The Gunboat

The League

• Chuan-Tze Teo scored an impressive average of 67, and so takes the title of DipSoc Order of Merit 1998. An 'average' score, performing competently in most games, is about 50.
• Defending champion, Geoff Bache, ties for second place in a narrow finish. The points margins between the second to sixth players is almost negligable, demonstrating just how close some of the games were.
• Sam Norton, newcomer this year, put in some excellent performances to finish sixth. Dipsoc President, Will Wiles, finishes in tenth place, to prove that the President can negogiate. But nearer the bottom, Alan Hammond pulls the committee's average score down to 52.

  RANK	old	NAME	SCORE	old	GAMES
  1	4	Chuan-Tze Teo	67.29	62	7
  J2	J5	Emily Bache	65.13	60	8
  J2	1	Neil Yorke-Smith	64.94	65	16
  J2	J2	Geoff Bache	64.65	63	17
  5	J5	Geoff Simmons	63.53	60	16
  6	J2	Sam Norton	63.14	63	7
  J7	11	Christoph Wunderer	58.25	56	8
  J7	J7	Ben Gilbert	58.13	58	8
  J7	J7	Adam Dunning	57.70	58	10
  10	12	Will Wiles	57.25	55	8
  J11	J9	Martin Stribblehill	55.20	57	15
  J11	13	Miklos Dietz	54.83	54	12
  13	J9	Tariq Chaudhry	54.07	57	15
  14	14	Stephen Worthy	51	51	3
  15	J15	Dave Lambert	50	50	4
  16	17	Alex Churchill	47	49	17
  J17	J15	Duncan Richer	46	50	19
  J17	18	Eleanor Baines	46	46	4
  19	19	Chris Gilley	43	43	3
  20	20	Marcus Bucci	42	42	4
  21	22	Jack Rudd	37	37	20
  J22	J23	Geoff Tolley	35	35	5
  J22	J23	Alan Hammond	35	35	3
  24	21	James Wood	34	38	7
  25	J25	Peter Corbett	33	33	6
  J26	J25	Jonathon Amery	30	33	16
  J26	27	Tom Clapham	30	30	3
  28	28	Andrew Howran	27	27	5
  29	29	Sebastian Bleasdale	16	25	4

  
  

• Best score (term): Chuan-Tze Teo, 104
  Best score (year): Neil Yorke-Smith, 108
  Best centre count: Geoff Bache, 27
  Best attendance: Jack Rudd
  

• Please note that only players with at least three games in the year are shown, but that at least seven are needed to qualify for a play-off place.
  The 'old' figures show the situation at the end of Lent term.

The Play-off

The top seven finishers in the league are invited to the annual play-off, for the proud title of the Chetan Radia Memorial Knife. A somewhat unusual format was followed this year, involving a game of Titan rather than the expected Diplomacy. The venue was a private lounge near the Botanical Gardens.

The game began quietly, but soon became heated. After epic stuggle, traffic jams on one corner of the board, a break for food, and some rather heartless victimization, two super-powers emerged. The one-on-one showdown between them came sooner than expected, but it was fought to the death. Emily Bache emerged as triumphant. Suitably over-awed, the remaining players resigned to her overwhelming forces -- and it was over.

Whether this wins the Memorial Knife or not isn't clear, since it wasn't Diplomacy that was played -- but that may be beside the point [sic].

Neil Yorke-Smith