{"id":1135,"date":"2018-08-24T10:48:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:48:29","slug":"august-2018-monthly-tournament-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"August 2018 Monthly Tournament Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large crowd of 13 players played in this month&#8217;s tournament, including <strong>Loren McCumber<\/strong>.  Loren is new to the Columbus Backgammon Club, though he played in the Greater Columbus Backgammon Club from the 2001-2006 era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon Stephens<\/strong> won four matches in a row to win his second tournament of the year, defeating second place finisher <strong>Edwin Jones<\/strong> in the Main Bracket final.  In the Consolation final, shortened due to time constraints, <strong>Mike Rezai<\/strong> defeated <strong>Chris Yep<\/strong> to win third place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Rezai<\/strong> still leads the annual standings, but Jon&#8217;s tournament win pushes him into second place just 9 points behind Mike.  With 4 tournaments remaining this year, the top 4 players are all within 50 points of each other.  Several more players also still have realistic chances of finishing atop the annual standings.  There&#8217;s a good chance that the 2018 Player of the Year will come down to the final tournament of the year on December 9!<\/p>\n<p>The full tournament bracket for August can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/backgames.org\/bg\/club.standings.php?club_id=11&#038;mode=tournament_report&#038;tournament_id=6672&#038;links=standings\">here<\/a>.  The current Masters Points standings can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?page_id=18\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again to all who came out to play, welcome again to <strong>Loren McCumber<\/strong>, and congratulations to our winners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st \u2013 Jon Stephens<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2nd \u2013 Edwin Jones<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>3rd \u2013 Mike Rezai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next tournament will be held on <strong>September 9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large crowd of 13 players played in this month&#8217;s tournament, including Loren McCumber. Loren is new to the Columbus Backgammon Club, though he played in the Greater Columbus Backgammon Club from the 2001-2006 era. Jon Stephens won four matches &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1135\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}