Tiny Tots Tournament
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Tiny Tots Tournament
This will be a tournament for anyone under the age of 18 as of today (14th April). There are 8 places up for grabs (I will be able to make up the numbers if we only have 7). Each round will consist of the standard 9-round games, with the first person to win twice proceeding.
My provisional idea as to how this will work is that there will be a standard 9-round Duel. All 8 entrants must play the Duel, and their seedings will be decided by their Duel score. The seeds will then battle it out for a place in the final in the same style as a traditional Series finals. If I have overlooked something with this, please tell me.
Enter away!
Current entrants:
Rhys 'Baxter' Benjamin
James 'Not Nguyen' Bradley
James 'Mental breakdown' Nguyen
Ollie 'Because you're not worth it' Garnier
Joseph 'Troll' Krol
Thomas 'Careless' Carey
Eoin 'Everyone's favourite leprechaun' Monaghan
Sophie 'The other one' Krol
Rob 'CANDICACY' Foster
Joe 'Unlimited' Denniss
My provisional idea as to how this will work is that there will be a standard 9-round Duel. All 8 entrants must play the Duel, and their seedings will be decided by their Duel score. The seeds will then battle it out for a place in the final in the same style as a traditional Series finals. If I have overlooked something with this, please tell me.
Enter away!
Current entrants:
Rhys 'Baxter' Benjamin
James 'Not Nguyen' Bradley
James 'Mental breakdown' Nguyen
Ollie 'Because you're not worth it' Garnier
Joseph 'Troll' Krol
Thomas 'Careless' Carey
Eoin 'Everyone's favourite leprechaun' Monaghan
Sophie 'The other one' Krol
Rob 'CANDICACY' Foster
Joe 'Unlimited' Denniss
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I am in!
Great idea, Kai! When will the duel be, as I'm tight for time at the moment?
Great idea, Kai! When will the duel be, as I'm tight for time at the moment?
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Count me in please Kai
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I'm up for this!
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Why not?
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Not in. Tournaments are rubbish only because I will lose all or most of my games and my rating will go down. What about a tournament for people rated under, say, 1100?
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If you start turning down games to protect your rating, you'll never become good.Soph K wrote:Not in. Tournaments are rubbish only because I will lose all or most of my games and my rating will go down. What about a tournament for people rated under, say, 1100?
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Seconded. I don't like losing rating points, but I'll play tournaments if they come up.Charlie Reams wrote:If you start turning down games to protect your rating, you'll never become good.Soph K wrote:Not in. Tournaments are rubbish only because I will lose all or most of my games and my rating will go down. What about a tournament for people rated under, say, 1100?
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Also Sophie, the number of rating points you lose depends upon how good your opponent is. So a loss to Oliver or Eoin or James Nguyen will probably cost you 1 rating point at most. Plus if you enter and lose this time it will make it all the sweeter when you are next year's champion!Charlie Reams wrote:If you start turning down games to protect your rating, you'll never become good.Soph K wrote:Not in. Tournaments are rubbish only because I will lose all or most of my games and my rating will go down. What about a tournament for people rated under, say, 1100?
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Ok, i'm IN then. But I don't really know how this all works as i've never played in a tournament before...
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Why?Charlie Reams wrote:If you start turning down games to protect your rating, you'll never become good.Soph K wrote:Not in. Tournaments are rubbish only because I will lose all or most of my games and my rating will go down. What about a tournament for people rated under, say, 1100?
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It's best just not to give a shit about your rating. It's very liberating.
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Agreed. Now I've gotten used to the new interface and organising the players list in match quality rather than ratings I barely notice the ratings. It's still nice to move up places on pro ranks though.Gavin Chipper wrote:It's best just not to give a shit about your rating. It's very liberating.
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OK, so we have 8 people. Do you think we could squeeze it to 15 so that I could play?
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RANDOM! well, at least I'm not 'troll krol'!Kai Laddiman wrote:Sophie 'The other one' Krol
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Oh do u spell it like that? i thought it was garner.Kai Laddiman wrote:Garnier
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Can I be Soph because Oliver is Ollie?Kai Laddiman wrote:Ollie
Sophie
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Just saying, as I have never played in a tournament before, I don't exactly get what I gotta do...explanation please??
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Sophie, do you EVER understand the meaning of jokes?
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It is spelt Garner, Kai was making a joke.Soph K wrote:Oh do u spell it like that? i thought it was garner.Kai Laddiman wrote:Garnier
http://www.garnier.co.uk/_en/_gb/home.aspx
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This tournament thread has just turned into a facepalm thread.
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Okay, back on track, since there's a good few under 17's on Pro Ranks who aren't on the forum or don't visit it that often (Giles Hutchings, Robert Pajab and Rob Foster sticking out), maybe you could use an announcement or something?
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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Okay, back on track, since there's a good few under 17's on Pro Ranks who aren't on the forum or don't visit it that often (Giles Hutchings, Robert Pajab and Rob Foster sticking out), maybe you could use an announcement or something?
Satisfied?Apterous wrote:14 April 2011
News: If you're under 18, we have the tournament for you!
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Yep, sorry I must have missed thatRhys Benjamin wrote:Eoin Monaghan wrote:Okay, back on track, since there's a good few under 17's on Pro Ranks who aren't on the forum or don't visit it that often (Giles Hutchings, Robert Pajab and Rob Foster sticking out), maybe you could use an announcement or something?Satisfied?Apterous wrote:14 April 2011
News: If you're under 18, we have the tournament for you!
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...sometimes.......................................................Rhys Benjamin wrote:Sophie, do you EVER understand the meaning of jokes?
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I understood it but I thought it must be spelt Garnier.Eoin Monaghan wrote:It is spelt Garner, Kai was making a joke.Soph K wrote:Oh do u spell it like that? i thought it was garner.Kai Laddiman wrote:Garnier
http://www.garnier.co.uk/_en/_gb/home.aspx
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when is this shit gon be
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Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname.
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I think shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie plays with James. Well, maybe not "shit".
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I don't think we're going to get any more entrants, so it'll be starting pretty soon.
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What are you on about?Matt Morrison wrote:Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname.
I think this is how to pronounce james's surname: na-goo-yan
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[quote="Kai Laddiman"]I don't think we' ... .[/quote]
But I don't know what I do!!
Oh and just to let you know, I am going to be on holiday from now till wednesday so I cant go on apterous on sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday.
But I don't know what I do!!
Oh and just to let you know, I am going to be on holiday from now till wednesday so I cant go on apterous on sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday.
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I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "nwang" so the joke revolved around "wang" being slang for penis, given what has been said before.Soph K wrote:What are you on about?Matt Morrison wrote:Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname.
I think this is how to pronounce james's surname: na-goo-yan
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I thought it was pronounced "nwen".Ryan Taylor wrote:I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "nwang" so the joke revolved around "wang" being slang for penis, given what has been said before.Soph K wrote:What are you on about?Matt Morrison wrote:Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname.
I think this is how to pronounce james's surname: na-goo-yan
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Will just have to wait until Vietnam boy comes along to clear things up.Mark James wrote:I thought it was pronounced "nwen".
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I'm in please Kai, if I'm not too late
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Great place for a first post.Robert Foster wrote:I'm in please Kai, if I'm not too late
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It's just pronounced "win" with the very slight hint of "n" before it, basically one syllable. Thanks.
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Rob's entrance means that the bottom two seeds after the Duel will have to play each other, with the winner going through to the knock-out.
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Common misconception. Anything with 'win' is incorrect.Matt Morrison wrote:It's just pronounced "win" with the very slight hint of "n" before it, basically one syllable. Thanks.
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Don't leave it there! My interest is proper piqued now. Tell us how it's pronounced or I'll think you're all, like, really randomJames Nguyen wrote:Common misconception. Anything with 'win' is incorrect.Matt Morrison wrote:It's just pronounced "win" with the very slight hint of "n" before it, basically one syllable. Thanks.
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It's new-en, isn't it? That's how I pronounce it in my head anyway.
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It's clearly nwang, I've told you already! Based solely on the fact that the poker player Scotty Nguyen has his name pronounced like that.
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Ah, but by whom?Ryan Taylor wrote:It's clearly nwang, I've told you already! Based solely on the fact that the poker player Scotty Nguyen has his name pronounced like that.
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American commentators. Wait, are you suggesting American poker commentators wouldn't be reliable?Phil Reynolds wrote:Ah, but by whom?Ryan Taylor wrote:It's clearly nwang, I've told you already! Based solely on the fact that the poker player Scotty Nguyen has his name pronounced like that.
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Also, they say "(n)win", I'm fairly sure, as that's how I learnt to say it myself! Unless they've changed pronunciation recently.
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I pronounce it na-goo-yan. James 'Mental Breakdown' Nagooyan.
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I pronounce it "Ngoyan". "ng" as in "song", "oy" as in "toy" and then the vowel from "could" followed by "n".
Looking at it again though it could be "eye" rather than "oy".
Looking at it again though it could be "eye" rather than "oy".
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Wrong Thread.
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Nguyen Thread. Maybe you've hit the nail on the head.Rhys Benjamin wrote:Wrong Thread.
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Any relation?Gavin Chipper wrote:Nguyen Thread. Maybe you've hit the nail on the head.Rhys Benjamin wrote:Wrong Thread.
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This is correct.Gavin Chipper wrote: "ng" as in "song"
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That's how my friends pronounce it too, and it's not too far.Kai Laddiman wrote:It's new-en, isn't it? That's how I pronounce it in my head anyway.
Matt Morrison wrote:Also, they say "(n)win", I'm fairly sure, as that's how I learnt to say it myself! Unless they've changed pronunciation recently.
Ah you brits will never pronounce it correctly. That's how the foreigners(to Vietnam) pronounce it, because they simply cannot pronounce it like the viets.
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Am I too late to sign up for this?
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Go for it - you just have to say how you think you'd pronounce it and then let everyone critique your efforts.Joe Denniss wrote:Am I too late to sign up for this?
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(Or, just for you, A-lol.)Matt Morrison wrote:Go for it - you just have to say how you think you'd pronounce it and then let everyone critique your efforts.Joe Denniss wrote:Am I too late to sign up for this?