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SA Closed Tournament: Contenders 2024 results

Contenders was once again held as a combination of “over the board” matches and online matches. Games between players in the same area were “over the board” and the remainder were online.

There was a three way tie for third place. In terms of their head to head games: Andrew beat Paul, Paul beat David, David beat Andrew. The tie breaker in these cases is the previous year’s results. This means the final positions were Andrew, David, then Paul.

PlayerNBWNotes
1Victor Chow7
2Chris Welsh6
3Andrew Davies4Tie breaker: 2023 results
4David Lubinsky4Tie breaker: 2023 results
5Paul Edwards4Tie breaker: 2023 results
6David Gale2
7Ben Bredenkamp1
8Fred Strauss0
Final Standings

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Candidates 2024 Results

The “Candidates” stage of the SA Closed tournament was played on September 29. There were eight players so the tournament was a three-round Swiss tournament. The top five players move on to the “Contenders” stage of the tournament.

The results were as follows:

PlayerPointsSOS*SOSOS**
1Rocco Vivier3516
2Ben Bredenkamp2513
3David Gale2512
4Paul Edwards2415
5Christiaan Maasdorp1612
6David Lubinsky1413
7Fred Strauss1315
8Adru van Niekerk0412

*SOS is “sum of opponent scores”. *SOSOS is “sum of sum of opponent scores”.

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Candidates 2023 Results

The “Candidates” stage of the SA Closed tournament was played this weekend, September 17 and 18. Each day is a three round Swiss tournament, with the top four players from day one progressing to day two. The top four players from day two move on to the “Contenders” stage of the tournament.

Congratulations to James and Adru on their promotions to 2k and 5k respectively. David Lubinsky played through from day one to qualify for Contenders, his first time qualifying. His last recorded game in the SAGA ranking system was in 2011. It seems that he’s come back from a break in good form.

Day One:
1: James Gelant
2: Christiaan Maasdorp
3: David Lubinsky
4: Adru van Niekerk
5: Pieter-Francois Theron
6: Michael Rapson
7: Fred Strauss
8: Pico Geyer

Day Two:
1: Rocco Vivier
2: David Lubinsky
3: Ben Bredenkamp
4: Paul Edwards
5: James Gelant
6: Adru van Niekerk
7: Christiaan Maasdorp
8: David Gale

Positions 2-4 and 5-7 are determined by “sum of opponent scores”.

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SA Closed Tournament: Contenders 2022 results

Contenders was once again held as a combination of “over the board” matches and online matches. Games between players in the same area were “over the board” and the remainder were online.

Victor took first place with straight wins, and Chris came second with only a loss to Victor. There was a three way tie for third place. Andre beat Andrew but not Rocco, and Andrew beat Rocco. The tie breaker in these cases is the previous year’s results, so the final positions were Andrew, Andre, Rocco.

PlayerNBWNotes
1Victor Chow, 7d7
2Chris Welsh, 4d6
3Andrew Davies, 3d4Tie breaker: 2021 results
4Andre Connell, 2d4Tie breaker: 2021 results
5Rocco Vivier, 1k4Tie breaker: 2021 results
6Ben Bredenkamp, 1k2
7Paul Edwards, 1d1
8David Gale, 1k0
Final Standings
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Winter League 2021

Winter league 2021 took place from June to November, with 12 players taking part. Players ranged from 3d to 7k in strength. Once again, the tournament used a McMahon style with pairing pre-drawn based on player ranks at the start of the tournament. The bar was set at 3k for this season.

Congratulations to Chris, who won the league for the second year in a row, with straight wins. Andrew and Andre placed second and third respectively. Michael was promoted back to 4k during the tournament.

PlayerRank
1Chris Welsh3d
2Andrew Davies3d
3Andre Connell2d
4Rocco Vivier2k
5Lloyd Rubidge1d
6Ben Bredenkamp1k
7James Nicolson1k
8Christiaan Maasdrop3k
9Michael Rapson4k
10Paul Edwards1d
11Gordon Wells7k
12Fred Strauss7k