This year’s edition of the Irish Ladder Tournament will be starting at the end of January. The ladder is the first qualification stage in the Irish Championship. If you wish to join the event, please email Ian Davis at sivadnai at gmail.com. Admittedly, it is possible to join the ladder later in the year, but [...]
The IGA ladder has a new winner this year. Roman Pszonka took the top spot during the last weekend of play, by beating Ian Davis, who finished in second. In third place, with a last minute win, was Tiberiu Gociu, who played the most games this year. The qualifiers for the Top 8 are then: [...]
For statistics fans, here are a few figures I put together, they only include data up till the end of September. (If you notice a mistake feel free to point it out!) The four players currently in the qualification spots for next year are: Roman Pszonka, Tiberiu Gociu, Eoghan Barry and Rory Wales. Games Played [...]
Three more Top 8 games have taken place, Ian beating Colin and Eoghan on home ground at KGS, whilst Colin defeated Claas in Galway. Full results are available on the Top 8 page Meanwhile Tibi beat John in the first Ladder game of this year, earning revenge for his defeat in the Interprovincials.
The Ladder is back up and running (indeed the first game of the season has already been played…curse you, James Hutchinson). Open to all IGA members, the Ladder tournament runs from January to the end of November. The basic idea is simple – the players in the tournament are arranged in a ladder based on [...]
With Cao Tong-Yu and Claas Roever unable to take their seats at the opening weekend of the 2010 Top 8 tournament (to be held in Dublin over the weekend of 16-17th January), Colin MacSweeny and Michael Thai have joined Ian Davis and Noel Mitchell as the qualifiers from this year’s Top 8. The remaining four [...]
There has been some action in the Top 8 recently. Noel Mitchell played two games, defeating Colin MacSweeny, but then losing to Michael Thai. These results have been reflected in the championship table. At this late stage in the tournament the final positions are still very unclear. Also in the Ladder James Hutchinson moved up [...]
Eight months and fifty-nine games later, the 2008 Ladder Tournament is over, and it remained exciting to the very end with Colin MacSweeny and Paul Brennan duking it out for a spot in next year’s Top 8 tournament in the final game yesterday. The overall winner was Cao Tong-Yu, perhaps better known outside Cork as [...]
Recent events have called for clarification of the rules regarding multiple challenges and when challenges may legitimately be declined – hopefully this spells things out in more black and white terms. Rule 12 now reads: “A player who has received a challenge is not required to accept further challenges until the match has been played [...]
Up to now, the Committee has been fairly lax about the requiring competitors to inform us when challenges are issued and accepted, and the results of games. Inevitably, this has finally resulted in a problem this week, when a challenge made in good faith had to be voided as illegitimate. The problem has been settled [...]