Two players from OBSS, Çağlar Erdoğan and Sabri Büyüksoy will play today in one of the biggest backgammon events of the year. Finals of the European Backgammon Tour 2012 will be played today and tomorrow (April 24-25) in Cyprus at 13:00 local time. A total of 16 players (8 players from Turkey, 5 from Germany and 1 each from Denmark, France and Greece) will try to win the most prestigious title World Backgammon Association (WBA) offers. Players will continue until their third loss and in each round there will be a random draw. Tournament results will be available live from FTBGSYSTEM tournament management software website under the name of Betfair/EBGT Grand Finale 2012. After this tournament European Doubles Championship and European Pro Championship tournaments will be played in Cyprus between April 25-28 and live results will be available on FTBGSYSTEM.
I wish successful and enjoyable tournaments to all players. Below are the names of players and how they managed to qualify for the EBGT Grand Finale 2012:
Hisar UYAR (Turkey) Winner of ISTAVDER Anniversary Tournament
Sabri BÜYÜKSOY (Turkey) Winner of European Pro Championship
Peter BLACHIAN (Germany) Winner of German Masters
Inga VIGH PEDERSEN (Denmark) Winner of Portuguese Open
Çaglar ERDOĞAN (Turkey) Winner of Istanbul Open
Erhan YENİŞEN (Turkey) Winner of Cyprus Open
Thomas LUMPER (Germany) Winner of Munich Open
Thanasis Katsios Greek Champion
Philippe VOUHÉ (France) Nr. 1 Point Race
Jan JACOBOWITZ (Germany) Nr. 2 Point Race
Fuat ERDAĞ (Turkey) Nr. 3 Point Race
Martin BIRKHAHN (Germany) Nr. 4 Point Race
Gökay GÜLEÇ (Turkey) Nr. 5 Point Race
Yalkın ERK (Turkey) Nr. 6 Point Race
Dursun ÇETİN (Turkey) Nr. 7 Point Race
Peter Van De BRUCK (Germany) Winner Live Satellite
