The all-conquering Hungary A team - Péter Petrecz ITM, Zoltán Németh ITM, Tamás Gombkötő, László Szobonya and János Püspöki ITM have retained the World Team Tantrix Championship, winning the Final with four games to spare. They beat the no. 4 seeds in the QFs, the no. 3 seeds in the SFs and the no. 2 seeds in the Final, so they certainly did it the hard way! Runners-up NZL A have now finished in a different one of the top three positions every year. No. 3 seeds GBR A finished 3rd, the first time a UK has finished in the top three - they also got closer to HUN A than any other team in the KO phase, though quarter-finalists AUS B actually beat HUN A in a half-length (i.e. 15 game) match in the group phase. The top unseeded team was HUN B in 4th place.
29 teams from 11 countries and 2 regional groupings of 3 and 5 countries entered this year's event. 19 teams (all 13 A teams and the six highest-rated 6 B/C teams) qualified for the group phase automatically and 5 more joined them by winning a preliminary round match - qualifying teams are in capitals by their flags. 8 teams from 4 countries (GBR, HUN, AUS & NZL) reached the KO phase. This is also the first major tournament where the top three seeds have finished in 1st-3rd in the right order, perhaps suggesting that a 30 games is just about enough to even out the luck factor in a match.
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RESULTS
*NEW* Challenge match: WTTC winners HUN A v Rest of World team : 25 games, Sun 26 Sep 18.00 GMT
KNOCKOUT PHASE draw and summary results or detailed results:
FINAL: (1) HUN A v NZL A (2) 3PPO: (3) GBR A v HUN B (u)
SFs:
(1) HUN A v GBR A (3) (u) HUN B v NZL A (2)
QFs:
(1) HUN A v GBR B (4) (8) GBR C v GBR A (3) (u) HUN B v AUS B (u) (u) AUS A v NZL A (2)
GROUP PHASE - RESULTS SUMMARY - all groups, A-D and Z
Detailed Results: Group A Group B Group C Group D Group Z
Individual player records A-D (detailed player records are at the bottom of group pages)
PRELIMINARY ROUND draw and RESULTS SUMMARY
List of the 29 TEAMS in seeding order and where they finished
HALL OF FAME: Top three in all Tantrix tournaments ever played
ARRANGING GAMES HELP / TEAM AND PLAYER LISTS / DEADLINES
List of PLAYERS and help with ARRANGING GAMES Groups A-D
List of PLAYERS and help with ARRANGING GAMES Consolation Group Z
Time zone conversion table
WTTC schedule with DEADLINE dates
ON THE FORUM etc
WTTC ANNOUNCEMENTS and explanations section on the tournaments forum
WTTC PREVIEWS and FAN CLUBS This year's caption competition
How the main draw worked Record 68 players in the lobby at once
TOURNAMENT RULES
Summary tournament rules FULL TOURNAMENT RULES
Rčglement Regeln für Turniere
A bajnokságok általános szabályai
For Captains: ADDITIONAL RULES applicable to TEAM TOURNAMENTS
OTHER WTTC INFO
Last Year's World Team Championship won by HUN A
The 1st World Team Championship won by NZL A
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The date and time are:
Thursday, 20-Nov-2008 21:04:59 GMT
Thursday, 20-Nov-2008 21:04:59 GMT (local)
This file was last modified on Sunday, 26-Sep-2004 03:07:43 BST
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