{"id":787,"date":"2016-04-10T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=787"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:14:11","slug":"april-2016-monthly-tournament-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"April 2016 Monthly Tournament Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s tournament was full of action, with a strong field of 13 players showing up today &#8211; including 2 new attendees &#8211; <strong>Luke Smith<\/strong> and <strong>Bob James<\/strong>! This makes 4 months in a row where we have had players playing with us for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of four months in a row &#8211; <strong>Mike Rezai<\/strong> officially marked wins for both March and April today. The first win came as <strong>Mike<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Yep<\/strong> completed the final match from the March tournament that was postponed for time constraints. The second came a few hours later as <strong>Mike<\/strong> defeated <strong>Carl Herold<\/strong> in the April tournament final. These wins earned Mike a total of 100 Masters Points on the day, giving him a grand total of 300 for the year!<\/p>\n<p>To add a little bit of &#8220;incentive&#8221; for the rest of the field, I introduced a bounty on Mike &#8211; the first player to defeat Mike in a main bracket match would receive $20. No one was able to claim it today, so it will carry over to May where it will increase to $40!<\/p>\n<p>In this month&#8217;s consolation final, our resident Giant, <strong>Mary Hickey<\/strong>, defeated <strong>Trever Dierkes<\/strong> to take third place.<\/p>\n<p>Updated Masters Points standings can be found on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?page_id=18\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>Mike<\/strong>, <strong>Carl<\/strong>, and <strong>Mary<\/strong> on their finishes, and welcome to our newcomers: <strong>Luke <\/strong>and<strong> Bob!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next monthly tournament will be held one week later than normal on May 15th due to Mother&#8217;s Day. See you then!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s tournament was full of action, with a strong field of 13 players showing up today &#8211; including 2 new attendees &#8211; Luke Smith and Bob James! This makes 4 months in a row where we have had players playing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/?p=787\">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":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.columbusbg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}