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2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby PLtheRef

Hello and welcome to the 2010 Welsh Open Prediction contest.


FINAL TABLE
155 LUCKYBALLS
148 JOHNFROMLONDONTOWN (2)
146 THE CLEAVER (5)
144 KEANE
142 PADDY (8)
136 STALINESQ (7)
133 TUBBERLAD (4)
132 CASEMASTER (3)
128 MANFRED
127 SONNY (1)
116 THE BOSS
115 KRAZEEYEKILLA (6)
99 GJ
78 BOURNE
72 WILDJONESEYE
71 KOSTASMAD


Congratulations to Lucky Balls for becoming the 2010 Welsh Open Champion with considerable merit to John for reaching the final of the matchplay and finishing second despite being unavailable lately

Matchplay
FIRST ROUND
JOHNFROMLONDONTOWN (2) 70-46 KOSTASMAD
STALINESQ (7) 54-54 GJ*
PADDY (8) 54-51 MANFRED
KRAZEEYEKILLA (6) 54-49 BOURNE
TUBBERLAD (4) 54-57 THE BOSS
SONNY (1) 66-62 LUCKYBALLS
CASEMASTER (3) 56-54 WILDJONESEYE
THE CLEAVER (5) 64-62 KEANE

*GJ advances on Criteria #3 - if you take Tuesday's scores away GJ had the higher score


Matches played Monday and Tuesday will be considered to the results of this round. At the end of the round the 4 highest remaining seeds will be seeded for the quarter-final draw.


Quarter-Finals
SECOND ROUND
SONNY (1) 56-46 KRAZEEYEKILLA (6)
JOHNFROMLONDONTOWN (2) 68-68 PADDY (8)
THE CLEAVER (5) 67-37 GJ
CASEMASTER (3) 56-46 THE BOSS

John From London town advances on Criteria 1

Matches played Wednesday and Thursday will be considered to the results of this round. At the end of the round the 2 highest remaining seeds will be seeded for the semi-final draw.


Semi-finals
SONNY (1) 5-10 THE CLEAVER (5)
JOHNFROMLONDONTOWN (2) 10-5 CASEMASTER (3)


Matches played on Friday and Saturday will be considered to the results of this round.

THE FINAL
JOHNFROMLONDONTOWN (2) 0-5 THE CLEAVER (5)

Matches on Sunday and Bonuses apply to the final.

Congtatulations to The Cleaver on taking the inaugural matchplay title and becoming 2010 Welsh Open Matchplay Champion

Ranking points apply to both competitions, contest is now Closed

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby JohnFromLondonTown

excellent_rocketron wrote:question: ronnie is number 1 officially, ok i know the defending champ is seed1 but why is higgins seed 2 then ronnie seed 3?

Good Question. Your only allowed one. <laugh>

Ali Carter is defending champ because Ali Carter won the Welsh Open last year so that moves him to number 1 seed. Whoever started of the season at world number 1 & is not the current champion of this, The Welsh Open, takes a step back & becomes number 2 in the world. Does that make sense to you? If not why not. :)

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby JohnFromLondonTown

JohnFromLondonTown wrote:
excellent_rocketron wrote:question: ronnie is number 1 officially, ok i know the defending champ is seed1 but why is higgins seed 2 then ronnie seed 3?

Good Question. Your only allowed one. <laugh>

Ali Carter is defending champ because Ali Carter won the Welsh Open last year so that moves him to number 1 seed. Whoever started of the season at world number 1 & is not the current champion of this, The Welsh Open, takes a step back & becomes number 2 in the world. Does that make sense to you? If not why not & if it does, I'll Buy. :)

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Rocket_ron

JohnFromLondonTown wrote:
excellent_rocketron wrote:question: ronnie is number 1 officially, ok i know the defending champ is seed1 but why is higgins seed 2 then ronnie seed 3?

Good Question. Your only allowed one. <laugh>

Ali Carter is defending champ because Ali Carter won the Welsh Open last year so that moves him to number 1 seed. Whoever started of the season at world number 1 & is not the current champion of this, The Welsh Open, takes a step back & becomes number 2 in the world. Does that make sense to you? If not why not. :)


ronnie started season number 1 so should he be second seed then?

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby PLtheRef

excellent_rocketron wrote:
JohnFromLondonTown wrote:
excellent_rocketron wrote:question: ronnie is number 1 officially, ok i know the defending champ is seed1 but why is higgins seed 2 then ronnie seed 3?

Good Question. Your only allowed one. <laugh>

Ali Carter is defending champ because Ali Carter won the Welsh Open last year so that moves him to number 1 seed. Whoever started of the season at world number 1 & is not the current champion of this, The Welsh Open, takes a step back & becomes number 2 in the world. Does that make sense to you? If not why not. :)


ronnie started season number 1 so should he be second seed then?


John's forgot to mention that at every event barring the World Championships at Sheffield the reigning World Champion is seeded number 2 (at Sheffield he's seeded 1) This systems to give variety to a system where you hold the same ranking for 10months.

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Bourne

I'm in <ok>

Also interested about the additional knockout tourn thing though. I do stress additional, because for the Worlds, it should be available for everyone right the way through with simple, basic scoring system that everyone's comfortable with.

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Lucky

Bourne wrote:I'm in <ok>

Also interested about the additional knockout tourn thing though. I do stress additional, because for the Worlds, it should be available for everyone right the way through with simple, basic scoring system that everyone's comfortable with.



Fully agreed <ok> normal predictions competiton as per......with an ADDITIONAL random draw, round by round knock out, this could easily be carried out by someone else as its only a case of comparing two scores and deciding on a system to split ties etc. as long as we have 16 entrants,were dancing, more than 16 and we have an extra round where a vast majority will draw a bye.....harsh but fair <ok> less than 16 then obviously slide in the odd bye, simples.

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby PLtheRef

Hey guys

I'm up for running a matchplay system in Addition to the main contest - obviously the main title will be the one as to who tops the table on Sunday night but depending on entries a matchplay system can be developed incorporating a group stage first round - days 1-3, (1 match per day) quarter-finals, day 4. semi-finals day 5 and 6, and final of day 7 and bonuses, this can make things interesting as the tournament develops we have whats basically like two session semi-finals and finals. I dont have an issue running it since I'll have each individual score on the computer anyway.

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby PLtheRef

thetubberlad wrote:I'm in <ok>
If we've more than 16 players, perhaps we could have seedings to determine who avoids the first round?


Thats an idea, - a while back I did a World Ranking list though it was kept well upto date initially that laptop broke down and I never really have had the time to collate the results back up again.

For KO competitons we'll have 4, 8 or 16 seeds depending on the entries, and half the seeds will come from the prev KO and also half from the league table. - Since the Welsh will be the first Prediction contest the first eight from the masters will be seeded.

for 16 we can have d1-2 for the first round, 3-4 for the quarters, 5-6 for the semis, and 7 and bonus for the Final, - depending on whether we have more we could have the prelims on d1, rd1 on d2 etc.

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby GJ

paddy

how many rounds of worlds quallies are we doing for predictions ?

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby PLtheRef

Well there's a chance we'll have it all and with developments of the matchplay system once entries are in.

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby GJ

PLtheRef wrote:Well there's a chance we'll have it all and with developments of the matchplay system once entries are in.


ok paddy <ok>

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby PLtheRef

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

3-5 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-3 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-1 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-3 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-1 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
2-5 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-2 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
3-5 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
5-0 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-2 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
3-5 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-3 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
5-3 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-4 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-3 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
3-5 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
5-2 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-1 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

FINALIST FROM TOP HALF: Neil Robertson
FINALIST FROM BOTTOM HALF: Mark Selby

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Tubberlad

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

4-5 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-2 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-1 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-3 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-2 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
5-4 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-1 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
5-3 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
5-2 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-3 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
5-4 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-2 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
4-5 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-2 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-4 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
4-5 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-1 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

Finalist from Top Half: Neil Robertson
Bottom Half: John Higgins

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby The Boss

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

5-3 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-2 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-2 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-2 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
3-5 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
4-5 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-3 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
3-5 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
2-5 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-3 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
3-5 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-1 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
5-3 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-3 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-3 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
5-3 Joseph Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-2 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge


FINALIST FROM TOP HALF: Drago
FINALIST FROM BOTTOM HALF: King

High break: 143
Low break: 1

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Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Wildey

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

5-3 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-3 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-1 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-4 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-0 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
5-2 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-4 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
2-5 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
5-4 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-2 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
5-3 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-3 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-1 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
3-5 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
5-3 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-1 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

Finalist from Top Half: Neil Robertson
Bottom Half: Mark Selby

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Lucky

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

5-3 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-2 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-2 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-3 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-1 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
3-5 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-2 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
5-3 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
5-2 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-4 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
3-5 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-2 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-3 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-3 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
4-5 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-1 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

Finalist from Top Half: Neil Robertson
Bottom Half: Shaun Murphy

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Casey

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

5-3 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-2 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-1 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-3 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-1 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
5-4 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-3 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
4-5 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
5-3 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-2 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
5-3 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-3 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
5-3 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-4 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-3 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
3-5 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-2 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

FINALIST FROM TOP HALF: Neil robertson
FINALIST FROM BOTTOM HALF: John Higgins

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby TheCleaver

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

5-2 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-3 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-1 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-3 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-3 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
4-5 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-2 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
4-5 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
5-2 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-2 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
4-5 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-3 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
5-4 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-1 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-3 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-3 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
4-5 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-1 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

FINALIST FROM TOP HALF: Neil Robertson
FINALIST FROM BOTTOM HALF: Ronnie O'Sullivan

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby kostasmad

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

5-2 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-2 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-2 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-3 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-1 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
5-2 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-3 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
5-2 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
3-5 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-4 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
5-3 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
2-5 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
3-5 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-4 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-3 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
5-2 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-2 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

FINALIST FROM TOP HALF: Neil robertson
FINALIST FROM BOTTOM HALF: John Higgins

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Smart

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

3-5 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-2 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-1 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-2 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-1 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
3-5 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-1 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
5-4 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
5-2 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-1 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
5-2 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-2 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
5-1 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-2 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-3 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
4-5 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-1 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

FINALIST FROM TOP HALF: MJW
FINALIST FROM BOTTOM HALF: ROS

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby JohnFromLondonTown

Paddy. I'm travelling now next week & won't have a chance to get on here during the days. I'll do my best to get on here & post my predictions at night tho if I miss any, you'll know why. Apologies up front to you if I do & do whatever you gotta do if I do miss any.

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

5-2 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
5-3 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-2 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-4 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-2 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
3-5 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-2 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
5-3 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
5-3 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-2 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
4-5 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-3 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
4-5 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-2 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-4 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
2-5 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-1 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

Finalist from Top Half: Mark Williams
Bottom Half: Mark Selby

Re: 2010 Welsh Open Prediction Contest

Postby Bourne

WILD CARD ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES

5-3 Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches

FIRST ROUND
BEST OF 9 FRAMES
4-5 Ali Carter (1) v Mark Davis
5-1 Neil Robertson (9) v Liu Song
5-2 Stephen Hendry (10) v Dave Harold
5-1 Ryan Day (6) v Tony Drago
5-3 Marco Fu (8) v Andrew Higginson
5-2 Mark Williams (15) v Fergal O'Brien
3-5 Peter Ebdon (14) v Barry Hawkins
3-5 Stephen Maguire (4) v Dominic Dale
5-2 Ronnie O'Sullivan (3) v Stuart Bingham
5-3 Ding Junhui (13) v Jamie Cope
5-2 Mark Allen (11) v Tom Ford
5-1 Shaun Murphy (5) v Matthew Stevens
5-2 Shaun Murphy (5) v Barry Pinches
5-2 Mark Selby (7) v Judd Trump
5-3 Mark King (16) v Marcus Campbell
1-5 Joe Perry (12) v Graeme Dott
5-3 John Higgins (2) v Michael Judge

FINALIST FROM TOP HALF: Stephen Hendry
FINALIST FROM BOTTOM HALF: Mark Selby