World Tantrix Open 2010

The all photos

2010-07-25T21:19:00.001+02:00

are here!(45 pictures)

2010-07-25T17:37:00.003+02:00

By Egmaria

The competition is over, the winners are about to be announced. The Swedes are planning something... hm... what might it be? o:)

The place is cleaned, all the tables and chairs were put back to their places, as if, nothing ever happened.

I think it was a great competition, with many nice games. Thanks everybody and see you next year!!! ... But where...?

2010-07-25T14:21:00.004+02:00

By Adam

We played the quickest table game in the history with Sirpi.
After Sirpi's loop have been completed, i could also make mine, so the result was 22 to 24 for me after I used 3:53 minutes and Sirpi used 2:43.

2years ago we also played a 5+5=10 mins long game, but that was a draw: 30 to 30.

2010-07-25T13:55:00.002+02:00

And the Palawinner is:

Lunch break

2010-07-25T13:12:00.003+02:00

By Egmaria

Now, we have some yummy sandwiches, some cakes, as part of the OpenCake Competition. And than we will vote on the new Palago Creatures. Go Palaspider!!!!

2010-07-25T09:51:00.003+02:00

by Lytnin

Good morning All.

I trust everyone got to bed very early and are full of energy for todays games.

Ok, so tell the truth, who still needs their second cup of coffee ;-))

Good Luck all

2010-07-25T08:38:00.001+02:00

Morning All!!

2010-07-25T07:21:00.001+02:00

Yes Z.

2010-07-24T23:58:00.001+02:00

are we starting 9am tomorrow?
z.

New photos

2010-07-24T22:49:00.000+02:00

by Tolyás

The photos of the first day here!

Wish I was there........

2010-07-24T15:59:00.004+02:00

From the workdesk of lytnin.

Well I've been watching the results roll in throughout the day, and I really wish I was over there with you all.

The competition looks like it has been fierce. Keep up the concentration everybody. I know Mikem must be dwindling about now ;-)

I hope Trouble has made lots of new friends over the weekend.

Tolyas, Great photos - keep them coming.

Photos

2010-07-24T10:47:00.002+02:00

by Tolyas

My photos about the WTO are here.

First Round is over

2010-07-24T10:05:00.001+02:00

The first round is over, clocks are all fixed. :) Just don't press teh USER botton, even if the instructions say so. :)

Otehrwise, tempereture is great, bufe is excellent, ah and well, yes we have to play too.... This is not that important. ;-)

Good luck all for teh next round.

Maria

Palagonians

2010-07-22T13:24:00.001+02:00

After a perilous journey the intrepid Palagonian explorers have arrived.
The voyage was made more difficult because the GPS took us to the wrong airport.
C.est la vie....

Some useless numbers

2010-07-21T09:08:00.005+02:00

In 2010 WTO, they are participating:

4 out of top 10 players by alltime ranking

5 out of top 10 players by master ranking

7 out of top 10 players by table ELO

4 out of top 10 players by online ELO

6 players placed 1-10 in 2009 WTO

3 L8 players of 2009 WTC

5 L8 players of 2010 EURO including all semifinalists

7 L8 players of 2010 Hungarian championship including all semifinalists

Vojtěch (Alpaka)

Swiss format

2010-07-20T18:41:00.003+02:00

Hi all.

WTO looks like a really good arrangement - both playing and social gathering! Let's see if I can find my football shoes...

If I got it right, we are going to use swiss format in this tournament. I really like the idea.
It will be the first time and I am looking forward to play it, and see how it works.
The result and parings will be a little different than swiss format in a chess tournament (where you get 1, 0.5 or 0 points) since we still will be counting TP:s (won't we?) to get the right order of the players.
I hope you have a special program for this, so everything will work smoothly.

See you all on Friday!

PS. Before that I have to figure out which colour to play to win as much as possible :-)

Pellepen/Lennart

Welcome to the WTO blog!

2010-07-20T00:46:00.003+02:00

This blog will be edited by the players, spectators on the spot, and supporters at home. I hope you will enjoy editing and reading (-:

Ezt a blogot a helyszínen lévő játékosok és nézők szerkesztik, valamint az otthoni szurkolók. Remélem jó móka lesz írni és olvasni a blogot (-: