Ker is Summer Champion after Dive Loses Twice

When was the last time Russell Dive lost twice in a row at the chess club? Losing to Nic Croad is fair enough, but he will have lost a lot of rating points by losing to me!
Russell's round 7 loss meant he was caught by traditional rival Anthony Ker. Losing in the 8th and final round meant that Nic Croad overtook him to take 2nd place, and Mark van der Hoorn joined him in 3rd place. No doubt the invincibility will return, but let's make the most of it until it does!
Other noteworthy performances? My vote goes to young newcomer Henry Wylde who defeated Ross Jackson in round 1 ( a trifle cheekily) and Andrew Brockway in round 8 (final tally 4/8). Also Romeo Rabina who finished strongly, winning against Don Stracy in round 7 and drawing with Michael Nyberg in round 8 (final tally 4.5/8).

You can see 2 games from round 7 on the official website, Sellen vs Dive and Ker vs Hill. As you can see, Anthony was a bit lucky to win that game!

Final standings:

1. Anthony Ker 6.5 points
2. Nic Croad 6 points
3-4 Mark van der Hoorn, Russell Dive 5.5 points
5-8 Brian Nijman, Daniel Baider, Gavin Marner, Ian Sellen 5 points
9-13 Alan Aldridge, Martin Hill, Michael Nyberg, Romeo Rabina, Ross Jackson 4.5 points
14-19 Anil Jhurani, Bill Forster, Hamish Shierlaw, Henry Wylde, Jen Sun Hong, Michael Hewson 4 points
20-21 Blaise Drinkwater, Don Stracy 3.5 points
22-27 Andrew Grkow, Andrew Brockway, Jefferey Wu, Jen Nung Hong, Melvin Tung, Zak Sun 3 points
28-30 Andreas Theodosiou, Lingzhou Wu, Somesh Pattekar 2.5 points
31-32 John Marney, Paul Bowden 2 points
33 Luke Palmer 0.5 points

Results:

Round 7
Sellen 1 Dive 0
Ker 1 Hill 0
Croad 1 Forster 0
Nijman 1/2 Baider 1/2
Aldridge 0 Van der Hoorn 1
Jackson 0 Marner 1
Nyberg 1 Wylde 0
Shierlaw 1/2 Jhurani 1/2
Grkow 0 Hewson 1
Wu J 0 Drinkwater 1
Hong 1 Palmer 0
Theodosiou 0 Brockway 1
Rabina 1 Stracy 0
Hong 1 Wu L 0

Round 8
Dive 0 Croad 1
Ker 1 Sellen 0
Marner 1/2 Baider 1/2
Van der Hoorn 1 Hill 0
Nyberg 1/2 Rabina 1/2
Forster 0 Jackson 1
Drinkwater 0 Aldridge 1
Jhurani 1/2 Hewson 1/2
Brockway 0 Wylde 1
Shierlaw 1 Hong 0
Wu L 0 Hong 1
Pattekar 1/2 Wu J 1/2
Theodosiou 1 Palmer 0