Tourney report. After Nine Preseason Shuttle Three – last of three A9 shake-up tourneys – took place today at FIBS with total of 8 players: stog, socksey, rif_raf, DavidF, austin, Tanika, yourfuturexwife, LuckyDice.
First round took soksey into early exit by LuckyDice, rif_raf won round by awarded win against austin, stog andDavidF had rather interesting match, while yourfuturexwife def tanika. Semi-finals brought positional games to both matches leading rif_raf and yourfuturexwife into finals, which proved to be most interesting finals of whole Preseason series.
With two games into match and 1-1 standings, we had double at board and we had rif_raf pulling astonishing U-turn in match with some high burst of doubles at the very end. Like that was not enough of excitement, at 3-1 for rif_raf, yourfuturexwife doubled, leading game into steady ending with rif_raf apparently locked in at his home; “apparently” soon proved how appearances are deceiving, and with 7 checkers remaining for bearing off byyourfuturexwife, rif_raf executed yet another counter attack, this time more aggressive, taking it to the very end and winning this tournament!
Congratulation to rif_raf 
, winner of After Nine Preseason Shuttle Three.
It was a great run for runner-up yourfuturexwife. And it was by all means great finals, fibsters!
Thanks to all players taking part in After Nine Preseason Shuttle Three. By this tournament, A9 Preseason series concludes with 24 players taking part in three shake-up tourneys. With season premiere in sight – scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, November 6th at 2100 UTC – we will be taking regular weekly scheduling (every Saturday at 2100 UTC) and we look forward to see more and more players taking part in A9.
Full matches listing for A9 Season Shuttle Three (Tourney #3676):
22:43:29 T3676R1M1 (3-pt): rif_raf (1514) def. austin (1968) 3-0
22:43:29 T3676R1M2 (3-pt): stog (1678) def. DavidF (1650) 3-0
22:43:29 T3676R1M3 (3-pt): yourfuturexwife (1802) def. Tanika (1589) 4-0
22:43:29 T3676R1M4 (3-pt): LuckyDice (1697) def. socksey (1621) 5-1
22:43:29 T3676R2M1 (3-pt): rif_raf (1514) def. stog (1678) 4-0
22:43:29 T3676R2M2 (3-pt): yourfuturexwife (1802) def. LuckyDice (1697) 3-1
22:43:29 T3676R3M1 (5-pt): rif_raf (1514) def. yourfuturexwife (1802) 5-1
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