I am now back in Singapore, dashing off to bid the jam of migrant workers crossing over from Malaysia to Singapore every Sunday evening. Three more annotated games have been completed and put up. Unfortunately I had lost the annotation sheet of Round 25, so, there will be no games for that round.
All in all, I felt it was a good and enjoyable tourney. The race was much closer, with individual and team winners in premier not decided until the last round; unlike last year where Ganesh and team Australia ran away well ahead of the rest. This year the excitement lasted till the very last round. The margin too was the closest yet in all 7 years of CSC, with first- to third-placed team separated by a mere 1.5 points.
We will need to do something about the Open division though
At the end of the tourney fun prizes was given. As with the tradition started two years ago, three lucky draw prizes were given: air tickets to one of the following tourneys: CSC 2008, Penang Open 2008 (Malaysia) or King’s Cup 2008 (Thailand). The lucky winners were Rosario Lambino (PHI), Purinth Vuttich (THA) , and James Gunner (AUS). There were also prizes for 3 best juniors outside top 10 (Ramaraj Sundraraj (MAL), Toh Wei Bin (SIN), and Alastair Richards (AUS)), 3 best seniors (i.e. above 50) outside top 10 (Rosario Lambino (PHI), Chim Wai Main (MAL), Yeap Gim Sai (MAL)).
Michael has also announced the dates for CSC2008: 3-7 Dec 2008. It is 5 days, because Michael has announced that Premier division is going to be a 45-game affair among 10 teams: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Canada, Nigeria, and team International. To sweeten things, he announced a first prize of USD10,000.
Open division is also set to be boosted to become a 36-game tourney over 4 days, with enlarged prize kitty too.
I will end this with a few pictures taken during the tourney. It has been for me, I think it has been for the players, I hope it has been fun also for people following the blog.
The Grand Ballroom of Hotel Zon Regency, the venue for CSC 2007
The first 10-letter word in the tourney, Henry Yeo (MAL) vs Bob Jackman (AUS)
Oldest player (Albert Hahn, INT) vs youngest player (Ong Suanne, MAL)
Eight-bingo game between Albert Hahn (INT) and Hubert Wee (SIN)
Eight-bingo game between Ong Suanne (MAL) and Goh Jiang Pern (SIN)
Liew Kian Boon (SIN) vs Henry Yeo (MAL), featuring a 10-letter word and a 7-tile overlap
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By sonicrick78I am now back in Singapore, dashing off to bid the jam of migrant workers crossing over from Malaysia to Singapore every Sunday evening. Three more annotated games have been completed and put up. Unfortunately I had lost the annotation sheet of Round 25, so, there will be no games for that round.
All in all, I felt it was a good and enjoyable tourney. The race was much closer, with individual and team winners in premier not decided until the last round; unlike last year where Ganesh and team Australia ran away well ahead of the rest. This year the excitement lasted till the very last round. The margin too was the closest yet in all 7 years of CSC, with first- to third-placed team separated by a mere 1.5 points.
We will need to do something about the Open division though
At the end of the tourney fun prizes was given. As with the tradition started two years ago, three lucky draw prizes were given: air tickets to one of the following tourneys: CSC 2008, Penang Open 2008 (Malaysia) or King’s Cup 2008 (Thailand). The lucky winners were Rosario Lambino (PHI), Purinth Vuttich (THA) , and James Gunner (AUS). There were also prizes for 3 best juniors outside top 10 (Ramaraj Sundraraj (MAL), Toh Wei Bin (SIN), and Alastair Richards (AUS)), 3 best seniors (i.e. above 50) outside top 10 (Rosario Lambino (PHI), Chim Wai Main (MAL), Yeap Gim Sai (MAL)).
Michael has also announced the dates for CSC2008: 3-7 Dec 2008. It is 5 days, because Michael has announced that Premier division is going to be a 45-game affair among 10 teams: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Canada, Nigeria, and team International. To sweeten things, he announced a first prize of USD10,000.
Open division is also set to be boosted to become a 36-game tourney over 4 days, with enlarged prize kitty too.
I will end this with a few pictures taken during the tourney. It has been for me, I think it has been for the players, I hope it has been fun also for people following the blog.
The Grand Ballroom of Hotel Zon Regency, the venue for CSC 2007
The first 10-letter word in the tourney, Henry Yeo (MAL) vs Bob Jackman (AUS)
Oldest player (Albert Hahn, INT) vs youngest player (Ong Suanne, MAL)
Eight-bingo game between Albert Hahn (INT) and Hubert Wee (SIN)
Eight-bingo game between Ong Suanne (MAL) and Goh Jiang Pern (SIN)
Liew Kian Boon (SIN) vs Henry Yeo (MAL), featuring a 10-letter word and a 7-tile overlap
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