Group C: Bob DC 164 - 120 Jamie F

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=347759

Cheers for the game Jamie

Thomas Cappleman · Post by **Thomas Cappleman** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:25 pm

Group C: Dinos 170 - 140 Thomas

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?key=-6 ... 5054453298

James Hall · Post by **James Hall** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:43 pm

Did anything happen about the less-good-people tournament, or were there not enough takers?

Matthew Tassier · Post by **Matthew Tassier** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:45 pm

Matthew Tassier 178 - 117 Adam Gillard

The tactic of surprising a player who didn't even realise that they were in the tournament payed off for me again.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:50 pm

James Hall wrote:Did anything happen about the less-good-people tournament, or were there not enough takers?

Yeah, go ahead and play Ian V in the final. Good luck both.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:51 pm

Oliver Garner wrote:
James Hall wrote:Did anything happen about the less-good-people tournament, or were there not enough takers?
Yeah, go ahead and play Ian V in the final. Good luck both.

I lolled.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:21 am

Michael Wallace wrote:
Oliver Garner wrote:
James Hall wrote:Did anything happen about the less-good-people tournament, or were there not enough takers?
Yeah, go ahead and play Ian V in the final. Good luck both.
I lolled.

I may be obsessive about tourneys, but is pushing it just too far...

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:36 pm

Ben 174-140 Adam

Slight blip from me mid-game, compunded by accidentally selecting 1 large instead of 2 in round 15 when the box popped up as I was typing in chat.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:37 pm

Another draw-win for me: Kai Laddiman 150 - 150 James Doohan

It was a real injustice for James; he didn't even see the conundrum.

James Doohan · Post by **James Doohan** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:00 pm

Kai Laddiman wrote:Another draw-win for me: Kai Laddiman 150 - 150 James Doohan

It was a real injustice for James; he didn't even see the conundrum.

It would have taken me 10-15 seconds to unscramble it anyway, if at all, the latter being the more likely

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:24 pm

Matt T won group A, with Chris playing Adam to decide second. If Chris wins, he's through but if Adam wins by 83 or more (I think), Adam's through. If Adam wins by 82 or less, Ben W is through.
Group B was won by Craig Chittenden with Kai finishing second.

Still four matches to play in Group C; can these be played ASAP!

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:58 pm

My method of getting games sorted has mainly being hanging around idly on Apterous hoping my opponents would appear. I shall now proceed to actively seek them out via pm.

Bob DC
Jamie French
Miriam Nussbaum
Ben Wilson

If you're reading this I'm in the room right now

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 6:27 pm

You do know the P in PM stands for private not public Dean?

Jamie French · Post by **Jamie French** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:12 pm

Dinos 170-114 Jamie

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=351734

Well played Dinos

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:58 pm

Fuck - didn't even know I had entered this. I've been so busy in recent times I've not been on c4c or apterous much - just popping in to do the duel. Why didn't someone send me an email or a pm so i'd have seen it through email?

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:04 pm

Kirk Bevins wrote:Fuck - didn't even know I had entered this. I've been so busy in recent times I've not been on c4c or apterous much - just popping in to do the duel. Why didn't someone send me an email or a pm so i'd have seen it through email?

Sorry mate, completely forgot to do this. Please forgive me as this is my first go at running a tourney. Will be better organised (if there is a) next time.
Ollie

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:07 am

Oliver Garner wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Fuck - didn't even know I had entered this. I've been so busy in recent times I've not been on c4c or apterous much - just popping in to do the duel. Why didn't someone send me an email or a pm so i'd have seen it through email?
Sorry mate, completely forgot to do this. Please forgive me as this is my first go at running a tourney. Will be better organised (if there is a) next time.
Ollie

No worries. Appreciate the message.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:53 am

Dinos 180 - 170 Bob DC in a really intense game. Resolved on a tiebreak conundrum so dunno if it counts as a win or a draw or whatever. We both beat the max on multiple occasions. Bob trailed by exactly 10 points for most of the game then really pulled it out of the bag smashing an insane 8 small target late in the game to equalise. We were both chuffed to solve quite a tricky 1 large in round 19 and both thought that it would give us the edge! A simple-ish final 2 large meant all our skill had to be decided by a rather standard hypernundrum on which Bob was just behind me. Cheers for the game mate, really enjoyable

Oh yeah almost forgot the link! http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 3042519764

Bob De Caux · Post by **Bob De Caux** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:59 am

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Cheers for the game mate, really enjoyable

Yep, great game! Gutted I got off to such a bad start, but chuffed to come back. Great conundrum solve to win it, although it's clearly a draw, right Oli?

Bob De Caux · Post by **Bob De Caux** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 4:07 pm

Thomas Cappleman 127-171 Bob De Caux

Score wasn't a fair reflection the game, as it was very tight until we starting deviating from 1 and 2 large. Particularly pleased with Round 14, where I managed to beat Carol by a mere 8624!

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:46 pm

Dinos wins group C with Bob second!
The only two matches left are:
Chris vs Adam
Thomas vs Jamie

The quarter final lineup is as follows

Matthew Tassier vs Kai Laddiman
Innis Carson vs Bob de Caux
Dinos Sfyris vs Michael Wallace
Craig Chittenden vs (2nd Group A)

Semi final lineup

Matthew/Kai vs Innis/Bob
Dinos/Michael vs Craig/(2nd Group A)

Final lineup (best of 3)

Matthew/Kai/Innis/Bob vs Dinos/Michael/Craig/(2nd Group A)

Matthew Tassier · Post by **Matthew Tassier** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:09 pm

Oliver, what should we do in the knockout stage in the case of draws? It seems a shame to decide a numbers tournament on a hypernundrum (particularly since I am probably the worst at unscrambling them of all the quarter finalists

), so maybe it could go to a replay? Or are you happy with the hypernundrum excitement?

Jamie French · Post by **Jamie French** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:31 pm

Final game from group C

Thomas 170 - 144 Jamie

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=355006

Good quality game, but the better man won.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:01 pm

Matthew Tassier wrote:Oliver, what should we do in the knockout stage in the case of draws? It seems a shame to decide a numbers tournament on a hypernundrum (particularly since I am probably the worst at unscrambling them of all the quarter finalists ), so maybe it could go to a replay? Or are you happy with the hypernundrum excitement?

Good question. I would suggest you ignore the hypernundrum and play an x numbered round game where you continue until someone wins a round AND scores on the next round (winning or drawing) so the advantage in picking first/second isn't too great. When there is a result, either continue playing for fun or skip every round.

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:05 pm

Matthew 'Le' Tassier 160 - 130 Kai Laddiman

Cheers for the game and good luck next round.

Chris Davies · Post by **Chris Davies** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:24 pm

Chris Davies 170 - 150 Adam Gillard

Cheers Adam

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:21 pm

Insane game for mine and Michael's quarter-final. A simple misclick cost Michael a tie, and even a double max game! Very unlucky my blindy friend xx

Michael 190 - 200 Dinos

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:25 pm

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Insane game for mine and Michael's quarter-final. A simple misclick cost Michael a tie, and even a double max game! Very unlucky my blindy friend xx

Michael 190 - 200 Dinos

Easily the most annoying thing that has ever happened to me on apterous.

Edit: Having to play Dinos, I mean.

Innis Carson · Post by **Innis Carson** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:57 pm

Quarter-final:

Innis Carson 187-157 Bob De Caux

Bob unfortunately suffered from an early misclick, and it looked like the 10-point difference was going to remain for the whole game, but I seemed to hit rare form and managed to pull ahead towards the end. Bob's a phenomenal numbers player and there's no question that I was fortunate to win here, certainly wouldn't back myself to beat him again.

Cheers Bob, was a great match.

Bob De Caux · Post by **Bob De Caux** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:54 pm

Thanks Innis, great game. Some awesome solutions in the home straight, especially on the six small. Good luck in the semi.

Matthew Tassier · Post by **Matthew Tassier** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:37 pm

Semi-final:

Matthew Tassier 187 - 180 Innis Carson

Great game, 170-170 after 17 and a nerve-wracking difficult final 6 large. Luckily neither of us managing a solution meant I held on for a narrow victory.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:49 am

Been away for a bit, has the last QF been played yet? I make the remaining games to be

Final QF: Craig Chittenden vs Chris Davies
Semi Final 2: QF winner vs Dinos Sfyris
Final: Matt Le Tass vs SF winner

Is that right?

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:27 pm

Yes, keep playing!

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:01 pm

BUMP!

4 weeks since the last update. I'd completely forgotten I'm still waiting to play my semi-final. Any chance Craig and Chris can play their game soon? They've both been on today by the looks of it.

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:57 pm

BUMP!

Did this die a death or might this still happen?

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:29 pm

Rhys Benjamin wrote:BUMP!

Did this die a death or might this still happen?

I was wondering that.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:00 am

Yeah time this was resolved. 7 days grace for Chris and Craig to play their QF, then I skip to play Matthew in the final. Think that's more than fair.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:38 am

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Yeah time this was resolved. 7 days grace for Chris and Craig to play their QF, then I skip to play Matthew in the final. Think that's more than fair.

Agreed

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:17 pm

Presumably someone will be giving them a nudge rather than passively wating though?

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:40 pm

I've PMed them both just now. Dunno how often Craig looks at the forum though so anybody just give him a nudge if you see him on Apterous...

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:51 am

Me and Matthew are scheduling our final (if you can call it that) for tomorrow morning hopefully at 9am.

Matthew Tassier · Post by **Matthew Tassier** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:32 pm

Finally, the finale

Matthew Tassier 177 - 170 Dinos Sfyris
Dinos Sfyris 180 - 190 Matthew Tassier

Two good close games. Bit annoyed that I got confused and messed up a dead easy round in the second to miss out on a max game.
Thanks Dinos for the games and the impetus to get the tournament concluded.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:47 pm

Congrats to Matt on victory! I will hope to run another tournament probably involving letters attacks of some sort (with possibly duel entry) in August/September, after Feisty's phenomenally successful Summer Open.

Adam Gillard · Post by **Adam Gillard** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:42 pm

When does the Summer Open run from/'til?

Rhys Benjamin · Post by **Rhys Benjamin** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:35 pm

Do you mind removing this out of announcements please?