ACC Internet Cribbage

2006-2007 All-Internet
		IRPs	Ts
1.	Tom Langford	714	103
2.	Ray Fischer	705	107
3.	Scott Buhrow	645	101
4.	Mike Fetchel	594	107
5.	Ed Bloom	570	115
6.	Mark Van Dyke	510	124
7.	Richard May	504	100
8.	Rodney Duff	498	76
9.	Robert M. Maupin	489	156
10.	John Schafer	480	111

2006-2007 TOC Qualifiers
11.	Roger Grandgeorge	477	103
12.	Tom Lewis	477	100
13.	Paul Rice	474	100
14.	Gary Wirth	471	100
15.	Kelly Ann Burgar	459	100
16.	Daniel Crete	459	100

Tom Langford (yanknshank29) finished #1 for the 2006-2007 season holding off the surging Ray Fischer (Stinger96). Tom heads up our All-Internet team for this year. Each member of the 2006-2007 All-Internet Team receives an invitation to the ACC TOC held in in Reno during February 2008.

The top 10% of point earners will receive invitations to the ACC TOC held in February. 154 peggers earned IRPs during the 2006-2007 season. In addition to the All- Internet Team, 6 additional individuals earned invitations to the ACC TOC held in Reno during February 2008.

Everyone should remember that Scott Buhrow won the 2006 TOC this past February. Scott received his invitation to the TOC from his participation in the ACC Internet Program.

Our Tournament Directors (TDs) held 210 tournaments during the season. The TDs held both our single-elimination and Cribbage Cup formats. The TDs introduced Manual Scoring to the Cribbage Cup.

Tom Lewis and Donald Olney reached the level of of eMaster. With Tom and Don attaining this level, six ACC members have reached the level of eMaster.

The six eMasters will receive their awards at the 2007 Grand National in Portland, Maine during the awards ceremony.

In response to a frequent request, a new page that shows the Lifetime IRPs has been developed. There is a link to Lifetime IRPs on the sidebar on the right-hand side of the page. This is based on the end of the season database table developed by Don Ellis our statistician. Research is underway on an approach to automatically update this information each month.

Mike Fetchel has reached the level of eMaster. Mike is the fourth player to attain this level. Mike joins Mark van Dyke, Scott Buhrow and John Schafer as eMasters.

It looks like Tom Langford (yanknshank29) has a stranglehold on first place with only one month left in the season. Remember the top 10% of point earners will receive invitations to the ACC TOC held in February. Thus far 154 peggers have earned IRPs for the season.

With one month left in the standings there is still a little time for folks to move up in the standings. As you can see, there are seven folks who have recorded all the points they can reach in their first 100 tournaments. With one month remaining, there may still be shakeup in the top 10 as there are many players just shy of the top 10.

The Tournament Directors will appear at the tournament rooms about 30 minutes before the tourney.

Tom Langford (yanknshank29) continues to hold onto his first place lead. Ray Fischer (Stinger96) has moved into 2nd Place.

There are still 2 months left in the season so there is a lot of time left for folks to move up in the standings. As you can see, there are three folks who have recorded all the points they can reach in their first 100 tournaments. With 2 months remaining, there will be shakeup in the top 10 as there are many players just shy of the top 10.

Tom Langford (yanknshank29) extends his first place lead over the rest of the field.

There are still 4 months left in the season so there is a lot of time left for folks to move up in the standings. As you can see, there are two folks who have recorded all the points they can reach in their first 100 tournaments. With 3 months remaining, there will be shakeup in the top 10.

The winner of the first manual scoring Cribbage Cup was Sheila Crete (damonsmom).

Tom Langford (yanknshank29) surged into first place as Robert M. Maupin (fred451)has reached the limit of 100 games. As you can see there is a 3-way tie for 9th position. There are still 4 months left in the season so there is a lot of time left for folks to move up in the standings.

Beginning with April's Cribbage Cup tournaments, all Cribbage Cup tournament will require manual/self-scoring.

Beginning with the first Cribbage Cup tournament in April (April 17), the Cribbage Cup tournaments will require MANUAL SCORING. At the present time, the tournaments on Mondays, Thursday, Saturdays and Sundays will continue as they are.

I recommend that everyone practice so that they get use to the counting during play and counting the hands and cribs and scoring manually. The pace of the games will slow down, but they still will be faster than over-the-board. As peggers get more experience with manual scoring, the pace of the game will increase.

A hint from one who has used the manual option many times; take three steps to score during the play and counting your hand and crib.

1. Select the score from the drop-down/pull-down list.

2. Release the mouse button and verify your chosen score

3. Click on score

You can do it in one motion, but you will may find that you make many mistakes that way. At least that is what happens to me.

There is one anomaly. Never take the 1-point for last card or add 1-point for last card. It does this automatically.

The Game Colony Tournament Directors (not the ACC Internet TDs) are hosting a Memorial Tournament for Zeke Veradt (Gramp-zv) on Sunday, March 18th at 5 PM. This tournament costs 10-TIX and is NOT an ACC Internet Tournament. The Zeke Veradt Memorial Tournament will be held in the Game Colony Tournament room and NOT in the ACC Room.

Zeke passed away this past Sunday. I went to his wake last evening, Thursday, March 15, and I believe that at least 50% of his friends that were in attendance were Zeke's ACC friends.

2. We are still experiencing some members that have not updated their screen names since the ACC's move to Game Colony for internet play. Pursuant to the ACC's Rules of Internet Play, Rule 3 states that players "must be certified by the ACC for Internet play" and that "Only ACC members certified for Internet play at the time of the tournament will receive IRPs for that tournament." Even if you are using the same screen name that you may have used at MSN Games, you must re-register and be certified for play at Game Colony using the form found at http://www.cribbage.org/internet/reg.asp.

3. Occasionally, we find out that you have characters in your screen names that prevent messages from appearing on the screen. Characters/words/phrases such as freeze, help, cookie, bluff, plus any set of characters that might be construed a a 'naughty' word. When this happens, we ask that you get a new screen name and register the new screen name. This is outside our control; however, it falls into Game Colony's code of conduct. Thank you for your understanding.

Robert M. Maupin (fred451) continued extending his first place lead to 87 points over Dan Crete (creech1), but he has reached the the 'count' limit of 100 tournaments which are accumulated annual totals. There are many players who could claim the crown.

The big news from Reno is that Scott Buhrow (MrB_IA218) won the ACC Tournament of Champions. There were many internet players, led by Jennifer Buhrow (ACCPrincess), cheering Scott on. It was good to meet many of you, especially the two of our dedicated TDs, Gerald Oxford (_TheOx_1) and Cathy Polmaskitch (GEM1NI).

Scott Buhrow (MrB_IA218), pegging out of Tennesee, bested a field of over 560 peggers to be crowned the winner of the 2007 ACC Tournament of Champions.

In a hard-fought final round, Scott defeated Warren Sondericker from Milwaukee, taking the best of 5 by a score of 3-2. Warren, a Life Master Two-Star, was seen trying to sell his soul to the devil in the final game, but Scott overcame this plea.

Scott is the first player from the ACC Internet Program to win this prestigious event.

Robert M. Maupin (fred451) extended his first place lead to 60 points over Tom Langford (yanknshank29), but only his next 15 tournaments count in the annual totals. There are many players who could claim the crown.

I hope to see many of you in Reno at the ACC Open and the Tournament of Champions!

Robert M. Maupin (fred451) took the lead at the end of the year and maintains a 3-point lead over Dan Crete (creech1). Only 12 points separate the top 5.

With two tournament wins during the month, Marilyn Gaudreau (mohini29) is the November Player of the Month.

With two tournament wins in 5 days during December, John Schafer (netvuew85) is the November Player of the Month. Honorable Mention go to Tom Lewis (pegfast2) and Dan Crete (creech1) who both had two wins in December.

Because of the severe illness and the passing of Don Ellis' mother, the statistics for November were delayed. The next updates will occur in January 2007.

Our first eMasters have been recognized. These folks reached this award level at the end of the 2005-2006 Season.

October 2006 Wrap-up:
Jim Hatch (NHPegger) maintained a slim hold onto first postion in the standings. Roberrt M. Maupin (fred451) and Gary Wirth (VertiGoAway) are just 3 points behind.

Our TDs enjoyed a fun time in Reno during the last weekend in October. They met up with other TDs and had their own tournament.

Just to show that our TDs also know how to peg, Gemini whose real name is Cathy Polmaskitch (amazed_in_ohio) won a tournament on October 21.

Because each of the ACC Tournament Directors will be at a tournament, the following tournaments will be cancelled:

August/September 2006 Wrap-up:
Jim Hatch (NHPegger) sprinted to the top of the standings after the first 2 months of play. Robert M. Maupin (fred451) is close behind in second position with John Schafer (netview85) in the third spot.

Our first tournament of the season, which coincidentally was our first on Game Colony, which we called "The ACC/Game Colony Inaugural", was won by Richard May (rcmay5).

The ACC Board of Directors Meeting was held on September 29, 2006 in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The following ACC Internet Cribbage topics were submitted for proposal proposed and were accepted by the Board of Directors.

Members will accumulate Internet Rating Points and be awarded certificates for reaching specified levels. These levels are:

Once a player attains eMaster, they will receive an automatic invitation to the annual ACC Tournament of Champions.

I believe that there are a couple of players who have accumulated sufficient points to reach eMaster and several additional players not far behind. I will be reviewing the lifetime statistics and will make the announcements shortly.

The ACC Board of Directors approved the development of Certificates of Achievement for the ACC Internet Cribbage program. Lois Fosdal, the Assistant Internet Statistician, will lead the design of the Certificates of Achievement that follow the standard ACC format for certificates. The design(s) will be presented to the ACC Board of Directors for their approval at their next meeting in February. Certificates of Achievement will be for those individuals who attain the various levels and for the top 10 point earners. Once approved in February 2007, certificates will be produced for all top 10 finishers going back to the first three seasons plus those who attain the award levels.

The ACC Board of Directors approved the study for the feasibility of fee-based internet tournaments. I received many requests for holding fee-based tournaments. At this time there will be a study to determine if the ACC should support fee-based tournaments.

The updates to the standings and the news is being delayed. This is because the statistician had to replace his computer. No results were lost but he needs to rebuild the databases and bring them up to current. It is expected to be complete around the middle of October.