The Open is in the final week of matches, and once again Kirk just has to not lose. Since this is the last week, the unfinished games from last week were simply carried forward to this week (esp. since they tended to involve people with strange scores who would just be in the same position anyway).
The U1000 is "done"! Andy Wilson went undefeated, and cleared the field by two matches, so there will be no final series in this field. (The one missing match from last week can change standings, so if you could finish that I'd appreciate it.)
The U1200 is in crossover week. The basic idea (for all of the RR events really) is that you have to play (at least) half your matches to "count". Since Jeff Clayton and Niall Seymour didn't make it, all those games are removed from the standings as if they never happened. The standings in Pool Left are then:
- Chris Philpot (2-1, 4-2 games, 2 Sonneborn-Berger points, 9 Sonneborn-Berger game points, 92 ppg)
- Miriam Nussbaum (2-1, 4-2 games, 2 Sonneborn-Berger points, 9 Sonneborn-Berger game points, 86.5 ppg)
- John Gillies (2-1, 4-3 games)
- Jordan F (0-3)
- Lee Simmonds (3-1)
- Matt Morrison (2-2, 6-5 games, 3 Sonneborn-Berger points)
- Peter Lee (2-1, 4-3 games, 2 Sonneborn-Berger points)
- Dave Mattingly (2-1, 4-4 games)
- Andy Wilson (0-4)
U1400: The original plan was to do a half-week of tiebreakers last week, rather than use paper tiebreakers to decide. Since that didn't really happen last week, I put it up to the players to vote on whether to take an extra week and do the tiebreaker games, or to stay on schedule and do the paper tiebreakers. The votes came in to spend the extra week for tiebreakers, so here this is week 5.5.
The standings in "This Pool" had four players at 5-3, four players at 4-4, and one player at 0-8. The standings in "That Pool" had a clear winner at 5-2, two players at 4-3, and five players at 3-4. The set-up was that the top two players from each pool would advance, so we don't need to break ties past 1/2, 3/4, etc.
In "This Pool" we have a four-way tie for 1st; two will go to the top bracket, two will go to the second bracket. We also have a four-way tie for 5th; two will go to the third bracket, and two will go to the fourth bracket. In each case, we'll just play one game, high "seeds" vs. low "seeds", and the winner will take the higher spot. So the tiebreaker games this week are:
Dan Seasmith vs. Jim Bentley
Adam Gillard vs. Karen Pearson
Tom Rowell vs. James Doohan
Niall Seymour vs. Chris Philpot
In "That Pool" the winner, Lloyd, is in the top bracket, along with one of the two players tied at 4-3, Lee Simmonds and Michael Wallace. [Since this tiebreaker has already happened, that would be Michael.] The loser of that match will be in the second bracket, along with one of the players at 3-4. Two more will go into the third bracket, and the rest will go into the fourth. Since Philip Jarvis has withdrawn, he'll be at the bottom; the rest will play a "ladder" to determine finish, with seeds based on Sonneborn-Berger points. So the tiebreakers here will go:
Ian Volante vs. Andy Wilson (loser into fourth bracket)
winner above vs. Josh Hurst
winner above vs. Liam Tiernan (winner into second bracket)
But after a few early drawn rounds in the first game, it seemed my fears were unfounded, but after trying merantis (been looking up the old recaps too long 
Both the first two rubbers were interrupted by lag, although as far as I'm aware, it didn't affect either of the results. And if you'd have given me 7 extra points for a word I couldn't declare due to lag in the opening bout, then all 3 rubbers would have gone to crucial conundrums - which hopefully shows how close it all was.
