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Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:06 pm

Thanks Scott, great organisation, great event. You made it look easy, but I'm sure it wasn't.

Simon

peterwaller · Post by **peterwaller** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:10 pm

Yes great event and congratulations to Simon.
I have always prefered double elimination and think we should adopt it for all events.

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:38 am

Yeah, ditto. Its great that there were so many fights because otherwise its over in a flash. Great Event Scott.[/quote]

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:25 pm

Thanks Scott, the day ran really well,

The double elimination worked really well with the 32 entries, there was even enough time for a wearm up event. Congratulations to simon. pete c i will send the ?3 for the dvd as soon as i get time.

EpicentrE · Post by **EpicentrE** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:03 pm

Thanks for the kind words all

The double elimination worked much better and faster than I had expected, wish we'd kept the warm-up event now! But at least there was plenty of time for fun at the end.

I agree with Pete Waller that we should adopt double elim for all events, the thing is though we were very lucky in having 32 entries (Big thanks to Pete C for offering to take Squashy out to reduce the numbers, luckily in the end you didn't have too though

), with less we could have given out random byes, which while fair technically, still would make some people feel cheated on, and any more and we would've had to run some 3-ways at the beggining, which I personally dislike heavily.

Anyway, congratulations to all who got awards! My life is calming down a bit now so I might even have something to fight with next time

but we'll see.

Thanks to all for coming!

P.S. I seem to be taking all the praise, but it wouldn't have been possible without Hib sorting out all the score sheets, marking them up, and sorting other stuff out, so a big thanks to him too! Also thanks to everyone else who helped with stuff during the day (you know who you are

)

leo-rcc · Post by **leo-rcc** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:39 pm

Well im back under the living as well as due to a mixup my hotel for the saturdaynight turned out to be overbooked i decided on a night ferry back to the mainland.

Thanks to everyone who made this event possible, and i will be there again if work allows it.

Big congrats to Simon. I really enjoyed our fights.

Anyone got some pictures or video's online?

EpicentrE · Post by **EpicentrE** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:28 pm

Pictures are up!

Sorry for any bots I didn't get pictures of, the sign-up process was hurried and I'm sure I forgot some

Also some of them are a bit out of focus, again, I was rushing, so meh. Big thanks to Hib for doing most of these, actually!

Enjoy!

Remote-Controlled Dave · Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:44 am

Best event for ages, loved it, made the journey well worth while. Fantastic bunch of people you guys!
Big thanks to Hib and Scott.

Rhys · Post by **Rhys** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:43 pm

Yeah, what Dave said. Great event and I had lots of fun. Huge thanks to Scott and Andrew for organising it. Can't wait for the next one!

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:06 pm

Just got back... (had a couple of days in Warwickshire)

Thanks to Scott and Andy - it all seemed so much calmer than the last one! But then having the keys on time helps

I like the double-elimination, but it really does only work properly for 16, 32 (or 64!) entries. It might be possible to do 24 or 48, but that would probably involve 3-way first rounds (or finals!).

I got my first-ever certificate! 8) (Origami 2nd in minisumo)

Congrats to Josh (Best Engineered) and James (Best Driver) - look out guys, before long these youngsters are gonna whip ya!

Thanks again Scott and Andy