{"id":588,"date":"2014-08-10T20:33:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T00:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=588"},"modified":"2014-08-10T20:33:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T00:33:37","slug":"august-2014-monthly-tournament-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"August 2014 Monthly Tournament Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s 8-person tournament felt like a Who&#8217;s Who of Columbus backgammon with a couple of older faces making an appearance. <strong>Stick<\/strong> made a surprise visit this time around &#8211; giving us 2 Giants in the field this month, and <strong>Jon Stephens<\/strong> made this his first tournament under the new club format. Welcome back to both!<\/p>\n<p>Out of this very strong field, <strong>Bob Hickey<\/strong> rose to the top to become the first 2-time winner this year, pulling away from the pack a little in the Masters Points race, by defeating <strong>Jeff Boester<\/strong> in the main bracket. Jeff is coming on strong with 2 top-3 finishes in 2 appearances. <strong>Jason Marshall<\/strong> took 3rd place this month with a win over <strong>Jon Stephens<\/strong> in the consolation final.<\/p>\n<p>The current Masters Points standings can be found <a title=\"Masters Points\" href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?page_id=18\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Bob on his win this month, and thank you to all those who attended, and we&#8217;ll see you all next month on September 14th at the next tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s 8-person tournament felt like a Who&#8217;s Who of Columbus backgammon with a couple of older faces making an appearance. Stick made a surprise visit this time around &#8211; giving us 2 Giants in the field this month, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=588\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}