2003 Arizona State Championships
11/08/03 - 11/09/03 in Phoenix, Arizona
OPEN Division
| Place |
Team |
|
| 1 | John Kirkland / John Greensage | |
| 2 | Conrad Damon / Tony Pellicane | |
| 3 | G Kirkland / Jon Freedman | |
| 4 | Blair Paulsen / Dave Hesselberth | |
| 5 | Chris Horn / Mark Horn | |
| 6 | Matt Hull / John Houck | |
| 7 | Bill Wright / John Schiller | |
| 8 | Tim Cohn / Jon Cohn | |
| 9 | Robbie Robison / Cody Kirkland | |
| 10 | John Elsner / Jim Elsner | |
| 11 | Harvey Brandt / Kristine Spekkens | |
| 12 | Rob Knapik / Bryan Steffen | |
| 13 | Bethany Sanchez / Lori Daniels | |
| 14 | Judy Robbins / Susie Horn | |
| 15 | Brad Wendt / Mike Hughes | |
| 16 | John Titcomb / Craig Simon | |
| 17 | Thomas Cole / Jeff Shelton | |
Ah, the old you should have been there scenario. Started with some
good and fun play on Friday afternoon / night and wrapped up with the
last game at sunset on Monday (followed by a mad dash to the airport
and a wild search for lost camera equipment, but more about those
items later).
Below are the some final stats. I am including an MS Excel attachment
with the complete pool results. The first column (in case the info
doesn't transfer well) is the finish of each team. Followed by their
tourney seeding, player names and their individual ranking points, and
the team total ranking points. Players with no results were given 300
points. I then did some adjusting of seeds. Again, you will notice
that the ranking numbers do a pretty good job of setting things up. A
few teams made a 3 place jump up or down and one team was able to jump
up 4 spots from their initial seed.
We started with 4 pools, a total of 17 teams. Top two teams from each
pool went to the A semi, an 8 team round robin, and the rest to the B
semi, a 9 team round robin. Top two teams into the finals.
Seeds went pretty well to form at the top with the exception of the 9
seed taking out the 8 seed. Damon and Pellicane won the pool with a
7-0 record and Greensage and J. Kirkland were the other finalists at
6-1. I didn't get to watch much of the finals but it was JG/JK winning
the first game. CD/TP came out firing and won the second game before
JG/JK took the third and final game to seal the win. I'm not sure
about Greensage but it was the first AZ title for Kirkland, as he was
sure to tell everyone within earshot. G. Kirkland / Freedman took
third place to make G the highest finishing women ever in the Open
division of AZ DDC.
The B semi found the younger Kirkland (Cody, 10 years) teaming with
wily veteran Robbie Robison to come back from an opening loss and win
that pool.
It was announced at this years AZ States that a move is afoot to have
the WFDF sanctioned World DDC Championships held next year in
conjunction with the 2004 AZ States. Tentative dates are November
11-14. Start planning now. Events will be Mixed, Women's, and Open
Divisions. More news to come.
-Harvey Brandt