Hindsight can be sobering. Initially,
I felt good about the 5.97 points I earned in the Buffalo Winter Sectional
Tournament last weekend in the Main-Transit Fire Hall Social Hall in Amherst.
Then I look at the list of point winners and it's small beans.
I'm 32nd overall, just
ahead of Stan Kozlowski (5.68) and Walt Olszewski (5.60), but well behind Raj
Puri, whom I gave a ride home Saturday evening. He's sitting 31st with 6.69
points.
Top of the heap is
someone we don't usually see there – Liz Clark, with 19.97 points. She
collected 11 of those points by winning the two-session pairs game Saturday with Barbara Libby and
another 7.01 by coming in second in the Swiss teams game on Sunday.
Other point leaders
included Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargeshimer, tied with 18.73; Bud Seidenberg,
part of the winning Sunday Swiss team, 18.28;
Dian Petrov, 17.57; Kathy Pollock, 16.76; Saleh Fetouh, 15.54, also one of the
Sunday Swiss winners; and Judy Padgug, 15.22.
In all, 135 players
earned 588.20 points and the tournament filled 145 tables. How does this
compare with previous winter sectionals?
2016 – 137 players
earned 594.02 points, 136 tables. Big winner: Saleh Fetouh, 27.01 points.
2015 – 162 players
earned 646.48 points, 156 tables. Big winner: Bud Seidenberg, 32.32 points.
2014 – 142 players
earned 441.30 points, 132 tables. Big winner: Davis Heussler, 13.70 points.
2013 – 162 players
earned 526.56 points, 151 tables. Big winner: Saleh Fetouh, 19.04 points.
2012 – 145 players
earned 508.52 points, 133 tables. Big winner: Saleh Fetouh again, 20.58 points.
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