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Main Event Flight A:
Lloyd Pettet v. Lesley Hines appeared to have not happened, so I've scored that as a 0-0 draw.
Matt Morrison v. Jeff(rey) Burgin also appears to have not happened. Even with 5 Jeff(rey) Burgins on the site, none of them appeared to have been very active over the last week so I have scored it as a loss by forfeit. Yes, Matt, that does mean you have 1.5 points without having played any games yet. I have made every effort to pair you off this week with someone who will actually play the games.

Junior Mint:
Neither Edward McCullagh nor Tom Barnes appears to be able to count to two, so I've scored that match as a 1-0 win (since that's what the game worked out as).
Based on the post here yesterday, Andrew Feist v. Dinos Sfyris will happen later today. However since there will be nine 2-0 players, I've paired us both up in the winning group, since somebody was going to have to be the sacrificial 1-1 player to "play up", so those pairings are good as they stand.
I've done the same thing for similar reasons for Tom Chafer-Cook vs. Dan Seasmith, so that game had better happen too.

Speed Demon:
This is the last week, so essentially your task is to play everybody in your pool you haven't yet played. Unless I've missed a bunch of games, that means there needs to be a big pickup in Pool Orange (Bentley/Carson/Hall/Robinson/Rowell/Volante) and Pool Blue (Binnie/Hares/Herbertson/Laddiman/Nussbaum/Sfyris). People have asked about ties here. The tiebreaker mechanism will break any two-way ties. Three-way ties may or may not get broken; if they do then there we go. I don't want to introduce points as an actual tiebreaker if I can help it. Since we have a "break" at this very opportune time, I may ask you to play some tiebreaker games. (Rather than all-play-all I would use points to seed and then do a ladder.) If you are involved, then I will let you know soonest.

Jim and I played last week i forgot to post

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=355671

Rowell 69-59 Bentley

Andrew Feist wrote: Matt Morrison v. Jeff(rey) Burgin also appears to have not happened. Even with 5 Jeff(rey) Burgins on the site, none of them appeared to have been very active over the last week so I have scored it as a loss by forfeit.

I thought this was a bit harsh since both of them did try to arrange a time to play:

Facebook - Thursday 9th December 2010 wrote:Matt Morrison: JB it's me and you on apterous this week - you around tonight?
Jeffrey Burgin: Yeah should be, say around 9ish?
Matt Morrison: sounds good, i'll do my best to be there

Then from this chat log 'Jeff Burgin' turns up at 21:12 and stays until around 21:35 and Matt had left apterous at 19:25.

This is probably the most cuntish thing I have EVER done.

Yeah you're right Ryan. You're an absolute fucking cunt but you're right.

Please mark it down as a loss for me this time Feist. I had no plans but then meeting up unexpectedly with girlfriend greater than symbol apterous it seems. (Note, I did forget though - didn't deliberately decide to not bother.)
No big issue of course as I'd lose all these games anyway so I don't mind conceding them.

Keep me and Tom as a draw though, even though by Ryan Taylor's Cunt Factor I made an effort to arrange a time and never heard back!

But yeah, eternal apologies. You know I've always been super organised and reliable with these things before

Matt Morrison wrote:Yeah you're right Ryan. You're an absolute fucking cunt but you're right.

Yey, Cunt Award of the Year for me definitely.

Matt Morrison wrote:Please mark it down as a loss for me this time Feist.

Just play it some time next week?

Mine and Dan Seasmith's game hasn't been played in the Speed Demon but I have sent an email out to him so hpoefully we will get it played.

Championship Flight

Marcus Hares 2 - 1 James Robinson

Marcus Hares 93-72 James Robinson
James Robinson 99-66 Marcus Hares
Marcus Hares 101-98 James Robinson

Agreed by us both that the first 2 games were shocking, but the final was certainly a classic.

Well done, Marcus.

Speed demon-

Ryan Taylor 83-107 Ben Wilson

Andrew Feist wrote: Junior Mint:
Neither Edward McCullagh nor Tom Barnes appears to be able to count to two, so I've scored that match as a 1-0 win (since that's what the game worked out as).

We can play the other two games this week if I see Tom about.

tomrowell wrote:Jim and I played last week i forgot to post

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=355671

Rowell 69-59 Bentley

I did actually post this one, in the round 1 thread (as it was a round 1 game but played late) but did wonder if I'd put it in the right place. Oops.

However, I did completely forget to post this absolute thrashing at the hands of Innis, also from the Speed Demon:

Innis Carson 113 - 56 Jim Bentley

Innis was (for him) on fairly tame form and he still scored more than twice as many as me. No, I can't imagine why I forgot to post that one.

Andrew Feist wrote:Main Event Flight A:
Lloyd Pettet v. Lesley Hines appeared to have not happened, so I've scored that as a 0-0 draw.
Matt Morrison v. Jeff(rey) Burgin also appears to have not happened. Even with 5 Jeff(rey) Burgins on the site, none of them appeared to have been very active over the last week so I have scored it as a loss by forfeit. Yes, Matt, that does mean you have 1.5 points without having played any games yet. I have made every effort to pair you off this week with someone who will actually play the games.

Was going to say, this seemed harsh considering I was on from '9ish' on the day we had agreed, and have regularly popped in on other days playing numerous matches. Can we not just have an extension, I'm sure we'll both be in chat at some point soon?

So obviously this is what I get for trying to cheat by not reading the chat logs.

I have removed the LF/WF designation for round 2, and switched the two of yours pairings (so now its Burgin v. Tassier and Morrison v. Lee) to reflect the updated situation. (Apologies if you had already started setting up these matches.) If you guys can play soon, then I'll take that result, otherwise I'll take Matt's concession.

And I will definitely do more due diligence in the future. Apologies again.

Junior Mint

Oliver Garner 1 - 2 James Robinson

Oliver Garner 87-91 James Robinson
James Robinson 79-80 Oliver Garner
Oliver Garner 86-102 James Robinson

Marcus 90 - 102 Dinos in the speed demon. Cheers Marcus

Andrew Feist wrote:So obviously this is what I get for trying to cheat by not reading the chat logs.

I have removed the LF/WF designation for round 2, and switched the two of yours pairings (so now its Burgin v. Tassier and Morrison v. Lee) to reflect the updated situation. (Apologies if you had already started setting up these matches.) If you guys can play soon, then I'll take that result, otherwise I'll take Matt's concession.

And I will definitely do more due diligence in the future. Apologies again.

No worries, not your place to go round checking up on us. As it turns out I won anyway (see week 2 thread) so there's no problem.

Me 2 - 1 Kai in some junior mini tot madness

Kai 107 - 83 Dinos
Dinos 109 - 98 Kai
Kai 98 - 99 Dinos

Lots of missed 7s in the first one. Just as well the last one wasn't crucial as the lag was pretty bad.

Also from the Speed Demon:

Jim Bentley 67 - 66 Ian Volante

Speed Demon

Innis Carson 84-81 James Robinson

A very close game after Innis had pulled away early on. After getting MIDIRONS I got myself back in it, and after getting the full 10 on the last numbers it all went down to the conundrum.

Innis buzzed in with 0.4 secs to go, with an incorrect answer. I actually thouht I buzzed in at around the same time, so expected the screen to let me have my go, as it does sometimes. As it was it didn't, and my guess turned out to be the right answer. I obviously don't expect anyone to believe that, but that's the truth, so was disappointed, but in fairness, it would've been an injustice if I'd won that game.

So, well done, Innis.

James Robinson wrote:...injustice...

Junior Mint: Liam Tiernan 2-1 Peter Lee
Liam Tiernan 87-83 Peter Lee
Snatched on a crucial.
Peter Lee 98-37 Liam Tiernan
13 maxes from Peter.
Liam Tiernan 105-66 Peter Lee
Rd 6 had a single 2-letter max. Very unusual.

Flight B

Martin Long 2 - 0 Rhys Benjamin

Martin Long 73 - 35 Rhys Benjamin
Thoroughly outplayed from Round 5 onwards.
Rhys Benjamin 43 - 87 Martin Long
Gambled on streamlit in round 9 but didn't pay off.

Flight B

Martin Long 73 - 35 Rhys Benjamin

Martin Long 87 - 43 Rhys Benjamin

Flight A : Matthew Tassier 2-1 Jeff Burgin

Jeff Burgin 95 - 70 Matthew Tassier
Matthew Tassier 104 - 56 Jeff Burgin
Jeff Burgin 65 - 88 Matthew Tassier

Inconsistent from both of us. Thought it was going to be decided on a crucial when I realised I'd missed an easy last numbers solution, but fortunately for me Jeff had overlooked it too.
Cheers for the games, Jeff.

Main Event:

Thomas Cappleman - 0 - 2 - Eoin Monaghan

Thomas Cappleman - 102 - 103 - Eoin Monaghan
Thomas Cappleman - 67 - 106 - Eoin Monaghan

Great games Thomas, especially the first - very close - thanks for playing.

Already played Gillard, Feist - quoted from the Week 1 thread (see, I can be organised sometimes!):

Matt Morrison wrote:Speed Deems:

Matt Morrison a pencil - no pencils Adam Gillard

(aka. 89-81)

Speed

Very slow game cos of lag
James Doohan 88-81 Dan Seasmith

Main Event:
Miriam Nussbaum 2-0 John Gillies (100-91, 117-63)

Speed

James Bradley 55-77 Tom Barnes
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=360343

Thanks for the game Tom, well played.

Speed

Thomas Cappleman 83 - 59 Tom Barnes

Flight A

Chris Hare 2 - 0 Edwin Mead (94-77, 86-84)

Two really close games; the score-line doesn't do Edwin justice.

Result from Junior Mint

Marcus Hares 2 - 0 Miriam Nussbaum

Marcus 105 - 85 Miriam http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=360439
Marcus 94 - 84 Miriam http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=360444

Cheers

Flight A

Miriam Nussbaum 2 - 0 John Gillies

Miriam Nussbaum 100 - 91 John Gillies
Miriam Nussbaum 117 - 63 John Gillies

Junior Mint

Thomas Cappleman 2 - 0 Matt Morrison

Matt Morrison 73 - 98 Thomas Cappleman
Thomas Cappleman 87 - 83 Matt Morrison

Second game very close, first slightly annoying with the max so close...

Speed Result

Ryan Taylor 75-77 Dan Seasmith

Junior Mint: Adam Gillard 1-2 Ryan Taylor

Adam Gillard 79 - 63 Ryan Taylor
I pulled ahead by virtue of being BOOKSY (pencil), but Ryan's RECTUM got him back in it before I SCAMMED the crucial conundrum.

Ryan Taylor 99 - 91 Adam Gillard
I beat Ryan with JUDO but he fought back with KARATE. I pulled 12 points clear with ETERNAL but then immediately fluffed a numbers round. We both continued PLYING (pencil) our trade until the crucial conundrum, which Ryan SOMEHOW spotted before me (in 0.8s).

Adam Gillard 80 - 96 Ryan Taylor
Ryan made a couple of SUPERB spots including GLIOMA and had a 16-point lead going into the final numbers game, which was so easy that I knew he'd get it and proceeded to embarrass myself by trying to do a round-the-houses solution and failing. I got the consolation conundrum.

Overall this was a decent match; the second game in particular was a good'un.

Main Event: Ryan Taylor 1-2 Adam Gillard

Being separated by a single point in this week's Pro Ranks, there was a little extra riding on this match.

Ryan Taylor 82 - 98 Adam Gillard
A decent enough game with just a couple of poor rounds from each of us. I got the crucial conundrum (PROPSHAFT) in 1.2s as Ryan had buzzed in with shaftprop* on 0.9s (but didn't actually declare anything).

Adam Gillard 52 - 89 Ryan Taylor
Ryan raced to a 20-point lead through ESCARGOT and IMAGOS (and some rubbish from me). This lead was extended through the final numbers game and a good conundrum solve (COHERENCY in 3.5s). The last 2 numbers games were tricky, which accounts in part for the low scoring overall.

Ryan Taylor 72 - 79 Adam Gillard
It seemed that only one of us could spot a max at a time, which resulted in the lead changing hands several times until Ryan's overclaim* in the final letters round meant that his excellent conundrum solve (COUPLEDOM in 5.4s) was just a consolation. A good old topsy-turvy game though.

It was fitting that both matches went to a decider; we were pretty evenly-matched throughout. Thanks for the games Ryan.

I'm on now Oliver

Two results:

In the Speed Demon,

Chris Hare 85 - 53 Ben Cooke.

In the Junior Mint,

Chris Hare 2 - 0 Lesley Hines (107 - 72, 85 - 75).

Thanks, Ben and Lesley; some really good games.

In the Main Event Flight A it ended up me 2 - Liam 1:

Lesley Hines 83 - 114 Liam Tiernan
Liam Tiernan 74 - 92 Lesley Hines
Lesley Hines 87 - 75 Liam Tiernan

A surprise result as Liam had some lousy luck with a couple of misdeclarations but enjoyed all three, thanks.

Me vs Oliver Garner in Main Event

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 4012107457

me 103 - 112 OG

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 5013044801

OG 104 - 94 (After tie breaker)

Well done Oliver, should've went to a decider not for me cocking up the second numbers like a right twat!

Flight A:

Excellent start, although standards slipped as we progressed:
Dan Seasmith 109 - 85 Ian Volante

Second game, and I came through a very scrappy affair:
Ian Volante 62 - 54 Dan Seasmith

In the decider, neither of us were at our best until I ran away with a couple of nice maxes late on:
Dan Seasmith 79 - 91 Ian Volante

Thanks Dan!

Speed Demon:

Matthew Tassier 82 - 76 Graeme Cole

Close game, but that SNAFUED won it for Matthew.

Junior Mint: Tom Chafer-Cook 2 - 0 James Doohan

TCC 118 - 94 JD
JD 90 - 101 TCC

Cracking battle between myself and Martyn Simpson. 2-1 to me, luckily

Cooke 87-96 Simpson
Cooke 82-78 Simpson
Cooke 105-99 Simpson

Aplogies to all.

I'm not going to be continuing in this competition. Apologies particularly to James, who I'm due to play later today, and to Andrew who's organising it.

H

Speed Demon:

Eoin Monaghan - 84 - 97 - Oliver Garner
Well played Oli.

Flight A: Tom Chafer-Cook 2 - 0 Tom Rowell

Tom Chafer-Cook 88 - 78 Tom Rowell
Tom Rowell 81 - 86 Tom Chafer-Cook

After 8:

Kirk Bevins 111 - 61 Ian Volante
Ian Volante 77 - 99 Kirk Bevins

Flight B

Andrew Herbertson 82-78 James Bradley http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=362371
Andrew Herbertson 69-81 James Bradley http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=362364
Andrew Herbertson 90-84 James Bradley http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=362371

Three great games the last one going to a crucial conundrum, a draw would have been a fair result.

I've been trying to catch Doddy and sent aptoemails and so forth but he's been conspicuous by his absence the past few days. Will keep trying.

I think I forgot to post this Speed Daemon game:

Kai Laddiman 100 - 65 Miriam Nussbaum

Main event, Flight A, week 3 result;

Mark James 88-70 James Hall
Mark James 95-81 James Hall

Still no links, sorry.

Main event result from a few days ago:

Graeme Cole 74 - 77 Lloyd Pettet
Lloyd Pettet 98 - 85 Graeme Cole

Winter Open:

Kai Laddiman 110 - 70 James Doohan
Kai Laddiman 104 - 69 James Doohan

Annoyingly close to my first ever max game in that second game.

Cheers James.

Main
Graeme Cole 74 - 77 Lloyd Pettet
Lloyd Pettet 98 - 85 Graeme Cole

Junior
James Bradley 76 - 102 Lloyd Pettet
Lloyd Pettet 113 - 88 James Bradley

Speed
James Bradley 65 - 76 Lloyd Pettet

Junior: Innis Carson 2-0 Matthew Tassier

Matthew Tassier 88 - 115 Innis Carson
Innis Carson 109 - 71 Matthew Tassier

A double figure deficit within the first 3 rounds against Innis meant game over in both games when they had hardly begun. PISTEUR and SOLFEGE were both impressive and new to me.

I usually bump into Peter Lee with almost daily regularity, so left it to happen naturally for the first part of the week and it never materialised.
So I sent him aptomail a couple of days ago (Thursday or Friday, can't remember) and haven't heard back yet.

Hugh Binnie and I have various games to play in all formats of the competition. Hugh if you're reading this I'll be online tonight after work from just after midnight (PMing on my phone is buggered) Failing that I should be around tomorrow morning too.

Matt Morrison wrote:I usually bump into Peter Lee with almost daily regularity, so left it to happen naturally for the first part of the week and it never materialised.
So I sent him aptomail a couple of days ago (Thursday or Friday, can't remember) and haven't heard back yet.

Same for me with Tom Rowell.

Matt Morrison wrote:I usually bump into Peter Lee with almost daily regularity, so left it to happen naturally for the first part of the week and it never materialised.
So I sent him aptomail a couple of days ago (Thursday or Friday, can't remember) and haven't heard back yet.

Seems that sort of message makes some trigger amongst the timing gods in the sky, met up by random circumstance this afternoon and got it done:

82-78 and 71-67 to me, main event Flight A maybe?

Haven't been able to play Dan Seasmith in the Junior. Aptomailed him on Thurs but no reply. Maybe he's on holiday or something, as Scott hasn't seen him either, and he's on more often than I am. Will keep looking.