Great incentive, 60!     So very nice to have you back and working again!    

Regarding prizes, I might be willing to donate something.............like a pair of my sexy sockseys!   

socksey



"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it." - Irving Berlin

Bloody Mary "Sunday Special" Season Championship Brackets

Registration is by invitation only - open only to winners during season one. Please register if you are eligible. Don't miss the fun or chance at some way cool prizes. Registration will remain open until the brackets fill or play is started on Halloween Day. If the brackets fill early, I will start the bracket as soon as it is filled. TourneyBot will then advise you of your pairing each time you log in. Players are expected to schedule their own matches and complete each round within 7-10 days. We encourage you to play your early rounds as quickly as possible. I will warn once at 7 days and award the match, if necessary, after 10 days. On the completion of each match, TourneyBot will then assign your next pairing. Once a bracket is started, details can be provided, as necessary, by using TELL TOURNEYBOT MATCHES 262x.

Weekly Bloody Mary tournaments remain open to all, but the Season Championship requires you win one of the weekly Bloddy Mary events in the previous season. We are now 22 matches into the second Bloody Mary season. So, if you haven't won a "Sunday Special" tourney yet, join us some Sunday and win one to qualify for the next championship. Win two or more for up to two invites.

Winners Bracket #1 (Tourney #2625) players:

Eligible:
adrian, breadfruit, cowgirl, DeaDice, don, gold_eagle, jasonj, kristoffer, moyang, pck, RickrInSF, rif_raf, Sixta_II, sixty_something, socksey, teyakis

Registered: 14 of 16
adrian, breadfruit, cowgirl, DeaDice, don, jasonj, kristoffer, pck, RickrInSF, rif_raf, Sixta_II, sixty_something, socksey, teyakis



Winners Bracket #2 (Tourney #2626) players:

Eligible:
Aldus, cassandra, DeaDice, DingDing, don, Im_not_gimmeluck, KDP, moyang, onion, r_monk, RickrInSF, rif_raf, sixty_something, socksey, sunray, teyakis

Registered: 12 of 16
cassandra, DeaDice, don, Im_not_gimmeluck, KDP, onion, RickrInSF, rif_raf, sixty_something, socksey, sunray, teyakis


  If you are eligible for one of the brackets above and not yet registered, simply TELL TOURNEYBOT REGISTER 262x.

Congratulations to pck the winner of our first Bloody Mary Season Championship defeating yours truly, sixty_something, in a very close double-elimination finals. The finals went down to the last game of the last match with the cube at 4 and double match point. We played the match about two weeks ago in parallel with the regular Bloody Mary tourney. I won the first match 7-5. In the second match, pck took a 6-4 lead into the Crawford game which I won with a gammon. But pck won the post Crawford game winning the match, 7-6, when my ace point backgame fell apart with an untimely roll of 66. In the final match, pck, 2-away and leading 5-3, offered a good cube which I correctly accepted according to GNUbg and redoubled for match point, but pck went on to win the match and the title becoming our first Bloody Mary Season Champion.

The big prize for participants in our first season champion are Nacci points offered by donzeamon, czar of Nacciland and creator of FIBS-O-NACCI. The total points available, nearly 3,500 Naccis, are the equivalent to a weekly award of 100 Naccis to weekly winners over a 32+ week season with interest. The championship winner receives 1,000 Naccis and each registered entrant, already a winner of at least one weekly event, receives at least 30 Naccis.

Additionally, a special thanks to luya are also due for providing the graphic image above, designed and customized by a friend of hers, for our Bloody Mary Season Championship Cup. Your nick, pck, becomes the first to be virtually engraved on this really cool trophy.

Despite my best intentions at attempting to obtain other prizes for the tourney, time did not permit securing and confirming other prizes. Since the Season II Bloody Mary Championship is about to start, we will use the same format for prizes as in Season I. Maybe by Season III we can obtain corporate sponsorship(s) and other prize contributions to spice up the prize pool a little. For now, Naccis, a very nice virtual trophy, and bragging rights will have to suffice.

Bloody Mary Nacci Prizes

RANK	AWARD	TOTAL
1st	1000	1000
2nd	500	500
3 & 4	250	500
5 - 8	125	500
9 - 16	60	480
17 - 32	30	480
	Total	3460

Player Awards

Seven players qualified for two entries in the championship with two or more wins during the regular season and 26 of 32 eligible entries registered and played in the season championship. See the post below for details on how the two winners brackets were seeded and the results of each round. The list below is the official prize list for Nacci points from which donzeamon will award Naccis (Note: You must have a FIBS-O-NACCI account to receive your prize, otherwise you may enjoy them with your favorite salsa dip with your next Bloody Mary).

PLAYER	SEASON I WINS	   NACCI PRIZE
pck		1000
sixty_something		625
RickrInSF		310
socksey		310
adrian		125
KDP		125
sunray		125
don		120
cassandra		60
DeaDice		60
Im_not_gimmeluck		60
kristoffer		60
rif_raf		60
Sixta_II		60
teyakis		60
breadfruit		30
cowgirl		30
jasonj		30
onion		30
	TOTAL	3280

Thanks to all who played in our first Season Championship and who have played in the weekly Bloody Mary tournaments. Bloody Marys on Sundays have become a FIBS tradition thanks to all you players, old and new, who have kept it going with regular weekly attendance of 20 or more from all over the world. Hopefully, we'll see you in the Championship for Season II which is beginning soon or in a future championship. I will continue to work toward increasing the prize pool to add to the excitement and fun for future championships.

Special thanks again to donzeamon for the Nacci prizes, luya for the great trophy, don, manxcat and others for keeping this tournament active and being the TD during my absence, and to socksey for helping me get started as a TD many moons ago, and offering encouragement, support, and friendship in making this as a regular weekly FIBS tourney. Hope to see you all for Bloody Marys again for many Sundays to come, but BYOB, for now.