Play65 has been co-operating with WBA on the EBGT tournaments project - Play65 EBGT. The idea behind the joint work was to create a parallel backgammon race, which is held simultaneously in live race points and as backgammon online competitions.

 The live tournaments that are considered to be race points on the tour are held in Europe with an additional special race point at the US - The Golden Gate Open at San Francisco. The live backgammon tournaments are the most prestigious European tournaments, such as The Nordic Open, The Portuguese Open, and The Georgian Open etc. Winning these exclusive tourneys grants the player with a free entry to the Grand Finale Tournament, to be held in Cyprus on December this year.

The backgammon online tournaments, which are conducted at Play65 website, are qualifiers satellites backgammon tournaments that award their winners with free entrance to the corresponding live tournaments. The finalists of those satellite tournaments are credited with WBA masterpoints for the Grand Finale tourney; as well as with a free VIP membership for a month. For the first time, the finalists’ scores will appear along with live backgammon events finalists throughout the Play65/EBGT 2011 season.

So far 6 satellite tournaments were held for the 2011 season; 3 Grand Finale qualifiers tournaments and 3 race points’ qualifiers tournaments. The happy winners of the Grand Finale qualifiers are waiting to be a part of one of the Richest and most interesting backgammon events of the year:

Winner: Claus Elken (claus_e) of Denmark
Finalist: Volker Schneider (miramaria) of Germany

Winner: Georgios Avdis (elite777) of Greece
Finalist: Mads Peter Andersen (bastianpi) of Denmark

Winner: Robert Wachtel (wurst_player) of United States
Finalist: Nicolas Déhon (dahu_dextre) of Switzerland

 

The winners of the race points qualifiers have already participated in the following exclusive events:

 

Winner: Tamer Andaç (mihrib) of Turkey
Finalist: Konstantinos Mitrelis (tsifas) of Greece

 

Winner:  Jürgen Orlowski (orlowski) of Germany
Finalist:   Konrad Fröschl (konfro) of Sweden

Winner: Oleg Amiranov (amiran36) of Russia
Finalist:  Karsten Bredahl (matatoro) of Denmark

Now there is just one more Grand Finale qualifiers satellite tournament planed to the end of this month and 4 qualifiers satellites for the remaining race points. If you have never tasted the aroma of prestigious thrilling event tournament, you should be aiming yourself to participate at least in one, since it is a fun and enriching experience; and you still have a chance to win a free entrance to the tour’s Grand Finale!

 

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