{"id":1236,"date":"2019-02-22T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2019-04-12T14:34:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:34:58","slug":"february-2019-monthly-tournament-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"February 2019 Monthly Tournament Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The February tournament was a special tournament with the US Backgammon Federation (USBGF) donating $165 as an added money pool for USBGF members.&nbsp; The added money attracted a large field of <strong>21 players<\/strong>, shattering our previous attendance record of 15 players (which was set in February 2018 at another USBGF added money tournament).&nbsp; The field included two first-time players, <strong>Meral Plosch<\/strong> and <strong>Peter Swartwout<\/strong> (from Pittsburgh).&nbsp; We also welcomed back two Cleveland-area players, <strong>John Baron<\/strong> and <strong>Ray Cifani<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament was won by <strong>Trevor Dierkes<\/strong>, who beat <strong>David Steinberg<\/strong> in the Main Bracket final.&nbsp; In the Consolation final <strong>Peter Swartwout<\/strong> defeated <strong>Brendan Leal<\/strong>.&nbsp; The USBGF added money, awarded to the USBGF player advancing farthest in the Main bracket, was won by <strong>David Steinberg<\/strong>.&nbsp; In addition, David won an entry into the USBGF Online Club Championship tournament, which begins in March.&nbsp; The winner of the USBGF Online Club Championship receives a free entry into any ABT tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In the annual standings, <strong>David Steinberg<\/strong>, on the strength of two Main Runner-Up finishes this year, is now in the lead with 100 points.<\/p>\n<p>The full tournament bracket for February can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/backgames.org\/bg\/club.standings.php?club_id=11&amp;mode=tournament_report&amp;tournament_id=7222&amp;links=standings\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; The current Masters Points standings can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?page_id=18\">here<\/a>. &nbsp;Thank you again to all who came out to play, welcome again to <strong>Meral Plosch<\/strong> and <strong>Peter Swartwout<\/strong>, and congratulations to our February winners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st \u2013 Trevor Dierkes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2nd\/3rd \u2013 David Steinberg<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2nd\/3rd \u2013 Peter Swartwout<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>4th \u2013 Brendan Leal<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>USBGF Added Money \u2013 David Steinberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next tournament will be held <strong>March 10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February tournament was a special tournament with the US Backgammon Federation (USBGF) donating $165 as an added money pool for USBGF members.&nbsp; The added money attracted a large field of 21 players, shattering our previous attendance record of 15 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=1236\">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\/1236"}],"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=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}