Apterous Summer Open Week 1

And finally, the premier division. There were some snags, as a couple groups forgot to play their games, which is why there's more losers than winners. On the bright side, I do already have one round 2 game in. If I'm not mistaken, that round 2 game guarantees that there will be a 5-0 player at the end of the tournament (assuming all future matches are played). So that's exciting.

Seed	Name	Rating	Round 1	Round 2	Overall	Games	PPG
1	Kirk Bevins	1833	11 2 - 0	6 0 - 0	1	+2	108
2	Junaid Mubeen	1781	12 2 - 0	8 0 - 0	1	+2	109
3	Jon Corby	1696	13 2 - 1	10 0 - 0	1	+1	97
4	Charlie Reams	1643	14 2 - 1	17 0 - 0	1	+1	105
5	Innis Carson	1625	15 2 - 0	20 0 - 0	1	+2	91.5
6	Dinos Sfyris	1597	16 2 - 1	1 0 - 0	1	+1	93
7	Kai Laddiman	1579	17 1 - 2	21 0 - 0	0	-1	92
8	David O'Donnell	1577	18 2 - 0	2 0 - 0	1	+2	96
9	Andrew Hulme	1575	20 0 - 2	22 0 - 0	0	-2	0
10	Damian Eadie	1550	19 2 - 0	3 0 - 0	1	+2	98
11	James Hurrell	1549	1 0 - 2	24 0 - 0	0	-2	84.5
12	Oliver Garner	1469	2 0 - 2	25 0 - 0	0	-2	99
13	Ben Wilson	1457	3 1 - 2	26 0 - 0	0	-1	91.3
14	Martin May	1338	4 1 - 2	27 0 - 0	0	-1	97
15	Jack Hurst	1325	5 0 - 2	28 1 - 2	0	-3	76
16	Jim Bentley	1318	6 1 - 2	29 0 - 0	0	-1	85.7
17	Neil Zussman	1307	7 2 - 1	4 0 - 0	1	+1	88.7
18	Matt Bayfield	1256	8 0 - 2	30 0 - 0	0	-2	64
19	Ian Volante	1255	10 0 - 2	33 0 - 0	0	-2	75.5
20	Richard Priest	1255	9 2 - 0	5 0 - 0	1	+2	1
21	Ross Allatt	1177	31 2 - 1	7 0 - 0	1	+1	90.3
22	Donald Gordon	1165	32 2 - 1	9 0 - 0	1	+1	89.3
23	Henry Meier	1164	33 1 - 2	36 0 - 0	0	-1	74
24	Mark Harrison	1135	34 2 - 0	11 0 - 0	1	+2	102
25	James Doohan	1126	35 2 - 1	12 0 - 0	1	+1	83.7
26	Peter Lee	1119	36 0 - 0	13 0 - 0	0	+0	-1.#J
27	Andy Kravis	1104	37 2 - 1	14 0 - 0	1	+1	77
28	Aaron Higgs	1086	38 2 - 0	15 2 - 1	2	+3	95.4
29	Jeff Burgin	1076	39 2 - 1	16 0 - 0	1	+1	77
30	Tom Rowell	1065	40 0 - 0	18 0 - 0	0	+0	-1.#J
31	Simon Myers	1058	21 1 - 2	37 0 - 0	0	-1	79
32	Paul Erdunast	1047	22 1 - 2	38 0 - 0	0	-1	78
33	Matt Morrison	1033	23 2 - 1	19 0 - 0	1	+1	87
34	Jay Murphy	1031	24 0 - 2	40 0 - 0	0	-2	86.5
35	Julie Russell	934	25 1 - 2	39 0 - 0	0	-1	76.7
36	James Levison	884	26 0 - 0	23 0 - 0	0	+0	-1.#J
37	Marc Meakin	850	27 1 - 2	31 0 - 0	0	-1	72.7
38	Niall Seymour	834	28 0 - 2	32 0 - 0	0	-2	59.5
39	Ian Dent	665	29 1 - 2	35 0 - 0	0	-1	65.3
40	Ben Ziek	619	30 0 - 0	34 0 - 0	0	+0	-1.#J

Apterous Summer U800 Week 1

This is the "normal" division: two pools of four, with the top two from each pool playing their counterparts in the other pool for rounds four and five and the bottom two doing the same. The pools here were "snaked" without regards to rating, so 1/4/5/8 in one pool and 2/3/6/7 in the other. The entire round-robin:

Seed	Name	Rating	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Overall	Games	PPG
1	Adam Dexter	724	8 2 - 0	5 0 - 0	4 0 - 0	1	+2	80.5
2	Maxine Silkstone	722	7 2 - 0	6 0 - 0	3 0 - 0	1	+2	76.5
3	Gregor Morgan	686	6 1 - 2	7 0 - 0	2 0 - 0	0	-1	63
4	Ian Dent	665	5 2 - 0	8 0 - 0	1 0 - 0	1	+2	67
5	James Leroux	662	4 0 - 2	1 0 - 0	8 0 - 0	0	-2	49.5
6	Ben Ziek	619	3 2 - 1	2 0 - 0	7 0 - 0	1	+1	69.3
7	Steve Rogers	461	2 0 - 2	3 0 - 0	6 0 - 0	0	-2	68.5
8	Supee Juachan	378	1 0 - 2	4 0 - 0	5 0 - 0	0	-2	44.5

Apterous Summer U1200 Week 1

Unlike the U1000, there were quite a few upsets, with only five of the top ten seeds winning their first game. That means we have some funny-looking matches this week (normally, when you lose, you play a lower-seeded player in the second round, but because of all the upsets that didn't really happen).

The first week's results and the second week's games:

Seed	Name	Rating	Round 1	Round 2	Overall	Games	PPG
1	Barry Evans	1199	14 0 - 2	22 0 - 0	0	-2	70.5
2	Matthew Green	1183	16 2 - 0	13 0 - 0	1	+2	76
3	Ross Allatt	1177	18 1 - 2	23 0 - 0	0	-1	64.7
4	Donald Gordon	1165	17 1 - 2	24 0 - 0	0	-1	66.7
5	Henry Meier	1164	19 1 - 2	25 0 - 0	0	-1	74
6	Marcus Hares	1162	21 2 - 0	14 0 - 0	1	+2	95.5
7	Mark Harrison	1135	20 0 - 2	26 0 - 0	0	-2	75
8	James Doohan	1126	22 2 - 0	15 0 - 0	1	+2	89.5
9	Tyron Potts	1121	23 2 - 0	17 0 - 0	1	+2	83
10	Peter Lee	1119	24 2 - 1	18 0 - 0	1	+1	84.3
11	Jeff Clayton	1115	25 2 - 1	19 0 - 0	1	+1	82.3
12	Andy Kravis	1104	26 2 - 0	20 0 - 0	1	+2	106
13	Aaron Higgs	1086	27 2 - 0	2 0 - 0	1	+2	94.5
14	Jeff Burgin	1076	1 2 - 0	6 0 - 0	1	+2	85.5
15	Lesley Hines	1072	28 2 - 0	8 0 - 0	1	+2	89
16	Tom Rowell	1065	2 0 - 2	27 0 - 0	0	-2	66.5
17	Simon Myers	1058	4 2 - 1	9 0 - 0	1	+1	80.7
18	Paul Erdunast	1047	3 2 - 1	10 0 - 0	1	+1	75
19	Daniel O'Dowd	1043	5 2 - 1	11 0 - 0	1	+1	75
20	Matt Morrison	1033	7 2 - 0	12 0 - 0	1	+2	78.5
21	Jay Murphy	1031	6 0 - 2	28 0 - 0	0	-2	59.5
22	Peter Crawley	1004	8 0 - 2	1 0 - 0	0	-2	67
23	Liam Tiernan	984	9 0 - 2	3 0 - 0	0	-2	75.5
24	Shaun Hegarty	983	10 1 - 2	4 0 - 0	0	-1	78.3
25	Rob Thomas	928	11 1 - 2	5 0 - 0	0	-1	62.7
26	Phil Collinge	900	12 0 - 2	7 0 - 0	0	-2	64
27	Andy Wilson	898	13 0 - 2	16 0 - 0	0	-2	58.5
28	Ian Dent	665	15 0 - 2	21 0 - 0	0	-2	51.5

This is looking like a wide-open division!

Apterous Summer U1000 Week 1

Since this group is such a pleasure to work with (that is, they've managed to play all their games), I'll put up their crosstable-so-far early:

Seed	Name	Rating	Round 1	Overall	Games	PPG
1	Liam Tiernan	984	10 2 - 0	1	+2	76.5
2	Shaun Hegarty	983	9 2 - 1	1	+1	81.3
3	Jason Turner	958	8 2 - 0	1	+2	92
4	James Hall	955	7 2 - 0	1	+2	86.5
5	Julie Russell	934	6 2 - 0	1	+2	96.5
6	Phil Collinge	900	5 0 - 2	0	-2	82.5
7	Andy Wilson	898	4 0 - 2	0	-2	75.5
8	James Levison	884	3 0 - 2	0	-2	77
9	Niall Seymour	834	2 1 - 2	0	-1	73.7
10	Ian Dent	665	1 0 - 2	0	-2	60.5

It's mostly luck that the games in the first round worked out 1-10, 2-9, etc; the pools (of 5 each) were chosen so that (1) each pair 1-2, 3-4, etc. were in different pools and (2) the total rating in each pool was as close to equal as possible. I was originally just going to do (2), and then I saw that the pools split it up with seeds 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in one pool. So I changed that pretty quickly. Other than that, no real surprises here.

New games on C4C on Sunday morning!

Still not one of the cool kids

So the Google Puzzle Championships. First time trying it, knew I would be 25 from the bottom rather than 25 from the top. Certainly don't have a triple digit score to show for it like everybody else. The puzzles: did the battleships and the sudoku, somehow messed up the kenken and the eminent domain, missed one on switch cheese, got writer's block and coordinate pairs, put an incorrect answer in window pain (I counted 1x1 and 2x2 by hand before having a brainwave about how not to count, but I didn't go back and check the earlier ones!), got the 2-3 maze. 54 points, I think? We'll find out how that stacks up next weekend.

Today's NYT quote

From an article about the environmental impact of HFCs:
"“CO2 sucks all the oxygen out of the room,” he explained."
They have detectors for that now, don't they?