- Champion: Bob De Caux.
Runner-up: Thomas Cappleman.
Welcome! Thanks to those who voted and commented on this tournament. The first 32 entrants were guaranteed a place in the tournament, with a standby entrant replacing one of the original 32, who had to withdraw entry.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Here are the details:
- Tourney name..........Gevin's Delight
Dictionary................English
Variant.....................Normal
Format.....................Gevin's Delight
Start date.................16 April 2012
End date..................31 May 2012
Matches...................R32 - best of 3; R16 and QF - best of 5; SF - best of 7; Final - best of 9
Notes.......................Straight knockout
Dates.......................R32: 16 April-3 May; R16: 24 April-6 May; QF: 3-11 May; SF: 11-24 May; Final: 31 May. All matches up to and including SF stage were decided by random draw.
Please note that the original format was tweaked slightly. See the announcement below.
Gevin's Delight is essentially a 15 Rounder with the distribution of letters and numbers rounds reversed, such that there are 11 numbers rounds, 3 letters rounds and a conundrum round (NNNNLNNNNLNNNLC). The other difference from 15 Rounder is that Gevin's Delight is scored under 'Gevin rules', which means that 9 letter words score 9 points rather than the usual 18 points.
No-shows:
If a match is not completed within the allotted time period for a given round, it will be adjudicated at the discretion of the tournament director (me). There will be some flexibility in the dates, especially in the final stages of the tournament, but there should be plenty of time to complete matches. If all of the matches of a round are completed before the provisional date for the following round, I may bring forward the next round to an earlier date. You may withdraw from the tournament at any time, should you so wish.
Tied games:
If scores are tied after 15 rounds, the winner of a game will be decided by tiebreak numbers rounds - an all-new innovation for this tournament! These are just normal numbers rounds that will be played until the tie is broken.
Guaranteed entrants:
1. Michael Wallace (withdrew entry)
2. Martin Long
3. Bob De Caux (Champion)
4. Mark James
5. Andrew Feist
6. Innis Carson
7. Rhys Benjamin
8. Thomas Carey
9. Ian Volante
10. Jason Larsen
11. Steve Balog
12. Graeme Cole
13. Edwin Mead
14. Jamie French
15. John Gillies
16. Jennifer Steadman
17. Andy Platt
18. Gevin Chapwell
19. Marcus Hares
20. Matthew Tassier
21. Nik Mackintosh
22. James Bradley
23. Hugh Binnie
24. Giles Hutchings
25. Kieran Bray
26. Chris Hare
27. Robin McKay
28. Niall Seymour
29. Chris Butler
30. Michael Cullen
31. Nathan Cullen
32. Thomas Cappleman (Runner-up)
Standby entrants:
33. Zarte Siempre (replaced Michael Wallace)
Key: Red indicates that a player was eliminated from the tournament.