Emerging Players Tournament Results

In the games below, those players marked in green progressed to the next round. From the first round, those players marked in red progressed to the consolation round.

Round 1:

Pool EPA W L sharkey 6 0 engelberg 5 1 excess 4 2 dave 3 3 kodiak 2 4 nemesis 1 5 morci 0 6

Pool EPB W L msel 6 0 hcn 5 1 elloco 4 2 kasperd 3 3 tangram 2 4 hippo 1 5 tbutton 0 6

Pool EPC W L rrognlie 6 0 dzander 5 1 bautz 4 2 meikel 3 3 darksan 2 4 laura 1 5 steved 0 6

Pool EPD W L rolle 7 0 juane 6 1 uweb 5 2 basplund 4 3 markthomps 3 4 king 2 5 tpak 1 6 u-sha 0 7

In the first round, if a new player lost as a result of an obvious mistake within the first couple of moves of the game, the game was restarted with the approval of their opponent without counting the score. This gave the new player an opportunity to learn without penalty. 7 games were restarted in this way.

At the end of Round 1, steved, tbutton, and morci withdrew from the tournament.

Round 2:

2: Pool EPE W L msel 7 0 bautz 6 1 kasperd 4 3 sharkey 4 3 dzander 4 3 uweb 1 6 juane 1 6 dave 1 6

2: Pool EPF W L rrognlie 7 0 basplund 6 1 engelberg 5 2 rolle 4 3 elloco 3 4 hcn 2 5 meikel 1 6 excess 0 7

2C: Pool EPG W L hippo 3 1 kodiak 3 1 darksan 2 2 u-sha 2 2 king 0 4

2C: Pool EPH W L markthomps 4 0 laura 2 2 tpak 2 2 tangram 2 2 nemesis 0 4

The prize for the new or provisional player who won the most games in the first two rounds went to msel, who won all 13 of the games he played!

At the end of Round 2, tpak withdrew from the tournament.

Round 3:

3: Pool EPI W L msel 7 0 engelberg 5 2 basplund 3 3 sharkey 3 3 rrognlie 3 4 kasperd 2 3 dzander 2 3 bautz 0 7

3C: Pool EPJ W L markthomps 5 1 hippo 5 1 kodiak 4 2 tangram 3 3 darksan 3 3 u-sha 1 5 laura 0 6

On countback, since markthomps beat hippo, markthomps is the consolation winner.

Final:

Pool EPK	W	L
msel	3	0
engelberg	0	3

Note that the final match between msel and engelberg also includes their game played in Round 3.

The emerging player tournament winner is msel, with engelberg as the runner-up.

Overall, 225 games were played and commented as part of this tournament.

Tournament description