Luxembourg DD Tournament GAME 2 Results:

For Game 2 the players starting positions in groups A and B have been reshuffled, here are the Game's results:

Group 2A (David, Stijn, Jannita)

(In the photo: Game 2A in progress)

(In the photo: end of round 4, jannita wins, David & Stijn in Trouble)

David -65
Stijn -97
Jannita -102

Highlights: very soon in the game David gains the upper hand, with Jannita and Stijn hardly keeping up. At the end of round 6 this is how things look like: D -23, J- 66, S -56. By round 9 Stijn stand at 97 points while Jannita plays very well with 2 victories and 1 loss of 5 points and David gaining another 21. The surprise strikes the round after with an amazing victory for Stijn, gifting Jannita with 25 point and and David with 13. Stijn continues to collect another victory gifting Jannita and David 6 and 8point s respectively and pushing Jannita out of the tournament after 12 rounds.

Group 2B (LEa, Daniela, Arwin)

(In the Photo: End of round 4 - a disaster for Daniela, Arwin wins, Lea escapes the Damage)

Lea -123
Daniela -97
Arwin -23

Highlights: it took Arwin only 6 rounds to win the game and kick Lea out of the tournament. In his blitz on the girls Arwin managed to inflict 50 points to Daniela in round 4, and 58 point to Lea in round 5. An achievement that marks him as a viable favorite for winning the tournament and marks Lea with a new Luxembourg Domino Dojo record for the most point collected in a single round.

(In the photo: Round 5 - Lea's new record - 58 points)

(in the Photo: Keeping the score at the end of game 2B)

(in the Photo: Keeping the score at the end of game 2a)

Luxembourg DD Tournament GAME 1 Results:

Group 1A (David, Stijn Lea, Tzuhan)
(In the photo: View over the domino field from david's position at the start round 4)

Unfortunately Tzuhan could not join the tournament, even though the beginning of the games was delayed, and we were waiting for her. The game went on as a friendly game between the 3 remaining contestants, here are the end results after 9 rounds:

David -88
Stijn -84
Lea -101

Highlights: Game started good for Lea with 1 victory and one 5 points after 2 rounds, but turned very rough as David began blocking massively leading to 24 points to Him and Lea, and 22 points to Stijn at round 3. These sort of amounts in points continued for 2 more rounds bringing the score to D- 78, L -73, S -64. From then on David Changed his style, taking in only 10 more points and inflicting 28 and 20 points on Lea and Stijn respectively. Still not enough point to take the game which went to Stijn.

Group 1B (Jannita, Arwin, Florian, Daniela)

(in the Photo: end of game 2, Florian at the top with 24 points and becoming the first player to drop out of the tournament)

The game lasted 12 rounds, here are the results:

Jannita -70
Arwin -64
Florian -115
Daniela -101

Highlights: the first rounds were were slow and defensive as each player was dumping stones. Arwin especially managed to keep his losses low and in the rounds after opened a gap of 14 between him and Jannita and of 27 between him and Daniela. rounds 5-8 saw Jannita take in 23 points and Florian 29, extending the gap between 1st and 2nd places to 22 points leaving the game at A- 20, J -50, D -64, F -69. At this point it appears both Daniela and Florian lost their balance and began collecting points. on the 12th round Florian made the mistake of his tournament, with 91 points for him and 96 for Daniela, he locked the game on sixes while still holding 4 heavy stones. The round ended with A -3, J -4, D -5, F -24.

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!