Domino Contests 2005

2005 Final Results

Reigning Power Ranking Champion Tuan the DominoAtor declared:

Reigning Team Champions: Tuan & Albert

Current Power Ranking per Winning Ratio
Rank	Player	Winning Ratio	Number of Wins / Number of Games	Comments
1^st	Tuan	.588	47/80	.
2^nd	Mai	.540	61/113	.
3^rd	Chuck	.402	39/97	.
Unranked	Albert	.433	13/30	Not enough games played for ranking qualification
Unranked	Tone	n/a	0/0	Not enough games played for ranking qualification

Accumulated Game Records = Reigning Power Ranking Champion = Reigning Team Champion
Tuan the DominoAtor		Mai the Editor		Tone the Wrinkled One		Chuck the Teddy Bear		Albert the All-Dirt
Wins 47	Losses 33	Wins 61	Losses 52	Wins 0	Losses 0	Wins 39	Losses 58	Wins 13	Losses 17

Team Championship Reigning Champions: Tuan & Albert Team champions are the winners of the Team Championship Match. A Team Championship Match is a best-out-of-5-games series and will be held every three months.
Results of the most recent Team Championship Match on May 22, 2005
Final Points Deficit of	Tuan	Albert	Mai	Chuck
Game 1	74	26	54	104
Game 2	70	6	66	100
Game 3	47	101	36	74
Game 4	54	72	75	104
Individual Total	245	205	231	382
Team Total	450		613
Champions' Winning Points Margin	613 - 450 = 163 points

Win-Loss-Game Definitions

Everyone-for-himself games

In the nutshell, when the game ends or when the points deficit of any of the players reaches 100, a player's score is compared against that of each of his opponents to determine win-loss as in separate one-on-one pairings. Here's an easy lookup chart:

For a 2-players game:

The winner would get 1 win, 0 loss, and 1 game counted in his winning ratio calculation.

The loser would get 0 win, 1 loss, and 1 game counted in his records.

For a 3-players game:

The winner would get 2 wins, 0 loss, and 2 games counted in his records.

The 2nd place loser would get 1 win, 1 loss, and 2 games counted in his records.

The 3rd or last place loser would get 0 win, 2 losses, and 2 games counted in his records.

For a 4-players game:

The winner would get 3 wins, 0 loss, and 3 games counted in his records.

The 2nd place loser would get 2 wins, 1 loss, and 3 games counted in his records.

The 3rd place loser would get 1 win, 2 losses, and 3 games counted in his records.

The 4th or last place loser would get 0 win, 3 losses, and 3 games counted in his records.

This system ensures that the sum of wins + sum of losses = sum of games played and assigns the appropriate value to the additional difficulty of winning when playing against more players in various types of everyone-for-himself games.

4-players team games

A team game of 2 players playing against another 2 players is considered to be equivalent to 2 separate one-on-one games, but the game ends when the points deficit of any of the 4 players reaches 100 or other agreed conditions. Only the total final score of each team is used to determine the winners so, regardless of individual final scores, for the 2 vs. 2 team game:

Each member of the winning team would get 1 win, 0 loss, and 1 game counted in his records.

Each member of the losing team would get 0 win, 1 loss, and 1 game counted in his records.

Basic Contest Agreements At the beginning of every month, the player with the best accumulated winning ratio, from a qualifying number of games played, on the last day of the previous month would be crowned as The Reigning Champion. A qualifying number of games played is defined to be equal or greater than the accumulated number of games played by the third most active player. This is to eliminate the "flash in the pan" case in which someone played, won only 1 game then quit forever to eternally end up with a perfect winning ration of 1.000 Accumulated instead of monthly records are employed in the determination of the championship to reduce the influence of luck and to reflect true and enduring gaming skills. Hall of Fame: All game records will be reset at the beginning of each year to give everyone a fresh start. The player with best winning ratio, from a qualifying number of games played, at the end of each year will win the title of Power Ranking Champion for that entire year and be honored in the Hall of Fame. Previous championship boasts: In August 2005, Tuan the DominoAtor declared: I am too sexy for my domino! In July 2005, Tuan the DominoAtor declared: Pity...my ability to count to more than five is evidently too much of an advantage over you guys. In June 2005, Tuan the DominoAtor declared: Your puny brains are not worthy. In April 2005, Tuan the DominoAtor declared: Nah! Nah! My domino is bigger than yours! In mmm-yyyy, Champion's name declared: Damn! I am a domino god.
Just in case you were at lost for words, here are our suggestions for boasts at championship crowning or for taunts at appropriate moments during games:
Tuan's: Nah! Nah! My domino is bigger than yours! Your puny brains are not worthy. Damn! I am a domino god. Pity...my ability to count to more than five is evidently too much of an advantage over you guys. I am too sexy for my domino!	Mai's:	Tone's:	Chuck's: You suck! Maybe you would be better with Tic-Tac-Toe. I know you'll beat someone at solitaire. There's a "Dominos for Dummies" book at Barnes & Nobles; it's under the section called "People Who Can't Count". You still suck, and there's no need to call time out in domino.	Albert's: