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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

I am in!

Great idea, Kai! When will the duel be, as I'm tight for time at the moment?

Count me in please Kai

I'm up for this!

Why not?

In. Nice idea.

In! Typing this at school

Yeah

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?

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?

If you start turning down games to protect your rating, you'll never become good.

Charlie Reams wrote:

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?

If you start turning down games to protect your rating, you'll never become good.

Seconded. I don't like losing rating points, but I'll play tournaments if they come up.

Charlie Reams wrote:

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?

If you start turning down games to protect your rating, you'll never become good.

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!

Ok, i'm IN then. But I don't really know how this all works as i've never played in a tournament before...

Charlie Reams wrote:

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?

If you start turning down games to protect your rating, you'll never become good.

Why?

It's best just not to give a shit about your rating. It's very liberating.

Gavin Chipper wrote:It's best just not to give a shit about your rating. It's very liberating.

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.

OK, so we have 8 people. Do you think we could squeeze it to 15 so that I could play?

Kai Laddiman wrote:Sophie 'The other one' Krol

RANDOM! well, at least I'm not 'troll krol'!

Kai Laddiman wrote:Garnier

Oh do u spell it like that? i thought it was garner.

Kai Laddiman wrote:Ollie
Sophie

Can I be Soph because Oliver is Ollie?

Just saying, as I have never played in a tournament before, I don't exactly get what I gotta do...explanation please??

Sophie, do you EVER understand the meaning of jokes?

Soph K wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:Garnier

Oh do u spell it like that? i thought it was garner.

It is spelt Garner, Kai was making a joke.
http://www.garnier.co.uk/_en/_gb/home.aspx

This tournament thread has just turned into a facepalm thread.

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?

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?

Apterous wrote:14 April 2011
News: If you're under 18, we have the tournament for you!

Satisfied?

Rhys 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?

Apterous wrote:14 April 2011
News: If you're under 18, we have the tournament for you!

Satisfied?

Yep, sorry I must have missed that

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Sophie, do you EVER understand the meaning of jokes?

...sometimes.......................................................

Eoin Monaghan wrote:

Soph K wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:Garnier

Oh do u spell it like that? i thought it was garner.

It is spelt Garner, Kai was making a joke.
http://www.garnier.co.uk/_en/_gb/home.aspx

I understood it but I thought it must be spelt Garnier.

when is this shit gon be

Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname.

I think shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie plays with James. Well, maybe not "shit".

I don't think we're going to get any more entrants, so it'll be starting pretty soon.

Matt Morrison wrote:Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname.

What are you on about?
I think this is how to pronounce james's surname: na-goo-yan

[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.

Soph K wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname.

What are you on about?
I think this is how to pronounce james's surname: na-goo-yan

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "nwang" so the joke revolved around "wang" being slang for penis, given what has been said before.

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Soph K wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname.

What are you on about?
I think this is how to pronounce james's surname: na-goo-yan

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "nwang" so the joke revolved around "wang" being slang for penis, given what has been said before.

I thought it was pronounced "nwen".

Mark James wrote:I thought it was pronounced "nwen".

Will just have to wait until Vietnam boy comes along to clear things up.

I'm in please Kai, if I'm not too late

Robert Foster wrote:I'm in please Kai, if I'm not too late

Great place for a first post.

It's just pronounced "win" with the very slight hint of "n" before it, basically one syllable. Thanks.

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.

Matt Morrison wrote:It's just pronounced "win" with the very slight hint of "n" before it, basically one syllable. Thanks.

Common misconception. Anything with 'win' is incorrect.

James Nguyen wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:It's just pronounced "win" with the very slight hint of "n" before it, basically one syllable. Thanks.

Common misconception. Anything with 'win' is incorrect.

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 random

It's new-en, isn't it? That's how I pronounce it in my head anyway.

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.

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.

Ah, but by whom?

Phil Reynolds wrote:

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.

Ah, but by whom?

American commentators. Wait, are you suggesting American poker commentators wouldn't be reliable?

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.

I pronounce it na-goo-yan. James 'Mental Breakdown' Nagooyan.

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".

Wrong Thread.

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Wrong Thread.

Nguyen Thread. Maybe you've hit the nail on the head.

Gavin Chipper wrote:

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Wrong Thread.

Nguyen Thread. Maybe you've hit the nail on the head.

Any relation?

Gavin Chipper wrote: "ng" as in "song"

This is correct.

Kai Laddiman wrote:It's new-en, isn't it? That's how I pronounce it in my head anyway.

That's how my friends pronounce it too, and it's not too far.

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.

Am I too late to sign up for this?

Joe Denniss wrote:Am I too late to sign up for this?

Go for it - you just have to say how you think you'd pronounce it and then let everyone critique your efforts.

Matt Morrison wrote:

Joe Denniss wrote:Am I too late to sign up for this?

Go for it - you just have to say how you think you'd pronounce it and then let everyone critique your efforts.

(Or, just for you, A-lol.)