Munich 2010 Minesweeper Tournament Results
Rank	Player	I	E	Sum	TOTAL (5&5)	Penalties
1	Manuel Heider	11.27	45.38	56.65	298.68
2	Fritz Löhr	13.73	44.43	58.16	306.99
3	Thomas Kolar	15.03	44.25	59.28	319.40
4	Damien Moore	13.09	54.07	67.16	355.96
5	Roman Gammel	15.26	50.91	66.17	356.99
6	Bertie Seyffert	14.84	55.71	70.55	364.91
7	Arsen Balishyan	15.15	55.62	70.77	381.37
8	Rupert Foggo McKay	17.10	55.56	72.66	395.94
9	Edu Cros	19.15	62.56	81.71	424.21
10	Christoph Nikolaus	21.45	68.77	90.22	466.96
11	Daniel Hagenmaier	18.73	73.54	92.27	525.38
12	Stephan Bechtel	19.71	76.29	96.00	528.92
13	Jonian Grazhdani	18.14	72.06	90.20	538.16
14	Dennis Elbrachter	28.87	83.76	112.63	1506.00	999s x1
15	Eva Szepesi	121.40	DNF		5607.74	999s x5
16	Yannis Reinhard	152.50	DNF		5943.52	999s x5

Videos

You can download all tournament videos here (9.6MB) or just the best 5&5 here (1.5MB).

Rules

Players will be ranked on the sum of their best 5 Intermediate and 5 Expert games. Each unfinished game will be given a penalty of 999 seconds.

Details

The tournament was organised by Fritz Löhr. The event took place at an Internet Cafe at 25 Dachauer Strasse on October 9th and 10th. The main event took place on Saturday and some players also competed in a Nonosweeper tournament on Sunday.

The original plan was to meet at 13:00 and start the tournament at 14:00, playing for 3 hours. Scores were going to be automatically uploaded and ranked on the internet, thanks to a program written by Christoph used at previous tournaments. Unfortunately, the Internet Cafe had a limited number of computers using several operating systems. This caused problems - Christoph and Tommy spent several hours trying get the program to work to no avail. In the end, the tournament started at 16:18 and players competed for 2.5 hours without knowing the progress of other players. Awards were presented at Bavaria Bowling later in the evening. The top 3 players received trophies, and everyone was given a certificate and medal.

Several players competed in a Nonosweeper tournament the next day, which was won by Stephan. Results are on his website.

More Info

The tournament used the minesweeper version Viennasweeper.

The tournament 5&5 ranking is here.

Damien has written a review of the tournament.

Fritz also wrote a review of the tournament.

Due to computer problems and bad luck, videos for Manuel, Joni, Christoph, Dennis, Eva and Yannis were lost.

As a result of this tournament, 3 new players joined the World Tournament Ranking (Rupert, Daniel, Dennis) and 8 players beat a total of 12 scores previously on the ranking (Manuel, Fritz, Tommy, Damien, Bertie, Arsen, Edu, Joni). The ranking changed significantly after this event.