CoLei 2008

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Name	Place held	Entrants	Winner	Final score	Runner up	Matches played	Host	Highest score
CoLei1	Leicester	9	Mark Tournoff			11	Jeff Clayton

CoLei 2008 was the inaugural Countdown in Leicester unofficial Countdown tournament. It was held on Saturday, 30 August 2008 at the The Stoneycroft Hotel in Leicester. There were nine participants, all of whom had previously appeared on the programme, and the event was won by Series 52 champion Mark Tournoff. The line-up included a total of three series winners: Tournoff, Ben Wilson from Series 46, and Kirk Bevins who would go on to win Series 60 in 2009.

Format

The competition was held over six games. The tournament ran as follows:

1. Participants play a 14-round qualifying game, from which seeds are drawn based on points scored.
2. Players are split into three groups of three, to each play two games and watch a third.
3. The groups are recast to form finals groups A, B and C.
4. A further two games are played and a third game watched by the competitors.
5. Final standings are calculated based on each player's overall number of games won and then points scored.

Final results

Rank	Name	Wins	Points
1	Mark Tournoff (1/A)	4	239
2	Ben Wilson (7/B)	3	237
3	Kirk Bevins (2/A)	2	266
4	Dinos Sfyris (5/B)	2	214
5	Mike Brown (8/C)	2	193
6	Ross Allatt (6/A)	2	181
7	Richard Priest (3/C)	1	233
8	Karen Pearson (9/B)	1	218
9	Stewart Gordon (4/C)	1	180

Groupings for Round 1

Group A

Mark Tournoff (1), Stewart Gordon (4) and Ben Wilson (7)

Group B

Kirk Bevins (2), Dinos Sfyris (5) and Mike Brown (8)

Group C

Richard Priest (3), Ross Allatt (6) and Karen Pearson (9)

End of preliminary stage totals

Rank	Name	Wins	Points
1	Mark Tournoff (1)	2	124
2	Ross Allatt (6)	2	101
3	Kirk Bevins (2)	1	137
4	Dinos Sfyris (5)	1	129
5	Karen Pearson (9)	1	112
6	Ben Wilson (7)	1	102
7	Mike Brown	1	91
8	Richard Priest	0	111
9	Stewart Gordon	0	92

Final stage groupings

Group A

Mark Tournoff (1), Ross Allatt (6) and Kirk Bevins (2)

Group B

Dinos Sfyris (5), Karen Pearson (9) and Ben Wilson (7)

Group C

Mike Brown (8), Richard Priest (3) and Stewart Gordon (4)

Matches

#	Date	Type	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Host
Qualifying
COLEI2008P	30/08/2008	FP	n/a	–	n/a	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Mark Tournoff	123	-	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Kirk Bevins	113	-	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Richard Priest	103	-	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Stewart Gordon	99	(3x 8-letter words)	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Dinos Sfyris	99	(2x 8-letter words)	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Ross Allatt	98	-	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Ben Wilson	96	-	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Mike Brown	85	-	Jeff Clayton
COLEI2008Q	30/08/2008	Q	Karen Pearson	79	-	Jeff Clayton
Round 1
COLEI20081	30/08/2008	aP	Mark Tournoff	60 – 28	Ben Wilson	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20081	30/08/2008	bP	Kirk Bevins	65 – 34	Mike Brown	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20081	30/08/2008	cP	Ross Allatt	47 – 40	Richard Priest	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20082	30/08/2008	aP	Stewart Gordon	21 – 64	Mark Tournoff	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20082	30/08/2008	bP	Dinos Sfyris	47 – 57*	Mike Brown	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20082	30/08/2008	cP	Ross Allatt	54 – 31	Karen Pearson	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20083	30/08/2008	aP	Stewart Gordon	71 – 74	Ben Wilson	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20083	30/08/2008	bP	Dinos Sfyris	82* – 72	Kirk Bevins	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20083	30/08/2008	cP	Richard Priest	71 – 81*	Karen Pearson	Jeff Clayton
Final stage
COLEI20084	30/08/2008	aF	Ross Allatt	35 – 65	Kirk Bevins	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20084	30/08/2008	bF	Dinos Sfyris	45 – 40	Karen Pearson	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20084	30/08/2008	cF	Stewart Gordon	44 – 30	Mike Brown	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20085	30/08/2008	aF	Ross Allatt	45 – 50	Mark Tournoff	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20085	30/08/2008	bF	Dinos Sfyris	40 – 61	Ben Wilson	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20085	30/08/2008	cF	Stewart Gordon	44 – 52	Richard Priest	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20086	30/08/2008	aF	Kirk Bevins	64 – 65	Mark Tournoff	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20086	30/08/2008	bF	Ben Wilson	74 – 66	Karen Pearson	Jeff Clayton
COLEI20086	30/08/2008	cF	Richard Priest	70 – 72	Mike Brown	Jeff Clayton

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