Sun 30^th 6:30 pm Raj Jansari is waiting in the Championship flight Consolation final for either Michael Soerensen or Nicky Check. Lawrence is 12-5 up and the cube is on 2 and gammons available in the final… so he’s looking favourite some time very soon … err yep he just won…so

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Sun 30^th 6 pm Pia won the last chance (good job she turned down a deal at DMP!). Semi finalists Michael Malmros and Malcom Robertson just collected their prize, and Richard Holness and Steve Morris their for Winner and Runner up of the last chance (Advanced Category)

Sun 30^th 5pm The Final will be between Lawrence Powell and Martin Barkwill, as soon as Lawrence recovers after his successful DMP win against Dane Michael Malmros. That’s going out streaming video on Youstream in few minutes ! I’ve got to dash and give out a few prizes now.

Sun 30^th 4:30 pm In the Champs. Division Lawrence is leading 14 -12 in the semis. Pia Jeppesen is in the final of the last chance waiting either for my wife, Simonetta or Mike Heard. The Intermediates were placed 1. Duncan Lee, 2. Shadow (Linda) Hamilton 3. Carel Lindley.

Sun 30^th 3:30 pm Advanced flight results in; Ann Pocknell, a favourite from the beginning won the flight (£720 including £200 added from Casinorip) but didn’t go in the pool. Ali Shimeri was runner up and took away £295. Fiona Oldham won the consolation (£195) and Tony Fawcett was Conso runner up (£100)! Carlos Madrid won the optional £50 pool (£245) and there were 2 runner ups in the pool 2^nd prize ! Last chances are all in progress, but our first finalist in the Champs is Martin Barkwill who waits for Malcolm Robertson or Michael Malmros.

Sun 30^th 01:30 pm Some more news before some nice yummie sandwiches… Lawrence Powell and Martin Barkwill in the semis Michael Malmros got 2 checkers hit bearing off on dmp but won anyway and Malcolm Robertson just beat Mikael Jensen also despite being hit on the bear off in dmp.

Sun 30^th 11am Busy here as everyone registers for the last chance, and the draw is being read out as I type. Earlier on Carter quickly took the Individual 8 player auction; 6 UK players and 2 Danes. The 3^rd round was filmed / recorded / and streamed last night, as a test for todays final. Please follow the link I quickly pasted near the top of the BSO_2009 main page.

Sun 30^th 02:00am Well, Mochy’s seminar went down a treat; 50 in the audience glued like magnets to the brilliant World Champion’s wise words of wisdom. A great seminar…. “that alone was worth the registration fee” said one player. We will reproduce the seminar here; an mp3 audio recording and all the supporting files to download. On to some results; the Championship quarter finalists are Malcolm Robertson, Mikael Jensen, Martin Barkwill, Nicky Check, Lawrence Powell, Rachel Rhodes, Michael Malmros and Sean Williams: 6 UK players. In the consolation is still Raj Jansari, Brian Lever, Michael Sorensen. Advanced flight in main ; semi-finalists = Steve Ferrer, Ali Simeri, Carlos Madrid and Ann Pocknell….

Championship 3^rd (and last round for today is) Round is : Julian Wilson vs. Malcolm Robertson / Kevin Jones vs. Mikael Jensen / Vaidas Novicenko vs. Martin Barwill / Nicky Check vs. Michael Sorensen / Wayne Felton vs. Lawence Powel, Rachel Rhodes vs. Rida Hassan / Luc Palmans vs. Michael Malmros / Chris Ternel vs. Sean Williams

Sat 29^th 18:30 It has been very busy here, and there are some surprising first results. Championship division; Katja Spillum from 4-10 down came back to beat Raj Jansari in round one, Mikael Jensen beat Julian Fetterlein, Nicky Check beat Michi, Simonetta lost first round to Miles Farren, Sue Keeble continues her great form by beating Stuart Mann, Julian Wilson beat Philip Vischjager, Chris Ternel was down 8-0 to Peter Bennet but Chris came back to win, John Barnes beat Brendan Burgess, Vaidas Novichenko beat Carter Mattig, right now Mochy (who knocked out Mark Dixon) and Wayne Felton are pretty balanced. In the consolation Dave Ablett just beat John Clark 9-0.

Sat 29^th 14:40 Well, we have at this moment 100 players busy playing backgammon ; Championship div. has 64 players in it. Advanced has 26 players and Intermediates have 10 players. I’ve just dashed around to take some photos, and now I will observe some matches. One or two no shows in the Championship main were filled by players on the standby list. Everyone got into their category of choice… the auction was taken brilliantly by Carter Mattig, the draws all done, and everyone is busy shaking dice and tapping their clocks ! Some Championship draws ; Mark Dixon drew Mochy / Raj Jansari vs. Katja Spillum / Julian Fetterlein vs. Michael Jensen / Philip Vischjager vs. Julian Wilson (who got in via the standby list). 6 players including Ann Pocknell and Tony Fawcett, got byes in the advanced, and the Intermediates are doing a round robin. One thing to look forward to tonight @ 9 pm right before poker is a seminar prepared by Mochy (I helped proof read it this morning before doing the food shopping with Carrie to feed 100 hungry backgammon players !

Fri 28^th 10 pm Felix Vink we have been told is not coming, and David McNamara is downgrading to advanced tomorrow. This means Standby n1 Wayne Felton (We’ve left a message !) and n2 Hans Capel are in !

Fri 28^th 9pm : Here we are setting up at the artillery grounds. I’ve been taking registrations this evening; 20 champs have registered, 10 advanced and there are 4 players on the standby list. The warm up had 31 players in it… Rosey Bensley and Kevin Jones are the first 2 quarter finalists. Mini jackpots have started, and there may be some satellites starting soon for those on the championship list. Everything on track !

Fri 28th Aug 12:00 noon : The Madness has begun at the Herrera's Home ; 10 guests from Japan, USA, Australia, Norway & Denmark. Half arrived yesterday and the other half are in the process of arriving ! Tournament preps are going well, but Ian had an early start with a Radio Interview at BBC Bristol, and then they phoned me twice to ask if I could do a 6:40 am interview tomorrow morning... nope I'm sleeping... so I'll do it @ 8:55am. I also did a Bristol 24/7 interview on the phone yesterday ; but it'll be awkward to squeeze another one in half an hour before registration tomorrow ! Yep, busy means busy... so let's skip lunch to print out the quiz for Mochy's seminar now; and if I could also find my own little quiz (with £1 entry) I prepared for rainy days 2 weeks ago....