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Andy Platt wrote:I would like to enter, per favore.

Italian? Wow!

I'll have a go at this.

Can i sigh up for this please

In please

Quick update before I decamp to Leeds for the weekend...

Entries will close at 10pm on Sunday so get in now to avoid disappointment.

The premier flight will consist of a minimum of ten people (and, obviously, a maximum of 14), so if the top flight comes up a bit short the next best placed apterites will be 'promoted' to make up the shortfall. This will also happen if 11 or 13 from the top 14 decide to play (to make it up to an even number). The 100th place cut off for the championship/open flights will stay where it is but if the two groups are particularly lop-sided I will juggle entries around to make it work (if the size difference is greater than 8).

And if a reserve player is needed to make the groups up to an even number, then that reserve player shall be... myself.

Count me in, please.

Ben Wilson wrote:...in need of a good name

Would you welcome suggestions at this late stage?

Adam Gillard wrote:

Ben Wilson wrote:...in need of a good name

Would you welcome suggestions at this late stage?

Falldown?

Don't panic guys, it's not technically an American spelling.

A late in.

Okay, entries are now fixed at 54. Proranks will be updated at midnight- many thanks to Charlie for that- and pairings will be calculated at that time and published at http://apterousautumn.nebagram.co.uk . Results are to be posted in this thread until I have time to enter them into the tournament system.

Here are the groups with their associated proranks-

Premier (10 players)

Innis Carson 1
Adam Gillard 2
Edward McCullagh 5
James Nguyen 6
Eoin Monaghan 7
James Robinson 9
Mark Deeks 10
Ryan Taylor 13
Oliver Garner 15
Scott Gillies 16

Championship (26 players)

Graeme Cole 17
Mark Tournoff 19
Hugh Binnie 20
Marcus Hares 21
James Hurrell 22
Chris Hare 25
Dan McColm 28
Stuart Arnot 29
Martyn Simpson 30
Jojo Apollo 31
Giles Hutchings 33
Oli Moore 35
Drew Halliburton 36
Barry Bridger 39
Liam Tiernan 50
Thomas Cappleman 54
Mark James 65
John Gillies 69
Philip Jarvis 72
Milo Mckenzie 75
Ian Volante 78
Amie Bateen 84
Andy Platt 85
Peter Lee 88
Joseph Krol 89
Tracey Mills 107

Open (18 players)

Ned Pendleton 116
James Hall 127
James Bradley 134
Matt Morrison 136
Dan Abrey 138
Nathan Cullen 155
James Levison 179
Karen Pearson 180
Julie Taylor 195
Jason Turner 233
Lesley Hines 263
Steve Balog 313
Jennifer Steadman 321
Chris Marshall 334
Michael Cullen 596
Thomas Carey 1025
Rhys Benjamin 1261
Mark Mills 1334

Pairings are being calculated as we speak and- assuming they work- will be up on the tournament website soon, to be followed by entry into the apterous tourney system.

Pairings are now up. Division P (for premier, obviously) are playing a round robin- everyone plays each other once- and have until 11:59pm on October 3rd to complete these games. Divisions C and O have until 11:59pm on September 19th to complete their first round games.

Two things- the games listed on the website don't have to be played in the order they are on the website. It's no hassle to play, say, a round 2 game before a round 1 game. Also, ignore the 'start/reply' on the fixtures list, that's just a hangover from using a tournament program usually used for Scrabble.

Philip Jarvis 59-102 Dan McColm - http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=526968

Premier Tier:

James beat me 97-85 in a topsy turvy game. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527018

Is it okay that we played this even though it's not automated yet? I can play again...

Divisions C and O have until 11:59pm on September 19th to complete their first round games.

Does this mean our single game in the first round we have each, or our first 3 games that have been drawn as listed on the website?

Ben, PM me when the tourney games are done and I'll retrofit the ones that have already been played.

Oli Moore wrote:

Divisions C and O have until 11:59pm on September 19th to complete their first round games.

Does this mean our single game in the first round we have each, or our first 3 games that have been drawn as listed on the website?

The first three games as shown on the website. Then you'll get another three next week, and the week after that, and after that.

Charlie- will do.

I played Tracey Mills:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527075

From the Championship:

Mark James 83 - 108 Marcus Hares

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527135

Cheers Mark - good luck in the rest of the tourney

Not a classic

Stuart Arnot 87 - 66 Milo McKenzie

Championship result: Milo McKenzie 72-96 Dan McColm

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527152

Neither of us at our best here. The scoreline was made to look flattering by an inspired 3-large solve in R14 and a conundrum which I'd had in Goatdown a day or two ago. In reality, this was a game I could easily have lost. Well played, Milo.

Thomas Carey 82-70 Michael Cullen

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527350

Well done, Michael.

Joseph 92-73 Oli

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527376

Oli played very well with a nice conundrum solve to boot.

Joseph Krol wrote:Joseph 92-73 Oli

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527376

Oli played very well with a nice conundrum solve to boot.

Might want to change the scores round...

Result, Championship round 1.

Back-and-forth game between me and Jojo that I edged 79-77. Got outplayed on the letters, but being an evil 4L type won it.

Website updated. Gonna get all the games entered now, should all be up by about 8pm.

Championship Result:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527467

Chris Hare 98 - 64 Ian Volante

From the Championship:

Marcus Hares 108 - 75 John Gillies

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527474

Championship Result:
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527487

Marcus Hares 109 - 119 Thomas Cappleman

Fantastic game - right down to the wire, with just one letters and numbers miss each before the conundrum.

All games are now in the tourney system.

Marcus Hares wrote:From the Championship:

Mark James 83 - 108 Marcus Hares

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527135

Cheers Mark - good luck in the rest of the tourney

Ben - not sure if this result has been overlooked but I have a message on apterous stating "You have 1 unplayed tourney game: vs Mark James (in Apterous Autumn Tournament- Championship)."

Cheers

I did Michael Cullen 95 - 43.

Marcus Hares wrote:

Marcus Hares wrote:From the Championship:

Mark James 83 - 108 Marcus Hares

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527135

Cheers Mark - good luck in the rest of the tourney

Ben - not sure if this result has been overlooked but I have a message on apterous stating "You have 1 unplayed tourney game: vs Mark James (in Apterous Autumn Tournament- Championship)."

Cheers

Yeah, probably just me not skipping a line when copying the results into tourney manager. Ignore it.

Ben Wilson wrote:

Marcus Hares wrote:

Marcus Hares wrote:From the Championship:

Mark James 83 - 108 Marcus Hares

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527135

Cheers Mark - good luck in the rest of the tourney

Ben - not sure if this result has been overlooked but I have a message on apterous stating "You have 1 unplayed tourney game: vs Mark James (in Apterous Autumn Tournament- Championship)."

Cheers

Yeah, probably just me not skipping a line when copying the results into tourney manager. Ignore it.

Too late. We played it anyway. It was a much better game than the first one too but the result was the same, a win for Marcus.

I might be one of the people having time zone issues -- I've logged on all the times I've been available (which have spanned about 14 hours of the day) and haven't seen any first week opponents online yet. Well, actually, I did see one of them, but he'd just finished the Duel when I logged on and instantly logged out.

Also, one player hasn't been on since August.

Also all my first week opponents are named James, in a weird yet completely unrelated coincidence.

I beat Chris Marshall 82-74

Steve Balog wrote:I might be one of the people having time zone issues -- I've logged on all the times I've been available (which have spanned about 14 hours of the day) and haven't seen any first week opponents online yet. Well, actually, I did see one of them, but he'd just finished the Duel when I logged on and instantly logged out.

Also, one player hasn't been on since August.

Also all my first week opponents are named James, in a weird yet completely unrelated coincidence.

It's been my long-held belief that if you want to avoid a particular person on apterous, the easiest way of going about this is to draw them in a tournament. You're then guaranteed to see neither hide nor hair of them for the rest of the week.

Fortunately there is flexibility in the tournament structure. This week's games run until Monday evening so you have the whole weekend and an extra evening to play 3 games- which I wouldn't have thought was that many, really. Especially with c4c private messages and the overlooked and underappreciated aptomail system making it easy to arrange dates and times for games.

And tsh makes it easy to remove players from tournaments without any hassle. Which will be done to anyone who hasn't played at least one of their first round games by the deadline.

Edit: Or made a visible effort to get them played but been thwarted by three unresponsive opponents.

Website updated btw.

I have PMd all three people I have been drawn against. 2 have replied but we haven't yet managed to find a mutually convenient time yet and I'm away for the weekend. I have PMd Tracey Mills to get in touch with Mark but not heard anything back yet. I'll do my best to get them played but it's not looking that hopeful.

I suspect I failed to read the explanation of the tournament properly because I probably wouldn't have signed up if I'd realised that I'd have to play 3 games a week.

Beet Jen's ted man inn ah crack in gay mmm 92-90.

Ned Pendleton 79-69 Jason Turner

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=529405

James Levison 92-82 Thomas Carey

Good game, semi-crucial to boot.

Managed to get one in.
Karen Pearson 98 - 57 Julie Taylor
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=529428

Thanks for being so accommodating Julie and sorry it had to be so rushed.

Ned Pendleton 83-80 Julie Taylor

Karen Pearson wrote:Managed to get one in.
Karen Pearson 98 - 57 Julie Taylor
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=529428

Thanks for being so accommodating Julie and sorry it had to be so rushed.

np Karen, congratulations, especially on the 9.

Ned turned up too (wd Ned - a rather closer game!), so I only have one first round game left now.

I PMd Mark via Tracey too earlier in the week, to no avail - I'll try again.

Stuart Arnot is looking quite AWOL at the moment. And beardy.

Karen Pearson wrote:I have PMd Tracey Mills to get in touch with Mark but not heard anything back yet.

I'm due to play Tracey in week 1 and PM'd her on Mon 12 Sept. I haven't had a reply but she must be around because she's been playing duel on a daily basis.

Anyone seen Dan Abrey? I've got a week 1 game.

Thomas Carey wrote:Anyone seen Dan Abrey? I've got a week 1 game.

He's been moving house and hasn't had his computer available, but will be online at 3 today to play our week 1 game. Ah, the magic of Aptomail.

Tracey has just PMd me to say that Mark Mills can't play his first round games due to work commitments. I don't know what that does to the tourney.

Depends on whether or not he'll be able to play in week 2 onwards. If yes, he takes bye losses for all 3 first round games (a bye loss being set at 50-0). If no, he'll be removed from the competition for all subsequent rounds.

Quick reminder- it's deadline day for all first round matches (apart from the premier). Round 2 matches won't be drawn until all games from round 1 are accounted for so if there's difficulty in getting in touch with anyone, let me know. If somebody hasn't played all 3 first round games and also not got in touch with me, they'll be removed from the draw as stated above. Any other first round games uncompleted by tonight- that haven't been scheduled for a definite time/date- will be classified as 0-0 draws.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=531504



I got the conundrum at the same time , thought I had it with that 9 in round 12, well done Dan

My tourney stats week 1 (in size 1, quote to see):

Games: 3 . . . Wins: 1 . . . Points for: 233 . . . Points against: 237 . . . Total max: 369 . . . Crucials: 3 . . . Nines available: 2 . . . Nines for: 1 . . . Nines against: 0 . . . Raw points for: 265 . . . Raw points against: 270 . . . Maxes for: 15 . . . Maxes against: 17 . . . Letters maxes for: 8 . . . Letters maxes against: 9 . . . Numbers maxes for: 6 . . . Numbers maxes against: 7 . . . Conundrums for: 1 . . . Conundrums against: 1 . . . Darrens available: 7 . . . Darrens for: 3 . . . Darrens against: 1

When I get home tonight I'll finish off the remainder of the first round games. Games will be adjudicated as either 50-0 bye wins or 0-0 bye draws depending on if one player had done significantly more than the other to try to get the games played.

Round 2 fixtures will be up on the website tonight and on apterous shortly afterwards- no later than 8:30pm. As always, if you see your tourney game and are able to play it before it's in the system, feel free to go ahead and play it, just note the result in this thread.

All games have been adjudicated. In the championship, Stuart Arnot, Drew Halliburton and Tracey Mills have had their round 1 games adjudicated against them but have been kept in the draw for round 2 as did play at least one game in round 1 (though obviously if they don't play this week they will be ejected from the tourney). In division O, James Hall and Mark Mills have been removed from the draw and had all their games adjudicated against them. Lesley has also had her games adjudicated but has been making an effort to play her games so has been kept in the draw for round 2. There's one game still ongoing in round 1, once this is completed the pairings will go up. Pairings for the championship are already up and are being entered into the tourney manager.

In the premier, everything's going swimmingly. Or at least will be when Ollie pulls his finger out.

Thomas Carey wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=531504



I got the conundrum at the same time , thought I had it with that 9 in round 12, well done Dan

My tourney stats week 1 (in size 1, quote to see):

Games: 3 . . . Wins: 1 . . . Points for: 233 . . . Points against: 237 . . . Total max: 369 . . . Crucials: 3 . . . Nines available: 2 . . . Nines for: 1 . . . Nines against: 0 . . . Raw points for: 265 . . . Raw points against: 270 . . . Maxes for: 15 . . . Maxes against: 17 . . . Letters maxes for: 8 . . . Letters maxes against: 9 . . . Numbers maxes for: 6 . . . Numbers maxes against: 7 . . . Conundrums for: 1 . . . Conundrums against: 1 . . . Darrens available: 7 . . . Darrens for: 3 . . . Darrens against: 1

Great 9, I didn't deserve to win that in my opinion!

When's the deadline for playing this next round of games Ben?

Karen Pearson wrote:When's the deadline for playing this next round of games Ben?

Would be useful if I mention that, wouldn't it? Deadline is 11:59pm on Monday 26 September. Round 3 games will be up at some point on the evening of the 27th.

Website=updated.

104-85 over Karen for me.

I will endeavour to get my games played this week, but to Chris Hare, Dan McColm and Giles Hutchings - my partner gave birth on Monday, so I may have to forefit these games this week, as i don't plan on being online much.