Posted by Steven on 12/8/2009, 12:29 pm, in reply to "Montréal BOTB - day 1 report"
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MONTREAL MASTERS BOTB - DAY 2 'SYNDICATED' REPORT
Somehow, the players seem to have got wind of the fact that we have dropped Cincy BOTB (usually the biggest Muppet Show of the year) to do Montréal (usually relatively predictable) this year and have taken it upon themselves to pretend it is Cincy after all.
Tuesday's entrants to the hall of shame were headed by Count Duckula (out of 272 entrants, only Jaysee (AM), next to bottom at the time, had picked Golubev to beat him!), with Hewitt (picked by 88% to beat Ferrero), Sela (83% v Falla), Benneteau (72% v Hernych), Melzer (72% v Hanescu) and serial muppet Berdbrain (72% v Kohli) all getting the chance to take an early flight to Cincy as well.
Detailed results can be found at http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html, with 'headlines' appearing on http://twitter.com/botb1 as well, while for a nicknames guide, please see http://www.andymurray.com/forum/showthread.php?t=253)
TEAMS
Towards the end of the day, Rusedski.co.uk, up 1 to 1st, took the lead from Tennisopolis, down 1 to 2nd, while the Feddies were leading at one point but ended the day where they started in 3rd place, just 0.01 points off 2nd.
For much of the day, those three teams had quite a gap on the rest, but the middle 7 teams were flying up and down the table with only about 0.1 covering most of them at one point. However, at the end of the day, Team CC, up 1 to 3th, GBTG, up 1 to 5th, and BT.net, up 4 to 5th, had closed the gap on the top 3 to 0.15 and opened up a similar gap on the rest.
The other big movers were MTF, down 4 to 8th, TAT, up 4 from last to 9th (they were even challenging the top three at one point), the Ducklings, down 4 to 10th, and AM.com, down 4 to last - the 'dodgy droppers' section below may help to explain this!
INDIVIDUALS
With so many heavily backed picks losing, those who at the top found it hard to pull away and kept getting joined by entrants who had picked the shock results, so at one point no less than 19 entrants shared the lead.
By the end of the day though, three entrants had pulled a point clear at the top with 25/32 - no. 34 in the (BOTB) world Robxon (BT), up 13 after scoring 17/20 on Tuesday, BillBaker (TN), the only one of the overnight leaders to stay at the top after scoring 15/20, and richard meaghan (TN), up 3 after scoring 16/20.
The three leaders shared the R1 win on 17/20 with Lex (CC), whose Rowlf the Dog (aka PH Chokieu) to beat Kolya in R2 pick saw him slide 16 to 20th for the day as a whole.
16 players are sharing 4th place, one point behind the leaders. They include four players ranked in the top 100 - WimbledonAce (AM), up 68, Daniel/Belgarath1981 (RF), up 10, abc (BT), up 68, and LUKE CROLL (GR), down 3 - and one newbie, Vladan (ND), up 10. The others are Inokas (ND), up 68, Osmeone (KC), no change, and Charlie02123 (TA), Kels (AM), Swissgirl (IN), Drew (BT), dot (IN), Renan (IN), seagull (BT) & Babfive (GB), all up 10.
ON THE RISE
The outright top scorer of the day (with 18/20) and the fastest riser was ptmcmahon (TA), up 214 to 21=, while 17/20 generated big rises for GiulioAxe (MT), up 184 to 51=, and Imoen (BT), MEMPHIS LADY (AM) & Gillyflower (GR), all up 144 to 21=.
DODGY DROPPERS
Predictable R2 results (and the fact that they are worth twice as much as R1 wins) meant that everyone managed to get over 50% for the day as a whole and the lowest scorer of the day was Fifi Quin (AM), down 100 to 265= after scoring 11/20.
However, the biggest fallers all got 12/20 but dropped over 150 places -Björki (MT), down 155 to 169=, Keith Nunn (AM) & JamieL (AM), both down 157 to 171=, and xenon21 (AM) & gwenda (AR), both down 155 to 227=.
Caro (AM) is still at the bottom despite scoring 13/20 on day 2, but she has been joined by Gazzpash (BT), down 8 to 271=.
BUNGEE JUMPER OF THE DAY
Mention must be made of Yorkie (AM), 14= at the start of the day, who had plummeted 173 places to 187= by the time Kolya won (making him the equal biggest faller at that point) - he regained 137 of those lost places later on to finish the day 50th.
OUTLOOK
And here is the shi**ing forecast: Montréal: Gael force 9 increasing to Hurricane Tsonga force 10, moods among BOTB entrants - stormy. Pressure - high influencing GEM-like behaviour, advise battening down hatches and hoping for the best!
Oops, wrong type of outlook ...
I can't remember a Masters R1 depriving me of so many R2 winners (only 11 of mine survived R1, one less than the two players in =last have left, and 8 of them had R1 byes!), so I can only look on enviously at the 7 entrants who have 15 R2 winners still standing - Daniel/Belgarath1981 (RF), currently 4=, Jack Buxton (BT), MEMPHIS LADY (AM) & mojoworking (CC) in 21=, Liam_valid (CC) & Smidster (BT) in 51=, and Sher (CC) in 103=.
shortbreadsue (AM), currently in 267=, is the only entrant with less than 10 R2 winner picks surviving - she can only score in at most 5 of today's 12 matches.
QUOTES OF THE DAY
To follow later ... probably.
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