Home page for Meteorology Department Squash Tournament VII
This is a the home page for the Seventh Meteorology Department Squash
Tournament.
Participants in the tournament
are shown on the
players, fixtures and results page
with all the player's e-mail
addresses, and the fixtures and results so far.
This page covers
The department squash tournaments are open to anyone in the
Meteorology department and anyone on our squash ladder who are
available to play squash for most of the end of the Autumn term and
the Spring term.
There's a wide range of abilities that take part, and the
tournaments usually involves undergraduates, postgraduates and staff.
We use a fixture system (Monrad) which ensures that everyone plays a
similar number of games. It works by trying to filter participants so
that they're playing with people of a similar standard to themselves
by the end of the tournament. It does this by ensuring that you play
someone with the same record as yourself, so if your record is
lose-win, i.e you lost in 1st round but won in 2nd round, you'll play
someone in the 3rd round who's record is also lose-win. (Byes and any
walk overs count as wins for this purpose). By the end of the
tournament no will have same record. The person to win all their games
wins the tournament.
This fixture system means that their are some big mis-matches
in the early rounds, but this is a chance for less experienced
participants
to learn some skills, and hopefully some tips, of more experienced
participants. However, there is no guarantee that you wont have your
tightest match in the first round. We seed the tournament in an
attempt to try and divide
those players who've played a lot from those you haven't by the end of
the early rounds.
The seeding is based mostly on the participants place on the
department squash ladder, but
participants not on the ladder who are recognised as strong players are
sometimes seeded.
It is up to the participants to arrange their own games once they
know who they're suppose to be playing. About 2 1/2 weeks is allowed
to play each round. If there's a reason why a game can't be played by
a deadline can you let the organiser
Marc know. The organiser
chases up the games which aren't completed on time but the
tournament is much easier too run if as many people can play their
games on time as possible. For the last round we try to book 2 squash
courts out for one whole evening
(Squash Night) and play as many
of the last round matches on that night as possible.
After a match the participants should be able to enter the results
on the players, fixtures and
results page, but they can also either e-mail the result to the
organiser or write the result
on the noticeboard.
Good luck everyone and I hope you really enjoy it.
Cheers, Marc
(marc@met.rdg.ac.uk, 3l50)
Summary of Tournament VII
Winner (& top male player) |
Marc Stringer |
Runner-Up |
Ed Hawkins |
Players to win all but one game (besides runner-up) |
Paul Janota (at 3), Chris Landeg (at 5), Jeff Boughton (at 9)
and Neil Ellis (at 17) |
Top female players |
Jo Pelly (at 10), Claire McConnell (at 22) and
Victoria (at 26) |
Performance of the tournament |
Geoff Bell |
Deadlines for games to be played are
Round |
Deadlines |
Round 1 | 8th December |
Round 2 | 19th January |
Round 3 | 16th February |
Round 4 | 9th March |
Final Round | Squash Night on 3rd April |
Anyone going
on holiday etc. may obviously need longer, but it'll be
helpful if all
games are played as soon as possible
The draw will take place around the 16th November. There's usually
two or three
sets of seeds - a top 8, 2nd 8 etc. - which are kept apart until the
3rd round. Seeding is based mostly on position on the squash ladder.
Games will be the best of five, and do not count to the squash ladder.
The official rules for the very keen (I've not read them) can be found on
the World Squash
Federation page.
Games will be arranged between the players involved, and
the results should
be written up on the noticeboard.
Figurine in bad shorts will be presented to winner. He's lost an
arm, since this picture was taken. Also, his socks are pulled up a
bit too high for my liking and it's a very cheap trophy, but apart
from all that, it's quality.
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A list of players and
fixtures is provided on both the noticed
board in the coffee room and on these web pages.
Provided we can get courts 1 and 2 for one convenient evening then
as many final round matches as possible will be played on one evening,
which will be Squash Night. Players who are missing an opponent for
the evening will be provided with some friendly opposition instead.
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