Apterous Winter Closed Week 1

Andrew Feist · Post by **Andrew Feist** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:03 am

Information about format and the pairings themselves are at the website.

Post links to games and summaries etc. below.

Reminder: Speed Demon should have two speed-9 games per match; the main tournament should have two or three standard games each.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:28 am

I meant to ask - why does this tournament occur almost exclusively in the Autumn?

Stuart Arnot · Post by **Stuart Arnot** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:27 pm

SPEED DEMON MATCHES:

Stuart Arnot 49 - 34 Ian Volante
Ian Volante 52 - 37 Stuart Arnot

Stuart Arnot 41 - 36 Peter Lee
Peter Lee 25 - 45 Stuart Arnot

Phil Makepeace · Post by **Phil Makepeace** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:32 pm

Speed Demon Round 1

Matthew Tassier 0-2 Phil Makepeace

Tassier 38-52 Makepeace
Makepeace 50-44 Tassier

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:55 pm

Closed - Flight A

Morrison 2 - 1 Volante
83 - 73
85 - 95
97 - 75

Some cracking games. First two crucials.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:58 pm

Further to earlier results:

Speed tournament

Kai Laddiman 38-28 Ian Volante
Kai Laddiman 71-23 Ian Volante

Flight A

Matt Morrison 83-73 Ian Volante
Matt Morrison 85-95 Ian Volante
Matt Morrison 97-75 Ian Volante

Well played, some good games in there!

Andrew Feist · Post by **Andrew Feist** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:30 pm

Ian Volante wrote:I meant to ask - why does this tournament occur almost exclusively in the Autumn?

Because (a) I wanted to avoid dealing with holiday scheduling as much as possible and (b) there's already an established tournament on the February calendar.

Oh and (c) December is winter no matter what they say.

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:31 pm

Kai beat me (This is NOT an instruction BTW)
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=139088
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=139097

Oliver Garner · Post by **Oliver Garner** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:32 pm

1-1 Between me and Matt
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=139206
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=139214

Henry Meier · Post by **Henry Meier** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:39 pm

Closed A:

Henry Meier 2 - 1 Lesley Hines

Lesley Hines 92 - Henry Meier 75
Henry Meier 87 - 68 Lesley Hines
Lesley Hines 84 - 94 Henry Meier

Three very close games which aptly went down to a final tie-breaker, which I managed to snatch about a quarter of a second ahead of Lesley. Excellent games Lesley, unlucky, really enjoyed them!

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:46 pm

Speed demon:

Game 1 - I broke the high score record and I even missed a 9! Could have been a huge score!

Game 2 - not as impressive but a win nonetheless

Final score: Kirk Bevins 2 - 0 Ian Dent

Simon Myers · Post by **Simon Myers** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:13 am

Speed Demon

Simon Myers 2 - 0 Matt Morrison

Game 1
Game 2

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:04 am

Kirk Bevins wrote:Speed demon:

Game 1 - I broke the high score record and I even missed a 9! Could have been a huge score!

Just 12 days away from the top spot.

Stuart Arnot · Post by **Stuart Arnot** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:16 pm

Championship Flight:

Really tight series of games, each one going to a crucial conundrum.

Stuart Arnot 2 - 1 Martin May

Martin May 102 - 111 Stuart Arnot
Stuart Arnot 88 - 99 Martin May
Martin May 90 - 103 Stuart Arnot

I really need to learn to see LEMONIEST as MILESTONE or LIMESTONE.

Phil Makepeace · Post by **Phil Makepeace** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:58 pm

Speed Demon Round 1

Phil Makepeace 2-0 Matt Bayfield

Bayfield 39-57 Makepeace
Bayfield 44-62 Makepeace

Kai Laddiman · Post by **Kai Laddiman** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:57 pm

Stuart Arnot wrote:I really need to learn to see LEMONIEST as MILESTONE or LIMESTONE.

Andrew Herbertson · Post by **Andrew Herbertson** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:55 pm

Speed demon round 1

Innis Carson 2-0 Andrew Herbertson

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=140092
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=140101

Despite Innis plummeting rating his class and speed shone through.

Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:57 pm

A note to my opponents for the next couple of weeks.
Am gonna be fucking busy (and more importantly, away from home) but will try and make things happen.
Please PM me to try and arrange something rather than using the forum or just hoping I'll turn up. Cheers.

Martin_May · Post by **Martin_May** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:56 pm

Speed Demon

Martin May 2 - 0 Julie Taylor

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=140235

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=140241

A couple of close games between myself and Julie.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:24 pm

Matt Morrison wrote:Haha, excellent.... For me, girl tonight. So I may well no longer have a moustache tomorrow. Fuck cancer, cunnilingus for the win!

Matt Morrison wrote:A note to my opponents for the next couple of weeks.
Am gonna be fucking busy (and more importantly, away from home) but will try and make things happen.

Lucky boy.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:51 pm

Flight A

Michael Wallace 91 - 74 Andy Wilson
Michael Wallace 90 - 77 Andy Wilson

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:25 pm

Speed Demon

James Robinson 2 - 0 Matthew Tassier

James Robinson 45 - 22 Matthew Tassier
Matthew Tassier 41 - 54 James Robinson

James Doohan · Post by **James Doohan** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:10 pm

Tom Rowell 2 - 1 James Doohan

3 very good games, well done to Tom

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 1844325424
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2458926079
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 6394775911

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:12 pm

It is my pleasure and privilege to bear news of the outcome of the Contest b'twixt Mr. BENTLEY and Mr. LEE, conducted this Day under the Auspices of Mr. FEIST's splendid Speed Daemon Tourney:

Mr. BENTLEY 36 - 40 Mr. LEE
Mr. BENTLEY 35 - 37 Mr. LEE

Mr. LEE comported himself with most excellent Vigour, tho' a surfeit of Laudanum robbed Mr. BENTLEY of Quickness and Guile.

Gratulations are afford'd the Apterous Difference Engine of Mr. REAMS, tho' such Electronick Magick can only be the Endeavour of a Sorceror or Charlatan.

Phil Reynolds · Post by **Phil Reynolds** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:05 pm

I thought Jim's post merited a more fitting presentation (and 15 minutes doing this made a palatable alternative to completing yet more futile job applications):

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:38 pm

Phil Reynolds wrote:I thought Jim's post merited a more fitting presentation (and 15 minutes doing this made a palatable alternative to completing yet more futile job applications):

This is wicked! Well done both.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:17 pm

Haha, excellent work Phil, cheers!

Innis Carson · Post by **Innis Carson** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:17 pm

Speed Demon games against James Hurrell:

Innis 66-38 James
Innis 69-39 James

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:06 pm

Why haven't I got any Closed matches scheduled?

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:04 pm

Speed Demon:

Andy Wilson 25 - 70 Jon Corby
Andy Wilson 13 - 60 Jon Corby

Matt Bayfield · Post by **Matt Bayfield** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:27 pm

Scott Gillies 84 - 75 Matt Bayfield
Scott Gillies 89 - 87 Matt Bayfield

Posting this here saves me posting it in thread of scrag!

Not that I want to detract from a good performance by Scott, as he played well, but I made some absolute howlers - misclicks when completing numbers games, forgetting to click return in the numbers box after declaring (double d'oh), and absolutely appalling judgement on risky words!

I'm claiming it's a tactical loss to get paired with someone else rubbish in round 2.

Well played Scott.

James Leroux · Post by **James Leroux** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:03 pm

James Levison 2-0 James Leroux
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=140943
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=140950

Gareth Mitchell · Post by **Gareth Mitchell** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:35 pm

Flight A

Nick Wainwright 2 v 0 Gareth Mitchell

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=140932
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=140946

Well played Nick, enjoyed the games

Andrew Feist · Post by **Andrew Feist** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:24 pm

Jon Corby wrote:Why haven't I got any Closed matches scheduled?

I'm guessing you can take tldr too far:

Andrew Feist wrote:Note that each player will have two games in week 6, and a week off during pool play.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:18 pm

Andrew Feist wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Why haven't I got any Closed matches scheduled?
I'm guessing you can take tldr too far:
Andrew Feist wrote:Note that each player will have two games in week 6, and a week off during pool play.

Oops sorry, I did scan over it a few times but yeah I missed that.

Ben Hunter · Post by **Ben Hunter** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:22 pm

Flight A results for Ben Hunter vs Julie Taylor:

Ben Hunter 91 - 84 Julie Taylor: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141038
Ben Hunter 93 - 62 Julie Taylor: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141054

Result: Ben Hunter 2, Julie Taylor 0

Ben Hunter · Post by **Ben Hunter** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:04 pm

Speed Demon pool B:

Ben Hunter 54 - 24 Kieran Childs: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141079
Ben Hunter 62 - 49 Kieran Childs: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141082

Result: Ben Hunter 2, Kieran Childs 0

Game 2 was particularly exciting, some good spots by both of us too

Pic related, it's me.

Julie T · Post by **Julie T** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:21 pm

Phil Reynolds wrote:I thought Jim's post merited a more fitting presentation (and 15 minutes doing this made a palatable alternative to completing yet more futile job applications):

Awesome, Phil!

It reminded me of a BBC comedy website April Fools day joke of a 'Victorian' internet page (2005/6??), but try as I might, can't find a linky.

Andrew Herbertson · Post by **Andrew Herbertson** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:31 pm

Speed demon

Nick Wainwright 2-0 Andrew Herbertson

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141064
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141071

Two pretty convincing victories for Nick.

Matthew Tassier · Post by **Matthew Tassier** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:27 am

Flight A: Matthew Tassier 2 - 0 Edwin Mead

Matthew Tassier 87 - 68 Edwin Mead
Edwin Mead 71 - 92 Matthew Tassier

Couple of close games with IGNITABLE and a 6 small putting me ahead.

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:31 am

Speed demon:

Kirk Bevins 1 - 1 Dinos Sfyris

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141301
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141304

Shit game not helped by Dinos' tactics of laughing every time he wins a round and then "good luck....not" and stuff like that. I know he's joking but I've told him before it's fucking annoying yet he continues to do it.

Phil Reynolds · Post by **Phil Reynolds** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:40 am

Kirk Bevins wrote:Shit game not helped by Dinos' tactics of laughing every time he wins a round and then "good luck....not" and stuff like that. I know he's joking but I've told him before it's fucking annoying yet he continues to do it.

Small typo there Kirk... surely that "yet" should be "so"?

Kirk Bevins · Post by **Kirk Bevins** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:46 am

Phil Reynolds wrote: Small typo there Kirk... surely that "yet" should be "so"?

If it is a "so" then that's even more gay. Sorry, Phil.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:50 am

Kirk Bevins wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote: Small typo there Kirk... surely that "yet" should be "so"?
If it is a "so" then that's even more gay. Sorry, Phil.

I do similar in chat I think with Kirk, but he's never told me it's annoying, so I guess he likes me more than he likes Dinos. Which is understandable.

Matt Bayfield · Post by **Matt Bayfield** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:10 pm

Speed Demon Week 1

Matt Bayfield 66 - 28 Ian Dent
Matt Bayfield 44 - 32 Ian Dent

Finally my first win in an apterous tournament game, at the 7th attempt!

tomrowell · Post by **tomrowell** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:07 pm

Speed Demon

Martin May 1-1 Tom Rowell

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141545
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141560

martin mispelled the crucial on the 2nd game to hand me a rather undeserved point. ul martin

Andrew Herbertson · Post by **Andrew Herbertson** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:20 pm

Flight B

Andrew Herbertson 2-0 Ian Dent

Wins of 75-53 and 80-75 which was stolen in the final letters game with a 9.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141541
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141556

Lee Simmonds · Post by **Lee Simmonds** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:06 pm

Flight A week 1 result, Josh Overhill 1-2 Lee Simmonds

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141058

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141074

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141090

Three good games with Josh, which I managed to come out on top by virtue of coming from behind to snatch the second game on the conundrum.

James Robinson · Post by **James Robinson** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:24 pm

Speed Demon

James Robinson 2 - 0 Julie Taylor

James Robinson 63 - 20 Julie Taylor
Julie Taylor 49 - 57 James Robinson

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:07 pm

A fantastic threesome of games with James earlier on tonight (Championship flight):

James Hurrell 105 - 95 Jim Bentley
James Hurrell 102 - 103 Jim Bentley
Jim Bentley 104 - 97 James Hurrell

I surprised myself a bit by not bottling it as usual, which was nice.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:30 pm

Charlie Reams 2 - 0 Phil Makepeace

107-79: Respectable performance from both players, with my lame surrendering of 10 points on the numbers counteracted by a slight edge on the letters.
93-70: An erratic game, with my disallowed four and a further 20 points given up on the numbers to Phil's disallowed UNTAILED*. We both missed INSULATED, which was disappointed, and I lazily ended round early without remembering to handy MANURES+E. In the end I did just enough and a quick conundrum gave me a flattering 23-point margin.

James Hurrell · Post by **James Hurrell** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:00 pm

Speed Demon: - Pool B

Leslie Hines 0-2 James Hurrell

Leslie Hines 51-61 James Hurrell
Leslie Hines 41-46 James Hurrell

Always a pleasure playing with Leslie

Phil Reynolds · Post by **Phil Reynolds** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:05 pm

James Hurrell wrote:Always a pleasure playing with Leslie

Blimey, she's barely got over liver replacement surgery and now you've given her a sex change.

Marc Meakin · Post by **Marc Meakin** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:11 pm

Phil Reynolds wrote:
James Hurrell wrote:Always a pleasure playing with Leslie
Blimey, she's barely got over liver replacement surgery and now you've given her a sex change.

It could have been a mans liver

Niall Seymour · Post by **Niall Seymour** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:38 pm

I beat Barry Evans 2-1 in three close and enjoyable games in the Flight A Standard:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 7092481587 Evans 98-78 Seymour
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 3508954688 Evans 63-86 Seymour
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 1893037410 Evans 88-105 Seymour

Josh Overhill · Post by **Josh Overhill** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:06 pm

Lee Simmonds wrote:Flight A week 1 result, Josh Overhill 1-2 Lee Simmonds

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141058

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141074

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=141090

Three good games with Josh, which I managed to come out on top by virtue of coming from behind to snatch the second game on the conundrum.

FIRST GAME: Josh Overhill 101 - 89 Lee Simmonds
Won this game as a result of finding 2 nine's, 1 of which Lee didn't get, though I completely messed up on 2 not overly difficult numbers rounds

SECOND GAME: Josh Overhill 88 - 91 Lee Simmonds
After falling behind early on, i took a 7 point lead going into the conundrum, after we had both had GIRLIEST disallowed. But I am useless at conundrums, and Lee solved AMPLITUDE right at the death to take it into a decider

THIRD GAME: Josh Overhill 62 - 107 Lee Simmonds
I subsequently went to pieces in this game, failed to score in the first 3 rounds, then Lee got DESPOTIC in round 6, which i failed to see. Just to top the game off, I misclicked in the final numbers round, and then mis-typed the conundrum which I had solved. Not that it mattered a great deal, the win of the game and the match was deservedly Lee's.

Howard Somerset · Post by **Howard Somerset** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:31 pm

Closed B

John Gilles v me

John 95 - 45 Howard
John 69 - 88 Howard
John 79 - 62 Howard

Thanks John. Enjoyed it, and well played!

Lloyd Pettet · Post by **Lloyd Pettet** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:05 pm

Lloyd Pettet 2-0 Phillip Jarvis

Lloyd Pettet 82 - 55 Philip Jarvis

Philip Jarvis 82 - 90 Lloyd Pettet

Two good games, Phillip was unlucky as he had a duff keyboard on the second game which meant he missed declaring grainiest. Well played Phillip, cheers.

Ben Hunter · Post by **Ben Hunter** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:33 pm

Speed Demon results for Ben Hunter vs Simon Myers: 1 - 1

SM 58 - 49 BH: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=142494
SM 57 - 60 BH: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=142498

tomrowell · Post by **tomrowell** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:57 am

Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeed Tournament

Dinos Sfyris 1-1 Tom Rowell

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=142677
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=142682

After getting smashed in the first game, I launched a comeback from somewhere deep in the apterous galaxy to somehow defeat Anne Robinson's favourite contestant