24/9 2025 | Úl

KK Bílá Hora were teaching again!

A complete Czech podium

September Fest 2025 winners
tournament
14/9 2025
Úl (club bistro)
Season

On the second Sunday of September, Ďáblický Uul welcomed not only a lecture on vertical burial but, above all, the second edition of the Cat classic SeptemberFest.

With the sponsorship support of Koloniál Sova, 15 male and female players participated, including defending champion Batbold and newcomer Sir Diamond, who was playing his first career tournament.

The favourites were, as ever, the players from the season’s strongest clubs—namely Maczka, Paczessa, Batbold, Petra, Havlas, Katarinator and above all the phenomenal Jooki, over whom, however, a question mark hung as to whether he’d recovered from his zero round at the Team Championship.

There was also, though, Mongolian Open winner Terra and several players competing without points eligibility, for example Fedazz and Marge. In short, very high-quality competition and an atmosphere of almost exclusively Czech music, which made conditions tougher for some players.

The topic of the tournament was unpleasant organisms from nature.

ERGOT

First round, first badge. Sir Diamond got a taste of what stepping in among the elite means and, together with Oldin, lost at table 3 (58%), just like co-favourite Paczessa at table 1. The weakest player of the round was Slavushka (38%). Here her long break, caused by maternity leave, showed. By contrast there were six 90’s%: Siisa, Fedazz, Petra, Batbold, Maczka and Havlas. Jooki and Katarinator shared the seventh position after the 1st round.

SI NIC = YOU’RE NOTHING
(sinice = cyanobacteria)

The tournament didn’t go Paczessa’s way; in the 2nd round too she played at 58% = a badge. The worst performance of the round was recorded by spoiled Havlas (50%).

"He wanted to send me off,"

he remarked laconically about Jooki, who once again failed to reach 80% but, as usual, had luck on his side. In the 2nd round, the chances of yet another player at the top of the standings collapsed. Batbold 61%! In the end the finals worked out for both KK Bílá Hora players, and the traditional finals dance could begin.

RULÍK zlatomocný = Golden-powered Atropa bella-donna

The finals narrowed after just 8 games, when indisposed Maczka left the tournament in sixth place, and Siisa’s run lasted another 6 games. Fedazz put together a streak of 8 clean games and was slowly becoming the favourite, but then came the déjà vu, and the 24th game of the finals decided that he would be the owner of the tournament’s final badge.

Victory was carried off by Katarinator, silver goes to the incredibly steady Petra and bronze to Jooki. Katarinator won a tournament for the first time in 9 years, since she dominated the national tournament Czech Open.

Current ranking

KK Bílá Hora have already reached 153 points in the team standings; in the player standings ahead of the World Series 2025, positions 1 (2x) are held by Kechup and Jooki, 5 by Anjelik, 11 by Katarinator, 16 by Glide.

Second-placed Midgard and third-placed Dashinchilen aren’t laying down their arms after the classics either, though.

PHOTO REPORT FROM SEPTEMBER FEST 2025 is brought to you by the tireless Nepalese reporter Jan Hübl.

with Kamil for SCWU media
Leon Berger

Placement points tournaments
1 KECHUP
KK Bílá Hora
55 3
1 JOOKI
KK Bílá Hora
55 3
3 PETRA
Royal SCC Vinohrady
53 3
4 KOCOUR
Smoking Chingiss Dashinchilen
50 4
5 ANJELIK
KK Bílá Hora
42 3
6 AUGUSTYN
Midgard
39 3
7 NITI
Midgard
38 3
8 MACZKA
Midgard
37 3
9 BLOODY MARY
No Stresaran Santa Cruz
35 2
10 KATARINATOR
KK Bílá Hora
34 2
11 TERRA
Animais de Sintra
30 4
11 EDDULLA
Doha Smoking Cats
30 2
11 BATBOLD
Smoking Chingiss Dashinchilen
30 3
14 SIISA
Animais de Sintra
28 3
14 GLIDE
KK Bílá Hora
28 2
16 LADY SANSAR
Majestic Crown
Majestic Crown 24 4
17 PACZESSA
Smoking Chingiss Dashinchilen
23 3
17 POLDA
No Stresaran Santa Cruz
23 2
17 HAVLAS
Royal SCC Vinohrady
23 2
20 PADRE
Smoking Chingiss Dashinchilen
22 2
21 BLANCHE
Burning Cards
20 2
21 FEDAZZ
Burning Cards
20 3
21 PARTIN
Animais de Sintra
20 1
21 LUCKA
Hardangervidda Smoking Elks
20 1
25 AUNTIE CATHERINE
San Diego Padres
18 2
26 MATITI
Royal SCC Vinohrady
15 2
26 KERRY
Animais de Sintra
15 3
26 SCHROTT
Royal SCC Vinohrady
15 3
26 CDR RIKER
San Diego Padres
15 3
30 SIR LUDWIG
Majestic Crown
Majestic Crown 12 2
30 ZAMUNDA
Black Dogs Ghana
12 1
32 FENHO
Smoking Chingiss Dashinchilen
10 2
32 BADU
Black Dogs Ghana
10 1
34 ZUUZA
No Stresaran Santa Cruz
8 1
34 OSVALD
Doha Smoking Cats
8 2
34 ZHAF
Black Dogs Ghana
8 1
34 KAADYA
Black Dogs Ghana
8 1
38 PAUL VON REICHENBERG
Royal SCC Vinohrady
7 3
39 GINDRAA
Black Dogs Ghana
4 1
40 MOKELE MBEMBE
Black Dogs Ghana
2 1
41 ALIDA
No Stresaran Santa Cruz
2
41 RUPRECHT
San Diego Padres
4
41 OLDIN
Midgard
2
41 BHARA
Animais de Sintra
2
41 MARGE
Kathmandu Raiders
3
41 CHANDRA YETTI
Kathmandu Raiders
2
41 SLAVUSHKA
Banskobystrické Šelmičky
1
41 September Fest 2025 (Classic Tour) SIR DIAMOND
Majestic Crown
Majestic Crown 1
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