ManorCon Results 2009

Diplomacy Results

Position Name Friday Saturday Sunday Overall
1 Emeric Miszti 35.99 27.25 20.91 73.7
2 Graeme Murphy 16.09 5.74 47.33 66.29
3 Gwen Maggi 31.31 27.25 0.70 58.92
4 David Wigglesworth 0.80 19.06 20.91 40.37
5 Dave Simpson 0.50 7.58 3.30 11.13
6 Andrew Havery 9.84 0.60 10.44
7 Mark Wightman 8.3 8.30
8 Steve Agg 0.5 0.40 1.10 1.80

Diplomacy Challenge Results

The Diplomacy Challenge is for the best score on Saturday.

PosName Centres Score
1 Gwen Maggi 9 27.25
2 Emeric Miszti 9 27.25
3 David Wigglesworth 7 19.06
4 Andrew Havery 4 9.84
5 Dave Simpson 3 7.58
6 Graeme Murphy 2 5.74
7 Steve Agg 1904 0.4

With Emeric and Gwen tied on 9 centres, the computer positional analysis program was brought out to break the tie, and declared that Gwen had the better position by about half a centre (although Gwen said he thought the computer had got it wrong!).

Best Countries

Best Austria Mark Wightman Friday Board 1 4 centres
Best England Emeric Miszti Saturday Board 1 9 centres
Best France Graeme Murphy Sunday Board 1 15 centres
Best Germany Graeme Murphy Friday Board 1 7 centres
Best Italy Gwen Maggi Friday Board 1 11 centres
Best Russia Gwen Maggi Saturday Board 1 9 centres
Best Turkey Emeric Miszti Sunday Board 1 9 centres

Other Awards

As has become traditional at ManorCon, an award was given for each nationality from which a player was present. The recipients of awards were selected by the players in attendance from that nation.

Most French player (who is not actually French) Mark Wightman For being able to play an alliance with guts.
Tournament Director’s Award Graeme Murphy For being reduced to 1 centre in 1903, and playing 7 years before he made it back to 2 centres to finish the game.

Die Siedler Von Catan

13 players played in 6 games. The top 5 were:

Position Player Score
1 Peter Woodward 702
2 Markus Welbourne 600
3 David Wigglesworth 600
4 Doug Massie 600
5 Phil Williams 585

St Petersburg

28 players played in 21 games. The top 6 were:

Position Player Score
1 Mark Rigby-Jones 800
2 Bill Mayling 760
3 Tony Wheatley 760
4 Steve Jones 746
5 David Buckley 737
6 Andy Gregory 722

18XX

The 18XX tournament had 19 players playing 18 games. The games included 4 of 18Ardennes, 3 of 1861, 2 of 18West, 2 of 1837, and one each of 1824, 1812, 1858, 1846, 1848Lt, 1826 and 18EU. This year saw a runaway win by Jon Draper, with three wins out of five, plus two solid seconds. Congratulations to Jon on a very solid performance this year. A special mention should go to John Hopkins for stick ability; John played four games over the weekend, came last in all of them, and if there was a tournament directors award, I would have given it to him for perseverance alone.

Position Name Games Won Score
1 Jon Draper 5 3 103.05
2 Geoff Hardingham 4 2 88.87
3 Lyndon Gurr 6 2 84.88
4 David Smith 2 1 78.15
5 Ian D. Wilson 4 2 76.81
6 Steve Thomas 4 1 73.6
7 Peter Hawkins 1 1 70.19
8 Peter Eldridge 6 1 66.42
9 David Goldthorpe 1 0 63.17
10 John Boocock 3 1 60.56
11 Dave Thorby 4 1 59.21
12 Dave Berry 2 1 54.4
13 Danny Victor 4 1 49.2
14 Mark Wright 1 0 46.55
15 Stephen Webb 4 0 38.25
16 Barry Beavis 5 1 37.43
17 David Hecht 4 0 34.58
18 Ken Simpson 5 0 28.69
19 John Hopkins 4 0 13.84

Dominion

37 games were played, the tournament director contriving to be in no fewer than 21 of them. With six victories out of six games played Chris Martin was unstoppable. This exceptionally good performance revealed an unanticipated flaw in the tournament scoring system: had Chris gone on to play some 2-player games and win them, it would actually have reduced his overall score! The tournament director has already devised a solution to this for next year.

Position Name Score Played
1 Chris Martin 348 6
2 Steve Thomas 288 2
3 David Smith 192 2
4 Mark Jones 187 3
5 Gordon Aickin 144 1
6 Philip Honeybone 100 4
7 Andrew Simpson 90 2
8 Greg Payne 62 5
9 Al Bell 54 2
10 Iain Alexander 13 9
11 Gihan Bandaranaike 5 3
12 Andy Gregory 0 2
13 Dane Maslen -4 21
14 Derek Wilson -36 20
15 Chris Dawe -45 15
16 David Norman -54 6
17= Andy Parsons -64 1
17= Doug Massie -64 1
17= Jeff Clark -64 1
17= Mark Wightman -64 1
17= Martin Holden -64 1
17= Michael Colao -64 1
17= Paul Naylor -64 1
17= Peter Hawkins -64 1
17= Peter Woodward -64 1
17= Phil Williams -64 1
27 David Goldthorpe -72 1
28 Danny Victor -96 2
29 Keith Rapley -108 2
30= David Buckley -115 3
30= Hilary Jones -115 3
32 Bekki Warren -120 3
33 Chris Dearlove -151 5

Croquet

Eight people signed up for the croquet. In an even field, this would have normally reduced to a three-round knockout tournament. However, to make it more fun for the weaker players, I retained the four round structure, and arranged the draw so that they played each other before meeting the big guns. I’ll retain this in future, and hopefully we’ll get more entrants; who knows, the extra games may get the earlier players in nick enough to pull off an upset over the (cold) stronger players.

As expected, Mick Haytack and Gary Duke made it to the Final. With his lower Handicap, Gary was the favourite. However, a mistake after the fourth hoop which left Gary’s two balls wired let Mick in, and he duly cleaned up. This was Mick’s fifth ManorCon Crown, putting him in the outright lead in the history of the Tournament. Congratulations, Mick, and commiserations to Gary.

Gary Duke Gary Duke Gary Duke 14 Gary Duke 4
bye
bye bye
bye
Bekki Warren 14 Bekki Warren 14 Bekki Warren 1
Sue Phillips 11
Martin Burroughs 11 Philip Honeybone 9
Philip Honeybone 14
Stuart Stafford 7 Chris Dawe Chris Dawe 2 Mick Haytack 14
Chris Dawe 14
bye bye
bye
bye bye Mick Haytack 14
bye
bye Mick Haytack
Mick Haytack

Acquire

19 players played in 8 games. The top 4 were:

Position Player Score
1 Peter Woodward 844
2 Mark Sretch 775
3 Andy Bate 693
4 Chris Welbourne 648

Race for the Galaxy

18 games were played. Steve Thomas won all four that he played, thereby comfortably winning the tournament. Ben Brown and Chris Paterson each won a single 3-player game, thereby nominally tying as runner-up. The tie was broken by considering the margin of victory in each of the games.

Position Name Score Played
1 Steve Thomas 312 4
2 Ben Brown 144 1
3 Chris Paterson 144 1
4 John Todd 90 2
5 Lyndon Gurr 72 4
6 Jake Hanny 67 6
7 Peter Eldridge 34 5
8 David Smith 10 3
9= Andy Bate 5 3
9= Jon Draper 5 3
11 Dave Thorby -34 5
12= Andy Parsons -64 1
12= Chris Dawe -64 1
12= Geoff Hardingham -64 1
15= Andy Gregory -72 1
15= Ken Simpson -72 1
15= Tony Wheatley -72 1
18= Chris Dearlove -102 2
18= Chris Welbourne -102 2
18= Mark Stretch -102 2
21 Stephen Webb -144 4
22 Ian Wilson -158 5

Puerto Rico

30 players played in 11 games. The top 7 were:

Position Player Score
1 Kevin Lee 792
2 David Thornton 761
3 Bill Mayling 731
4 Matthew Greet 719
5 Peter Woodward 705
6 Peter Campbell 660
7 Richard Beattie 651

Imperial

In it's third year, the Imperial tournament saw six games played. Paul Cook and Jake Hanny both achieved 2 wins in 2 games, putting them well ahead of third place. With significantly larger margins of victory, Paul took the prize.

Position Player Played Score
1 Paul Cook 2 93.98
2 Jake Hanny 2 87.54
3 Paul Heppie 1 65.31
4 Doug Massie 1 65.25
5 Nigel Pepper 3 62.7
6 Andy Bate 2 59.7
7 Paul Naylor 2 52.07
8 Chris Welbourne 2 51.39
9 Pete Mason 3 50.5
10 Tim Troman 1 47.08
11 Alan Gates 1 46.49
12 Paul Speak 1 40.64
13 Peter Woodward 1 37.24
14 Kath Collman 1 36.99
15 Mark Stretch 1 30.73
16 Danny Collman 1 29.27
17 John Colledge 1 28.46

Spielchamps

4 teams competed for the right to represent the UK at Essen.

Winning team: Shark Bait: Luke Ellis, Maz Seijka, Adam Seijka, Simon Forth.

Best players: Adam Seijka & Luke Ellis

Midnight Party

17 players played 3 games - unsurprisingly scheduled for Midnight on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The top three were:

Position Name Score
1 Jim Sutherland 916
2 Gavin Muschamps 758
3 Dave Holmes 654

Treasure Hunt

Once again, the treasure hunt turned out to be a lot longer than planned. After 8 hours of hunting, the red team finally won, but by that time, everybody was past caring as to who was in the winning team!

Pop Quiz

Eight teams took part in this year’s Pop Quiz, which got under way once Dan and David had worked out how to disassemble the PA system sufficiently to be able to plug the laptop into it! Five different teams won on-the-spot prizes for winning a round, and the overall winner was decided by just 1½ points.

Team Connections Numbers Whistling Lyrics Guess Year Colour Total Team Members
Lancastrian 16 20 11 15 17 16 95 Martin Burroughs, John Gates, Dave Gittins, Keith Morton, Richard Ramsden
Scaramanga's Third Nipple 16 17 10 17 17½ 16 93½ Mick Haytack, James Kingham, Emily Lagrue, John Todd, John Webbly
Team Fat Bastard 17 14 10 16½ 17½ 15 90 Mark Fox, Phil Hannay, Simon Hornby, Robin Walters, Mark Wightman, Phil Williams
The MidContents 12 16½ 10 18 13½ 16 86
Dog & The Katz 15 16 11 13 14 10 79
The Concordians 13 16 9 7 14 67½
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 13 13 8 9 12 12 67
Stu, Sue, A Team Of Two 8 8 5 6 2 38½
Score out of 20 25 15 20 20 20 120