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** WGTicon's insanity - 4 found tournament *** - Special prize

• fmagnets 3,640 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 10:08 AM

  Happy Easter everyone. Icon is busy hunting for the Easter eggs that nobody has left for him, so has sent me to work out the prizes. Well done to all the finishers. As far as I can see (and please correct me if I'm wrong), the prizes are:

  Champ/TL 1st: Fmags 2 sleeves of Nike Blacks

  2nd: JoeM 1 sleeve of Nike Blacks

  Legend and below 1st: Corwyn 2 sleeves of Nike Blacks with the added threat of a game with me or Icon

  2md: Vaibhav5viv 2 sleeves of Nike Blacks

  3rd: Adamk70 1 sleeves of L33 Callys

  4th: Txzdave 1 consolation sleeve from Corwyn if wanted

  ...and of course special congratulations to Icon who was a mere 49 shots back this time.

• JoeMaverick 843 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 10:23 AM

  I would like one (or more :p) sleeve of nike black balls please :)

  And thank you Icon to add a prize for the second place, the first place for the human people :)

  Joe

• Corwyn 2,410 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 10:29 AM

   

  Corwyn:

  am ready to mount a serious challenge to Mags in R4, lol

  My 'serious challenge' came unstuck with the discovery that I could no longer log in as of yesterday to WGT from Chrome or, even as a backup, Maxthon. I get a browser error message that says "This site can’t be reached. wgt.com refused to connect. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED". It seems that Chrome (and perhaps other Chromium-based browsers) are no longer supported on older Mac OS it seems and that maybe security protocols are preventing access to WGT? However, it doesn't affect any other websites... sound familiar?

  I've had to fire up an old version of Safari instead, and go through a Flash upgrade as well, just to get onto the site, and am now finding out with the meter why I never wanted to use Safari to play in the first place*. I got brutally metered on #11, with a tee shot that scooted into the 50-60% sand straight ahead of the tee: believe me, that's not a place to be in UEL. 3 ugly hits later I was back on the fairway, en route to a snowman. Got a double on #6 as well thanks to an absurdly early click into left bunker. For the rest of the round it was a matter of some pretty good course management to stay below the hole. Many makeable putts missed, but only one 3-putt.

  I'm hoping I can make this playing setup viable, but it's possible this may be the last straw for me and WGT. The difficulties loading, and sustaining a connection, without even mentioning meter issues, threaten to be more trouble than it's worth, I'm afraid.

  All that said... thank you Icon for another great challenge. These formats force one to really think about the shotmaking, which makes such a welcome change from the regular tournaments.

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  * If anyone using an old Macbook Pro (2011 running OS 10.6.8) has found a viable browser/flash version playing combination, please share!

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  P.S. Just noticed the posts above mine. 

  Thanks for the wrap-up Mags, and congrats on another emphatic win!

  I'd love to get Nike Blacks again too.

  And I believe that Vaibhav5viv is actually the second-placed Legend, which would bump AdamK70 and txzdave down a spot ... but I will happily sponsor txzdave a sleeve :)

• AdamK70 433 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 11:07 AM

  Callaways (level 33) for my 3rd place, thanks,  although getting a prize for finishing 70 shots behind must be a record!

  Thanks again for a great competition, I love these tougher events where more thought is involved, all I need to do is to figure that bit out .

  Adam

• fmagnets 3,640 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 12:42 PM

  Corwyn:

  And I believe that Vaibhav5viv is actually the second-placed Legend, which would bump AdamK70 and txzdave down a spot ... but I will happily sponsor txzdave a sleeve :)

  Thanks for spotting that. He's such a regular name in tournaments I didn't even suspect he might not be a TL or above!

• Vaibhav5viv 886 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 1:06 PM

  I would like to try out L90 Nike blacks.. Really enjoyed the 'strange' conditions for all(not Mags and Joe). Not watching Mags round before playing rd4 showed in the score!!

  Thanks for everyone involved.

• thegoosebag 2,264 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 1:53 PM

  thanks icon for a very enjoyable tourney,if not a bit frustrating at times but we all learn from are mistakes and bring it on again i say

  congrats to all the winners well played even you mags what a surprise lol

  cheers     mark.

• DarkenRahl 2,115 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 6:12 PM

  Thanks Icon, got me wanting to play more UEL now- and I can barely play the regular ones.  I must be a masochist.

• txzdave 1,316 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 7:24 PM

          Right on, Corwyn ! Much appreciated and very, very cool of you for sure. Thanks for the tourney, Icon and hope to see you Cats soon.  I'm sure most of the names will be the same..........

              With that being said, I'd like to know when and if the next one will bare it's teeth and the best place to look for it outside of stumbling upon it in the forums.

           Lastly, Thanks mags for, well.......Even typing my name! Hehheheheh

              Take care for now,

         ~txzdave~

   

   

   

• Corwyn 2,410 Posts

  Sun, Mar 27 2016 7:33 PM

  You're welcome... but what sleeve do you want?