GAMMON ASSOCIATES' PHOTO ALBUM
JUNE 2008 LOS ANGELES OPEN (GA61)--full album
December 2007 CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP (GA60)--full album
JUNE 2007 LOS ANGELES OPEN (GA59)--full album
December 2006 CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP (GA58)--full album
CANNES 2006 with Patrick
MONTE CARLO 2006 with Patrick
JUNE 2006 LOS ANGELES OPEN --full album
Top-24 Players for 2007
G/A "Player of the Year for 2007" -- Justin Nunez
G/A "LOS ANGELES OPEN" June 2007,
American Backgammon Tour (ABT event)
First these firemen donated the trophies, then they each went on to win one; Ray Fogerlund and Norm Wiggins
"OPEN" Finalist Art Benjamin(right) and Jim Pasko in a qtr-final match
"OPEN" Winner - Bart Brooks
"OPEN-Consolation" Winner - Ray Fogerlund
(notice Rob Davis the BKGMN table builder in the mirror)
"ADVANCED" Finalist - Sina Bigdeli
"ADVANCED" Winner - Luis Rivera
"ADVANCED-Consolation" Winner - David Taniguchi
"LIMITED" Finalist Sean Cooper
"LIMITED" Winner - Scott Evans & wife
"LIMITED-Consolation" Winner - Ryan Cochran with Charles Kabani
"SUPER-32" Winner - Norm Wiggins
"2-Pt Quickies" Winner - Jonah Seewald
staffers--Rynell Avery and Ceci Pedroza
"DOUBLES" Winners - Suzanne Darwell, John Rockwell & Claire Robinson
2006 TOP-25 & PLAYER-of-the-YEAR
Top-25 Players for 2006
G/A "Player of the Year for 2006" -- John Rockwell
Tournament-of-2006-Champions (Jan. 2007)
Winner __ Bruce DiMattia
G/A "CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP" DECEMBER 2006,
American Backgammon Tour (ABT event)
Auctioneer and outgoing "Sultan of Second Place" Ray ("Coolrey") Fogerlund
"OPEN" Winners - Finalist Saul Meir & 1st Place Ken Fischer
"OPEN-Consolation" Winner - Azzam Masarani
"ADVANCED" Winner - Paul Armbruster
"ADVANCED-Consolation" Winner - Justin Nunez
"LIMITED Winners" Finalist Denise Bonfilio & 1st Place Jennifer Faulk
"LIMITED-Consolation" Winner - Christina Cooley
"CHILDREN's" Winner - Lindsay Mattig with director Patrick Gibson
"SUPER-32" Winner - Zafer Yasa"
"2-Pt Quickies" Winner - Ted Chee
Staffers-- Carla Gibson & Ceci Pedroza
Staffer-- Rynell Avery "maven of the "charts"
"DOUBLES" Winners - Ted Chee & Mark Antranikian
"the Armbruster clan" Richard, Christina (Cooley), Paul and Matt
G/A "Cannes, France & Monte Carlo, Monaco" July 2006,
2006 Cannes "NATIONS CUP" winners -Ray Fogerlund, Howard Markowitz, & Perry Gartner
2006 Being interviewed for EuroSport Television's "World Series of Backgammon"
Monte Carlo - "Interm. Last Chance" finalist -- Patrick Gibson (the mfic scores on his first trip)
VIETOR CUP 2007, September in La Jolla, CA
VIETOR CUP September 15-16, 2007:
We had 29 players travel to La Jolla, California to play in the 28th edition of the VIETOR CUP at
Jon Vietor's beautiful home across the street form the La Jolla Cove park and beach. We again played
the tournament using the INDY Swiss Movement (created by Butch Meese and his team from the
Hoosier Backgammon Club in Indianapolis, Indiana). Swiss movement for 6 rounds, players playing
opponents of "like records" (e.g. 2-0 vs 2-0 and 1-1 vs 1-1). After the 6th round, we then converted
to an elimination format to determine the final two money winners in both a MAIN and CONSOLATION bracket.
The results of the VIETOR CUP:
MAIN: Dennis Rutkowski besting Robert Wachtel in the finals.
CONSOLATION: Art Benjamin besting Norm Wiggins in the finals.
We used Digital Clocks throughout all the matches in order to keep the event to a reasonable
time schedule (only two days to play 12 rounds of matches).
To see the Photo Album, click on the following URL. (*under construction*)
Photo Album of the VIETOR CUP Sept. 2007
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American Backgammon Tour
1st Place ABT 2002 -- Steve Sax
the "mfic" himself
Backgammon set (gif)
