Special adjustment to rules regarding Grand Prize,

In a meeting between the organizers of the tournament it was decided that in the case of either David or Daniela winning the tournament the prize will go the next player with the lowest score.

This means side by side during the tournament, players who were taken out will continue to play till all the contestants of the tournament have played 5 games. the points of each player from each game will then be counted and in case that David or Daniela win - the grand prize will go to the player (other then David or Daniela) with the lowest score.

Here is the record chart:

Luxembourg DD Tournament *Special Report*

Today the first ever Luxembourg DD Tournament will take place between5 PM and 10.30 PM.

To win the tournament, a contestant had to win 5 games: 2 games of 4 players, 2 of with 3 players and 1 game of 2 players - the final. All games were played till 100 point where the first player reaching 100 both ending the game and being removed from the rest of the tournament.

Meaning: in games 1 & 3 the 3 players holding the smaller scores will be allowed to advance (and the first player to reach 100 points is out of the tournament). These 2 games, with 4 players are games of luck, giving as much good and bad chances to advanced Luxembourg DD players as they do with beginners. Anything can happen!

Games 2 & 4 the advantage will surely be with the experienced players, and the final game of 1 vs 1 will be the pinnacle of the domino strategy and tactics.

And here are the contestants:

*David Luxembourg - the Luxembourg Domino Dojo Master himself, a strong favorite for winning the tournament, possible also the player with most experience.
*Stijn van der Vleuten - Also a strong favorite for winning the tournament. Although receiving only a crash course introduction to the secrets of Luxembourg Draw Dominoes, Stijn has showed great Domino talent, loosing only 2 out of the 20 to 30 games he played against/with David.
*Lea Liabastre-Chopin - Lea has been a full time apprentice in the Domino Dojo for the past few months, and has shown great potential. A player of the Intern League in the past weeks she managed to cut her losses down and move to the leading position. If she plays well she might just take the grand prize.
*Tzuhan Yeh - has only fundamental knowledge of the game. She might make it all the way to game 4, but chances are low on her making it to the final.
*Arwin Caljouw - despite having some small experience Arwin has only fundamental knowledge of the game as well. He might make it all the way to game 4, but chances are low on him making it to the final.
*Jannita van den Haak - Another Domino player with basic Domino skills, again might make it all the way to game 4, but chances are low on making it to the final.
*Florian de Visser - joining the Dojo only a few weeks ago, Florian has gain already some experience and might even make into the final, it will require a good mix of talent and lack to get him there however.
*Daniela Pais - a very strong favorite for winning the tournament, and the 2nd most experienced Domino player to enter the competition. although never completing her domino architecture levels Daniela is consider as an informal Domino Dojo master.

Marking them according to their Luxembourg DD experience this is what we can see:
1- David Luxembourg
2- Daniela Pais
3- Lea Liabstre-Chopin
4- stijn van der Vlueten
5- Florian de visser
6- Arwin Caljouw
7- Jannita van den Haak
8- Tzuhan Yeh

Luxembourg DD Tournament List of Contestants

And here are the names of today contestants divided by lottery to qualifying groups:

Game 1 Group 1

David Luxembourg
Stijn van der Vleuten
Lea Liabastre-Chopin
Tzuhan Heh

Game 1 Group 2

Arwin Caljouw
Jannita van den Haak
Florian de Visser
Daniela Pais

And so we have an exiting day infornt of us!

Tournamet's results and comentery will be published tomorrow night.

First ever Luxembourg DD Tournament! this sunday 30/05/10

We are very happy to inform you that the first ever Luxembourg Draw Dominoes Tournament will take place in Eindhoven, the Netherlands this upcoming sunday 30th of May.

The grand prize of the tournament is this wonderful 70's styled golden pips Dominoes we picked up from toys'r'us today:


But to get to it the winner will have to win 5 games: 2 games vs 3 opponents, 2 games vs 2 opponents and 1 game of 1 on 1.

All games will be played till 100 points. In games 1 & 3 the 3 players holding the smaller scores will be allowed to advance (meaning the first player to reach 100 points is out of the tournament.
These 2 games, with 4 players are games of luck, giving as much good and bad chances to advanced Luxembourg DD players as they do with beginners. so anything can happen!

Games 2 & 4 the advantage will surely be with the experienced players, and the final game of 1 vs 1 will be the pinnacle of the domino strategy and tactics.

here are still a couple of places left, registration closes tomorrow, on Sunday morning we will publish the list of contestants.

Stay tuned!

Today's Games' Results: 28/05/10

In the photo bellow: round 3 game 2 lea wins, David end with a double 6 still can't stop loosing point at the end of a very bad game.


And here are the results for today's Intern league games :

Intern League
(coffee break 11:00)

3 Rounds:
David -44
Daniela -30
Lea -12

Intern League
(Lunch 01:00)

3 Rounds:
David -51
Daniela -13
Lea -19

Today we a very ballance amount of victories as each player won 2 rounds throught today's games.

A very bad day for David however, not since the beginning of the league have we seen David Luxembourg loose a game of domino with so many points lost in 1 game. Pushed down to the bottom of the league by 2 well played games of Lea and Daniela, with Lea the big winner of the day, finding her self neck to neck with Daniela and at the lead with 1 point ahead.

In the photo: round 2 of game 2 spelled disaster with 39 for David

The decisive rounds of the day were round 3 of the Morning game and round 2 of the Matinee game, both won by Daniela, and with Lea almost playing hand with hand with Daniela and avoiding large losses like the ones David has to deal with at this moment.

With only a few games left till the end of the leage this is how things are standing at the end of this week:

Lea -985
Daniela -986
David -1014

Games will resume next week, But stay tuned for the first ever Luxembourg DD Tournament coming up this sunday 30/05/10!

Today's Games' Results: 26/05/10

Before resuming with the intern League our contestant started with a warming up game. Here are the results:

Morning Practice/warm up
(coffee break 11:00)

3 rounds:

David- 1 victories
Daniela- 2 victories
Lea- No Victory ( but still a good play)

Intern League
(Lunch 01:00)

3 Rounds:
David -19
Daniela -32
Lea -11

The first game played in Holland after the Portuguese leg of league open well for David, winning 1st round, gaining only 2 points in the 2nd round and blocking the game at the 3rd leaving him with an extra of 8 points and giving the game to Lea who scored only 7 extra points.

Lea got a clear victory in the 2nd round, together with her technical victory in round 3 she takes the game.

After decisive victories in the her last 6 games our analysts wonder if Daniela's golden age is over or if today's loss was due to the change of environment.

!Update! Intern League @ PORTUGAL

Between 12 and 23 of May the Intern League continued in Portugal with with 5 games ( 15 rounds) played in Porto, Barroca, fundao, Alcaida & Lisbon.

(In the photo: first game of the Portuguese series played in Porto with the XISTO DOMINO prototype over a celebratory coffee and cakes)

These games had disastrous results for David who did not do well at all, besides of winning the first game with 3 vs 25 & 10 to Daniela and Lea respectively, David lost all other games: - 59, -30, -35 and -22. Despite this tremendous losses David still keep his lead over Daniela and Lea, but only by a shoe string, as the end results of the Portuguese leg of the intern league are: David -909, Daniela -911, and Lea -943.

(in the photo: view over the *battle filed* from Daniela position)

Lea did very well through the whole whole series, keeping her losses low and winning 3 out of the 5 games played. In total she gained only 62 points throughout the Portuguese leg of the Intern League, meaning that now only 34 point stand between her and the championship.

(In the photo: Game end in Porto after 3 rounds , cakes and coffee)

The title of 'Best Player' of of the Portuguese series goes for a Portuguese herself. Daniela Pais managed to keep the edge over David during the series, winning 1 game only but keeping her losses to an ultimate low of 50 points!