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FUNCOM BACKGAMMON LIVE IN LONDON

Fri 9th - Sun 11th November 2001
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MMM wins at The Fox Reformed For 22 years MMM has been playing backgammon but never, ever won a single tournament. They say that good things come to those that wait. Cassie tells all here about MMM's first ever win....

 

Funcom Players Meet in Oslo Organised by Bedstefar, NetMusem and Phebe this was an excellent weekend of partying and playing. This report concentrates on the tournament rather than all the other messing about we got up to .....

 

Terratorisation Journeying through India a group of travellers stop the night in what seems to be a vacant field. Later on in the evening MMM communicates with one of the locals.....

 

Banyan Trees I've a thing about Banyan Trees. Wherever I go in the world I'm on the hunt for trees - in tropical climes banyans top the list. This time I was after the worlds largest which is somewhere in India.....

 

Sri Ganesh Tourno, Goa, India Backpackering around India I found a poster for a beach backgammon tournament. It was on my birthday as well. What would the standard of play be like ? Only one way to find out.....

 

Robbed When Gone Walkabout every travellers nightmare is being robbed. With care you can usually avoid it, but no matter how practised a traveller you are it's always a possiblity. Here's what happened to me.....

 

Backgammoning Backpacker Lawrence Powell (a BIBA and Fox Reformed player)  headed off to backpack round South East Asia. In his pack were a laptop loaded with snowie and a BBB. He also played in the 6th Thai Open .....

 

The Aussie DreamTime Christmas Tourno MMM was at Netgammon on the night of the largest online Backgammon tournament ever to be played on the Net and candidly reports here his impressions and reactions as one of the participants.....

 

London Calling 4-buns organised a rendez-vous for England based Funcom backgammon Players. What's it like meeting people you've already "met" on the net ? Here's what happened....

 

Southern Africa MMM went to Southern Africa to see some big animals. Don't worry - I didn't go to shot anything - except with a camera. Backpacking is not easily done in this part of the world - a tour is easier .....

 

Easter Weekend Tourno Having met on the net (playing b-g of course) JaSi and MMM organised a Pub Tourno and had a weekend of drinking and playing in Kent, England. Reports by both JaSi and MMM......

 

Leap Year Day Warning The 29th of Feb comes around every four years. It is, in my opinion, the most dangerous day possible for men who value thier freedom for on this day ladies, according to tradtion, can.....

 

The English Rule and my first Tourno Rookie serious backgammon player MikeMadMonk causes a storm with The British Isles Backgammon Association by using the 5 Man Rule and calling it The English Rule. He then went to play with them.....

 

Tassie In Tassie, Australia views are round every next bend. There are also snakes, pademelons, spiders, possums, drongos, pinfins, bats, tassie tigers and some contented looking sheep .....

 

Oman As a young man MMM went to Oman in the Middle East. Young as naive as he was in those day, he was offered a job in the Ministry of Youth Affairs that could have changed his life .....

 

How I started in Backgammon I hitched-hiked to Greece to decide what I would do with my life. I thought I might become a Monk but a ride took me to the next door neighbour peninsular and....