{"id":1154,"date":"2018-10-30T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2018-11-03T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T23:38:26","slug":"october-2018-monthly-tournament-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"October 2018 Monthly Tournament Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapping up the September tournament, <strong>David Steinberg<\/strong> defeated <strong>Trevor Dierkes<\/strong> to win the Consolation and finish in 3rd place.  The Masters Points for September have been adjusted to reflect David&#8217;s Consolation win.  (David gained an additional 27 Masters Points from what was previously reported.)<\/p>\n<p>13 players attended the October tournament.  <strong>Maron Cury<\/strong> won the event, defeating <strong>Dale Berlin<\/strong> in the Main Bracket final.  In the Consolation final <strong>Jon Stephens<\/strong> defeated <strong>Edwin Jones<\/strong> to continue his excellent results for the year.<\/p>\n<p>With two tournaments remaining in the year <strong>Jon Stephens<\/strong> (364 points) has a 73-point lead over <strong>Mike Rezai<\/strong> (291 points) in the annual standings.  Several other players are close behind Mike.  But there&#8217;s more to play for than just the top spot!  Each year Columbus sends a team to the Ohio Valley Challenge Cup (OVCC).  Clubs are supposed to send (invite) players based on their annual standings.  So the top 6 or 7 players (depending on whether the event uses 6-player or 7-player teams) at the end of the year automatically qualify for Columbus&#8217; OVCC team.  The event will be in Cincinnati this year, probably in March or April (date to be determined).  Columbus won in 2015 and 2018.  I&#8217;d love for Columbus to win for the second year in a row!<\/p>\n<p>The full tournament bracket for October can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/backgames.org\/bg\/club.standings.php?club_id=11&#038;mode=tournament_report&#038;tournament_id=6768&#038;links=standings\">here<\/a>.  The current Masters Points standings can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?page_id=18\">here<\/a>.  Thank you again to all who came out to play and congratulations to our winners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st \u2013 Maron Cury<br \/>\n2nd \u2013 Dale Berlin<br \/>\n3rd \u2013 Jon Stephens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next tournament will be held on <strong>November 11<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapping up the September tournament, David Steinberg defeated Trevor Dierkes to win the Consolation and finish in 3rd place. The Masters Points for September have been adjusted to reflect David&#8217;s Consolation win. (David gained an additional 27 Masters Points from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1154\">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\/1154"}],"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=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}