Congrats to Ross Brown - Northern NSW Open winner

[GeorgeF]

Ross beat a stellar field to win the Northern NSW Open over the weekend. He took care of some of Australia's best enroute to his first significant Adult tournament win. With Jason Walsh, Matt Riley and myself exiting after round 1 it was anyone's for the taking and when it counted Ross struck.

A well supported event which I hope will be bigger and better next year.

I'm sure James will post the results on here soon.

1st Ross Brown
2nd Jason Doust
3rd Mick Little

 

[jhk67]

Well, that's the best thing about best of 5 knockout format, anyone can win if they have their day. Congrats to Ross and thanks to James and all who made this tournament a great success and I hope it is bigger and better next year.

 

[James Mc]

Hi All,

Thanks George for the post, and your right Ross really stepped up and bowled great.

The event was again well attended and as always it came down to the last squad of quailifying.

Unfortunately we had a few no shows which depleted numbers a little, but we were still able to add another $600 to the advertised prize fund of $7050.

Here are the final qualifying scores.

Matt Riley 1862 1
George Frilingos 1843 2
Bianca Flanagan 1820 3
Scott Robertson 1780 4
Kim McPherson 1778 5
Bec Whiting 1759 6
Jason Doust 1757 7
Jason Walsh 1734 8
Michael Little 1708 9
Chris Thomas 1703 10
Ross Brown 1699 11
Jason Osborne 1694 12
Jacinta Gilliland 1669
Jacob Strange 1644
Chris Slattery 1639
Paul Chambers 1616
Beau Patten 1614
David Christensen 1610
Spike 1597
Simon Pearce 1552
Michelle Clark 1547
Adam Goldberg 1538
Trevor LeBroque 1523
John Dudman 1522
Leigh Simpson 1516
Tom Boston 1502
Ken McLachlan 1498
Jessica McGinty 1488
Matt Wormald 1484

Match Play results.

Bianca Flanagan 251w 267w 200L 238w Jacinta Gilliland 161L 212L 266w 235L.

Mick Little 244w 220L 300w 233L ???w Matt Riley 200L 234w 243L 234w ???L

Jason Walsh 184L 222w 180L 218L Scott Robertson 193w 168L 221w 222w.

Jason Osborne 172L 173w 279w 179L 200w Bec Whiting 209w 161L 186L 203w 178L.

Ross Brown 204w 232w 201w George Frilingos 193L 226L 191L.

Kym McPherson 198w 219L 197L 169L Jason Doust 167L 242w 234w 243w.

Round 2
Scott 201L 244w 185L 203L Ross 209w 194L 199w 239w.

Jason D 264w 212w 278w Jason O 246L 170L 174L.

Bianca 203L 196L 265L Michael L 213w 204w 266w.

Round 3
Ross 197L 236W 236W 269W Michael L 258W 235L 229L 238L.

Final
Ross 210w 205w 188L 206w Jason 161L 185L 198w 202L.

Thanks to all and we are looking forward to a bigger and better event next year.

Regards
James

 

[wchester]

James,

What happened to the 1 vs 12, 2 vs 11, 3 vs 10. 4 vs 9, 5 vs 8, 6 vs 7 pairings in the first round?..

The way you've written it, the matchups seemed a bit unfair to some. For instance, Matt Riley the #1 qualifier bowled the 9th seeded player, while Bec Whiting who qualified 6th got to face the 12th place qualifier. ..Could you please explain how this happened? qualifiers.

 

[Troyza]

Also like to know where my 1527 went but not as if it matters anyway heh.

 

[mum_gilliland]

James,
What happened to the 1 vs 12, 2 vs 11, 3 vs 10. 4 vs 9, 5 vs 8, 6 vs 7 pairings in the first round?..
The way you've written it, the matchups seemed a bit unfair to some. For instance, Matt Riley the #1 qualifier bowled the 9th seeded player, while Bec Whiting who qualified 6th got to face the 12th place qualifier. ..Could you please explain how this happened? qualifiers.

Hey,

James has posted the qualifying scores before the last round. As i qualified 10th with a 1725.

Jacinta.

 

[James Mc]

Sorry Guys,

Missed saving the last lot of scores.

Be assured they all played the right people.

Will update shortly.

James

 

[Wallbanger1]

Definitely a great weekend and i look forward to next years event.
Also this was a great weekend for Team Rebel. A strong second in the Storm Team challenge and our Junior member Ross winning the main event. Well done champ! look forward to catching up with you next time at Castle Hill. artytime2:

 

[becka_girl]

The format for matchplay was defiently 1 vs 12 because Matt Riley was top qualifier and he played Michael Little who was 12 qualifier in the first round

 

[James Mc]

Hi All,

Sorry for getting to this so late.

Here are the qualifying results.

Matt Riley 1862 1
George Frilingos 1843 2
Bianca Flanagan 1820 3
Scott Robertson 1780 4
Kim McPherson 1778 5
Jason Osborne 1774 6
Bec Whiting 1759 7
Jason Doust 1757 8
Jason Walsh 1734 9
Jacinta Gilliland 1725 10
Ross Brown 1716 11
Michael Little 1708 12
Chris Thomas 1703 13
Paul Chambers 1681 14
Jacob Strange 1644 15
Chris Slattery 1639 16
Beau Patten 1614 17
David Christensen 1610 18
Spike 1597 19
Simon Pearce 1552 20
Michelle Clark 1550 21
Adam Goldberg 1538 22
Trevor LeBroque 1523 23
John Dudman 1522 24
Troy Latimer 1520 25
Leigh Simpson 1516 26
Tom Boston 1502 27
Ken McLachlan 1498 28
Jessica McGinty 1488 29
Matt Wormald 1484 30


There is a small change to this unfortunately David C and Beau P took home their score sheets so I could not include their I squad scores in this post but the actual was that David C finished 15th, Jacob Strange 16th Chris Slattery 17th and Beau Patten 18th.

Sorry for the confussion. Matchplay was as posted.

Regards
James

 

[wchester]

Thank you for the clarification James...it's ALL GOOD and well done on a successful tournamwent.

 

[Michael Little]

Would like to thank James, Fiona and staff for running a great tournament over the weekend and putting in some long hours to make sure it was successful with even more numbers than last year, and increasing the prize fund which is a rare occurance these days. Big thanks to the sponsors as well RotoGrip, Storm and Quality Inn.

Congrats definitely go to Ross, with a well deserved win and great bowling.

 

[robbo300]

as mick has said above.
thankyou to james and fionna.
for the way the tournament was run, controlled and formatted.

this is deffinatly the way tournaments should be pushed forward as far as qualifying stages go.

well done to ross, jason and mick...

again a great tournament. storm, rotogrip, vise, quality in


extra big SPECIAL THANKS to james and fionna for hosting myself and another 28 bowlers.

scott robertson

 

[robbo300]

OHHH and also to mick little
congratulations on your 300.

 

[becka_girl]

Yes Thank you very much to James and Fiona you guys did an absolute awesome job and im sure it will be even bigger next year
As Scott said thanks for putting up with all the people that stayed at your place..especially scott

 

[jason_doust]

Would like to thank James, Fiona and staff for running a great tournament over the weekend and putting in some long hours to make sure it was successful with even more numbers than last year, and increasing the prize fund which is a rare occurrence these days. Big thanks to the sponsors as well RotoGrip, Storm and Quality Inn.
Congrats definitely go to Ross, with a well deserved win and great bowling.

Hear Hear! On all points. Well done Ross. You were the best bowler on the day.

Also big thanks to Justin Kennedy who worked wonders in Microsoft Excel creating the mother of all lookup tables to create a fantastic qualifying scoring system saving us a lot of work getting people's two high qualifying blocks sorted out. Nice work mate.

Cheers,
Jason

p.s. We've also found good Italian food just around the corner from the bowl! (One more reason to go next year!)

 

[happychicken]

Thank you james it was a great event i will be back next year for sure.

A BIG CONGRATZZZZ to ROSS The Giant killer for winning this event

 

[James Mc]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the kind words. You guys are the only reason we go to so much trouble to run an event like this.

Even though it is a heap of work catching up with everyone is certainly worth the effort.

The bowling was fantastic, the pattern held up which was great and a new winner entered the history books, beating a previous 3 time winner along the way.

It really was a great weekend and a big thankyou from us goes out to all who supported us.

I also must thank a few people, Jason Doust for heaps of work behind the scenes, Justin Kennedy for playing with excel (how he does it I don't even want to know) and Fiona for putting up with me all weekend.

Plus I am sure there are others I have missed.

Looking forward to a bigger and better Northern NSW Open for 2009 with probably the addition of a couple of extra qualifying spots, taking the finalists to 14.

If you missed out this year you had better start planning for next year, you won't want to miss it.

September 18th, 19th & 20th 2009.

Regards
James

 

[jhk67]

Trust me James, if I even tried to explain it your head would probably explode!

Thanks for the kind words and to Jason Doust earlier in the thread.

Looking forward to next year's already.