Tenzin, stronger than Steele, wins 5th Annual Robert Dionne Memorial
Tenzin and Steele met first in the hot seat match, after Tenzin had sent Jeff James west 6-2 and Steele had shut out Ryan Nichols. Tenzin allowed Steele only one rack in advancing into the hot seat, and awaiting his return.
On the one-loss side, Nichols was met by last year’s winner of the memorial event, Nelson Oliveira, who’d defeated Kevin Sun 8-3 and Paul Eno 8-1 to reach him. James drew Dennis Daniels, who’d gotten by Fred White 5-2 and Ivo Petrov 4-2. Oliveira shut out Nichols to advance into the quarterfinals. James joined him with a double hill win over Daniels. James then stopped Oliveira’s bid for a second straight win at the event by defeating him 8-3 and then, was himself stopped in a shutout semifinal performance by Steele.
In the opening set of the true double elimination final that followed, Steele put up a better fight than he had in the hot seat match, but it wasn’t enough. Tenzin hung on to win the only set necessary 8-6 to capture the first place prize.
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Place
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Playername
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Prize Money
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1st
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$1,000.00
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2nd
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$500.00
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3rd
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$225.00
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4th
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$175.00
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5th
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$125.00
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5th
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$125.00
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7th
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$75.00
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7th
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$75.00
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9th
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$60.00
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9th
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$60.00
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9th
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$60.00
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9th
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$60.00
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13th
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$40.00
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13th
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$40.00
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13th
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$40.00
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13th
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$40.00
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