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Tournament Information

Director : David Dutton
Location : Bury
Country : United Kingdom
Information : Website

WPPR Snapshot

Ranking System :Main
Ranking Strength :4.09
Ratings Strength :3.18
Base Value : 17.5
Rated Players :35
Total (before TGP) : 24.77
TGP :100.00%
Event Booster :100%
Tour Value :24.77
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Results for the Main Tournament event on March 26, 2016

Pos Player Rank Rating Points
1 William Jarvis 160 1651.59 24.77
2 Andrew Foster 121 1721.42 16.86
3 Martin Ayub 44 1657.73 13.00
4 Garry Speight 1037 1588.30 10.28
5 Craig Pullen 82 1802.33 8.24
6 Greg Mott 71 1593.62 6.67
7 James Lee 23045 Not Rated 5.46
8 Tom Fletcher UK 6659 1401.35 4.51
9 Peter Blakemore 73 1583.91 3.76
10 Wayne Johns 270 1556.49 3.19
11 Oscar Evrenos 888 1450.56 2.75
12 Dave Willcox 1693 1231.49 2.42
13 Graeme Haynes 6536 1299.10 2.17
14 Alan Syson 6156 1359.30 2.00
15 Nick Marshall 301 1591.27 1.87
16 John Parkins 4756 1334.48 1.77
17 Katie Houghton 23045 Not Rated 1.71
18 Douglas Robison 7350 1349.87 1.65
19 Dan Lewell 5966 1233.50 1.60
20 David Dutton 798 1385.54 1.55
21 Adam Thompson CAN 18922 1368.14 1.51
21 Harry Bolt 4027 1357.11 1.51
23 Ian Walmsley 1981 1517.75 1.41
23 Paul Garner 2636 1313.72 1.41
25 Paul Owen 1227 1425.67 1.31
25 Neil Fellender 872 1459.20 1.31
27 Matt Garside 23045 Not Rated 1.21
27 Luke Wells UK 4853 1409.37 1.21
29 David Dodds 1806 1414.11 1.12
29 Nick Hamill 1327 1390.83 1.12
31 Stephen Sutcliffe 23045 Not Rated 1.02
32 Kirk Sadler 23045 Not Rated 0.97
40 Roy Smith 6196 1164.81 0.58
40 Stewart Judson 9570 1274.12 0.58
40 Matthew Sutcliffe 23045 Not Rated 0.58
40 Mark Craven 7764 1161.07 0.58
40 Alyssia Jarvis 8945 1412.62 0.58
40 Andy Pritchard 7324 1143.18 0.58
40 Malc Lashley 5294 1332.69 0.58
40 Nigel Lunt 3568 1312.53 0.58
40 Colin Clunie 3684 1258.93 0.58
40 Ailsa Clunie 4947 1173.59 0.58
40 Mark Potter 763 1507.61 0.58
40 Chris Edis 1702 1437.49 0.58
40 Thomas Evrenos 258 1405.54 0.58
40 Carl Spiby 2105 1463.48 0.58
40 Roger Valentine 4149 1412.44 0.58
49 Dan Williams UK 1278 1433.60 0.15
49 Gillian Tattersall 5640 1120.98 0.15
49 Colin Hampton 7383 1383.31 0.15
49 Richard Wade 1817 1424.34 0.15
Highlighted players are not applied to strength calculations due to lack of played tournaments.

Location


Arcade Club, Ela Mill, Cork Street, Bury, Manchester, BL9 7BW, UK

Format Details


Event Name : Main Tournament
Qualifying Format :
Finals Format : Unknown
Player Limit : Unknown
Unlimited Qualifying? : No

Tournament Overview


Tournament Date: March 26, 2016

• Maximum competition entries will be limited to 64 (if less than the maximum number is reached the numbers below may be modified to suit the actual entries)
• “Best of 3” will be calculated on a win/lose basis, with the first player to win 2 games being declared the winner, at which point the round ends for that pair.
• “Mini league” results will be calculated on a Points basis (1st place 9 pts, 2nd 5 pts, 3rd 2 pts, 4th 0 pts)

Round 1: 64 players
Players compete in pairs in a “best of 3” match on up to 3 different randomly chosen machines.
No-one goes out of the tournament in this round.
Winners in this round join Group A, Losers join Group B

Round 2: 64 Players
Group A and Group B are each divided into sets of 4 players and play a “mini league” match on 5 randomly chosen different machines.
In each Group A set: Top placed player gets a bye to Round 4, Second placed player progresses to round 3, Bottom two placed players drop out.
In each Group B set: Top two placed players progress to Round 3, Bottom two placed players drop out

Round 3: 24 Players
Players are divided into sets of 4 players and play a “mini league” match on 3 randomly chosen different machines.
Any player scoring two zeroes (ie two last places) immediately drops out
Top placed player in each set progresses to Round 4
Other remaining players drop out

Round 4: 14 Players
Players are divided into pairs and play a “mini-league” match on 3 randomly chosen different machines.
Winner in each pair progresses to Round 5, loser drops out except the best performing loser also progresses to Round 5.
Best performing loser will be taking the overall losing players actual score as a percentage of the overall winning players score on each of the machines separately and then taking the average.

Round 5: 8 Players
Players are divided into pairs and play a “mini league” match on 3 randomly chosen different machines.
Winners of each pair progress to The Final, losers drop out

The Final: 4 Players
Players play finals as a foursome mini - league.
Each player chooses one machine to play and a further machine is drawn at random


Other events related to this Tournament

Event Date Ranking System Winner
Main Tournament April 15, 2017 MAIN Martin Ayub
Main Tournament April 04, 2015 MAIN Martin Ayub

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