Jona Alexander earned 13 master points, winning the JANUARY point's race. Our 2011 Player-of-the-Year race is off and running with Sax, Banayan, Gibson and the rest of us following. To see the details: (Choose menu item -- 'Year-to-Date Points'). ** We had no first time winners this month. Congratulations to all the master point winners!
Results for: Gammon Associates' CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP Backgammon Tournament Dec. 2-4, 2011
held at: FOUR POINTS by Sheraton (LAX) L.A., California OPEN (53): 1- Todd Crosner (AZ), 2-Alfred Mamlet, 3- David Taniguchi (CA) 1C- Petko Kostadinov(SC), 2C- Ray Fogerlund (CA),3/4C- Ed O'Laughlin (VA) & Andranik Safarian (Arg.) ADVANCED (36): 1- Cheryl Andersen (CA), 2-Alex Eshaghian (CA), 1C- Scotty Kelland (CT), 2C- Damon Singer (NV), 3/4C- Ron Bruns (CA) & Lynn Lusk (CO), LIMITED (9): 1- Christine Berkman (CA), 2- Kevin Kahl (CA) 1C- Maria Heiner (Brz/CA) Paul Dingwell Amateur (32): 1- Carl Blumenstein (CA), 2- Scotty Kelland (CT) 3/4- Larry Liebster (NV), Elli Nache (CA) SUPER-48 (48): 1-Neil Kazaross (IL), 2-Matvey "Falafel" Natanzon (Israel), 3/4-Justin Nunez (CA) / Joe Russell (CA), 5/6-Odis Chenault (CA) / David Taniguchi (CA). DOUBLES#1 (8 teams): 1-Petko Kostadinov (SC) & Stepan Nuniyants (WA), 2-Harvey Gillis (WA) & Alfred Mamlet (MD) DOUBLES#2 (8 teams): 1/2-Ray Fogerlund (NV) & Josh Racko (CA) / Howard Markowitz (NV) & Richard Siebold (CO) 2-POINT MINI-MATCH (32): 1-Ray Fogerlund (NV) BLITZ (64): 1-David Rennie (CA), 2-Marv Porten (CA) $100 Jackpot (8): 1-Christian Stoddard (CA) 108 players in total, and we had 21 new (or long time away) players: Dov Alon, David Cohen, Eric Heiner, Kevin Kahl, Patti Kahl, Petko Kostadinov, Elliot Landaw, Harlan Lee, "Cookie" Tischler, Yury Millman, Dave Minikus, Marv Porten, Cary Reisman, David Rennie, Bruce Russell, Richard Siebold, Damon Singer, Mike Thunstrom, Peter Wallin, Torsten Hasse, Bruce Yee Our long-time tournament players and these new ones contriubte the most to making a successful event. Thanks for joining in the competition, ______patrick and team (Carla, Ceci, Rynell, & Caitlin) The next G/A Invitational , the LOS ANGELES OPEN, is scheduled for JUNE 8-10, 2012 at the FOUR POINTS (LAX) and the next "CALIF. STATE CHMP." is Nov.30-Dec.2, 2012. We are working on contracts for 2013 and will post them when they are in hand. These will be ABT {American Backgammon Tour} events. We hope to see you all there.Results of: Gammon Associates' VIETOR CUP, Invitational September 24-25, 2011
held at: Dorn Bishop's Home San Diego, California ----R E S U L T S ---- 26 players ($300 entry) -%-- 1st 40 Ray Fogerlund Las Vegas, NV 2nd 24 Mark Andrus Las Vegas, NV 3rd 12 Adrian Costa San Diego, CA 3rd 12 David Wells San Diego, CA 3rd 12 Norm Wiggins Lancaster, CA
Winner: 2011 Winner--Ray Fogerlund--
The Venue: the venue actionAt our Weekly Tournaments we award Master Points to prize winners. In addition, Bonus Point tournaments (extra 3,2,& 1 are added on) are the last playing Wednesday & Sunday each month. In those events, the Master Points are 8,5,3,3,1,1,1,1 for 1st thru 8th (or 7,4,2,2,1,1,1,1) depending on the number of rounds played (6 or 5).
NOTE: The top 16 players, from each venue, at year-end will be invited to the "Tournament of 2010 Champions" in January 30th, 2011. For those who qualify at both locations, they will receive a bye into round-2.
Tournament of 2010 Champions (held February 2011): Steve Sax overcame five opponents to win our 'Tournament of 2010 Champions'. This event is by invitation only and consists of the top-16 players (from each of our two weekly venues) based on Master Points achieved during those weekly tournaments throughout 2009. In the early years it was only the top-16, e.g total points across both venues. However starting in 2004, we modified our selection criteria. Since we hold two weekly events and some players only play on Sunday or only on Wednesday, we decided to level the playing field. We began tracking the top-16 from each location. If at year-end, a player qualified in both locations, s/he received a bye into round two of the Tournament-of-200x-Champions. For 2010, We had 10 players who started in round-one and 12 more who received byes into round-two.
TOURNAMENT OF 2010 CHAMPIONS: Our top-16 players from both venues (Wednesday & Sunday) qualified to play in the TOC. Held at the A.R.Club, Feb.13, 2010. The results are: 1st Steve Sax 2nd Ceci Pedroza 3/4 Patrick Gibson 3/4 Justin Nunez