Fafa:
finally our pictures are available as well: http://picasaweb.google.nl/esavogel/PolishOpen2008

epilogue

Sirpi: after this exciting and enjoyable event Leslie drove 5 hours home. When I arrived, I immediately contacted pepe because the Hungarian champs is still running and none of us haven't had opportunity to play in the last 2 weeks. So we played all 6 games and after a thrilling 3-3 finally the tiebreak decided. So in 3 days I played 22 tournament games which is a kind of record for me.

Pictures from PO2008 by Zormac

As usual and kinda expected... selected pictures are up at the fairly usual place:
http://picasaweb.google.com/zonemeth

Home, sweet home

Egmaria: While the others were still enjoying the Sunday evening, and playing worms and cockroaches, I took a nice 9 hours night trip with a bus to Vienna. The roads are great in Poland, it's better than any roller coaster. :-D The trip included the sightseeing of 10 other small towns in the night....

hope the other will have also a safe trip home.

AND THE WINNER IS ...

Congrats to Blick!

To conclude...

Egmaria: Thanks to Teresa for organizing this great event. I will make sure to come next year too, and the year after and after and....

Last round

Egmaria: The first have finished the PO.... The others are stil thinking strong...

Last round

mielie : the last round just started !

it seems my favourite won't be winning this tournament either :(

Lunch

lunch was great:


meanwhile in the gameroom:

lunch break excersises

the noise of tiles can't be mixed up with anything else.

3 games left

blick

launch brake

lunch disappeared.

Lunch break

Egmaria: I think we now all deserve a jummy lunch :-)

videos (3)

re-oc's dilemma

no, it was not :P

The OC dilemma might only be designed to give a boost to the Polish tomato juice industry...

(z) here's a small competition for all of you: how close can you get to a draw without actually playing one - 10.3-9.7 TPs is the closest shave so far...

OC's dilemma

Should someone who's been playing better and better since ordering a tomato juice be considered suspicious and should default due to illegal enhancement take place? ;-)
Or should I just order one for myself...

Sirpi: Now Mike knows me better and next time he won't close my 9-tile long loop at the start :-) Bad news for me is that now I am on his blacklist.

video (2) : kakkerlakken rehearsal

mike to sirpi: you can play red if you correctly guess which hand of mine is the key in (but I'll keep my hands behind me, just to be safe...)

still the guess was correct

Beware!

Egmaria: Beware the Polish maffia! They are beating everybody.....

fafa: just played a game that should have scored -2 to 22 in tp's, lol... can only go better from here :-)

the situation is getting tenser. those in the lead have started to lose and those behind them have started to win. Even whatever can happen.

the situation is increasing. those in the lead lose and those behind them win. Even whatever can happen.

pictures (4) : evening day 1

Do you remember all the words?
kakkerlak, tomaat, paprika, bloemkool and sla /
cockroach, tomato, paprika, flower cabbage, lettuce /
svábbogár, paradicsom, paprika, virág káposzta, fejes saláta.

video (1) : cork trick

Moin

Egmaria: It's another wonderful day in Krosno, with lots of tired but enthusiastic Tantrix players. :-) Good luck all!

Mooooooooooorning

blick: yesterday evening was great, the food was great, and the cake was delicious. Let's play.

PS: the wine and beer was also very good (commented by leslie)

RANIUSZEK-ISH

MORNING!
Day two is about to start. About ... though no one knows exactly when. It was supposed to be 9-ish, but we have been trying to define 'ish' since Friday, in vain so far ...

At the end of the day...2

Egmaria: Yeah, wasn't that bad really.... Hope for a same or better day tomorrow. :-)

At the end of the day...

blick: Jippeee, after this very tiring day i'm happy that tomorrow we will play only 7 (-:

pictures (3)

Egmaria

Mikem
Fafa (with Boris on her shoulder) vs Igor, Leslie vs Sheena, 1Kornik21 vs Peja
1Kornik21 vs Peja

pictures (2)

Egmaria vs Raniuszek, Mikem vs someone cut off the photo ;-), Leslie vs Chupacabra, Zormac vs Blick
Zormac vs Blick
Chupacabra vs Leslie, Allure vs Mikem
Bdot vs Igor (JoeB vs 1Kornik21 in the background)

IT WASN'T ME!!

blick

Sirpi: now I know how to lose after leading by 6 at the start of the endgame. I should sleep too.

mistery of the extra tile 56

Zormac - in the game between blick and mikem, at one point tile 56 came out of the bag, which is in itself nothing extraordinary, unless you have another tile 56 played already...

Any clues who may have been bringing that extra tile in their pockets? since it's a no-red, red-ish players are out of question, surely... or?

pictures (1)

Egmaria vs Leslie
Sirpi vs JoeB

fafa: why are we playing with gamesets that have 28 tiles without red on them???

+me - also standing on -+-+-, hope to contine that pattern for the next round and change for another afterwards (z)

I found some pairs (+ means win, - means loss):

Maria: + + + + -
Chupacabra: - - - - +

raniuszek: - + - + -
Sirpi: + - + - +

Maybe there are some more.

Agreed Zormac :-( Maria

Zormac - almost woken up. However, you have one blood only. Either in the head or in the stomach. So after-lunch games are bad.

After the lunch

blick: Finally, i'm not hungry any more d-: Now i have to play Mike, and i'm full, and Mike told me that there might have been arsenic in my fish, so i'm a bit afraid of the game S-:

GO HUN GO!

Raniuszek: the games should be played at night, that would change the results soooooo much!

Egmaria: I am awake....!!

Amazing, I am doing so well, looks like I am the only one being awake... :-)
But I am afraid after the lunch break I will be sleepy as well. :-(

chupacabra: I'm still sad.

chupacabra: I'm sad.

chupacabra: (* she seems sad and has been hesitating for minutes what to write but the next round will start soon so maybe she will post a bit later - Sirpi *)

fafa: who ever said tantrix was fun? it's war!

Zormac: after two rounds, slowly waking up... no it's not an excuse for losing two games... i didn't lose two games after all :-)

blick: i'm tired and hungry.....

welcome to krosno

Sirpi: Greetings from Krosno! This is still bloody early morning for me (after the first two rounds), but I like the athmosphere very much. Go hun go :-)