An error by your humble club director resulted in the points for August being distributed incorrectly. Bob Hickey should have received 5 more points, and Mary Hickey 5 fewer. The totals have been updated. (Sorry, Bob!) Thank you to Chris Yep for pointing out the error!
Chouette Anyone?
The next chouette that I can help host will be at 1:00PM on August 19th at our normal meeting place, KDB at Easton. Come on out for the chouette or even for some social play!
If anyone else wants to announce any meetups, please feel free to e-mail me at jason@columbusbg.org, and I can get the word out!
August Monthly Tournament Results
Another modest turnout this month led the group to decide on a 6-person round robin as the format for this month’s monthly tournament. After all was said and done, Mary and Bob Hickey were at the top of the table, each with records of 4-1. Owing to Mary’s head-to-head victory over Bob in their final round match, she takes first place for the afternoon.
The 45 points earned with the win moves Mary into a solid second place in the year’s standing. 3 others, Dale Berlin, Chris Yep, and Mike Rezai, split 3rd place honors.
The full 2012 standings can be found here.
Thank you to all who participated this month. The next monthly tournament will be held on September 9th, 2012, rather than the 2nd due to the holiday weekend. See you there!
CBC falls in USBGF National Club Team Championship
The Arizona Phoenix defeated our club team, Ready For Prime Time, 2-0 in the latest round of the 2012 USBGF National Club Team Tournament. Thank you to Stick, Chris Yep, and Mary Hickey for representing the club so well. This brings the current campaign to an end. If another tournament is organized next year, any USBGF members will be eligible to participate and form a team to represent the CBC.
USBGF membership benefits and other details can be found on their website: http://www.usbgf.org
July Monthly Tournament Results
Through an oversight on my part, I neglected to post the resultsof the July Monthly Tournament here on the website, though they did go out the next day by e-mail:
By group consensus among those attending, the tournament this month took the form of a 6-person round-robin. After the dust settled, Dale Berlin emerged as the winner with a record of 4-1. Mary Hickey took home second place honors with a record of 3-2. The rest of the field finished in a 4-way split for 3rd place.
With his win this month, Dale takes over 3rd place in the overall standings for the year!
The full 2012 standings can be found here.
Thank you to all who participated this month. The next monthly tournament will be held on August 5, 2012 at our new home, KDB at Easton Towne Center.
The CBC has a new home – KDB in Easton Town Center!
You read that correctly! We’ve just gotten a little too big for Max and Erma’s to handle us comfortably, so we will no longer be holding events there. Our new home is now KDB (Kitchen Den Bar) at the Easton Town Center on the northeast side of Columbus. The address and website for KDB are:
165 Easton Town Center
Columbus, OH
(614) 428-7529
Overall, we’ll have a lot more room at KDB, and they are a little more easily accessible from the freeway. I’ll try to put together a directions guide to send out with the newsletter and post here on the site as well. I’d like to thank Max and Erma’s for being our host to this point. I’m very grateful to them for letting us play there, and helping to get the club off the ground.
June Monthly Tournament Results
The June monthly tournament took place yesterday, Sunday June 3rd. A crowd of 10 players were in attendance, tying the high mark this year set in March. The attendees included two players who traveled all the way from Michigan to visit – Jim Slomkoski and Paul Berg. A Hickey won the tournament again this month, but this time it was Mary Hickey taking the top spot, and moving into 3rd place overall in the 2012 standings. Bob Hickey placed second, defeating Dale Berlin in the consolation final.
The full 2012 standings can be found here.
Thank you to all who participated this month. The next monthly tournament will be held on July 1st, 2012 at our new home, KDB at Easton Town Center.
Reminder – June Monthly Tournament
The June monthly tournament of the Columbus Backgammon Club will be held in just 3 days at 1:00PM on Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 at the Max & Erma’s restaurant in Reynoldsburg. The address is:
8050 East Broad Street
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-8024
(614) 367-0370
Registration starts at 12:30PM, and you are encouraged to come out early to have lunch and support the restaurant. More information about the tournament format can be found at our website, http://www.columbusbg.org.
If possible, please RSVP to jason@columbusbg.org if you intend to be there. This is not a pre-registration, but rather a way to get a rough count of the expected number of people as a courtesy to our host.
May Tournament Results and More!
CBC Monthly Tournament Results – May 2012
The Columbus Backgammon Club has its first repeat winner of 2012, as Bob Hickey worked his way through an 8-player field to emerge victorious. Chris Yep also repeats his performance as the winner of the consolation bracket with a victory over Mike Rezai in the Consolation Final.
We were also pleased to welcome two new (to our club) players – David Steinberg and Bram Binsky.
This month’s results have shaken up the top of the 2012 points race, with Chris Yep in the top slot with 111 points. The complete current standings for 2012 can be found here.
Thanks to all who participated, and please join us on June 3rd st at Max and Erma’s for our next monthly tournament! Check the website at http://www.columbusbg.org for more information.
The Hoosier Backgammon Club wins the Ohio Valley Club Challenge
The Hoosier Backgammon Club took away top honors over three other clubs in a closely contested Ohio Valley Club Challenge in Cincinnati on April 29th. Each club sent a 6-player team to compete in a round-robin format, where each player their equivalent seed on the other teams in 9-point matches. The Columbus Backgammon Club tied in the middle of the pack with the Cincinnati Backgammon Players Club. The final standings were:
Congratulations to the members of the HBC, representing their club:
Sean Garber
Jim Curtis
Scott Day
Rose Sheedy
Scott Johnston
Kevin Heacox
Sean Garber and Mike Rezai (Columbus) shared individual honors with 3-0 records.
Chouettes anyone?
We held a casual chouette on April 15th at KDB at Easton, with 7 people showing up for a casual afternoon of play. The more experienced players helped to teach the newer members the ropes, and it was a pretty good success. The next chouette that I can help host will be on May 20th at the same location, with more information coming soon.
If anyone else wants to announce any meetups, please feel free to e-mail me at jason@columbusbg.org, and I can get the word out!
Want to be in a member directory?
Since one of the main goals of the Columbus Backgammon Club is to get players together, I want to make this a little easier by publishing a Members Directory that will be distributed with this newsletter. If you would like to be in the directory, please supply as much of the following information as you feel comfortable with:
- Name
- Phone number
- E-mail address
- General area you live
- Nicknames on FIBS/GridGammon/SafeHarbor, etc.
- Picture
to me at jason@columbusbg.org and I will compile the list!
Latest Club News and Updates
It’s a fairly full month for the Columbus Backgammon Club, with a number of tournaments and other events happening!
Columbus Backgammon Club to compete in the Ohio Valley Club Challenge
The final lineup has been determined for the team representing the Columbus Backgammon Club in the Ohio Valley Club Challenge in Cincinnati on April 29th:
David Rearick
Harold Shirey
Bob Hickey
Mary Hickey
Mike Rezai
Jason Marshall
Good luck to everyone, and here’s hoping we can bring home the trophy!
Columbus Backgammon Club advances in the USBGF National Club Team Championship
While no official communication has been released, it appears that our club team, Ready for Prime Time, has advanced to the knockout round of the tournament. Wish team members Stick Rice, Chris Yep, Mary Hickey, and Jason Marshall luck when you see them next; the competition only gets stiffer from here.
You can follow the bracket here:
http://usbgf.org/usbgf-events/2012-usbgf-national-club-team-championship/club-champ-drawsheet/
and more updates will be sent out via this newsletter!
May Monthly Tournament
Our May monthly tournament for the Columbus Backgammon Club in 2012 will be held in 2 weeks at 1:00PM on May 6th, 2012 at the Max & Erma’s restaurant in Reynoldsburg. The address is:
8050 East Broad Street
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-8024
(614) 367-0370
Registration starts at 12:30PM, and you are encouraged to come out early to have lunch and support the restaurant. More information about the tournament format can be found at our website, http://www.columbusbg.org.
If possible, please RSVP to jason@columbusbg.org if you intend to be there. This is not a pre-registration, but rather a way to get a rough count of the expected number of people as a courtesy to our host.
Chouettes anyone?
We held a casual chouette on April 15th at KDB at Easton, with 7 people showing up for a casual afternoon of play. The more experienced players helped to teach the newer members the ropes, and it was a pretty good success. The next chouette that I can help host will be on May 20th at the same location, with more information coming soon.
If anyone else wants to announce any meetups, please feel free to e-mail me at jason@columbusbg.org, and I can get the word out!