The 2009 Open Singles State Title and Selection Trials are under way! The 2 days of this wekend saw 6 venues host 122 players for a total of 1,236 frames.
All reports from the adjudicators were of smoothly run days, which is a credit to all players involved. Unfortunately there were a number of early withdrawals, which can’t be helped, but also a number of no shows, which did lead to some unbalanced groups (one group only had 4 players!). Nevertheless, all 64 players who qualified for Round 2 did extremely well to get there, and there were a few surprises along the way.
From here we move to 8 groups of 8 players next weekend, with the top 4 again moving on to Round 3 to join the 32 seeds. As usual, we will not be playing on the long weekend, so round 3 will be held on the following weekend, 13/14 June.
The groups and venues for Round 2 will be finalised Monday night, and will be emailed that night. From here until the end of the tournament, I will be working on Sunday evenings, so results will not be available until Monday night (so potentially you will receive them on Tuesday morning). I will try to get them out earlier, but realistically I probably won’t have time.
Thank you to all the venues this weekend, we look forward to a successful couple months in partnership with you. And of course a thank you to the adjudicators, without whom we would not be able play at all. Players, remember these guys and gals give up their day to look after you, and I hear many of them drink Carlton Draught…
Bad luck to the players who bowed out this round, but if it makes you feel better you could not possibly have played worse than I did!!
As I said earlier, I wll send the groups for Round 2 out on Monday night.
Please find below the results from Round 1 (players in bold qualify for Round 2).
2009_open_singles_round1_results.xls (MS Excel)
2009_open_singles_round1_results.pdf (Adobe PDF)
