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Notes from the organizer: And another round comes to a close. This will now be the final round before the big six!

Now we should address something here. Of course, we must say goodbye to Brett Davids and Ben Bazzard who failed to complete their game in time. However, due to personal reasons, we must also say goodbye to Adam Dexter. This came out of nowhere to me, but I respect his move and wish him the absolute best.

This puts us at an odd position, since now there's an odd number of people. But then I realized that I keep a list of the placements for every round. And I do admit I had made it for more of a statistical purpose, but I do realize there's some potential to it. So this is what's going to happen:

For this round, to keep things even, the person with the most gold medals so far will receive a bye and immediately move on to the finals (of course if there's a tie, then we go to silver and so on). There will then be only one person eliminated from this round, and the other five survivors will play against the best player.

And so far, the best performer with 4 gold medals is... Tom Cappleman!

Now we can move on to the final game and since I've not been too good with timespans for here, I'm giving everyone about a week to get their games situated. I assume that's more than enough but of course, there's an extension if need be.

Here's the stats for Round 9:

Average Ratio: 71.99716976
Highest Score: 99.17355372 (Matthew Brockwell)
Highest Max: 147 (T-Cap vs. Maus)
Average Maxes: 10.625

And that's all I can say, best of luck to you all!

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FtGGhXCYJ89Aaij4DVQBL9qAAFA5F85Wdxh5w-7BCSA/edit?usp=sharing

Runs from: 23 July – 2 August 2025. Format: 15 Rounder. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 3. Completed: 0.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)