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Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:53 am
by Andrew Feist
This week's games are posted on
the website.
From the Championship Flight:
I am missing the matches Dinos Sfyris vs. Ben Wilson and Charlie Reams vs. Oliver Garner from last week. If you can either point me to those results or make those up, I would appreciate it.
From Flight A:
The missing Peter Lee-Andy Wilson match was scored as 0-0.
From Flight B:
I am missing John Gillies vs. James Levison from last week. If you can either point me to those results or make those up, I would appreciate it.
The Speed Demon:
I am missing the matches Dinos Sfyris vs. Ian Dent, Dinos Sfyris vs. Martin May, Simon Myers vs. Lesley Hines, Kieran Child vs. Matt Morrison, Matt Morrison vs. Nick Wainwright, Lesley Hines vs. Kieran Child, James Hurrell vs. Oliver Garner, Kai Laddiman vs. Jon Corby, and Andy Wilson vs. Peter Lee. Get on those games, please, or let me know what's going on.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:51 pm
by Kai Laddiman
Corby has been contacted but to no avail.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:06 pm
by John Gillies
Myself and J Levinson scheduled our game for tonight, erroneously believing that Sunday was the last day for matches. Can we still play, or is it too late?
Sorry to have cocked it up.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:53 pm
by Charlie Reams
Charlie Reams 72 - 20 Stuart Arnot
Stuart couldn't seem to get started in this game, while I played steadily and surprised myself by nailing a tricky numbers game on 9.9 seconds.
Charlie Reams 70-60 Stuart Arnot
A completely different story: I played well but with both of us maxing 7 of the first 8 rounds, I just couldn't shake him. Deadlocked on 60-60, we faced a disappointingly easy conundrum which required a second for me to talk myself into (is VAPOUR a verb?). Stuart had spotted it too and I only narrowly outbuzzed him.
Cheers Stuart, could easily have been 1-1 on another day.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:03 pm
by James Robinson
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:26 pm
by Hugh Binnie
In Flight A, Hugh Binnie 2-0 Josh Overhill
Hugh Binnie
98-77 Josh Overhill
Hugh Binnie
81-70 Josh Overhill
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:06 pm
by John Gillies
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:08 pm
by John Gillies
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:25 am
by tomrowell
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:20 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:07 pm
by Ian Dent
Dinos, did we play?
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:41 pm
by Andrew Feist
Ian Dent wrote:Dinos, did we play?
I have games from you.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:27 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Nearly a max game but I didn't risk
BOONIES.
Kirk Bevins 73 - 46 Phil Makepeace
Kirk Bevins 56 - 45 Phil Makepeace
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:20 pm
by peter lee
Our 1st game in week 3 flight A
Edwin Mead 83 - 111 Peter Lee
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:21 pm
by Andy Wilson
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:15 pm
by Julie T
speed demon:
Julie Taylor 30 - 44 Matthew Tassier
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=150041
Matthew Tassier 28 - 40 Julie Taylor
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=150045
Which meant one win each for Matthew and me, my first win of the tournament!
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:31 pm
by Michael Wallace
Michael Wallace 2 - 0 Matthew Tassier
Matthew Tassier 70 - 95 Michael Wallace
I completely blank on the first numbers but manage to drag it back with some (for me) moderately consistent lettering. Matthew's spots of ALPACA and PERUSAL were the highlights of the game, imo.
Michael Wallace 100 - 97 Matthew Tassier
Very flat for the most part, the difference coming from Matthew's spot of DIOPTRE. Fortunately I got lucky on the conundrum (all too often you find yourself behind at the conundrum and something impossible comes out), to squeak through. Matthew even had VIOLATOR noted down in round 11, which would have won it for him.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:45 pm
by Matt Bayfield
My Speed 9 games for this week:
Matt Bayfield
57 - 34 Tom Rowell
Matt Bayfield
46 - 36 Tom Rowell
Kirk Bevins
67 - 33 Matt Bayfield
Kirk Bevins
72 - 32 Matt Bayfield
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:45 pm
by Matthew Tassier
Speed games:
Matthew Tassier 53 - 31 Tom Rowell
Tom Rowell 45 - 51 Matthew Tassier
Two fairly unimpressive games, except maybe for Tom's DEACONED, and I survived a crucial conundrum to record my first 2-0 victory.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:43 pm
by Nick Wainwright
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:10 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Well fuck me. Just played the greatest game of all time.
Kirk Bevins 89 - 83 Ben Wilson
And then this beaut....
Kirk Bevins 151 - 135 Ben Wilson
With 12 maxes in a row I got excited, including FOUR nines in a row. Was incredible. Flake and ambulance city. But wait, round 13 I thought I'd maxed but I didn't --- Ben is right back in the game now with his FIFTH consecutive nine and I'm kicking myself for missing it -- would have been on for a mammoth score.
A crucial conundrum and I nail it in 0.8 seconds to secure the 2-0 win, a 151-135 victory and a 14 max game, although had I knew SPOONIER = POISONER I could have had a 169 game, smashing Conor's record that lots thought would never be beaten. Argh!!!!
This is one for the thread of brag, the thread of frustration AND the game of the year thread.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:00 pm
by James Leroux
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:14 pm
by Andrew Feist
From the speed demon:
Lee 18 - 52 Feist
I spot a couple decent 8's. In round 7 I make up a word, but that's okay because the dictionary beat me to it so it counts.
Feist 50 - 38 Lee
I start this game by spotting Peter 18 points, but get both the numbers and take the crucial for the win.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:29 pm
by Julie T
My speed demon games against Ian resulted in one win each:
Julie Taylor 46 - 29 Ian Dent
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=150688
Julie Taylor 34 - 46 Ian Dent
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=150699
wd for Ian, getting a 9 in a 10 second round. It's not often I cause a man to get ERECTIONS these days.
My main tourney game against Lesley was 2-1 to me:
Lesley Hines 81 - 62 Julie Taylor
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=150721
Lesley Hines 84 - 93 Julie Taylor
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=150736
Julie Taylor 96 - 95 Lesley Hines
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=150755
Lesley lost a very close game there, despite getting 2 9s. That seems sort of familiar.......
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:39 pm
by tomrowell
Apterous Winter Closed Week 3.5
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:47 am
by Andrew Feist
Since it's not really a surprise, the three matches (one extra next week!) for the Speed Demon have been posted on the website. Hopefully the advance notice will help us get all the games in by the end of next Saturday (I'm looking at you, pool B).
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:24 pm
by James Hurrell
Week 2 - Speed Demon Pool B
Apologies should have posted earlier....
James Hurrell 1-1 Oliver Garner
Oliver comfortably took game 1...
James Hurrell 41-71 Oliver Garner
then I hit back with a decent (unusually so) conundrum spot to pinch game 2. Honours even.
James Hurrell 43-39 Oliver Garner
Thanks for the games Oliver - feel 1-1 isn't quite fair on you.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:28 pm
by James Hurrell
Week 3 - Speed Demon - Pool B
James Hurrell 2-0 Simon Myers
2 decent games with some good spots but also some dodgy rounds thrown in for good measure. Well played Simon.
Simon Myers 27-55 James Hurrell
James Hurrell 64-51 Simon Myers
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:01 pm
by Lesley Hines
Speed games week 2:
Lesley Hines 55-40 Ben Hunter
Lesley Hines 60-40 Ben Hunter
In a surely-never-to-be-repeated show of form from me I came out of these games 2-0. Enjoyed them Ben and feel free to settle the score any time
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:37 pm
by Matt Bayfield
Flight A:
Matt Bayfield
103 - 86 Philip Jarvis
Matt Bayfield
103 - 70 Philip Jarvis
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:06 pm
by Stuart Arnot
Speed Demon
Kai Laddiman 2 - o Stuart Arnot
Stuart Arnot 45 - 52 Kai Laddiman
Kai Laddiman 57 - 54 Stuart Arnot
Two tight games. Kai was just too quick for me on both conundrums.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:15 pm
by Innis Carson
Speed Demon, Group B:
Nick Wainwright 57-63 Innis Carson
Nick Wainwright 47-55 Innis Cason
Two good contests, including two nines from Nick in the first game. I had to come back from behind in both cases, narrowly winning on the conundrum each time. Well played Nick, could have gone either way.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:58 pm
by Andrew Herbertson
Speed demon
Oliver Garner 1-1 Andrew Herbertson
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=151249
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=151252
I won my first game of the tourny in the first game with a surprising win on a crucial conundrum before Oliver got his finger out and things got back to normal in the second game.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:09 pm
by Scott Gillies
i've tried to contact matt morrison to no avail.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:25 am
by Dinos Sfyris
Scott Gillies wrote:i've tried to contact matt morrison to no avail.
Did you even try blowing the Matt Morrison horn?
Same with me and Martin May. He's still not responded about our week 2 speed demon game. A few times he's been in the room on apterous but not there.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:56 am
by James Robinson
Dinos Sfyris wrote:Did you even try blowing the Matt Morrison horn?
Same with me and Martin May. He's still not responded about our week 2 speed demon game. A few times he's been in the room on apterous but not there.
I've got Martin this week in a Speed Demon. I sent him a message on Monday.
It's still in my outbox.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:13 pm
by Andrew Herbertson
No look with Matt Morrison for me either.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:09 pm
by Kai Laddiman
Speed Daemon
Kai Laddiman 56 - 34 Andy Wilson
Kai Laddiman 65 - 24 Andy Wilson
Nothing particularly interesting, but well played Andy,
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:36 pm
by Alec Rivers
Nice conundrum - I can think of something else you were clenching.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:57 pm
by Ian Volante
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 2:14 pm
by peter lee
Our 2nd game in week 3 flight A
Edwin Mead 86 - 96 Peter Lee
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:07 pm
by Lee Simmonds
Flight A result:-
Henry Meier 1-2 Lee Simmonds
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=151802 Henry 114 - 96 Lee
Good game to start, Henry taking an early 8 point lead in rd 2 with latticed. Despite a couple of nice spots of my own, I could not close the gap thus ensuring a crucial conundrum. A fairly quick spot by Henry and deservedly 1-0 to him.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=151816 Lee 106 - 94 Henry
Again, I fell behind in rd 2 and then further behind in rd 4 with a word I really should have spotted! However, it could have been worse and game over had I not seen the 9 in rd 3 at the last second. After clawing back 1 round and with Henry missing a fairly straightforward numbers in rd 14, I found myself ahead for the first time in 29 rounds but still facing a crucial conundrum. Fortunately, a quick spot by me ensured a decider.
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=151828 Henry 80 - 105 Lee
A combination of not great letters and perhaps nervous tension made for an inauspicious start to game 3. However, it was notable for both of us offering the same words and numbers solution in the first 7 rounds. I managed to break the deadlock in rd 8 and then a further winning rd on the last letters meant avoiding another crucial conundrum.
Great games, I thought and another day could easily have gone Henry's way.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:53 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:03 pm
by James Robinson
James Robinson wrote:I've got Martin this week in a Speed Demon. I sent him a message on Monday.
It's still in my outbox.
Just in the nick of time.
Speed Demon
James Robinson 27-58 Martin May
Martin May 47-56 James Robinson
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:32 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:43 pm
by Howard Somerset
James Levison and I have had problems getting together. Hope you'll let us try again as soon as possible into the new week.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:58 pm
by Howard Somerset
Managed it tonight after all. James beat me 2 - 0. Easy win for him in game 1. Went to a crucial in game 2. Should've been playing best of 7!
Well played James, and thanks.
Howard
49 - 95 James
Howard
83 - 95 James
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:08 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Me and Simon Myers finally got round to playing our flight match. We started off on good form but eventually went downhill. Luckily Simon deteriorated at a faster rate than me, and I managed to seal the deal 2-1, despite my medical hindrance of Conundrum Tourette's in Game 1 and Fat fingers in game 3.
Dinos Sfyris 100-110 Simon Myers
Dinos Sfyris 105-90 Simon Myers
Simon Myers 64-81 Dinos Sfyris
Cheers for the games Sid
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:50 pm
by Innis Carson
Championship Flight:
Innis Carson 2-1 Oliver Garner
Oliver 82-114 Innis
Oliver 84-78 Innis
Oliver 65-82 Innis
Close stuff throughout, Oliver's excellent spot of NANOMETRE led him to victory in the second game, but I narrowly won the decider.
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Week 3
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:25 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Innis Carson wrote:
Oliver's excellent spot of NANOMETRE led him to victory in the second game
Or even your choice if 2 large instead of 1 large in round 14 won him the game?