2018
Newcastle Open Backgammon Tournament
Sunday, September 16th, 2018.
CHARLESTOWN BOWLING CLUB, Lincoln
St, Charlestown.
Registration from 9:20am., Draw at 9.50am.
NB: All details dependant on final number of
players.
The 2018 Newcastle Open will be conducted under
the following system,
Qualifying rounds: Round Robins.
Up to 8 groups.
Three and four player groups 7 point matches. Five and over player groups 5
point matches.
All round robin winners qualify for the Final
rounds.
1 point for a win. Tiebreakers: points SCORED, points AGAINST, head to head.
Main Tournament Final Rounds: Up
to 8 player knockout. 7-7-9 points
Consolation Tournament: 3 point knockout for ALL players not qualifying for the
Final Knockout. Players will be ranked on qualifying finishes with byes
allocated, as required, to highest placed players.
Entry fees:
$35 basic entry.
Financial Newcastle Backgammon Club Members (as of 30/6/18) $30.
NBC will contribute $5 per financial member to Member’s entries.**
Bonus Pool: $20 (not compulsory).
Prize Money:
Total prize pool for the Main Tournament = Total
Number of Players x 30.
Total prize pool for the Consolation Tournament = Total Number of Players x 5
Prize money paid Main: 1st-4th, Consolation 1st-2nd.
Trophies: Main 1st-2nd and Consolation winner.
Bonus Pool:
The Bonus pool will be won by the highest
finishing member of the Pool in the Main Bracket.
The Pool will be shared amongst those finishing at the same level if both the
Winner and second in the tournament are not members of the Pool.
It will revert to players in the Consolation Tournament if none of the 8 players
in the Main are members of the Bonus Pool.
All games to be played in the tournament room, no
exceptions.
To
Enter: Email – Robert Disney at: rwdiz@newcastlebackgammon.org
with subject of Newcastle Open
Phone Enquiries- (+61 2) 49469222 OR 0410494692
All payments to be made on the day.
Please notify any cancellations ASAP.
Lunches will be available through the Bistro on
the club premises.
**Value added amount mentioned made available from
Newcastle Backgammon Club reserves.
NB:
Charlestown Bowling Club is not train friendly.
Best travel option is by car.
The entrance to the CBC car park is off Ferris Street but MUST be approached
from the Bowling Club side of Ferris Street. If you approach from the football
oval side you have to drive around the block to get to the other side.
If coming from the north, through Charlestown on the highway, turn at the lights
at the end of the football oval onto Lincoln Street and bear right onto Ferris
towards Charlestown Square. If approaching from the south on the highway,
Lincoln St is on your left between the Rotary Park and the football oval.
If approaching from the back of Charlestown Square, which is Canberra St but
turns into Patricia Avenue at the back of the Bowling Club, turn off Patricia
onto Lincoln at the roundabout, go past the CBC main entrance and turn left onto
Ferris towards Charlestown Square.
The parking lot entrance is about 30m from the turn.
Anyone that is willing to make the trip by train would have to alight at Cardiff
station and bus/cab to Charlestown (6km trip) but beware of the 10am
start.
2017 Newcastle Open Backgammon Tournament
Played on
Sunday, September 17th, 2017.
CHARLESTOWN BOWLING CLUB, Lincoln
St, Charlestown.
Congratulations to Ben Phillips on winning the 2017 Newcastle Open from Robert
Disney 9-8 on Sunday at Charlestown Bowling Club. Semi-Finalists were Mehmet
Tuglu and Jan Spillekom. 25 final entries, from Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra and
the Gold Coast, competed in 7 round robins to decide the make up of the field
for the knock out Bracket with all round robin winners qualifying.
Ben was down 3-8 but just kept surviving and hitting the "last chance" blots
that were forced to be
left to take out the title.
The Consolation Tournament, open to all those that didn't qualify for the main
was won by Martin Sagradian from Sydney over Newcastle's Adrian Marisescu.
Thanks to all that attended especially those who travelled distance to come.
Special thanks to Charlestown Bowling Club and First Creek wines (via Bruce
Parr) for their contributions to the day.
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2017 NEWCASTLE OPEN BACKGAMMON FINAL BRACKET |
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JAN SPILLEKOM |
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JOHN SYMON |
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ROBERT DISNEY |
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ROBERT DISNEY |
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BEN PHILLIPS |
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WINNER |
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BEN PHILLIPS |
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SIMON WOODHEAD |
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BEN PHILLIPS |
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MEHMET TUGLU |
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MEHMET TUGLU |
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BYE |
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7 POINTS |
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Semi Finalist Mehmet Tuglu |
Runner up Robert Disney and
Winner Ben Phillips |
Semi Finalist Jan Spillekom |
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Consolation winner Martin Sagradian |
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Alan Cathcart won the raffle ! |
2016 Newcastle Open Backgammon Tournament
Played on
Sunday September 18th.
CHARLESTOWN BOWLING CLUB,
Lincoln St, Charlestown.
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Eva Bitel and Simon Woodhead |
Simon
Woodhead of the Gold Coast is the 2016 Newcastle Open winner which was held
in the Lincoln Room at Charlestown Bowling Club on Sunday, September 18th.
Simon defeated Sydney stalwart Eva Bitel by 9 points to 5 in a final which
looked to be all going Eva's way when she went 4-0 up early. Simon however
worked away at the deficit to win his fourth Newcastle Open title, the last
being in 2004.
The semi-finalists were both from Newcastle, Tony Walker and Greg Mitchell.
Making up the final 8 were Alex Ivanovski, Robert Disney, Gerhardt Macor and
Martin Sagradian.
The Consolation tournament, a 3 point knockout, run for the first time this
year, was taken out by Newcastle Club Captain Bruce Parr over Bevan Disney.
17 players contested the Consolation.
This
years Open attracted 29 players from around NSW
and Queensland. Chris Wood revisited from down south and first time entrants
Lorenzo Mandra, Martin Sagradian, Mark Catusanu and Edmond Catusanu joining all
the "usual suspects". Also amongst the first timers was new Newcastle player Gus
Burgess whilst Gin Jones was a surprise entrant.
With
thanks to the Charlestown Bowling Club, the new home for the NBC, for their
support in hosting the event. Also to Michelle Taubman, Bruce Parr and Sharne
Roxby for their contributions at the desk.
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Final |
Presentation to Winner Simon Woodhead |
Eva and Simon |
Presentation to Eva Bitel |
2015 Newcastle Open Backgammon Tournament
Played on Sunday, September 20th, 2015
Club Kotara, Howell St, Kotara.
Tal
Sade
(pictured
left),
visiting
from
Israel,
is
the
2015
Newcastle
Backgammon
Open
Champion
after
doing
a
demolition
job
on
Jan
Spillekom
9-1
in
Sunday's
final.
Only
23
players
attended
the
2015
Open
which
is
our
lowest
crowd
for
a
while.
There
were
4
new
players
to
the
Open,
Tal
Sade,
Nathan
Collins,
Susie
McCarthy
and
John
Symon.
Six
groups
were
drawn
(5 x
4
and
1
group
of
3)
with
the
6
winners
progressing
to
the
Final
bracket
with
2
byes.
In the round robin qualifying Robert Disney won the group of 3, Alex Ivanovski and Michelle Taubman both won through with 3 wins each and Tony Walker, Tal and Jan won the other heats with 2 wins on countback.
The draw for the Final bracket was made from "the hat" with Michelle and Alex drawing the byes and Jan (7) defeating Robert (3) and Tal vs Tony. Tal and Tony were locked at 5-5 and Tal cubed to make it DMP. Tal had 4 men left (2 on the 6 and 2 on the 1 point) against Tony's 1 on the 4pt and 1 on the 1pt. Tal's 4-2 roll he correctly played from the 6 and Tony's 3-1 roll opened the door for a roll that saw the crowd go wild...a 3-3!!
From there, Jan defeated Alex 7-2 in the semi with Tal making it a brace of Walker family conquests by beating Michelle (Tony's sister) also 7-2.
Sadly for Jan, after winning the first game of the Final to take a 1-0 lead the Tal buzzsaw kicked into gear and 1-0 became 1-9 six games later.
Congratulations to all the finalists and thank you to everyone that attended.
The First Creek wine prize was won by Shaun Harding. The $20 side tournament was won by Gerhardt Macor from John Symon.
Thanks go to both Club Kotara for accommodating the tournament in the Down Under Bar and First Creek wines for their support.
Robert Disney
President NBC
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The Final Score |
Presentation to Winner Tal Sade by Robert Disney |
The runner up, Jan Spillekom |
2015 Trophies |
2014 Newcastle Open Backgammon Tournament
Played on Sunday, September 21st, 2014
Kotara Sports and Recreation Club, Howell St, Kotara.
Steve Roberts, 2014 Newcastle Open Champion
Queensland's Steve Roberts is the 2014 Newcastle Open Backgammon
Tournament Champion by defeating Joanna Kerynia, also of Queensland, in this
year's Final.
The 2014 tournament, the 31st running, was a mixture of old,
current and new players, 34 in all, and contained a couple of firsts.
We welcomed first time players George Peterson from Bathurst,
Mehmet Tuglu from the Central Coast, Melinda Kelf (Port Macquarie), Daphne Downs
of Cairns and local player Adrian Marisescu.
Chris Wood and Joanna Kerynia returned for 2nd time appearances.
Returning from long spells away from the tournament were the aforementioned
Steve Roberts, Darren O'Shaughnessy from Melbourne, Sydney's Charlie Brown and
the one and only Jim Bardakos (Newcastle).
As to the "firsts".
Of the five debutants, three of them made the final 8 (all have online
experience).
The Newcastle Members Bonus Prize was not awarded because no one from the Club
made the final 8. It was decided that the prize will jackpot to next year, so
(financial) members will be in line for a share of $200 in 2015.
The Final had to be moved. The last 8 started around 2.40pm as a 7-9-9 knockout
but the final was not ready to start until around 6.30. With the Bowling club
closing at 7 it was off to Mick Dyett's for the Final to be played.
The players were divided into 8 round robins, six groups of 4
and two of 5 to play the qualifying round. Six players went into the last 8
unbeaten (David, Steve R, Simon, Melinda, Joanna and George).
The final pairings for the 8 player knockout were:
David Reitzin vs Daphne Downs
Steve Roberts vs Simon Woodhead
Melinda Kelf vs Steve Clarry
Joanna Kerynia vs George Peterson
Most of the quarters were tight matches.
Unfortunately for George, Joanna was on a roll winning 7-0. Dave beat Daphne
7-5, Steve R overcame Simon 7-6 (having rolled boxcars to win the Crawford game
needing at least a 5-5) and Melinda was victorious 7-6 over Steve C.
The Semis were Melinda against Joanna and Steve R
against David. Joanna continued, on winning 9-5 to knockout the last of the
first timers and Steve made it past David, who was a finalist last year.
So, the 2 finalists and an "audience" of 8 or 9 were
off to the Dyett residence in a convoy of cars for the decider.
Joanna flew the gates, taking a cube and gammoning
the game to lead 4-0 and stretched it to 5-0 before Steve got on the board. Not
one to refuse a cube, Joanna took in the next 2 games losing both for the score
to go to 5-4.
In the 5th game, Joanna took the cube and shortly after was able to challenge
Steve to go for match, with a recube, which he declined. 7-4 Joanna.
Joanna gave herself every chance in the next 2 games taking up Steve's cube
challenges but falling in both. 8-7 Steve
The 7th game went right down to the wire, Joanna needing a double anything to
get to double match point but the dice failed to respond and Steve took the
match 9-7.
Steve took away the $600 winners prize as well as the Bonus pool (20 players
entered) of $400. Joanna collected $300 for her efforts.
Congratulations to both players on a great Final match.
Of the couple of side tournaments played, winners
were Dave Bower and Michelle Taubman. Michelle also picked up the raffle prize.
Thank you to all who came to the Tournament, we hope to see you again next year.
Thanks also to the Kotara Bowling and Recreation Club for the use of their
premises. The "Down under" Bar is a great room for our event. Also to First
Creek Wines for their continued support.
Robert Disney
President NBC
Winner's Presentation
Trophies
Joanna Kerynia, 2014 Finalist
Preparing for battle, Steve and Joanna
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