Newsletter for 28 December 2004

Tournament News

On Tuesday, 28 December 2004, the Backgammon Club of San Diego met. 12 players entered a 16-player main tournament, with the following results:

Main Tournament (16 player bracket)
  • 1st place:  Bruce Discher

  • 2nd place:  Eric Sedehi

  • 3rd place:  Henry Chaboki / Adrian Costa (split)

    • Final 2004 Master Points Standings 

     1. Sho Sengoku      120
 2. Bruce Haight     101
 3. Jason Lee         97
 4. Tom Fahland       85
 5. Adrian Costa      69
 6. Fred Kamgar       50
 6. Osman Guner       50
 8. Eric Sedehi       42
 9. Henry Chaboki     33
10. Bruce Discher     31
11. Mark Weiner       25
12. Cyrus Mobedshahi  18
13. Sam Mehri         10
14. Marcia Karen       9
15. Stan Krimerman     8
15. Ryan Knowles       8
15. Ned Cross          8
18. Steve Blake        7
19. Kismet Hancer      6
19. Greg Kopp          6
21. Alan Epstein       4
21. Vito Volpetti      4
23. Chris Rosin        3
24. George Alessi      2
24. Jon Vietor         2
26. Mozafar Behrooznia 1
26. Maira Costa        1
    With the final tournament of the year, the standings are complete. The last move was made by Bruce Discher, who passed Mark Weiner to finish 10th place in the year.

    Player of the Month for December 2004

    Sho Sengoku is the BCSD Player of the Month for December 2004. Sho split first place in two tournaments in the month to score 12 points, beating out Bruce Discher and Eric Sedehi, both of whom scored eight points. This just led in to Sho's victory as...

    Player of the Year for 2004

    Sho Sengoku is the BCSD Player of the Year for 2004. Sho scored a total of 120 points to easily beat out Bruce Haight, who was the only other person in triple digits at 101. Sho won or split first place in 12 tournaments this year. Sho's BCSD championship performance was made all the more remarkable by the fact that he never arrived by 6:30, and as a result had much fewer opportunities to reenter than other players. Sho will receive a prize for his efforts. Congratulations, Sho!

    Sho, along with the next 15 highest members in good standings will compete in the Tournament of Champions, which will be held early in 2005. By finishing in first place, Sho will get the top seed in the big tourney.

    2004 BCSD Statistics

    Osman Guner compiled some interesting statistics on the 2004 BCSD tournaments. A total of 64 players participated in our 2004 tournaments, playing a grand total of 1,474 matches. 14 players played in at least 25 matches. Jason Lee played in the most matches with 159, while Bruce Haight had the highest winning percentage, having won just over 68% of his matches.

    Top 10 in Matches played: 

    Jason Lee           159
Tom Fahland         148
Adrian Costa        134
Sho Sengoku         127
Bruce Haight        105
Fred Kamgar         102
Bruce Discher        88
Henry Chaboku        84
Osman Guner          79
Eric Sedehi          75
    Top 10 in winning percentage (minimum 25 matches played): 
                          W-L     Ratio
Bruce Haight         72-33    .686
Sho Sengoku          86-41    .677
Eric Sedehi          41-34    .547
Osman Guner          43-36    .544
Jason Lee            85-74    .535
Tom Fahland          78-70    .527
Adrian Costa         67-67    .500
Henry Chaboki        42-42    .500
Mark Weiner          29-32    .475
Fred Kamgar          46-56    .451
Bruce Discher        39-49    .443
    Other statistics are available directly from Osman!

    Problem of the Week

    No problems over the holidays!

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