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Heather Styles Thank you all for your sign-ups. Five people so far is encouraging :)

Heather Styles Eight, and counting... :)

Heather Styles Yes :)

Heather Styles I'm going to close sign-ups when we get to 16 - don't miss out on is probably apterous' best tournament open to all full members of Apterous who have been using the site for a year or less!

Heather Styles ^ Not a sentence

Heather Styles That's fine, Euan. We might not quite be under way by Wednesday, and I will make sure everyone has at least a few weeks to play their first-round games.

Heather Styles Hi folk, I'm sorry this has been slow getting going. I hope to set up the fixtures tomorrow evening at the latest.

Heather Styles Sign-ups are now closed. Fixtures will appear soon.

Heather Styles Good luck, everyone! I've sent an aptomail to everyone taking part (except the bots).

http://challonge.com/newcomers2016

Heather Styles I made a mistake when entering names, Euan. Jamie was supposed to have played Plum, according to the bracket generated on challonge.com. The scores from his games with Waldorf will stand, because it was my mistake.

Heather Styles Also, I have aptomailed Andrew and Jamie offering them a chance to play in round two of the tournament. I put in the bots to make up the numbers, but it seems a bit harsh to have been knocked out by a bot.

Heather Styles Thanks for playing, Euan :)

Heather Styles Latest: http://challonge.com/newcomers2016

Heather Styles It's as it appears. Well done, Stephen. Thanks for playing, Conrad. Those were two close games - some nice maxes.

Heather Styles Hi, there'll be a bit of a wait now for those who've made it through to round two. I'll enter the fixtures for round two once round one is complete.

Stephen, you will actually play Jamie next. I decided, on reflection, that it was a bit harsh for people to lose to bots in the first round. I hope that's okay with you.

Peter J Clarke I'm on holiday in the south of France at the moment and I won't be back until next weekend. This means I won't be able to do my Round 1 tourney until next week since I only have my iPhone and not my laptop (I can go on this website here but not play on here). So apologies if it causes any hold ups for Round 2 people and if me not doing my tourney yet was a reason for the alterations you did Heather. Thank you very much for organising this duel though Heather, great work! :D

Heather Styles Hi Peter, that's absolutely fine. I have allowed until the end of the month for this first round cos August is a popular holiday month. The alterations were nothing to do with you being away - relax and enjoy your holiday :)

Heather Styles Well done, Hazel - thanks for playing, Prune :)

Andrew Corcoran Hi Heather. You can put me into round 2 please :-)

Hazel Drury Thank you Heather! :)

Heather Styles Just two more matches to be played in first round of this tourney: http://challonge.com/newcomers2016 and until the end of the month to play them :)

Tim Down I'm back from holiday now so should get it done soon.

Heather Styles Well done, Catherine. Tim, some great play there - the only match in this tournament so far to go to three ;sets'.

Heather Styles *'sets'

Heather Styles Ooh, and right down to the wire as well - vwp!

Tim Down Cheers. Really enjoyed those games.

Catherine Mullan Thanks guys, they were brilliant games to play in! Very tense indeed. Tim was unlucky not to win