Dennis Scarr won the Tyneside Advanced Weekend

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6th August (AC)

Eight players gathered in Exhibition Park, Newcastle upon Tyne for the Annual CqE Advanced Tournament, and enjoyed dry & mild weather on both days. In the absence of the designated Manager, a big thank you to Terry Vernazza who stepped in to keep order and ensured everything went well over the weekend

Played as an "all play all" format and to ensure that all the games could be completed in a reasonable time it was decided to play 2 x 26 point, 2.5 hours games and 2 x 18 point (all clips on hoop 5), 2 hours games on the Saturday. On Sunday we played 2 x 26 point, 2.5 hours games and 1 x 18 point, 2 hours game thus ensuring each player had 7 games each over the weekend.

Players:

Dennis Scarr -0.5 Phil Errington 1.5

Terry Vernazza 3 Mark Simmerson 3.5

Mark Shanks 4 Roger Staples 4.5

Stephen Pratt 4.5 David Millener 6

Results - 26 point games:-

Scarr beat Millener +22, Pratt beat Errington + 4t (16-12), Vernazza beat Staples +10, Simmerson beat Shanks +2t (22-20).

Errington beat Millener +5t (23-18), Scarr beat Staples +1t (21-20), Vernazza beat Shanks +21, Pratt beat Simmerson +14t (23-9).

Simmerson beat Scarr +1t (19-18 Golden Hoop), Errington beat Vernazza +5, Staples beat Pratt +15, Shanks beat Millener +15.

Simmerson beat Millener +16, Staples beat Errington +16, Shanks beat Pratt +12, Scarr beat Vernazza +18.

Results - 18 point games:-

Errington beat Shanks +5, Millener beat Vernazza +3t (13-10), Scarr beat Pratt +11t (17-6), Staples beat Simmerson +4.

Staples beat Millener +12, Vernazza beat Pratt +11, Scarr beat Shanks +14, Simmerson beat Errington +7.

Staples beat Shanks 6, Pratt beat Millener +10, Simmerson beat Vernazza +13, Errington beat Scarr +1t (16-15).

Dennis Scarr, Mark Simmerson and Roger Staples all finished on 5 wins each. Dennis had beaten Roger, Mark had beaten Dennis and Roger had beaten Mark!

So Dennis Scarr was declared the winner of the tournament on the basis of having scored more hoop points than either Roger or Mark.