The Banquet and Final Results
Next Friday, June 24th, we will celebrate the end of the IPL Winter/Spring 2016 by having our traditional banquet. Prizes will be awarded, platitudes will be expressed and alcohol will be consumed.
All league members who have competed in 3 separate matches this past season are welcome to join us free of charge. Those who have played in one or two matches can enter for 15,000won and members can bring guests at a cost of 30,000won per head.
The Details:
Friday June 24th
Crown Hotel
7-10pm
There will be an opportunity to sign up for the new season early at the banquet too. Teams can pay a deposit of 100,000won to register for next season.
The finals took place last Wednesday and Scrooge Pub Phoenix eventually took their maiden crown by defeating the resilient Wonky Triangles 8-5. The standard was very high and included 4 special games and Phoenix celebrated by drinking the pub dry...of coke :) Boomtown Rats salvaged some pride, as defending champions, by shooting down the luckless Angry Birds. If only the Angry Birds could play Potato every week!
In the B Championship, Banana Scrubbers felt the Pain by losing the last four frames as JJ's team took the title 8-6. Once again the place for drama was Sin Bin (3 playoff games at that venue all ended 8-7) as Tomato did their best to lose by throwing away a 7-2 lead before taking the final game.
Zzyzx simply strolled to victory in Championship C and taught Dolce that Life wasn't so Sweet. Ballistics simply destroyed Runners in the 3rd place playoff.
Thanks to all teams, and especially the captains, for making this season memorable and, above all, very competitive. Congratulations to all the winners and commiserations to the others (losers sounds too harsh). See you at the banquet.
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End of Season Singles and Playoffs Round 3
Yesterday saw our traditional, big money end of season singles tournament take place and it was an enormously eventful affair once again. Some terrific play, great sportsmanship and interesting situations occurred and it was a pleasure witness.
The Lower Bracket crown was claimed by the elated Ha-hyun Park who defeated the new and dangerous Potato signing, Chris Dews. It also featured, possibly for the first time, more special games than the Upper Bracket. Special mention to Denys from Troyjans who completed his first ever 8-ball run against the very obliging Lenny Erickson.
The Upper Bracket saw a Phoenix final with Jang Joon-min exactly some measure of revenge of Bong Bong for beating him into 3rd in the mid-season tournament by claiming the the overall title.
Upper Bracket
1st Place: Jang Joon Min (Scrooge Pub Phoenix)
2nd Place: Bong Bong (Scrooge Pub Phoenix)
3rd Place: Andrew 'Kino' Kinlan (Sin Bin Potato)
4th Place: Paul Riddle (JR Pub All Stars)
Lower Bracket
1st Place: Ha-hyun Park (Seoul Pub FUTA)
2nd Place: Chris Dews (Sin Bin Potato)
3rd Place: Tom Jones (Bulldog Estyle)
4th Place: Han Songyi (Bull & Barrel Ballistics)
Many thanks to all those who helped with the smooth running of the tournament (Jeff Vandeweerd, Ronan Spillane, Lenny Erickson, Jeff Trageser, Paul Riddle & Jim Dewey - your work was much appreciated)and to the bars themselves (Scrooge Pub, Fat Albert's, Dolce Vita and Shenanigans) for providing superb hospitality.
Today sees round three of the playoffs and the Scrooge and JJ's teams re-enter the fray alongside Shenanigans Banana Scrubbers and Dolce Vita Sweet Life. Wednesday night saw Dolce Vita Angry Birds roast and feast on Potato and Boomtown Rats take out the league winners and favourites All Stars in a titanic battle. The real drama was at Sin Bin as usual, which saw its second 8-7 match of the playoffs as Tomato took all three doubles games to eliminate Scandal. The Kings refused to be FUTAed and put them to the sword and in Championship C Ballistics made the semis without firing a ball in anger and Runners simply had far more stamina than Troyjans.
Championship A
Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles @ Dolce Vita Angry Birds
Shenanigans Boomtown Rats @ Scrooge Pub Phoenix
Championship B
Sin Bin Tomato @ Shenanigans Banana Scrubbers
King Pub Kings @ JJ's the Pain
Championship C
Bulldog Runners @ JJ's Zzyzx
Bull & Barrel Ballistics @ Dolce Vita Sweet Life
Good luck to all involved.
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The Finals
It is 'Finals Night' in the 2016 Winter/Spring IPL Season and it promises to be a cracker.
In Championship A, the final will be an all Scrooge affair after Phoenix rose the challenge and d(r)owned the Rats in a final frame finale. No such drama at Dolce Vita where Wonky Triangles rattled off 7 games in a row to make the Birds even angrier.
*UPDATE* Wonky's urine samples came back clean but the IOC want to test their 'B' samples before clearing them to take part in tonight's final.
In Championship B, the Banana Scrubbers hope they won't slip up taking on the the Pain. They comfortably squashed Tomato on the weekend and Sin Bin simply couldn't ketchup. The Pain declared themselves free and independent as the Kings abdicated without much fight.
In Championship C, Zzyzx walked all over the Runners to set up a meeting with Sweet Life, who incensed Ballistics by taking 5 straight wins to claim an 8-5 win.
All the very best of luck to all the teams taking part tonight, have fun and enjoy the competition.
Championship A
Final: Scrooge Pub Wonky Triangles @ Scrooge Pub Phoenix
3rd Place: Shenanigans Boomtown Rats @ Dolce Vita Angry Birds
Championship B
Final: JJ's the Pain @ Shenanigans Banana Scrubbers
3rd Place: King Pub Kings @ Sin Bin Tomato
Championship C
Final: Dolce Vita Sweet Life @ JJ's Zzyzx
3rd Place: Bull & Barrel Ballistics @ Bulldog Runners
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End of Season Singles Money Tournament & Playoffs Round 2
The End-of-Season Singles Money Tournament will be played this Saturday, June 11th at Dolce Vita, Scrooge Pub, Shenanigans and Fat Albert's.
Sign-ups will be in Dolce Vita from 3pm and pay will start as close to 4pm as possible.
Any player who has played 5 separate weeks of the regular season and is happy to part with 10,000won may play.
The tournament will be split into higher and lower brackets and the prize money in each bracket will be as follows:
1st Place: 250,000won
2nd Place: 200,000won
3rd Place: 150,000won
4th Place: 100,000won
5th-8th Places: 40,000won
I hope to see many of you there on Saturday.
The 2nd round of the playoffs takes place tomorrow night and follows some great matches that took place on Sunday. In Championship A, the Scrooge teams both upset the form book to book their semi final places early by defeating Angry Birds and All Stars. Boomtown Rats proved, once again, they don't play doubles in playoffs and Sin Bin Potato edged out Bulldog Estyle in an epic 5 hour match. Championships B & C went largely to form with the seedings more or less working out in the higher seeds favour. On Wednesday King Pub and Bull & Barrel enter the festivities and will no doubt wish to leave their mark on the season.
Wednesday's fixtures are:
Championship A
Shenanigans Boomtown Rats @ JR Pub All Stars
Sin Bin Potato @ Dolce Vita Angry Birds
Championship B
King Pub Kings @ Seoul Pub FUTA
Fat Albert's Scandal @ Sin Bin Tomato
Championship C
Bull & Barrel Ballistics @ JR BBQ The Fire
JR Pub Troyjans @ Bulldog Runners
All the very best of luck to the teams on Wednesday.
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