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BMS (UK) Ranking Tournament #4, Castle Donington, 15-16 August, 2015

Posted By: Rick Janowski
Date: Thursday, 20 August 2015, at 1:57 p.m.

TOURNAMENT REPORT PART 1: BMS (UK) Ranking Tournament #4, Castle Donington, 15-16 August, 2015

The fourth BMS (UK) Ranking tournament, kindly sponsored by Tariq Siddiqi, was a great success with a full complement of 16 players, six of whom had not attended a BMAB tournament before, including Alastair Woods and Ian Hesketh, who flew from Edinburgh. The list of participants is given below:

Peter Bennet

Tim Cross

Mark Dixon

Julian Fetterlein

Paul Gilbertson

Ian Hesketh

Charles Hill

Paul Plumtre

Lawrence Powell

Jysen Quah

Chris Rogers

Cecillia Sparke

Dale Taylor

Seb Wilkinson

Alastair Woods

Tariq Siddiqi

Each player played six 11 point matches in a truncated round robin format. At the end of round 5, the five best performing players, Peter, Tim, Jysen, Cecilia and Dale, had 4 wins, each having lost one match. At the end of the tournament, three players had managed five wins, Peter, Jysen and Dale. After splitting the prize monies, these three players rolled dice to determine the tournament title places, with Peter Bennet achieving the Winner title and Dale the Runner-Up. Congratulations!

Congratulations also to all participants for helping to make this such a splendid event and especially to Tariq for sponsoring the tournament.

In addition to the main event, three dogs, Daisy (Pug-Dachshund), Enzo (Fox Terrier) and Dexter (Great Dane-Alsatian) held a concurrent event in the tournament room. In a close run competition Dexter won the title of Best Behaved Dog, a credit to his owner Paul Gilbertson.

There will be a second report once the PR results are available.

The next tournament on October 24-25, at the same venue, is being sponsored by Paul Plumptre.