Players,
Minutes from the 2009 March, April and May Captain’s Meeting have been uploaded, and are available on the Minutes page:
Results: 2009 Open Singles Round 2
Hi all
Another round has been completed on our way to the 2009 ACTEBA Open Singles Champion and Open State Team qualifiers. And some interesting results occurred, with a few players surprising even themselves and others not quite hitting the balls the way they wanted…
With the top 32 seeds entering come round 3, I’ve always seen rounds 1 and 2 as a sort of mini tounament in itself, with 131 players playing for 32 spots. So I guess with round 3 imminent, I must thank all the players who took part in the first rounds for some entertaining days and great standard of play. The groups I saw over the two rounds were competitive and enjoyable, scary to think the play only gets better from here.
Congratulations to the qualifiers this week and thank you to the adjudicators for their time and effort.
A quick note – I will release the groups and days of play in the next day or so, however you will notice that there is one group of 9. This is because I made a slight miscalculation and wound up with 33 seeds by mistake.
Don’t forget that nominations for the Summer Competition are due at the meeting tonight.
Click the links below for the results for Round 2.
http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2009_open_singles_round2_results.xls (MS Excel)
http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2009_open_singles_round2_results.pdf (Adobe PDF)
Umpires: Masters Finals
Umpires tally for the Masters Finals are:
Top 4 Round Robin
Semisi Naupoto: 5
Chris Jones: 3
Ian Stanley: 9
Matt Kendrick: 7
Playoff (3rd/4th place)
Chris Jones : 3
Final
Matt Kendrick: 9
Thank you Semisi, Chris, Ian and Matt.
Next umpiring event – Open Finals (currently scheduled 4-5 July). Pls contact me if you are available.
Greg
Results: 2009 State of Origin Division 4
The Southern Guns won the Division 4 match 18-14 last night after being neck and neck for much of the first 3 rounds.
This gives the Guns a 36-28 lead in the series over the Northern Potters.
Come down to Chisholm Tavern next Wednesday to see if the Div 3 Potters can narrow the gap!
2009 Open Singles: Round 2 Groups
Players,
The Round 2 groups for the 2009 Open Singles have been finalised.
[UPDATED THUR 28/5]: Vikings Lanyon has been confirmed as our final venue for the two remaining groups, with a start time of 10.30 am (the club opens at 10 am).
Address: Heidelberg St Condor (behind the Lanyon Shops)
Start time: 10.30 am (tables open from 10 am)
Please check your venues, days and start times carefully. Good luck to everyone!
http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2009_open_singles_round2_groups.xls (MS Excel)
http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2009_open_singles_round2_groups.pdf (Adobe PDF)
Looking to join/start a team?
If you’ve been wanting/waiting to join the ACTEBA competition, now is the time!
Team nominations for the Winter 2009 competition are due at the next Captain’s meeting (Monday, June 1, at the Serbian Australian Club on Heard St, Mawson – 7pm.)
Team Nomination Forms are available on the Docs and Forms Page if you’re keen to start a new team. If you’re keen to join an existing team, your best bet would be to have a look on the forums and see if existing teams are looking to recruit. If you have any questions, please take a look at our FAQ / Get Involved Page, or contact a Committee member.
CAPTAINS: if you’re looking for extra players this season, please stop by the ACTEBA forums and have a look!
Results: 2009 Open Singles Round 1
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)
2009 Masters Top 4 shootout
The Masters Top 4 will play off for the 2009 ACTEBA Masters Title next Wednesday 27 May at Chisholm Tavern. The top 4 are Pete Smith, Jack Dehm, Ted Mallowes and Tolly Avuua.
Play starts at 8pm with a round robin of race to 3 and a final of race to 5. The top 3 finishers will qualify for the 2009 ACT Masters Team to compete at the Nationals later this year.
Results: 2009 State of Origin Div 5
Last night’s first encounter in the 2009 State of Origin clash saw the Southern Guns take an early lead 18-14 over the Northern Potters.
2009 Open Singles: Round 1 Venues and Start Times
The updated groupings for Round 1 of the Open Singles are now available.
Please note that different venues have different start times – check the information at the top of your group carefully. All venues will be open for practice 30 minutes before the listed start times.
The updated list is available here, and on the Docs and Forms page.
The tournament Director will be emailing this tonight, however as not all players put an email address on their forms, it would be a good idea for captains to pass these details to their players.