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WTC ROUND 3 SCORES AT 24:00 UCT 2nd NOVEMBER

22 of 28 games reported.
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WTC ROUND 3 SCORES TO 22:00 UCT 3rd NOVEMBER

25 of 28 games reported.
Three games remain unfinished.
Deadline for completion of these games (with screenshot posted in results or sent to organisers) is 24:00 UCT on 4th November.
26 hours from this post.
The three games left are:

• Armchair Heroes vs Desperta Feror
  Stew101 vs Jorgito78
  Herd of Kiwi vs Condottieri Italia
  GDod vs Hari72
  Lupi Belli vs Comites Italia
  heidipie vs mberisso

Please remember unreported games will be scored 0-0.

Final positions after Round 2 will be confirmed here at about 14:00 UCT 5th November and Round 4 challenge thread opened.

WTC ROUND 3 SCORES TO DEADLINE 24:00 UCT 4th NOVEMBER

25 of 28 games reported as complete.
2 incomplete games reported - score draws.
1 unreported and incomplete game - no score draw.

Any adjudication decisions will take place on 5th November with final round 3 results confirmed here by 14:00 UCT.

The expected Round 4 matches are shown at right and will also be confirmed and the Round 4 challenge thread opened at that time. *Note Match 3 and 4 change is to avoid a rematch
Final positions after Round 2 will be confirmed here at about 14:00 UCT 5th November and Round 4 challenge thread opened.

WTC ROUND 3 SCORES FINAL AT 5th NOVEMBER

25 of 28 games reported as complete.
2 incomplete games reported - score draws.
1 unreported and incomplete game - no score draw.

These are confirmed and final round 3 results.

The confirmed Round 4 matches are shown at right and the Round 4 challenge thread is here https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewto ... ?t=116817
*Note Match 3 and 4 change from absolute ranking which is to avoid a rematch
Congratulations to Zhu Que and China where, after a setback in the initial game of their match, they overcame France’s Furor Gallico and maintain first place. They will now be challenged by Montjoie after the second French team’s very strong showing against the American Third Army sending the Americans tumbling. Zhu Que’s lead is a strong 130 points, so Montjoie will have a tough job to overhaul them.
Furor Gallico, pushed back into third, take on the Herd of Kiwis. The New Zealanders also having had a good round 3 at the expense of Italia’s Condottieri.
UK’s Armchair Heroes finish just one point ahead of Spain’s Desperta Fero. The Armchair’s previously, already, narrow lead whittled to that odd point after a desperately close match. Teams cannot play each other again so having failed to separate from Desperta in round 3 the Armchairs will meet USA’s Hell on Wheels in round 4 while Desperta meet UK’s Boudica’s Bastards; both opponents having moved up the ranking in round 3. As the margin between these four teams is just 134 points all will be hoping to avoid close matches and climb out of the ruck.
Match 5 will be the rising Charming Champians vs the sinking Third Army. One looking to continue round 3 results the other reverse them.
An Italian civil war in round 4’s match 6 after the results for Italia’s Condottieri send them to meet Italia’s rising Comites. The final match being the Northern Guardians vs Lupi Belli. As a mere 98 points – or one good victory separate places 7 and 13! There is plenty of room for change in the bottom half of this table.

Individual player standings at end round 3 are here https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=116686

WTC ROUND 4 SCORES AT 18:00 UCT 12th NOVEMBER

4 of 28 games reported.

WTC ROUND 4 RESULTS AT 03:00 UCT 17th NOVEMBER

14 of 28 games reported.

Six days and 20 hours remaining.

WTC ROUND 4 RESULTS AT 18:00 UCT 19th NOVEMBER

20 of 28 games reported.

Four days and 6 hours remaining.
After a second stunning four victories in their match China's Zhu Que have a virtually unassailable lead in the tournament. It would probably require a four game reversal in their last match to topple them.
The likely challengers at the moment will be the Spanish Desperta Fero but with 3 games still to declare Armchair Heroes or Herd of Kiwis could change this. As Furor Gallico have already played Zhu Que if they have success in their remaining games they will not be the team to challenge Zhu Que.
Hell on Wheels are too far away to challenge for second spot in round 4 but remaining wins would put them in position to do so in round 5.
The remaining game for each of The Northern Guardians, Lupi Belli and the Comites and Condottieri of Italy will establish who might still reach third spot in round 5.
Nearly all teams should have a chance of second or third place in round 5.

WTC ROUND 4 RESULTS AT 24:00 UCT 21st NOVEMBER

22 of 28 games reported.

Two days and remaining.
Furor Gallico, Herd of Kiwi, Condottierri Italia, Comites Italia, The Northern Guardians and Lupi Belli all have one game left to complete.
Armchair Heroes and Hell on Wheels have three games to complete.

WTC ROUND 4 SCORES TO DEADLINE 24:00 UCT 23rd NOVEMBER

26 of 28 games reported as complete.
2 incomplete games reported - score draw and victory subject to adjudication.
1 unreported and incomplete game - no score draw subject to adjudication.

Any adjudication decisions will take place on 24th November with final round 4 results confirmed here by 14:00 UCT.

The expected Round 5 matches are shown at right and will also be confirmed and the Round 5 challenge thread opened at that time. *Note Match 1 and 2 change and match 5 and 6 changes are to avoid a rematches
Final positions after Round 4 will be confirmed here at about 14:00 UCT 24th November and Round 5 challenge thread opened.

Hello,

why is Zu que team not meeting against desperta ferro team since they never met before?

Thanks

Raphael

I think there is also something wrong with the last match: we Comites have already fought against Lupi Belli

WTC ROUND 4 SCORES FINAL AS OF 24:00 UCT 23rd NOVEMBER

26 of 28 games reported as complete.
2 incomplete games reported - score draw and victory scores used as at deadline.
1 unreported and incomplete game - no score draw.

The confirmed Round 5 matches are shown at right and the Round 5 challenge thread is now open here https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewto ... 6#p1043356.
*Note Match 1 and 2 change and match 5,6 and 7 changes are to avoid rematches - see explanation in next post

why is Zu que team not meeting against desperta ferro team since they never met before?

Thanks

Raphael

Avoiding Rematches - Explanation

The system used since the outset is

Where teams 1 and 2 have played before we go
1 vs 3 and 2 vs 4.
If either of those matches are replays
we then go
1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3
If either of those were rematches we then lift a team from below - team 5
and then team 6 and so on.
For Match 7
The lift from below is reversed and the team above comes into play.

For example here we had
Zhu Que vs Furor as a rematch
So took first
Zhu Que vs Desperta
and
Furor vs Kiwis - unfortunately that is also a rematch.
So next we go
Zhu Que vs Kiwis
and
Furor vs Desperta
Those are both valid matches so we stop there.

WTC ROUND 5 SCORES AS OF 24:00 UCT 4th DECEMBER

9 of 28 games reported as complete.
Eight days to deadline.
With 9 games complete in the final round two of which are victories for Zhu Que the Chinese team have an unassailable position at the top of the table. However the silver and bronze positions are very much all to play for. Currently Furor Gallico and The Charming Champians hold these positions.

WTC ROUND 5 SCORES AS OF 24:00 UCT 8th DECEMBER

16 of 28 games reported as complete.
Four days to deadline.

WTC ROUND 5 SCORES AS OF 24:00 UCT 10th DECEMBER

20 of 28 games reported as complete.
Two days to deadline.

WTC ROUND 5 SCORES TO DEADLINE 24:00 UCT 12th DECEMBER

22 of 28 games reported as complete.
3 incomplete games reported - two score draw and one victory subject to adjudication.
3 unreported and incomplete game - no score draw subject to adjudication.

Any adjudication decisions will take place on 13th December with final competition results confirmed here by 24:00 UCT.

FINAL WTC SCORES AND CHAMPIONS

WTC24 Champions are Zhu Que
Runners-up are Furor Gallico
Third placed are The Charming Champians


Many congratulations to the members of Zhu Que! Now WTC Champions for a second, consecutive, championship.
Zhu Que's incredibly strong performance included the two best individual player performances with three players in the top ten.
A very special mention and congratulations to Zhu Que's layer TaBai who recorded the best individual performance and was the only player to manage a perfect played five won five.
Individual performances are here https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=116686

Congratulations too to original WTC champions Furor Gallico on another strong performance and their second place.
Applause for the inexorable rise of The Charming Champians; clambering back up the table over successive rounds from the bottom and ultimately pipping The Kiwis and Desperta Fero to third place.
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Many thanks to all sixty participants and for your managing to play 140 games with only 2 default adjudications and only 5 games that did not complete and were not reported. A marvellous collective performance.

Now WTC24 is completed please feel free to add comment and/or constructive criticism here https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=117032