We had a nice turnout for this month’s regular tournament – 17 players made it in for an afternoon of backgammon. Before I get to the results, I’m going to digress for a bit on tournament structure & how the payouts work.<\/p>\n
As most of you know, the tournament has an entry fee, and then 2 side pools. The side pools are completely optional, they exist for the sake of players who feel like putting a little more capital at risk for the event. Both the side pools are for the same amount. What I have been doing for the last year plus is, if you are in at least one side pool, you are put in the “A” bracket, which plays 5 point matches instead of 3 point matches. In order to build relatively even brackets, I then also sometimes pulled in people who were not in a side pool, but there was a “pay to play” element there. Put more at risk, you have a little more time in each match to let your skill cancel the luck element.<\/p>\n
Anyway, before the tournament started, I was chatting about all that with Howard, and he asked what would I do if more than 8 people wanted to be in the side pools. I said that had never happened, but that I would cross that bridge when we got there.<\/p>\n
So, yeah, I jinxed myself. Of the 17 players, 9 wanted to be in the side pool.<\/p>\n
Running a 9 person bracket is fine, it basically means there’s one play-in round, and the way I structure things that’s not so hard to do. But on the spur of the moment, I decided to keep it simple; so I dropped out of the side pools to create an easy 8-person bracket for that one, and played in the 3 point match “B” bracket.<\/p>\n
So, results: In the “A” bracket, round 1 had David R over first-timer Farhad, Mark H over Dave C, Howard over Tim (in the longest single match of the afternoon – about 90 minutes to finish!), and Larry over Joel. Because the Howard\/Tim match-up ran so long, there was a good amount of waiting for later rounds, especially in the consolation bracket – I appreciate everyone’s patience. Anyway, in the final, Larry came out on top over Howard. In the consolation bracket, David R and Farhad had a re-match. I left the prize money with them and asked for a text reporting results, but as of press time I haven’t heard what happened.<\/p>\n
In the “B” bracket, round 1, I won over Mark A, Jim won over Bodger, Cam over Steve, and Ed over visiting player Breeze (in for a vacation from Bali, sounds backwards?). Stan got the first round bye. The final had Jim over Ed, Jim’s third win in three appearances BTW. In the consolation bracket, I ended up winning over Stan, in what was also a re-match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next tournament will be on March 29th, our first Championship Qualifier – RSVP today<\/a>\u00a0if you haven’t already. See you then!<\/p>\n -Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had a nice turnout for this month’s regular tournament – 17 players made it in for an afternoon of backgammon. Before I get to the results, I’m going to digress for a bit on tournament structure & how the payouts work. As most of you know, the tournament has an entry fee, and then … Continue reading “March 2025 Backgammon Tournament Results”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdxbg.club\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}