Hi there! sorry for the delay but you know, there is a big lack of spare time lately!
We were very few this year just only six players but we had good fun.
So I'm Italian Champion for the 14th time straight.
We played 15 matches each one (we played 3x each other) for a total of 45 matches.
For the first time ever the tournament as been entirely played on emulated amigas.
At the VGP (the Video Games Party, a very nice place for multiplayer gaming) they have a set of 30 ROG PC game station for hardcore players with top hardware and of course top monitors (144Hz 1ms gtg) which guarantee a amiga responsive timing. of course also the USB adaptors were the best on the market (we brought them of course) so we had 3 perfect amiga working full steam without the problems of the real amiga we all know now days (do you remember Milan 2016 with 18 perfectly tested before the world cup and just 11 working in the process and even less used because " I don't like the screen" " I don't like the sound" "the green is too green", "the yellow is too yellow"). well, after very little time we were calling the pc stations as "Amiga".
Some of us already knew that with such hardware it was possible to have a 1:1 amiga feeling but there was still some scepticism. Well, after 45 marches the scepticism was evaporated. Amiga perfect timing was true. we never had to reboot a single machine, we played indifferently on all the machines and all the machines played the same number of games. You know how much this factor is important, specially in a world cup scale.
A special mention goes to Sir Camber, the KO2CV last addition to record the last scores on the title screen is very good when the players have got some hole in theirs faulty memory, it is possible to come back to the monitor and check the score again. well done!
About the tournament, what can I say... well I can report what did they say... "he is unplayable". and I must admit somehow it was so. I even slammed the doors in face to Fabio with a rounding 7-0, a score who will not forget easily.
Fabio, silver medal played hard but Alessandro (bronze medal) caught him once with a 7-7 draw.
Entertaining matches between Sandro and Alessandro, the latter prevailed for inches. also good entertaining between Paolo and Flavio. It was fun and a good practice also for the world cup as basically all the six players will join the upcoming world cup.
I was almost sure that Flavio wouldn't join the world cup this year, instead with the new job, things are turning better so most luckily he will be one of us in Sweden. Paolo, Fabio, Alessandro and I got the tickets already, just Sandro needs some more motivations. do you know if there is any chick in Sweden?
here you are some pictures of the tournament:
https://goo.gl/photos/fi2iqjKLxxdCRAea6and here all the results in order they have been played. enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who attended the tournament, specially Flavio who made a long trip to join us!
a special thanks to the VGP, they hosted us in a very professional way, they are hardware specialist they gave us full support for everything we needed, air conditioning included. cheap snacks and coke. a place that I will track for future events. the test was fully passed.
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Flavio Z 0 - 8 Gianni T
Paolo S 0 - 14 Fabio F
Alessandro V 3 - 2 Sandro T
Paolo S 5 - 1 Flavio Z
Alessandro V 1 - 9 Gianni T
Sandro T 3 - 7 Fabio F
Flavio Z 5 - 9 Alessandro V
Sandro T 4 - 1 Paolo S
Fabio F 0 - 7 Gianni T
Sandro T 7 - 3 Flavio Z
Fabio F 11 - 4 Alessandro V
Gianni T 12 - 1 Paolo S
Flavio Z 0 - 5 Fabio F
Gianni T 7 - 0 Sandro T
Paolo S 2 - 4 Alessandro V
Gianni T 10 - 2 Flavio Z
Fabio F 9 - 2 Paolo S
Sandro T 4 - 4 Alessandro V
Flavio Z 1 - 9 Paolo S
Gianni T 7 - 4 Alessandro V
Fabio F 13 - 0 Sandro T
Alessandro V 5 - 2 Flavio Z
Paolo S 2 - 4 Sandro T
Gianni T 8 - 3 Fabio F
Flavio Z 2 - 5 Sandro T
Alessandro V 3 - 9 Fabio F
Paolo S 3 - 13 Gianni T
Fabio F 12 - 1 Flavio Z
Sandro T 5 - 7 Gianni T
Alessandro V 2 - 2 Paolo S
Flavio Z 1 - 12 Gianni T
Paolo S 1 - 10 Fabio F
Alessandro V 5 - 3 Sandro T
Paolo S 2 - 5 Flavio Z
Alessandro V 1 - 8 Gianni T
Sandro T 1 - 3 Fabio F
Flavio Z 2 - 4 Alessandro V
Sandro T 7 - 3 Paolo S
Fabio F 2 - 8 Gianni T
Sandro T 3 - 1 Flavio Z
Fabio F 7 - 7 Alessandro V
Gianni T 10 - 2 Paolo S
Flavio Z 0 - 9 Fabio F
Gianni T 7 - 1 Sandro T
Paolo S 6 - 8 Alessandro V
