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| Topic: Tuesday Feb 15th Super Singles Results & Points |
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We did a super singles tournament on Tuesday, and had 30 people show up for the event. The crazy thing about it was that all 30 had played league before at least once, not one brand new player. Super Singles means that we divide the league into Tiers, we did it strictly off points, so most of the newer players were in Tier 3, Tier 2 was a division filled with high end players that have spent a lot of time in the league, and Tier 1 was the top 8 players in the league. To get started we did a few Tier 3 games, including Ray putting on a show with some epic banks, hitting 6 of them in his match to take out #1 seed Garrett. Ray had a good event and ended up finishing a very respectable 4th. Zak was playing Ray Thompson (different Ray) in his first round match up and it was a battle, in the second game I saw Zak take a 4-4 time out and recollect his thoughts. Sure enough he won it with a long pull and moved into the next round. Kevin was playing Devin, an tough battle for both guys as they play against each other at work a lot. Devin won the first game and was surely on his way to victory when he was up 4-1 in the second match. Kevin fought back hard though and won the game to tie the match, in the 3rd game Devin wouldn't let it slip away and won quickly. Kevin went on a winning streak in the B side and took out Garrett and then Uzair, Zak and Kevin finished the night tied for 5th. Rob, another guy that works with Devin and Kevin, was on fire throughout the night, he won a few matches with some really good hand speed and reactions, ended up finishing 3rd place. Darren Jordan was also back in business, and his 2 bar was on fire. He won a bunch of matches by timing his shots well and throwing in really solid fakes. Darren was solid throughout the night but ended up losing to Christof in the final. Christof clearly proved his skill in the event, and you could see that his extra factor that is tournament experience paying off and hopefully he will be winning tier 2 some time soon! Great playing Christof, the match against Karli was a tough one too and it took some fight to get through that one. In Tier 2 there was a lot of REALLY close matches. Paul and Chad opened their brackets against each other, and of course it went down to meat ball. Chad was playing great again, as he has been recently, but Paul and Chad have played so many games against each other that it probably comes down to one of those mental battles every time. Paul came out on top. Sam beat Ricardo (who deserves a big welcome back to the foosball scene) and then beat Des in an intense game too. Sam also though couldn't fight through Paul's challenge. Paul plays such a consistent game and makes the right decision so often that it is tough to beat him unless you play PERFECT foosball. Chris was the #1 seed in the event and even though he had a tough bracket including Cam and Ritchie in his path, he still made it through to the kingseat game against Paul. I just mentioned that it takes playing a perfect game to beat Paul, and Chris really did that - he didn't stray from using his best passing options and shots from every rod, Chris took kingseat. In the B Side Chad was back at it from a first round loss, fighting all the way through Ritchie, Des, and then Sam to get back to playing Paul to go to the final. I didn't see this one but it was probably as close as the first one.. Chad couldn't get his redemption yet. Chris won the final and is the tier 2 champion, as well as a top 10 player in Edmonton again! The Tier 1 event didn't finish, but again a lot of great matches were played. Simon was clearly on his game, and you can see all the practice that he has put in leading up to the HOFC has been paying off. A lot of the top players in Edmonton have been using video to help there game lately, especially watching Insidefoos video's. Simon mentioned to me that it was helping him with his decision making and that it reminds him to take his time with the ball. There were a few good games but when Simon smoked me I wouldn't say it was a "good game" because it wasn't really close at any time. I didn't see the match against Christian but I'm guessing it was more of the same. Garry was also solid, and went through a losers bracket path of Tobin, Ben, Will, Christian - to get to the final. We didn't have time to finish the event, but Simon and Garry have to play the final, then the playdowns for 1st and 2nd have to take place. The 4th place playdown was won by me, I had to beat Ray which was really tough considering the point spot. I got enough of the bounces to stay out of my net to get the win. The 3rd place play down was won by Rob from the Tier 3 event. Tier 2 and 1 still have to happen so hopefully we can get them done this week. Next week: Pro/Am Draw your partner, essentially that means that the lowest half of players each draw a partner from the highest half of players. Points Update: Edwards, Simon 1551 Dunn, Christian 1515 Stranks, Will 1453 Burgardt, Garry 1242 McDonald, Tom 1190 Penner, Roger 1177 Wilkins, Ben 1149 Myszczyszyn, Tobin 1082 Scaife, Darcy 1055 Kerr, Chris 1016 Luft, Carey 1014 Simeon, Jamie 969 Johnston, Mike 931 Humberstone, Paul 927 Trynchuk, Dale 925 Tse, Desmond 919 Rupertus, Lindsey 918 Jones, Darrel 901 Kimber, Daniel 890 Schnieder, Jeff 887 Dick, Matt 882 Smithson, Justin 882 Djakovic, Christoff 882 Spencer, Chad 881 X, Jeff 881 Campbell, Lance 880 Kippen, Rick 874 La, Ed 873 Kwan, Conrad 871 Daly, Ritchie 870 So, Albert 870 Wilkins, Sam 868 Green, James 859 Burrows, Cam 858 Deeg, Phil 855 Hopfner, Jordan 854 Kelly, Brad 849 Gish, Brian 845 X, Darnel 841 Jordan, Darren 837 Ustina, Greg 834 Campbell, Carmen 830 Crockett!!, Ben 829 Rob 828 x, Ryan 825 Taft, Spencer 824 Lehman, Blair 823 Volkman, Dallyn 822 Faulkner, Stephanii 822 Wood, Greg 818 Xtra, X 818 Ray 817 Schiebelbein, Karli 817 Devin 816 Moses, Kevin 815 Moir, Zak 814 X, Gerald 811 Wong, Felix 811 Phillips, Mike 806 O'Stream, Don 806 Perira, Carlos 805 M, Judah 804 C, Erek 803 Hasiuk, Jody 803 X, Jarrell 802 Gibson, katy 802 Hodinski, Jasmine 801 Bennett, Doug 801 Baayens, Dean 801 Nasir, Uzair 801 Thompson, Ray 801 |
Posted: Feb 17 2011 4:28PM
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CONGRATULATIONS TO SIMON EDWARDS ON BECOMING THE #1 Ranked Player in Edmonton!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Congrats to Chris Kerr - welcome back to the top 10! Congrats to Garry for moving back up to the #4 spot! |
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>>>CONGRATULATIONS TO SIMON EDWARDS ON BECOMING THE #1 Ranked Player in Edmonton!!!!!!!!!!! Finally, now I can quit. |
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"Finally, now I can quit." lol- I knew that's all you wanted..j/k If he quits does that mean I get the points from our match still to come  |
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Yup. But also we will be adding 100 bonus points to every week that simon misses from now on! (kidding) |
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Thanks for the Congratz Will. Now the key is to keep myself there.  |
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Yeah, nice work Chris and Simon! |
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