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Those of you who read the round 4 thread may have noticed a relatively large number of missed connections last week. Based on my examination of the record, I only gave forfeit losses to two people: Ben Cooke and Miriam Nussbaum (who funnily enough were paired against each other in the main event). Most of the rest were set out as draws, although a chunk of games in Flight A are simply repurposed for this week (since they made up most of the one-point players anyway). The round-robin type events, like the Speed, can keep on chugging away anyway with those missed games made up over the next two weeks.

This week finishes up the preliminary round-robin in the Championship Flight and Flight B. Playoffs will occur during week 6: people in the Championship Flight will play the other two same-place finishers; in Flight B, everybody within one point of the leader (a/k/a James Leroux) will be involved.

The Speed Demon continues for three more games (two this week, one next).

Flight A and the Junior Mint have two rounds to go in the Swiss format.

You can find the games in the the usual place.

Junior Mint: Liam Tiernan vs. Hugh Binnie
Liam 110-96 Hugh
Liam 102-95 Hugh

Speed Demon: Ryan Taylor 88-64 Marcus Hares

Speed Demon:

Eoin Monaghan - 101 - 73 - Matthew Tassier

Cheers for the game Matthew.

Speed Demon: Eoin Monaghan 83 - 99 Hugh Binnie

Junior Mint: Kirk Bevins 2-1 Ryan Taylor
Game 1: Kirk Bevins 72-82 Ryan Taylor
Game 2: Kirk Bevins 101-91 Ryan Taylor
Game 3: Kirk Bevins 96-90 Ryan Taylor

Both just happy to get these out the way and all games sum up just how pointless junior is.

Main Championship: Kirk Bevins 2-0 Ryan Taylor
Game 1: Kirk Bevins 114-75 Ryan Taylor
Game 2: Kirk Bevins 87-64 Ryan Taylor

First game was a Kirk masterclass (and he had FINICAL which would have been a max game).
Second game was not a Kirk masterclass.

Main Event:

Playoff for first, two Northern Irishmen

Edward McCullagh - 2 - 0 - Eoin Monaghan

Game 1: Ed - 116 - 113 - Eoin

I took the lead near the end with DAYTIME however Ed stole in front of me with the conundrum, very close game.

Game 2: Ed - 109 - 102 - Eoin

This again was very close with DAYTIME making another appearance. However, Ed and his 6 small give him a 10 point lead before a 7 left him in a nice position. He stuck with 1 large this time though and it was easy, before I saved some dignity with a very late conundrum spot.

Brilliant games Ed, well played.

Speed Round 4F:

Jim Bentley 91 - 88 Chris Hare

Not exactly top quality maxes-wise but top quality to play. I was lucky to spot the conundrum, nine times out of ten I'd miss it. Cheers Chris!

Junior Mint:

James Robinson 2 - 1 Ian Volante

Ian Volante 99-95 James Robinson
James Robinson 109-85 Ian Volante
Ian Volante 87-102 James Robinson

Junior Mint:

Innis Carson 2-0 Marcus Hares

Marcus 94-124 Innis
Innis 106-74 Marcus

Speed Demon:

James Robinson 91-57 Matt Morrison

Speed Demon:

Innis Carson 79-77 Ben Wilson

Incredibly tense game, and I can't help but feel I was somewhat fortunate to win. Well played Ben.

Speed Demon:

Graeme Cole 80 - 45 James Bradley

Flight A:
I managed to beat Apterous Nude 2-0, but it was the worst I've played for a long time. I honestly have no idea what happened to me in the second game. Pleasing to come back though!
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=378268
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=378283

Still, a win's a win.

Main Event
Garner 1 Gillard 2
Garner 96 Gillard 93
Garner 90 Gillard 93
Garner 89 Gillard 99
Three very close games. I'm relieved to pull through (I think) as group winner, finishing with a higher game difference than Kirk and Adam, also on 3 wins.

Speed Daemon - Pool Elite
Sfyris 76 Garner 77
Another extremely close game there. I was beaten to all 4 conundrums in these two matches.

2 Speed Demon Games

Oliver Garner 92-85 Scott Gillies
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 0289103648

Edward McCullagh 73-81 Scott Gillies
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 4842369486

Flight A:

Edwin Mead 75 - 99 Ian Volante
Ian Volante 99 - 81 Edwin Mead

Speed:

Adam Gillard 97 - 76 Ian Volante

Championship Flight:

James Robinson 2 - 1 Thomas Cappleman

James Robinson 93 - 89 Thomas Cappleman
Thomas Cappleman 107 - 69 James Robinson
James Robinson 98 - 86 Thomas Cappleman

Andrew Feist wrote:Those of you who read the round 4 thread may have noticed a relatively large number of missed connections last week. Based on my examination of the record, I only gave forfeit losses to two people: Ben Cooke and Miriam Nussbaum. Most [...] were set out as draws, although a chunk of games in Flight A are simply repurposed for this week (since they made up most of the one-point players anyway).

So does this mean it didn't bite me in the ass? Cos I tried pretty hard to get hold of Lloyd, nothing more than hanging around every day and not seeing him and e-mailing him and getting no response that I could have done.

This week's Junior against Peter Lee:
2-0 to me, 103 - 80 and 80 - 75.

Speed Demon

Ryan Taylor 104-82 James Robinson

I feel each day I am getting worse on apterous but this game gave me a confidence boost and also had some nice spots in like HOOKLET and MONDAINE from James.

Speed Demon

Thomas Cappleman 65 - 83 Marcus Hares

Hmm, double post

Junior Mint
Thomas Cappleman 80 - 97 Chris Hare
Chris Hare 65 - 105 Thomas Cappleman
Thomas Cappleman 110 - 94 Chris Hare

Thanks for the games Chris - unlucky to lose with 13 maxes at the end

The clash of the Junior Mint undefeateds

Dinos Sfyris 1 - 2 Ed McCullagh

First 2 games were standard max-1ers leading to a "Who can press "?" quickest" competition. The 3rd game looked like we were off to an epic high score kicking off with all 7s in the first 3 rounds. I pursued a false 4th seven and then embarrassingly missed THONG and JOINTS leaving Ed to take a crucial lead. A few nice words along the way: PIANI, SUDSIER, MADCAP but the winner was definitely WAQF. Well played Ed

Here are the games:

Game 1: Dinos 125 - 115 Ed
Game 2: Ed 120 - 110 Dinos
Game 3: Dinos 112 - 118 Ed

Dinos Sfyris wrote:The clash of the Junior Mint undefeateds

Dinos Sfyris 2 - 1 Ed McCullagh

First 2 games were standard max-1ers leading to a "Who can press "?" quickest" competition. The 3rd game looked like we were off to an epic high score kicking off with all 7s in the first 3 rounds. I pursued a false 4th seven and then embarrassingly missed THONG and JOINTS leaving Ed to take a crucial lead. A few nice words along the way: PIANI, SUDSIER, MADCAP but the winner was definitely WAQF. Well played Ed

Here are the games:

Game 1: Dinos 125 - 115 Ed
Game 2: Ed 120 - 110 Dinos
Game 3: Dinos 112 - 118 Ed

Didn't Ed win 2-1?

Oops yeah! Edited...

Speed Demon:

Edward McCullagh 95-73 Innis Carson

Keep missing Martyn Simpson whenever he's on the site and he hasn't responded to my emails so our flight A matches are still incomplete.

Speed Demon:

Graeme Cole 82 - 62 Andrew Herbertson

Not seen hide nor hair of Sebastian Vettel lookalike #1 or Sebastian Vettel lookalike #2 at all this week. Aptoemails sent.

Junior:
I beat Matt Tassier 2-1
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3

Thanks Matt!

Junior mint lp 95-97 jb

lp 101-83 Jb

96-86 in the last game 2-1 overall to me, superb set of games

103-69 to me in speed demon against Jim, would have put more links but is a big hassle doing it on ipad

No sign Of Ben Cooke, aptomail sent, hasn't been on this year

Lloyd Pettet wrote:would have put more links but is a big hassle doing it on ipad

Subtle.

Lloyd Pettet wrote:
would have put more links but is a big hassle doing it on ipad

Subtle.

You forgot classless too

Main Event:

Jim Bentley 106 - 29 Matt Morrison
Matt Morrison 74 - 86 Jim Bentley

Always a pleasure to play Matt (although the feeling may not be reciprocated for these particular games).

Main event, championship flight:

Ben Wilson 108-80 Hugh Binnie
Hugh Binnie 77-81 Ben Wilson

Two good games, closely fought.

Flight B

Andrew Herbertson 94-52 Rhys Benjamin http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=381102

Andrew Herbertson 75-54 Rhys Benjamin http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=381102

Junior Mint
Oliver Garner 2 Adam Gillard 0 (101-85), (101-99)
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=378762
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=378776

In the Main Event, James Leroux 2-0 Martin Long
James 74-71 Martin
Martin 58-84 James

I haven't managed to run into Dan Seasmith yet for our match in the Juniors...

Flight A:

Chris Hare 2 - 0 Lesley Hines (105-83, 110-51)

Thanks for the games, Lesley.

Flight A: Liam Tiernan vs. Peter Lee
Liam 94-85 Peter
Liam 99-96 Peter

Not seen James Doohan about at all this week for our speed match.