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Junior Championship Mark 2

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http://challonge.com/ctp

Whaddaya think :?:
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Interesting score in the first SF.
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Howard Somerset wrote:Interesting score in the first SF.
See note at top.
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Does term start Thursday or next Monday for you?
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Lesley Hines wrote:Does term start Thursday or next Monday for you?
Tomorrow. :(
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Lesley Hines wrote:Does term start Thursday or next Monday for you?
I have already Liked this, but I did genuinely A-lol at this.
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If you're going to post such a link don't spoil it and put the winner in the thread title.
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How much research did you do? If you're going to do something like that, at least spend a bit of time getting facts. Hargreaves is spelt wrong for a start and how did Jon O'Neill lose so early on - he's quality now. I think you should redo it, checking out all their games and work out what percentage of the maximum each got on their respective runs and then make a more accurate one. Don't post here until you've finished. You have 2 weeks.
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Kirk Bevins wrote:How much research did you do? If you're going to do something like that, at least spend a bit of time getting facts. Hargreaves is spelt wrong for a start and how did Jon O'Neill lose so early on - he's quality now. I think you should redo it, checking out all their games and work out what percentage of the maximum each got on their respective runs and then make a more accurate one. Don't post here until you've finished. You have 2 weeks.
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Robert Baxter wrote:
Howard Somerset wrote:Interesting score in the first SF.
See note at top.
The one that says "Yes - you read it right. Austin Shin managed one measly point but still somehow won because over the course of 15 rounds, Bhavin Manek was unable to find a single word or numbers solution"? I can't find it.
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Does string theory come into this anywhere?
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Lesley Hines wrote:Does string theory come into this anywhere?
Yup. Baxter strings a load of nonsense together and my theory is that it's a bit mental.
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Who's Bhavin Manek?
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Shame my surname isn't spelt correctly but I'll let you off this time. Don't know where you get your scores and predictions from. A lot of the players there I don't recognise and I never watched Conor apart from in his C of C but I'm sure he would have beaten me every time.

Otherwise, its nice to know you have such a high opinion of me! :D
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Tom wrote:Shame my surname isn't spelt correctly but I'll let you off this time. Don't know where you get your scores and predictions from. A lot of the players there I don't recognise and I never watched Conor apart from in his C of C but I'm sure he would have beaten me every time.

Otherwise, its nice to know you have such a high opinion of me! :D
Your game against me sounds about right. Of the 5 games on Apterous we've played, you've won every single one but none by more than 10.
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Andrew Hulme wrote:Who's Bhavin Manek?
http://wiki.apterous.org/Bhavin_Manek
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Lesley Hines wrote:Does term start Thursday or next Monday for you?
Mon 6th Sept.
Contestant: Continent please, Rachel.
Rachel: Y.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:
Howard Somerset wrote:Interesting score in the first SF.
See note at top.
The one that says "Yes - you read it right. Austin Shin managed one measly point but still somehow won because over the course of 15 rounds, Bhavin Manek was unable to find a single word or numbers solution"? I can't find it.
I MEAN THE NOTE THAT SAYS:

Note: If there’s a tie, there will be a replay.
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :roll:
Contestant: Continent please, Rachel.
Rachel: Y.
Contestant: Because I want one!

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Robert Baxter wrote:I MEAN THE NOTE THAT SAYS:

Note: If there’s a tie, there will be a replay.
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :roll:
Oh right - so they had a game, that ended in a tie but a fairly normal score. And then they had a replay that ended with a single point scored. All makes sense now.
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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:I MEAN THE NOTE THAT SAYS:

Note: If there’s a tie, there will be a replay.
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :roll:
Oh right - so they had a game, that ended in a tie but a fairly normal score. And then they had a replay that ended with a single point scored. All makes sense now.
No, there were 3 games - as you see if they hover over. The site thinks it's a best of 3 type thing, so the points mean 1 win to Austin and 0 wins to Bhavin. ;)
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Robert Baxter wrote:No, there were 3 games - as you see if they hover over. The site thinks it's a best of 3 type thing, so the points mean 1 win to Austin and 0 wins to Bhavin. ;)
So Conor and Tom played 209 games between them? :? Can I suggest you bring in a sudden death situation into this tourney? Otherwise there will be a considerable number of er, geriatric ones.
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Lesley Hines wrote:
Robert Baxter wrote:No, there were 3 games - as you see if they hover over. The site thinks it's a best of 3 type thing, so the points mean 1 win to Austin and 0 wins to Bhavin. ;)
So Conor and Tom played 209 games between them? :? Can I suggest you bring in a sudden death situation into this tourney? Otherwise there will be a considerable number of er, geriatric ones.
But that only applies to Manek v Shin.
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