{"id":1189,"date":"2019-01-11T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2019-03-29T03:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T07:08:46","slug":"january-2019-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"January 2019 Monthly Tournament Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our first tournament of the year 11 players attended, including <strong>John Baron<\/strong> from the Cleveland area. This was John&#8217;s first regular Columbus tournament (he also attended the special USBGF added money tournament in February 2018). <strong>Chris Yep<\/strong> won the event, defeating <strong>David Steinberg<\/strong> in the Main Bracket final. In the Consolation final <strong>Stu Cohen<\/strong> defeated <strong>Maron Cury<\/strong>. This was the first tournament with the new payout allocation (Main Winner 40%, Main Runner-Up 25%, Consolation Winner 25%, Consolation Runner-Up 10%).<\/p>\n<p>The full tournament bracket for January can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/backgames.org\/bg\/club.standings.php?club_id=11&amp;mode=tournament_report&amp;tournament_id=7175&amp;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, welcome again to <strong>John Baron<\/strong>, and congratulations to our January winners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st \u2013 Chris Yep<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2nd\/3rd \u2013 David Steinberg<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2nd\/3rd \u2013 Stu Cohen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>4th \u2013 Maron Cury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next tournament will be held on <strong>February 10<\/strong>. Similar to the February 2018 tournament, the February 2019 tournament will be a special tournament with an extra side pool donated by the US Backgammon Federation (USBGF) exclusively for USBGF members. Check back here for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our first tournament of the year 11 players attended, including John Baron from the Cleveland area. This was John&#8217;s first regular Columbus tournament (he also attended the special USBGF added money tournament in February 2018). Chris Yep won the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1189\">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\/1189"}],"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=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}