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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).

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

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

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).

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?

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

James 144 - Craig 160

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

Cheers for the game James.

Group C: Bob DC 164 - 120 Jamie F

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

Cheers for the game Jamie

Group C: Dinos 170 - 140 Thomas

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

Dinos 170-114 Jamie

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

Well played Dinos

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?

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

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 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

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?

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!

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)

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?

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.

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.

Matthew 'Le' Tassier 160 - 130 Kai Laddiman

Cheers for the game and good luck next round.

Chris Davies 170 - 150 Adam Gillard

Cheers Adam

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

Yes, keep playing!

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.

BUMP!

Did this die a death or might this still happen?

Rhys Benjamin wrote:BUMP!

Did this die a death or might this still happen?

I was wondering that.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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.

When does the Summer Open run from/'til?

Do you mind removing this out of announcements please?