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#1 User is offline   phil_20686 

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Posted 2012-May-01, 10:42

So the spring fours draw went up today: I have drawn Hinden in my triangle.

Of all the top sixteen seeded teams, Hinden is one of the ones you really don't want to get :(.

Does anyone have any idea who any of
Henrik Gosvig
Eirin Halvorson
Baard Risnes

are?

They have managed to slip into the seeding, despite not appearing on any EBU master point lists, so I presume they are foreign pros. Anyone know them?

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Posted 2012-May-01, 10:57

View Postphil_20686, on 2012-May-01, 10:42, said:

So the spring fours draw went up today: I have drawn Hinden in my triangle.

Of all the top sixteen seeded teams, Hinden is one of the ones you really don't want to get :(.

Does anyone have any idea who any of
Henrik Gosvig
Eirin Halvorson
Baard Risnes

are?

They have managed to slip into the seeding, despite not appearing on any EBU master point lists, so I presume they are foreign pros. Anyone know them?


No entries for them on worldbridge, so I suspect they aren't that strong. It's possible the EBU just assigned unknown foreigners a number of gold points and that was sufficient for them to be seeded.

There are a couple of weaker teams lurking in the top 16, but most are pretty tough. We've drawn De Botton as our seed and Harry Smith as our unseeded team. Obviously De Botton are favourites in our triangle but we fancy our chances of an upset.
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Posted 2012-May-01, 11:32

View Postphil_20686, on 2012-May-01, 10:42, said:

Of all the top sixteen seeded teams, Hinden is one of the ones you really don't want to get :(.

True - but then, the same applies to most of the top 16 seeds! We have drawn Rosen in our group, which doesn't seem any easier than the seeds mentioned so far....
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Posted 2012-May-01, 11:56

We have drawn De Botton as our seed and Bell as the non seed .Obviously De Botton start as favourites but we fancy our chances of an upset
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Posted 2012-May-01, 12:33

View Postphil_20686, on 2012-May-01, 10:42, said:


Does anyone have any idea who any of
Henrik Gosvig
Eirin Halvorson
Baard Risnes

are?

They have managed to slip into the seeding, despite not appearing on any EBU master point lists, so I presume they are foreign pros. Anyone know them?


They seem to be Norwegian (although I was expecting Danes). I guess we'll find out on Friday....
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Posted 2012-May-01, 13:07

View PostMickyB, on 2012-May-01, 10:57, said:

No entries for them on worldbridge, so I suspect they aren't that strong. It's possible the EBU just assigned unknown foreigners a number of gold points and that was sufficient for them to be seeded.

There are a couple of weaker teams lurking in the top 16, but most are pretty tough. We've drawn De Botton as our seed and Harry Smith as our unseeded team. Obviously De Botton are favourites in our triangle but we fancy our chances of an upset.


Most of my team is "unknown foreigners" to the EBU, sadly that wasn't enough to get us seeded :P.
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Posted 2012-May-01, 13:17

View Postphil_20686, on 2012-May-01, 13:07, said:

Most of my team is "unknown foreigners" to the EBU, sadly that wasn't enough to get us seeded :P.

"unknown" in the sense of unable to discover who people are is slightly different to "unknown" but all of them live and play in England and are junior internationals.
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Posted 2012-May-01, 15:33

View Postahh, on 2012-May-01, 11:56, said:

We have drawn De Botton as our seed and Bell as the other seed .Obviously De Botton start as favourites but we fancy our chances of an upset


FYP! Anyway, given that we are both going to beat De Botton, looks like the match between our teams will be the decider!
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Posted 2012-May-02, 02:36

View PostFrancesHinden, on 2012-May-01, 12:33, said:

They seem to be Norwegian (although I was expecting Danes). I guess we'll find out on Friday....

Actually I believe one of them is a Dane living in Norway. I played and directed 52 boards in the same games as two of them yesterday. If seedings were given for competent play under the influence of alcohol, they would have been severely under-seeded.
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Posted 2012-May-02, 04:55

We seem to have been relatively lucky in our triangle (Hackett, Kendrick, Edwards). Not that there will be an upset, but we might not lose every match by triple-digits this year :)

There doesn't seem to be an obvious group-of-death this year, although I guess Phil's might depending on the strength of the Norwegians.
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Posted 2012-May-02, 11:18

Sorry Mickey :) I didn't realise that there were 2 seeds per group .Look forward to the match> It should be great fun. can you spot the former Gold Cup winner in our line up ?
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Posted 2012-May-02, 15:02

View Postahh, on 2012-May-02, 11:18, said:

Sorry Mickey :) I didn't realise that there were 2 seeds per group .Look forward to the match> It should be great fun. can you spot the former Gold Cup winner in our line up ?


Teams 1-32 are seeded in order (although you might not agree with the order). 33 upwards are unseeded. The triangles are

seed 1, seed 32, one of 33-48 at random
seed 2, seed 31, one of 33-48 at random
seed 3, seed 30, one of 33-48 at random

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Posted 2012-May-05, 16:05

View Postahh, on 2012-May-01, 11:56, said:

We have drawn De Botton as our seed and Bell as the non seed .Obviously De Botton start as favourites but we fancy our chances of an upset


So one team caused the upset and the other benefitted from it...
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Posted 2012-May-06, 09:22

I know Bċrd and Henrik. Very nice guys from Norway but a little crazy :) Say hi from me.
They used to come to the Copenhagen Bridge Festival every august where they fit in nicely with the local expert crowd.
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Posted 2012-May-06, 09:41

All the forumites playing each other... phil_20686 takes down first sasioc, then mickyb, while timve kicks paulg out of the competition. Meanwhile the Hinden team lost to de Botton by a very narrow margin, 70:75. Oh well, good luck in the Punch Bowl guys.
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Posted 2012-May-06, 09:45

Speaking of Punch Bowl, Ant590 seems to be doing quite well so far!
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Posted 2012-May-07, 13:42

The last seed in this event was Fredrik Nystrom, Wrang, Lambardi, and Ventin? Lol
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Posted 2012-May-07, 13:48

What is a punchbowl? How does one win this event. Double eliminations and punchbowls, I don't get it lol. Looks like a fun event though.
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Posted 2012-May-07, 14:57

View PostJLOGIC, on 2012-May-07, 13:42, said:

The last seed in this event was Fredrik Nystrom, Wrang, Lambardi, and Ventin? Lol

There were only supposed to be 48 teams playing. This team was accommodated as a late entry.
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Posted 2012-May-07, 15:40

The Punch Bowl is the consolation event for those double-eliminated from the main event (the Schapiro Trophy).
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