The 20th Ohio State Backgammon Championships were held over this past weekend in Cleveland, and the Columbus Backgammon Club was very well represented in both attendance and results. A total of 7 members were there to compete, with 1 in the Open, and the remaining 6 in the Advanced tournament. With those kind of numbers, it’s natural to think that we should get at least 1 result – but in fact we got 3!<\/p>\n
On Friday night, David Rearick<\/strong> won the Amateur Jackpot tournament to grab the clubs first honors of the weekend. On Sunday, the Advanced main event featured an all-Columbus semi-final with Bob Hickey<\/strong> and Jason Marshall<\/strong> squaring off (which happened to be their second meeting of the tournament). Jason won that match to advance to the final where he lost to Champion Ghazi Al-Kanani<\/strong>, taking second place overall. Bob moved to the Consolation bracket and finished as the winner there for third place.<\/p>\n We have a few photos of the weekend, and I will be working on getting an album online of those soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 20th Ohio State Backgammon Championships were held over this past weekend in Cleveland, and the Columbus Backgammon Club was very well represented in both attendance and results. A total of 7 members were there to compete, with 1 in …<\/p>\n