Newsletter for 9 November 2004

Tournament News

On Tuesday, 9 November 2004, the Backgammon Club of San Diego met. 11 people entered a 16-player tournament, with the following results:

Main Tournament (16 player bracket)

1st place:  Bruce Haight and Mark Weiner (split)
3rd place:  Jason Lee

Murphy Bunnell and Lynn Shardlow were new players to the club this week.

Current Master Points Standings

 1. Sho Sengoku      96
 2. Jason Lee        89
 3. Bruce Haight     88
 4. Tom Fahland      79
 5. Adrian Costa     66
 6. Osman Guner      50
 7. Fred Kamgar      38
 8. Eric Sedehi      32
 9. Henry Chaboki    26
10. Mark Weiner      21
11. Bruce Discher    20
12. Cyrus Mobedshahi 18
13. Marcia Karen      9
14. Stan Krimerman    8
14. Ryan Knowles      8
14. Ned Cross         8
17. Steve Blake       6
17. Kismet Hancer     6
17. Greg Kopp         6
20. Sam Mehri         4
20. Vito Volpetti     4
22. Chris Rosin       3
23. George Alessi     2
23. Jon Vietor        2
25. Maira Costa       1

Both Bruce Haight and Jason Lee moved to within striking distance of Sho Sengoku for the lead in the standings. It could go right down to the wire!

Mark Weiner passed Bruce Discher and Cyrus Mobedshahi to move into 10th place overall.

The point leader at the end of the year will be named the BCSD Player of the Year, and the top 16 in the Master Point standings will be invited to the 2004 BCSD Tournament of Champions, to be held in early 2005.

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See you next week! Keep tossing those cubes,
J. Lee