World Boardgaming Championships!

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The omens foretell another great
World Boardgaming Championships!
August 1-7, 2011
with Pre-Cons starting July 30
Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA
*See the complete Event Previews at www.boardgamers.org/yearbkex11
7 Wonders • Th15
1776 • PC Sa14 +
18XX • PC Sa10 • Sa17 • Su10 • Su17
Ace of Aces • Tu19+
Acquire • Tu18 •Th13 • Fr15
Adel Verpflichtet • Sa17
Adv. Civilization • We9 • Th9
Adventurers • Th11 • Fr18 • Fr21 • Sa9
Afrika Korps • PC Sa14+
Age of Renaissance • PC Sa11 • Sa18 • Su10
Age of Steam • Fr20 • Sa9
Agricola • We15 • Th21 • Fr13
Air Baron • We21 • Th12 • Fr9 • Sa9
Alhambra • We18 • Fr13
Amun Re • Mo22 •We13 •Th17
Anzio • PC Sa14+
Atlantic Storm •Tu18 •We20 •Th10 • Fr12
Attack Sub • Su9
Auction • Tu18 • We15
Automobile • Mo18 • Tu21 • We17
Axis & Allies • PC Sa13
B-17 • Th9
Baltimore & Ohio • We18 • Th9 • Th18
Battle Cry • Sa9
Battleline • Fr19
Battles American Revolution • Th17 • Th21
Bitter Woods • Tu18 • We9
Brass • We9 • We22 • Fr9
Brawling Battleship Steel • We18
• Th13 • Th19
Breakout: Normandy • Tu18 • We9
Britannia • Tu19 • Th13 • Fr19
Bulge ’81 • PC Sa14+
C&C Ancients • Th9
C&C Napoleonics • We9
Can’t Stop • We23
Carcassonne • Sa17 • Sa18
Caylus • We19 • Th12
Chicago Express • Fr16 • Fr18 • Sa18
Circus Maximus • Tu18 • Fr9 • Sa19
Combat Commander • We9
Conquest of Paradise • Fr15 • Sa9
Crusader Rex • Tu20 • Sa14
Dominant Species • Tu20 • We9 • We14
Dominion • Th19
Dune • We16 • Th9 • Fr13
Egizia • We18 • Th13
Eisenbach Gap • Sa15
El Grande • Tu18 • We18 • Th9
Elchfest • Tu22
Empire Builder • Tu18 • We9 • We14
Empire of the Sun • Fr10
Enemy In Sight • We9 • Fr20 • Su9
Facts In Five • Sa22
Football Strategy • We18 • Th16
For the People • Th16
Formula De • Mo16 • We12 • Th15
Formula Motor Racing • Tu20
• We16 • Th9
Founding Fathers • We10
Fresco • We13 • Fr19
Galaxy • We14 • Th16 • Th19 • Fr17
Gangsters • Mo20 • Tu22 • Th23 • Fr17
Gettysburg • PC Sa14+
Great Campaigns ACW • We11
Hammer of the Scots • Th21 • Fr9
Hannibal • PC Sa13
Here I Stand • Tu19 • Th19
History of the World • Tu18 • We18
House Divided • We20 • Th10
Imperial • Th16 • Fr16
Ingenious • Tu22 • We14 • Th22 • Fr22
Ivanhoe • Tu23 • We23 • Th23 • Fr23
Julius Caesar • Th9
Kaiser’s Pirates • Fr10 • Fr13 • Sa9
• Sa12
King Philip’s War • Mo20 • We10
Kremlin • We18 • Th15 • Th19 • Fr9
Labyrinth • Tu20 • Th10
Le Havre • Tu21 • Th15
Leaping Lemmings • We18 • Th22
• Fr10 • Fr16
Liar’s Dice • Fr23
Lord/Rings: Confrontation • Fr17
Lost Cities • We17 • Th19 • Fr20 • Sa14
Macao • We22 • Fr21
Manifest Destiny • We19 • Th13
Manoeuvre • Mo13
March Madness • Tu19 • We9 • Th9 • Fr9
Medici • Tu21 • Th19 • Sa18
Memoir ’44 • Th21 • Fr9
Merchant of Venus • We9 • Th20 • Fr12
Monsters Ravage America • We20
• Th19 • Fr17 • Sa9
Naval War • Sa18
Napoleonic Wars • Mo19 • We18 • Th18
Navegador • Th17 • Fr20 • Sa15
Panzerblitz • PC Sa14+
Paths of Glory • PC Su14
Paydirt • We13 • Fr14
Pirates’ Cove • We11 • We22 • Th9 • Th17
Power Grid • Tu18 • We12 • Th9
Princes of Florence • We20 • Fr21
Pro Golf • Th23
Puerto Rico • Th19 • Fr16 • Sa12
Ra • Tu21 • We15 • Th13 • Fr11
Ra: Dice Game • We19 • Th16
• Fr15 • Sa14
Race For the Galaxy • We9 • Fr15
Rail Baron • We18 • Th18 • Fr9
Risk • Th13 • Fr18
Robo Rally • Th13 • Fr19
Russia Besieged • We19 • Th9
Russian Campaign • PC Sa14+
Saint Petersburg • Mo20 • We15
• Th9 • Th21
Samarkand • Tu20 • Fr15
San Juan • Mo10
Santa Fe Rails • Tu21 • We22 •Th11
Settlers of Catan • Sa9
Slapshot • Sa23
Speed Circuit • Th15 • Fr14 • Sa14
Squad Leader • PC Sa14+
Star Borders: Humanity • Tu23 • Th10
Star Wars; Queen’s Gambit • Tu19
• We20 • Th21
Stock Car Racing • Th21 • Fr10 • Sa11
Stone Age • Mo14 • We22 • Th9 • Fr9
Storm Over Stalingrad • Tu19 • We9
Successors • Tu18 • We13
Superstar Baseball • Tu17+
Through the Ages • PC Su14 • Su19
Thurn & Taxis • We9 • We20
Ticket To Ride • Th21 • Fr9 • Sa11
Tigers in the Mist • We9
Tigris & Euphrates • Th11 • Sa18
Tikal • Fr11 • Fr18 • Sa20
Titan • We thru Fr • 10 • 14 • 18 • 22
Titan 2 • We10
Titan: The Arena • We18 • Th23 • Sa13
Trans America • Su10
Twilight Imperium • Th10 • Th19
Twilight Struggle • Fr9
Union Pacific • Mo15
Up Front • Th9
Vegas Showdown • Mo19 • We11 • Th15
Victory in Pacific • PC Su9
War At Sea • Th9
War of the Ring • PC Su19 • Mo9
Warriors of God • Mo10
Washington’s War • Sa9
Waterloo • PC Sa14+
Wellington • Mo13 • Tu19
White Star Rising • Tu21 • We9
Wilderness War • Mo13
Win, Place & Show • Tu23 • Fr10 • Sa16
Wooden Ships… • PC Sa14+
World At War • Tu18
Yspahan • Tu23 • We12
KEY: New Event in 2011; Century Event; Pre-Con; • Entry points; +: later start possible*
2010 Team Tournament
97 teams vied for glory in 2010. Defy the Happy Handicapper’s odds and make the Top
25 in 2011. Subscribe to our free newsletter at http://lists.boardgamers.org/mailman/
listinfo/bpamail to go bracket busting in the Annual Team Tournament selection derby
in the week before WBC. Pick the winners and earn a free BPA membership.
60-1
46-1
94-1
21-1
46-1
Wrobel 9 • Taillon 0
Field 9 • Crenshaw 0
Stein 8 • D Gutermuth 0
Lisa G 9 • Ken G’muth 0
80-1
Pei 7 • Mecay 8
Byrd 2 • Fedin 0
B S’aglio 0 • F S’aglio 9
Yope 0 • Frisby 7
Oleson 7 • Greenwood 0 Trimmer 7 • Porterfield 2
95-1
91-1
79-1
53-1
T Hitchings 9 • Meconi 1
D Miller 5 • K Hitchings 0
Bove 8 • LeWinter 3
C Morris 3 • D’Tela 0
Burdett 1 • J Martin 0
Poniske 0 • R Young 0
Thompson 7 • Heidman 6 Gaberson 7 • Metzger 7
A Gardner 8 • H R’son 0
B Gardner 5 • P R’son 0
100-1
67-1
50-1
76-1
57-1
Beckman 3 • Collars 0
Emery 7 • Githens 3
Reese 7 • Edwards 1
G Young 3 • Maly 2
A Henning 0 • A Field 7
A Collinson 0 • Hebner 5
Renaud 9 • Mullally 3
Lin 0 • Geronimo 0
N Henning 3 • Gemmell 0
K Henning 0 • Meyaard 9
29-1
51-1
52-1
210-1
Pack 3 • Backstrom 0
Moyer 8 • Packwood 1
Reiff 7 • McCulloch 2
Wojtaszczyk 2• Mullet 1
Tamburo 0 • Keating 8
Cockitt 0 • Ellis 3
Levine 9 • Galullo 0
J Cornett 2 • Bruck 0
93-1
206-1
60-1
Lemoine & Greenwood 0
R. Lee 0 • Eppolito 9
Lingle 8 • Wetherell 0
Hickok 0 • Culhane 1
18XX • Saturday, July 30, 10am • 5pm
Four heats in two days advance 16 to
Monday Elimination rounds.
Age of Renaissance • Sat., July 30, 11am
Three rounds of swiss play in two days,
dropping the lowest score.
Axis & Allies • Saturday, July 30, 1pm
Three rounds advance 4 to Sunday
Elimination rounds.
Hannibal • Saturday, July 30, 1pm
Five rounds of swiss play.
Grognardcon • Saturday, July 30, 2pm
Additional days of qualifying preliminary
play of any of 10 wargames advance 4 to
Elimination rounds later in the week. 1776
• Afrika Korps • Anzio • Bulge ‘81 • Gettysburg • Panzerblitz • Russian Campaign • Squad Leader • Waterloo •
Wooden Ships
B Young 7 • Richards 0
Gleaton 2 • Pfeiffer 0
Paths of Glory • Sunday, July 31, 2pm
Three swiss rounds advance 8 to Tuesday-Wednesday Elimination rounds.
Through the Ages • Sunday, July 31,
2pm • 7pm
Two heats advance 16 to Monday Elimination rounds.
War of the Ring • Sunday, July 31, 7pm
Mulligan advances winners to Monday
Elimination rounds.
62-1
103-1
Belyeu 9 • D Lewis 0
M & A Wojtaszczyk 0
For those who can’t get enough of a good thing, WBC week (August 1st-7th) is
extended to the preceding two days. This allows play of 18 of the longer games
with less schedule conflicts than they would encounter during the week. It also
allows weekend warriors with no vacation time to double dip with a WBC sandwich of two weekends to scratch their gaming itch. A new pricing policy drops
specific Pre-Con admission, requiring only the same $10 plus $10 per day General Admission cost of all pre-registrants. However, walk-ons cost $10 more so
be sure to pre-register.
Victory in the Pacific • Sunday, July 31, 9am
Five rounds advance 8 to Monday-Tuesday Elimination rounds.
38-1
Hunsinger 0 • Risner 9
Jordan 3 • Monnin 0
Pre-Cons 2011: Nine Days of Glory Begins July 30th
Musella 1 • Schoose 8
B Scott 0 • J Schoose 0
Contents
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BPA
is an association of boardgame enthusiasts incorporated as a non-profit company
in the state of South Carolina for the express purpose of hosting the annual gaming
conference known as the World Boardgaming Championships, or WBC for short. It offers tournaments,
vendors, an auction, demonstrations, seminars, open gaming, and Juniors programs. In addition, for
those who can’t get enough, we offer focused Mini-Cons and Play-by-Email-Tournaments. We love
boardgaming competition—from wargames and Eurogames to racing, sports, and rail games, and we
make no apologies for it. It’s what we do. And we’ve done it better than anybody else for more than ten
years. This yearbook documents BPA events of the previous year. It does not contain scheduling information for the upcoming convention. Schedules and event previews will appear in a separate program
and online at boardgamers.org. In fact, on our website, you’ll find more pre- and post-event information
than any place on the net—over 1,000 pages of it. It’s not very lucrative or cost effective, but we think it
demonstrates our commitment to this hobby.
To help support BPA, take a moment to subscribe to our FREE e-mail newsletter via the website
and continue to spread the good news about our association and its activities.
Credits
Convention Director: Don Greenwood
Webmaster & Publicity: Kaarin Engelmann
Board Chairman & Treasurer: Ken Gutermuth
Secretary: Bruce Monnin
Assistant Treasurer: Peter Stein
Incorporator and Legal Counsel: Scott Pfeiffer
BPA Logo: Mark Simonitch
Cover Art: Kurt Miller
Photography: Debbie Gutermuth, Charlie Kibler
PBeM Coordinator: Hank Burkhalter
Online Discussion Board: John Kranz
Kiosk Prints: Jeff Billings
Printing: Lost Battalion Games
Insurance: Phil Barcafer
Exclusive Show Vendor: Decision Games
Security: Ken Whitesell, Paul Weintraub
Juniors Room Monitors: Joanna Melton,
Jenna Sunderlin
Juniors Program Coodinator: Laurie Wojtaszczyk
AREA Ratings: Glenn Petroski, Bruno Wolff
Team Event Handicapper: Stuart Tucker
Auction: Bruce Reiff, Jeff Mullet, Ken
Gutermuth, Keith Hunsinger, et al
Religious Services: Keith Hunsinger
Proof Reading: Bruce Monnin
Signs and Tech Support: Roy Gibson
Web Personal Scheduler: Steve Okonski
Team Logos: David Dockter, Kaarin Engelmann
Sampler Showcase: Tom McCorry
Library Coordinator: Keith Levy
Social Networks Answer Person: Scott Nerney
Registration Staff: Charlie Kibler,
Judy Kibler, and Tara Greenwood
Sponsors: Alliance Games, Nicholas Benedict,
David desJardins, James Doughan, Ken
Gutermuth, Rick Northey, Queen Games,
Jerald R. Tracy, Valley Games
Contents
Team Tournament Top 25..............Inside Front Cover
Director’s Message.....................................................2
Century Events...........................................................3
Upcoming BPA Competition..................................56
Trial Events...............................................................57
Memorials.................................................................62
Team Champions.....................................................63
EuroQuest ................................................................64
PBeM Champions....................................................66
Gamemasters............................................................68
Winter Activation Meeting.....................................69
Caesar Award...........................................................71
GM of the Year..........................................................72
Sportsmanship Award.............................................73
Hobby Service Award.............................................74
Boardmasters............................................................75
Patrons.......................................................................78
Board of Directors....................................................80
2012 Pre-Cons...............................Inside Back Cover
WBC 2012 Upcoming Events........................Back Cover
1541 Redfield Rd., Bel Air, MD 21015-5739
www.boardgamers.org • [email protected]
August 1-7, 2011 • July 30-August 5, 2012
Lancaster Host Resort, Lancaster, PA
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011 saw the largest attendance gain yet with
a whopping 10% increase despite record
nationwide unemployment. In all, players
from nearly every state plus 16 nations attended the 13th WBC. The increase was reflected
in tournament participation as well with a 6%
rise and no less than 20 events drawing tripledigit participation. The average attendance for
the 153 events rose 3.3 to 55 players per event,
buoyed by 226 players for Slapshot, 213 for Liar’s Dice and 207 for Ticket to Ride. Despite the
record wood gathering, Open Gaming did a
banner business—overflowing the 13,000 sq ft
showroom all week long—and keeping the ever-enlarging BPA game library humming with
over 1200 leant games. A constantly updated
schedule with a minute-by-minute countdown
to the start of the next event was projected on
the stage to remind everyone of upcoming
event opportunities elsewhere in the hotel. The
Showroom remained the new focal point of
the convention and was patrolled by fulltime
monitors for the first time to enforce “parking”
violations to prevent tables being usurped by
displays or absentees. Color-coded “playerswanted” kiosks made their appearance for the
first time to aid those looking for opponents
or someone to teach a game. Martin Wallace’s
newest design, A Few Acres of Snow, made the
rounds as the hottest new game—an observation soon reinforced by winning the membership vote for 2012’s Trial events. Sponsorships
by Alliance Distributors, Queen Games and
Rio Grande made possible these and other
improvements as WBC Open Gaming really
came into its own.
Bruce Beard retained his title as the longest
continuous reigning master at WBC by holding serve to win his seventh straight 18XX title,
one of just 13 2010 champions to successfully
defend their title. Falling by the wayside was
Rob Beyma whose five-year reign atop Russia
Besieged was ended by his son, Richard. Other
notable runs were ended as Rich Moyer, Nels
Thompson, Alex Bove and Robert Renaud all
failed in their third consecutive title defense
bids, but 2011 will more likely be remembered
as the year “The Streak” ended. Bruce Reiff,
owner of 44 BPA titles, was finally stopped
after 21 years of bringing home at least one
championship. There was much rejoicing in
all quarters—probably not the least of which
emanated from the Reiff household—where
Mrs Reiff was no doubt relieved not to have to
find room for yet another plaque—only to be
Greeting
confronted by daughter Nicole’s second wall
ornament! Despite Nicole’s continuation of
the family streak, the fair sex lost market share
in 2011 with just six ladies claiming titles—
down from eight in 2010. Twenty players won
multiple titles, led by five who “tripled” with
three each: Richard Beyma (MAN, RBS, WAT),
Randy Buehler (DOM, EGZ, POF), Curt Collins II (DOS, ELG, UNP), Ty Hansen (A&A,
DUN, WOR) and Nick Henning (GSR, LRC,
MRA). His “triple” along with a strong showing at the preceding Euroquest won both Caesar and Consul accolades for Randy Buehler in
only his second year at WBC. In all, 20 players
either joined the ranks of those earning Master
status (three or more titles in the same event)
or raised their level in that exclusive club.
At the other end of the title spectrum, 46
players won their first WBC championship
(up from 31 in 2010) and 106 earned their first
laurels (an increase of 21). Claire Brosius and
Larry Lingle won free rooms in 2012 for taking
Game Master of the Year and Sportsmanship
honors respectively. Claire’s was especially
noteworthy as it came in just her third year at
the helm of Ticket to Ride.
The Team Tournament declined again with
“only” 84 teams answering the bugle call—
down 12 from 2010 and 19 from the record
2009 field. The 50th-ranked Go Flank Yourself
squad squeaked out a 1-point victory over
the perennial favorites Nest of Spies thanks to
three bonus points awarded for scoring in an
event they had not previously won. This was
good news for Bruno Wolff who managed to
win our third bracket busting contest by correctly predicting only five of the top ten teams
as successful prognostication apparently remains the exclusive domain of the Happy
Handicapper.
In the continuing circle of life struggle of
WBC winners and losers, the events themselves again competed for the player lifeblood
needed for another year of WBC existence.
This constant churn yielded 11 new occupants
of the Century club. Gainers outnumbered
losers 4:3. Among events with at least a threeyear track record, 28 raised their attendance
bar by posting their own personal best entrant
numbers for the past ten years led by Stone Age
which topped its record field by 34 players.
The other end of that spectrum saw 21 tournaments decline to new attendance lows for the
past decade.
Century Events
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Bruce Beard, MD
S. Hamblen, MD
Fabio Pellegrino, it
Ken Gutermuth, NC
Andrew Roosen, MD
O Daniel Barnes, CA
Joshua Cooper, MD
Cheryl Mallon, MD
James Pei, VA
O Jason Ley, WA
O Gary Moss, MO
O Eyal Mozes, MD
Pierre LeBoeuf, MD
Cliff Ackman, PA
53  1991-2011
83  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Bruce Beard, MD
5
Bruce Beard, MD
380
Jim McDanold, TN 120
Jon Kwiatkowski, NC 104
Paul Hakken, NJ
103
Barrington Beavis, uk 90
Mark Neale, RI
72
Jeremy Vipperman, TN 54
Pierre LeBoeuf, MD
54
Richard Fox, IL
50
David Fritsch, VA
40
18XX (8XX)
3 rail gamers made the pre-con to play
18xx series games, a 33% gain over
2010, and the most in 17 years. 25 entered
their first 18xx tournament, with seven winning
preliminary games. However, none of that prevented Bruce Beard from continuing his mastery of
the event, going unbeaten while amassing six wins.
The preliminaries consisted of four rounds,
with 18EU and 1846 added to the more widely
available 1830, 1856, 1861, and 1870. 1830 was the
most popular choice, by a 15-6 margin over 1861.
There were four games each of 1846 and 1856, and
two of 1870 and 18EU. Four of the 1830s ended in
bankruptcies, as did an EU and a ‘56 game. The 33
preliminary games produced a quadruple winner,
two triple winners, four double winners, and 15
winners. Six of those victors did not appear for the
semi-final, leaving exactly 16 winners to compete –
only six of whom were veterans of the 2010 semis.
The Final thus matched (in turn order) Ken
Gutermuth, Bruce Beard, Fabio Pellegrino, and
Spencer Hamblen with only the prohibitive favorite
having reached the Final before. In the private auction, Bruce took the M&H for $145, Fabio the C&SL
for $50 and the C&A for $215, Ken the SV and the
B&O private at cost, and Spencer the D&H for $90.
Eventually, Bruce’s better stock value compensated
for fewer shares, allowing him to pull away late for
an easy victory over Spencer and thereby extend the WBC’s
longest current Championship
streak to 7 years....
Top Laurelists
Joshua Cooper, MD
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Justin Childs, FL
Joshua Cooper, MD
Steve Shambeda, PA
Jason Ley, WA
David Gantt, SC
Gary Moss, MO
Matt Calkins, VA
Phil Bradley, IL
Dan Eshleman, NC
Matt Amitrano, VA
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60
51
45
44
42
42
38
30
30
Acquire (ACQ)
cquire enjoyed renewed interest with the third
largest field in 21 years generating 29 preliminary games in three heats. Winning scores ranged
from 33,000 to 61,000.
I never noticed a correlation between seat position and winning before, but this year those playing first or third were twice as likely to win as those
seated fourth. A more telling factor was participation in the first merger: finishing first increased
odds of winning to 50%, finishing second dropped
your odds to 33%, and not participating in that
merger at all decreased your odds by half.
The finalists overcame a talented field that included seven former champions. Two of them, 2007’s
Jason Ley and defending champ Joshua Cooper, ran
the gauntlet to reach the Final. The game began in
typical fashion: the first two chains each had creators
with four shares balanced between two players unable to start chains with three shares each. Josh and
Evan started their second chains before Jason and
Cheryl were able to start their first, putting them at
a disadvantage. Josh took majority in the first merger
allowing him to purchase shares while the others
“chose to pass”. After a $5000 first place payout,
Josh identified Continental as a permanent chain
and purchased stock at a price no one could match,
thus guaranteeing him a majority. Rather than merge
into Continental, he added to a rival
chain’s growth, increasing its size to
11 (permanent status); depriving others of needed cash and preventing any
trade for Continental stock.
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Century Events
2011 Results
2011 Results
Derek Landel, NJ
Thomas Browne, PA
Kevin Breza, VA
O Phil Livingston, DE
O Mark Geary, OH
O Rob Davidson, IL
Kevin Youells, PA
Harald Henning, CT
Sean Bryan, TN
Christina Harley, WA
O Nathan Barhorst, MI
O Z. Mowshowitz, NY
Tom DeMarco, NJ
Kevin Youells, PA
35  1991-2011
30  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Derek Landel, NJ
Tom DeMarco, NJ
129
John Pack, CO
115
Ray Pfeifer, MD
104
Thomas Browne, PA 84
Marc Houde, VA
63
Mark Geary, OH
61
Nick Henning, CT
36
Alex Bove, PA
33
Abby Cocke, MD
33
Philip Yaure, PA
30
Adel Verpflichtet (ADV)
M
oving from Friday to Saturday apparently proved costly as attendance dropped 40% and out of the Century altogether. So in 2012 we will go back to Friday.
Seven games were contested in Round 1.
Eric Wrobel and two-time former champ Mark
Geary had the best wins with nine spaces past
the finish line. Round 2 saw ten folks leave,
while gaining three reinforcements, to fill five
boards. Players have advanced by playing in
just two of the three rounds so late entries can
bear fruit. Phillip Livingston, Rebecca Hebner,
and Tom DeMarco each won a second time,
with Rebecca now in the lead with ten points
and a collective 13 spaces past the finish. Six
more players retired for Round 3, and one returned for just four boards. Rebecca closed out
the swiss portion in fine fashion with her third
win making her the top qualifier. Mark and
Glen Pearce each got their second wins, while
Ashley Collinson won her first. With only 20
players left, exactly half would advance with an
average score of 12 points (out of 15).
Rebecca picked a bad time to end her winning
streak, coming in last to end her night. Geary and
Livingston won their respective semis to advance.
However, Derek Landel, whose third
place finish narrowly won the last
seat at the Final, got hot at the right
time to win by one space over Thomas Browne in the all-important last
game of the night.
Top Laurelists
Kevin Youells, PA
T
Kevin Youells, FL
282
Doug Galullo, FL
266
Joe Gundersen, IN
186
Shantanu Saha, NY 129
Eric Gundersen, NJ 125
Christina Harley, WA 109
Harald Henning, CT 80
Ted Mullally, NJ
50
Gregory Kulp, NJ
40
John Morris, MD
40
Advanced Civilization (ACV)
he two preliminary heats mustered five games.
The winners were Zvi Mowshowitz (Iberia),
Kevin Youells (two wins, Illyria and Assyria), Sean
Bryan (Assyria), and Nathan Barhorst (Egypt). Jennifer Visocnik, Harald Henning, Christina Harley,
and Jon Anderson joined them in the Final. Everybody seemed content with their draw except Kevin
who was anxiously trying to peddle Illyria to no
avail. The sides remained as: Africa/Zvi, Iberia/
Nathan, Illyria/Kevin, Thrace/Sean, Jon/Crete, Assyria/Jenn, Babylon/Harald, and Egypt/Christina.
There was the usual discussion of borders at the
outset, and it soon became apparent that Assyria
was going to be in trouble. Her normal territory
was coveted by both Babylon and Crete, and they
combined to limit her growth. Africa and Egypt also
disputed the territories near Cyrene. Illyria and Iberia probably didn’t improve matters by encouraging Africa’s claims, but they sure had fun doing it.
Calamities, as usual, were a major factor with Africa
particularly hard hit by no less than 13 disasters.
Meanwhile, Illyria was becoming a threat.
Kevin responded to military incursions by purchasing Monotheism instead of Military for defense. Its powerful effects allowed Kevin to push
the Illyrians to victory by using it as a diplomatic
tool as he cut individual deals to give immunity
from Monotheism to any player who
did not attack him. The final tally
was: Kevin 4406, Harald 4313, Sean
4090, Christina 4070, Nathan 3800,
Zvi 3328, Jon 3288, and Jenn 3033.
Century Events
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Chris Brandt, VA
Jason Fisher, NC
Gadoon Kyrollos, NJ
O Carol Haney, CA
O Barrett Straub, MD
O Caitlyn O’Rourke, IL
Harald Henning, CT
Douglas Mercer, MD
Jeff Mullet, OH
Nick Henning, DC
Doug Galullo, MD
O Kurt Miller, PA
Larry Lingle, PA
Ted Mullally, NJ
45  2010-2011
33  1996-2011
Top Laurelists
Chris Brandt, VA
Daniel Pappas, MD
Chris Brandt, VA
Andrew Fedin, PA
Jason Fisher, NC
Isaac Clizbe, MD
Barrett Straub, MD
Larry Lingle, PA
Gadoon Kyrollos, NJ
Carol Haney, CA
Erik Schlosser, PA
30
20
18
12
12
10
9
8
6
3
Top Laurelists
Harald Henning, CT
Jeff Mullet, OH
Bill Chenshaw, VA
Ken Gutermuth, NC
Ewan McNay, CT
Harald Henning, CT
Chris Byrd, CT
Steve Simmons, NJ
Carl Damcke, IL
Mark Smith, KY
Kevin Sudy, VA
396
331
276
271
237
186
185
170
145
138
The Adventurers (AVU)
Age of Renaissance (AOR)
our heats generated 19 tables with
double header action as enough games
appeared to accommodate everyone after turning away 12 players in 2010, but it wasn’t
enough to return to the Century as the rising tide
of WBC attendance raised the bar. Jason ‘chainlink’
Fisher and his dad, Ron, each provided painted
figures to spice up the action. Meanwhile, WBC’s
version of the Bijou theatre ran a series of double
feature matinee performances with unique casts
and varying outcomes.
Laurie Wojtaszczyk and Caitlin O’Rourke
showed the right stuff by winning both games in
their heat. Dastardly Owen Kyrollos matched them
by being the only survivor in his group. In contrast,
Josh Arndt took both games but also got all of his
companions out safely. All in all, a rolling stone
may gather no moss, but it crushed plenty of adventurers—36 in all. 30 more were trapped with a
like number burned. 13 drowned in the river, while
six were squeezed by the walls and one died in a
fall. Adventuring is a risky business.
The Final combined scores from two games.
Chainlink took the lead in the first game with a
24/6 to Chris Brandt’s 22/6. Carol Haney was burnt
while Owen and Barrett were squashed. The second game saw the boulder roll on Turn 4, claiming
a flat Barrett. Jason broke one board
to score 17. Carol just barely escaped
while Owen had to bail three cards to
avoid drowning. Chris escaped with a
21/6 to claim the win.
he event finally stopped its steady decline
in attendance as a result of the change to
Pre-Con in 2010 and actually reversed that
trend this year with its first back-to-back increase in
12 years. Three Enlightenment mini-con style heats
were held with the best two scores summed to determine a winner. The Enlightenment swiss format style
has a downside. Those who don’t do well in either of
the first two rounds lack incentive to appear for the
third round given an increasing number of other enticements for their time which greatly reduces third
round participation. However, that is true for all swiss
style events as losses take their toll and players leave
for other pursuits. It is an inherent problem of running a swiss format amidst so many gaming choices. It
worked well for a dedicated weekend without alternatives, but less so at WBC.
Venice has fallen on hard times. The boost from
an Era 1 Cloth/Wine played favorably does little to
offset the weakness of small, desirable dominations.
People are trending toward Genoa over Venice because smart negotiations can give Genoa numerous
secondary payouts and a great income base. Another observation is that the preference for 5-player
games has left Hamburg woefully underplayed. An
inexperienced player saddled with Hamburg in the
rare 6-player contest will often lead to a dismal ending for Paris and Hamburg.
Hopefully, the upward attendance
trend will continue and Enlightenment
will be around for years to come. But
for now, we survive another year.
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Century Events
2011 Results
2011 Results
Pierre Paquet, qc
M-A Imbeault, qc
Mario Veillette, qc
O P. Ostrander, MD
O Ben Stephenson, WA
O Harald Henning, CT
Jon Senn, PA
Mike Kaltman, PA
Sceadeau D’Tela, NC
Joshua Cooper, MD
Bill Crenshaw, VA
O Dan Eppolito, CA
Peter Staab, PA
Joshua Cooper, MD
29  2004-2011
89  2008-2011
Top Laurelists
Pierre Paquet, qc
S
Pierre Paquet, qc
144
Martin Sasseville, qc 120
Mario Veillette, qc
72
Marc-Andre Imbeault, qc66
Richard Irving, CA
39
Nathalie Malenfant, qc 24
Michael Holmquist, WI 24
Peter Staab, PA
18
Craig Moffitt, NJ
12
Keith Altizer, FL
12
Age of Steam (AOS)
ix 4-player games using four maps composed
Heat 1. The Rust Belt proved the most popular
with three games. In one, Pierce Ostrander downed
defending champion, Marc-André Imbeault, in the
closest contest of the event with a 5-point win. The
second saw three-time champ Martin Sasseville top
John Karr by the largest margin of the day (39 points).
The last Rust Belt game gave two-time champion
Pierre Paquet a win over Michael Holmquist. The
only non-Canadian champ, Richard Irving, prevailed
on the England map, as did Phil White in Germany
while Mario Veillette did the deed on American turf.
Heat 2 drew four more 4-player games. Two
Rust Belt contests qualified Imbeault and Craig Moffit. The Western US map rewarded Ben Stephenson
while the India board did likewise for Harald Henning. Nine of these ten worthies manned a twogame semi-final in South Africa. The 5-player semi
returned Mario to the promised land, with Pierce
sending home two former champs in a battle for
second and survival. Meanwhile, Imbeault kept his
title defense alive and Paquet deprived Henning
and White of the last seat in the 4-player semi.
The Final was decided in the Rust Belt with
few early deliveries, making income scarce and opportunities to hamper others plentiful. In the end,
Pierre had 98 points and his third title as WBC exported its 7th straight AOS shield
to Quebec. He was followed by
Marc-André with 81, Mario 72, and
Pierce 43 as well as new respect for
French Canadian railmen.
Top Laurelists
Jon Senn, PA
GM
Tedd Mullally, NJ
Mike Kaltman, PA
Jon Senn, PA
Rob Kircher, RI
Sceadeau D’Tela, NC
Cary Morris, NC
Bill Crenshaw, VA
Ben Scholl, PA
Geoffrey Pounder, on
Mike Turian, WA
70
68
62
53
50
50
49
30
30
30
Agricola (AGR)
s often worry needlessly about incorporating “Win & You’re In” advancement opportunities when the far more common
problem is falling short of optimum player levels
in advanced levels due to schedule conflicts. As
so often happens, plans for a 25-player semi-final
went astray when only 18 of 29 qualifiers opted to
advance.
Five 4-player semi-final games were substituted with the aid of two alternates. Only the K Deck
was used with the Lover, Wet Nurse, and Reed Hut
removed. Dan Eppolito tied for first in his semi but
came up short on the tie breakers to settle for sixth
place. As an alternate who advanced with two seconds, he claimed laurels without benefit of a win
ahead of 24 victorious qualifiers. Moral of the story,
always follow up on qualifying wins by playing in
the advanced rounds.
The preliminary rounds consisted of everyone
playing one to three draft 5-ERs using only one
deck at a time, E, I or K, with no cards removed. Six
regulars from Play-Agricola.com were among the
field, myself. Chris Deotte (Chris), Mike (Coyotek4),
Cary (DagKees), Sceadeau (Sceadeau), Ted (NiteArtist), and Jon (Senn). All six advanced—proving that
practice makes perfect. Four of the six advanced
again to Round 3. It was Jon Senn’s first WBC
championship
After two more hours, the
four remaining Play-Agricola.com
players emerged victorious. The
final score was 55-38-37-37-25.
Century Events
7
2011 Results
2011 Results
Stephane Dorais, qc
Andy Gardner, VA
Virginia Melton, VA
O J. Fleckenstein, VA
O Kurt Miller, PA
O David Buchholz, MI
Vassili Kyrkos, NY
Michael Shea, CT
Jay Fox, NJ
Eric Freeman, PA
O Peter Eldridge, uk
O Tammy Lusk, NJ
Scott Fenn, MD
Debbie Gutermuth, NC
61  1996-2011
116  2004-2011
Top Laurelists
Stephane Dorais, qc
A
John Coussis, IL
131
Ken Rothstein, NY
112
Chris Storzillo, NJ
108
Brandon Bernard, PA 76
Robert Sohn, PA
74
Stephane Dorais, qc
50
Michael Musko, IN
50
Jack Jaeger, VA
50
Andy Gardner, VA
49
Jimmy Fleckenstein, VA 46
Air Baron (ABN)
starting roll of “1” and several early recessions
combined to make cash scarce as five finalists launched fledgling airlines from Norfolk, West
Palm Beach, San Diego, Sacramento, and Indianapolis. The two western players—Jim Fleckenstein in
LA and Virginia Melton in San Francisco – duelled
as they expanded east; while Andy Gardner in Miami and Stephane Dorais in Atlanta looked northward and Kurt Miller spread out in the Northeast.
By mid-game, the cash crunch eased and Stephane
gained control of the New York, DCA and Detroit
hubs. Out West, Jim and Virginia, alarmed by Stephane’s progress, called a truce in their private war
and deployed Jumbos to stop him.
Stephane, sensing the united front, went into
fare wars to complete the Atlanta and Chicago hubs,
only to fall one spoke short of victory. The western
battle then resumed to cries of “Tucson must DIE”
from Virginia as she ejected Jim from Phoenix. Kurt,
having bided his time, now retook Chicago, gained
control of Houston and attacked Atlanta – threatening to win. Then it was Andy’s turn for a big push
as he completed the Miami-Atlanta-Houston triangle along with most of DFW.
Fate intervened and two $54 pulls of JFK sealed
the win for Stephane as he went into fare wars again
to grab three spokes of the Chicago hub for the win
at 341 to claim his first WBC Title.
Andy was second with 255, followed by Virginia 208, Jim 161 and
Kurt 55 in a game where the dreaded Fuel Hike never surfaced.
Top Laurelists
Vassili Kyrkos, NY
A
Vassili Kyrkos, NY
70
Luke Koleszar, VA
58
Nate Hoam, OH
54
Kevin Wojtaszczyk, NY30
L. Dan Hoffman, MD 30
Michael Mullins, MA 30
Bruce Reiff, OH
30
Michael Shea, CT
24
Sam Atabaki, CA
24
Matt Calkins, VA
22
Alhambra (ALH)
lhambra again used only two heats to break triple
digits with 116 players chasing 25 advancement
seats. Karen Roberts topped David Meynard 93-92 to
take the closest game in Heat 1. Ed Roberts posted the
highest score of 122. Carolyn Strock’s 117 denied 2007
champ Vassili Kyrkos, while Ashley Collinson’s 104
generated the largest margin of victory (27). Lynda
Shea won her table despite the smallest wall (4) of
any table in the past two years. The average winning
wall length was 12. In the process, she beat defending
champion Luke Koleszar, who was so shaken he did
not return for the second heat—thus ending his title
defense. Ted Mullalley’s 84 generated the smallest
spread (25) between first and last.
Eric Freeman topped 2009 champ Kevin Wojtasczyk in Heat 2. Rob Kilroy had the highest score
(107) and the greatest spread (28). Kevin Lewis
won the closest game, besting Angela Collinson
by one and Alex Henning by two. Tammy Lusk
and Marybeth Mitchell both won with 100 points
and tied for the largest first-to-last spread (38).
Hillary Haagen won with the smallest first-to-last
spread of 20 points and Anthony Daw won with
the smallest wall (8). Rolinda Collinson and Brian
Mongold both won tables with the largest wall
lengths (18).
With 29 winners from the two
heats, four would not advance if they
all opted to continue. But as so often
happens, the lure of other attractions
kept four away so all qualifiers who
wanted to advance were able to do so.
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Century Events
2011 Results
2011 Results
M. McCandless, LA
Robert Frisby, VA
Tom Oleson, WA
O Bill Scott, VA
O John Clarke, VA
O Johnny Hasay, PA
Justin Thompson, VA
Robert Eastman, NV
Bruce Young, SC
Tom Bissa, MI
Eric Monte, NY
O Andy Gardner, VA
Bruno Sinigaglio, AK
John Coussis, IL
21  1991-2011
114  1998-2011
Top Laurelists
Mark McCandless, LA
V
Robert Ryan, MI
204
Tom Oleson, WA
184
Paul Fletcher, CT
149
Mike Sincavage, VA 114
Stephen Likevich, OH 74
Robert Frisby, VA
48
Mark McCandless, LA 39
Bruno Sinigaglio, AK 38
Carl Walling, PA
30
Chris Harris, VA
25
Anzio (ANZ)
enerable grognard Tom Oleson once
again devoted his week to the Anzio experience—taking on all comers at every opportunity. 26 preliminary games were logged to send
the four top scorers to the playoffs: Mark McCandless:
54 points, Tom: 39, Robert Frisby: 27 and Bill Scott: 24. Bill’s initial invasion came ashore at Terrecina.
Mark delayed the Allies southern advance while
massing most of his power at Terrecina. The Americans lasted only three turns before the port was retaken. A second invasion at Rome also failed. The allies didn’t fare much better in the other semi—a rematch of the 2010 Final. Tom’s initial invasion again
came ashore at Naples, but this time his allies were
unable to make much progress. A second invasion
at Vasto on Nov I tested Robert and allowed the allies to capture Termoli, but Tom lost every attack for
four straight turns. By the end, he held Salerno, Naples, Foggia and Termoli, which was close but not
good enough. No former champion would contest
the Final for the first time in memory.
Robert invaded at Naples and slugged his
way into Foggia and Termoli, while holding onto
Salerno and Naples. He needed but one more
victory hex. His second invasion came ashore at
Anzio on December I. By the last turn, he still
held Anzio, but his Allied troops were adjacent
to strong German units. His attacks to hold their
ground failed, forcing a disastrous retreat that
gave the Germans their third
straight win and Mark his
first Anzio title.
Top Laurelists
Justin Thompson, VA
T
John Coussis, IL
152
Roy Gibson, MD
100
Scott Buckwalter, MD 96
Rob Winslow, NY
95
Rob Eastman, NV
84
John Elliott, MD
84
Bruce Young, SC
68
Henry Richardson, VA 60
Andy Gardner, VA
50
Robert Barnes, WV
50
Atlantic Storm (ACS)
en of the 114 players returned for all four
heats as 35 preliminary games boiled the icy
waters of the Atlantic. 31 of those 35 victors reappeared for six semi-final contests—three requiring tie-breaker resolution. In one, 2008 champ
Bruce Young required a second tie-breaker (lowest convoy number) to down Bill Place.
The Final began with Andy Gardner calling
for a Surface battle and promptly flushing his
hand. Bruce put two Allied points in play, drawing the Scharnhorst from 2000 champ Rob Eastman. Alas, Eric Monte produced the Renown and
took the Scharnhorst for himself, handing the convoy to Bruce. Rob started a comeback on Hand
11, rolling a 6 to win an air battle for a 7-point
convoy. However Hand 16 brought the defining
moment over a 5-point convoy that pushed twice.
The third time proved the charm for Tom Bissa.
However, both Eric and Justin Thompson benefited from the split of a large buildup of spoils.
Justin sealed his victory on the last hand as Rob
changed the original sub battle to Combined with
Admiral Tovey and played the Duke of York (8 Allied) and Raid on St. Nazaire (prohibiting German
play). Justin calmly played the King George V (8)
and four bonus points with the cheshire cat smile
of a riverboat gambler who had just played four
aces. Even so, Bruce had the last chance with his
?? +4—needing to roll a 9—but could only muster four pips. The pot sealed
Justin’s first ACS title with
29 points to Rob’s 22.
Century Events
9
2011 Results
2011 Results
James Doughan, PA
Geoff Allbutt, NY
O Steven Caler, OH
O George Young, VT
O Bruce Monnin, OH
O Frank Cunliffe, PA
John Schoose,
FirstPlace,
ST IL
WoodWinner,
Robert
Bucheri,ST
MD
WoodWinner,
O Zhiming Shi, NJ
ST
WoodWinner,
OH.
Richardson, VA
ST
WoodWinner,
O Vassili Kyrkos,ST
NY
O Bruce
Non-Wood,
Reiff, OH
ST
Steve Caler, PA
GameMaster,
Bob
Wicks, CTST
40  1991-2011
28
##  1991-2011
1993-2011
Top Laurelists
James Doughan, PA
T
Bill Edwards, VA
84
Daniel Hoffman, NC 52
Steve Caler, PA
40
David Sidelinger, CT 40
Kaarin Engelmann, VA 35
John Conlon, OK
33
Bruce Young, SC
32
Rob Schoenen, PA
32
Buck Karpowitz, DC 30
Brian Conlon, OK
28
Attack Sub (ATS)
he game’s 20th year brought a surge
of interest as ten new skippers attended the demo to fuel the largest field of the
past 15 years, although seven past champs still
manned the gauntlet. Once again, Jim Doughan
and his trio of sons played. Last year, one (Andrew) finished fifth while dad was left far astern.
Duly chastened, dad set out to redeem himself.
Three rounds of Swiss play produced eight contenders. Five emerged 3-0: 2003 champ Steve Caler,
Geoff Allbutt, George Young, Bruce Monnin, and
the aforementioned Doughan. Tiebreakers provided
three 2-1 players. Caler’s Boomer evaded Monnin in
a battle of unbeatens while Allbutt’s renegade foiled
Andrew Cummins in Scenario E. Doughan sank twotime champ Dan Hoffman’s last sub after losing two
escorts and two transports in Scenario G. Frank Cunliffe was a victim of Soviet equipment malfunctions
as Young’s Nato forces ended his day in Scenario B.
Scenario E’s renegade saw action the rest of the
way. Steve played an unusually aggressive strategy scoring five hits to sink two of Geoff’s pursuers, but his renegade paid the price. In the other
semi, Jim’s ships methodically destroyed Young’s
renegade. The Final looked grim for the Doughan
patriarch with the early arrival of Geoff’s Udaloy
reinforcement. Jim’s renegade was hit—but survived. A deck later, Jim reached firing position for
the win. It was his first ATS title
and, more importantly, gave dad
family bragging rights over the
flotilla for one more year.
Top Laurelists
John Schoose, IL
T
Bruce Reiff, OH
Arthur Field, SC
George Sauer, OH
Steve Cuccaro, MD
Ken Gutermuth, NC
Jeff Mullett, OH
David Brooks, TN
Jon Lockwood, VA
John Schoose, IL
Rob Kircher, RI
78
50
34
32
30
30
28
22
20
20
Auction (AUC)
he mulligan round attracted the usual suspects. Defending champ Rob
Kircher won, as did previous laurelists
Vassili Kyrkos and Ken Gutermuth. Joining them in
the win column was Bruce Monnin and newcomer
Terri Wicks with the high score ($8120). Rob Buccheri topped that by $10 in the next heat to advance
with Jeff Mullet, Zhiming Shi, Jim Garvey and John
Schoose. The two highest runners-up, Henry Richardson and Bruce Reiff, were promoted to fill three
semi-final tables in the smallest field since 1999.
There, Buccheri bested the seasoned firm of
Kircher, Monnin and Reiff while Schoose used Buyer cards to down Kyrkos, Mullet and Gutermuth.
Shi topped Richardson by $170, but the latter’s
$8400 was the closest second and earned the last
Final seat to render a rare Cabbie-free Final. A good
omen of things to come…
Shi opened the Final with a winning bid ($240)
for miniatures but had to buy back his own clocks
after the bank refused to pay. He then tried selling books only to have the bank reject him again.
Sometimes life just ain’t fair. The fifth auction of a
Buyers card and sterling went to Schoose ($1450).
Another Buyers card sweetened a Queen Anne parlor set won by Shi ($1520). The tenth auction with
two Buyers cards put Schoose in the lead, forcing
the next two auctions to go for $1300 (Buccheri) and
$1120 (Shi). He sealed the win by taking
the last auction, coins, for $1000 to finish
at $7640, ahead of Buccheri ($4290), Shi
($3830) and Richardson ($3570).
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Century Events
2011 Results
2011 Results
Ty Hansen, DC
Richard Beyma, VA
Jeff Mathis, FL
Andrew Murphy, PA
Kevin Keller, MD
O Steve Packwood, MN
Bill Zurn, CA
Rod Spade, PA
J. Oppenheim, VA
O Dvd Avins, NJ
O John Corrado, VA
O John Weber, MD
Joe Powell, VA
Andrew Maly, TX
32  1999-2011
48  2010-2011
Top Laurelists
Top Laurelists
Bill Zurn, CA
T
Bill Zurn, CA
30
Andrew Maly, TX
30
Rod Spade, PA
18
Matt Calkins, VA
18
John Weber, MD
15
Jeremy Oppenheim, VA 12
Dvd Avins, NJ
9
John Dextraze, on
9
John Corrado, VA
6
Tom McCorry, VA
6
Automobile (AUT)
he event saw a 33% increase in attendance in its
sophomore season, bringing in a strong blend
of new and repeat players, with the majority playing multiple heats. Maybe it was the extra heat, the
greater availability of the game over last year, or its
growing reputation as a quality design in the Martin
Wallace stable as his latest made the rounds in Open
Gaming to much acclaim. Whatever, Matt Calkins
won all three heats. Other winners included Elaine
Pearson, John Weber, Bill Zurn, Paul Brink, Dave
Tianen, Justin Morgan, Dvd Avins, Lyman Moquin,
Rod Spade, Chris Gnech, John Corrado, Eric Cheatham, and Andrew Maly, the defending champion.
Matt hoped he hadn’t used up all his luck in the
heats. He didn’t, but his streak ended there nonetheless as he ran into three opponents who never gave
him an opportunity to exploit. In the closest of the
four semi-final games, Matt finished dead last, but
nearly pulled out an improbable win on the last turn
with a bold loan-parts factory—build strategy. The
bonus tile draw for mass market cars was a “2” sinking the defending champion and left the fortuitous
Jeremy Oppenheim with a $70 victory over John
Corrado. In the three other Round 2 games, Dvd and
Rod managed to win their tables by approximately
$400, and Bill bested his nearest competitor by $760.
The Final proved less daunting with Bill
($4520) increasing his winning margin to $870
and winning handily over Rod
($3630), Jeremy ($3030) and
Dvd ($3,000) to claim his first
WBC title.
Ty Hansen, DC
Philip Shea, VA
192
Joe Powell, VA
180
Kevin Keller, MD
179
Ty Hansen, DC
144
Pat Mirk, FL
129
Phil Rennert, MD
96
Richard Beyma, MD 95
Andrew Murphy, PA 94
Tim Rothenhoefer, MD 68
Brian Fitzpatrick, VA 54
Axis & Allies (A&A)
T
he second pre-con event continued the
trend of increased attendance over that
of recent years with 32 players vying for four
golden tickets to playoff glory. Round 3 found eight
unbeaten players vying for the right to advance. Andrew Murphy and Kevin Keller played to a virtual
tie in Victory Territories, but the former had a greater
income increase, handing Kevin 5th place. Meanwhile,
defending champ Richard Beyma ended two-time
title holder Philip Shea’s attempt for a third, and 2007
champ Ty Hansen defeated Henry Russell. Jeff Mathis
spoiled the playoff resume by taking out 2001’s Patrick
Mirk to be the lone uncrowned interloper.
Beyma defeated Murphy’s Allies with a bid of
6 in the first semi-final. Richard captured Moscow
with an infantry from Archangel and the Luftwaffe,
and it proved decisive. Meanwhile, Hansen’s Axis
defeated Mathis with a bid of 2 in the other semi.
Richard gave Ty a bid of 6 to play the Allies in the
Final. On Turn 1 Germany bought a carrier and Japan
a factory. The British counterattacked in Egypt and
the Americans targeted the Japanese fleet after Pearl
Harbor, building two carriers. Six turns later it was
all over and Ty reigned again with an Allied triumph
based on 13 victory territories and income of 111.
Overall, the Axis enjoyed a 57% edge. However, as
the event progressed, those players accepting the Allies received
higher bids, tending to balance
play in the highly competitive
third round. The average bid for
the allies was 4.39.
Century Events
11
2011 Results
2011 Results
Steve Sabatino, PA
Brian Wool, DE
Eric Stranger, OH
Jonathan Izer, MD
Paul Risner, FL
R. Covington, MD
Lyman Moquin, DC
Jeff Cornett, FL
Philip Shea, FL
O David Metzger, NY
O Roy Gibson, MD
O Rob Eastman, NV
Dave Terry, MD
Jeff Cornett, FL
77  1992-2011
49  2001-2011
Top Laurelists
Steve Sabatino, PA
Paul Risner, FL
283
Richard Moyer, MN 156
William Rohrbeck, NH 106
Keith Hunsinger, OH 100
Eric Stranger, OH
76
Steve Sabatino, PA
60
Dan Dolan Sr, NJ
60
Dave Long, NC
60
Stephen Quirke, WI
56
Judy Krauss, PA
42
B-17; Queen of the Skies (B17)
O
ur three missions again took us to the heart of
Nazi Germany, but in numbers never seen before. B-17 again flummoxed the CD with a record
turnout and posted its seventh straight attendance
increase as 77 daring pilots, including our firstever “all-female” squadron, turned out for “Black
Thursday;” the climax of 20 years of unique camaraderie! Total missions flown reached 60 with:
• Marienburg; an 11-zone mission that pushed
aircraft and crews to the limit! Losses were light due
to strong fighter escort and poor Luftwaffe response.
• Munster; a 7-zone flight with low losses as
opposing fighters fell victim to concentrated fire
from the gunners of the 100th Bomb Group (H).
• The milk runs ended as we returned to the ballbearing factories of Schweinfurt. It was “Black Thursday”—the bloodiest day in the history of the 8th Air
Force. For the first time, the “Bloody Hundredth”
faced the Luftwaffe’s new night-fighter, the twin-engine, cannon-firing Me-410! A combination of heavy
fighter cover and intense flak caused severe losses.
After all was said and done, B-17 crowned a
new champion, Steve Sabatino and a new Sand
Man: Roger Covington. I’m not sure who was envied more. On Friday Night, we assembled in record numbers again with 60 present at the Officers
Club for the annual After Action Party featuring a
debriefing, the awarding of medals and honors, a trip to the prize
table and refreshments. Eight
former champions were present,
representing 13 past events.
Top Laurelists
Lyman Moquin, DC
M
Jeff Cornett, FL
Philip Shea, VA
Ben Knight, MD
Lyman Moquin, DC
David Metzger, NY
Robert Eastman, NV
Steve Lollis, MD
Nicole Reiff, OH
Larry Lingle, PA
Barry Shoults, MI
90
66
51
48
42
33
33
30
30
30
Battle Cry (BCY)
ost scenarios seemed reasonably balanced with the exception of Belmont, as
the North went 14-3, despite bids that awarded
extra Southern draws in ten games. After Round
4, Phil Shea and Robert Eastman were unbeaten
but nine 3-1 players remained in contention, including six former champs. The South won all
eight Round 5 matches as Lyman Moquin, Roy
Gibson, Jeff Mullet and Bruce Reiff beat Barry
Shoults, Steve Lollis, Jeff Cornett, and Dave
Metzger respectively to advance. A random
drawing among nine 3-2 hopefuls then awarded
a second life to Metzger and Cornett. Three former champs were felled by this lottery.
The Battle of Oak Grove split 2-2 in Round 6.
Winning as the North, Shea remained unbeaten
by extending Consul Reiff’s uncharacteristic down
year, while Metzger upset Mullet. Winning as the
South, Moquin topped Gibson, while Cornett ended Eastman’s unbeaten streak. Both 3-2 alternates
had upset higher qualifiers with their second life.
The four survivors bid heavily (three extra card
draws) for the South in Round 7’s Battle of Prairie
Grove, but the bids proved insufficient as the rebels
won both games from their higher vantage point.
Cornett edged Metzger in the meeting of alternates
while Moquin ended Shea’s streak. Lyman then
outbid Jeff for the Union in the Perryville Final and handed the alternate his third loss in a 7-5 win to go
7-1 for the day—his lone setback a
5-bid Round 2 loss to Mullet.
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Century Events
2011 Results
2011 Results
Rob Beyma, MD
Bill Morse, VA
Vinny Sinigaglio, NJ
O Forrest Pafenberg, VA
O John Clarke, VA
O Bruno Sinigaglio, AK
Rob Doane, MD
Champ Easter, GA
Chris Easter, GA
O Dale Long, NJ
O Rob McCracken, DE
O Mark Miklos, GA
Frank Sinigaglio, NJ
Mark Miklos, GA
23  1991-2011
28  1999-2011
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Rob Beyma, MD
Battle of the Bulge (B81)
T
Top Laurelists
Steve Likevich, OH 152
Forrest Pafenberg, VA127
Phil Evans, fr
112
Bill Morse, VA
96
Bob Ryan, MI
60
Frank Sinigaglio, NJ 48
Vince Sinigaglio, NJ 39
John Clarke, FL
34
Rob Beyma, MD
30
he Germans won 18 of 27 preliminary
games, but when it counted the Allies
took two of three in the playoffs. The results since 2003 give the Germans a slim 130-122 advantage. Making it to the Final Four this year were
2006 champ Bill Morse (44 points), 1992 titleist Rob
Beyma (40 points), rising young buck Vinny Sinigaglio (38 points) and perennial hard luck contender
Forrest Pafenberg (34 points).
In the semis, Morse was the grateful recipient of
another of Forrest’s legendary bloodless openings
that ran true to form, leaving him hosed in the center.
It was small consolation that this dismal turn paled in
contrast to his legendary 2003 offensive that rolled no
American kills at all—a feat estimated to be a 1-in-820
likelihood. In the other semi, super-grognard Beyma
schooled the younger generation, proving he still
has what it takes after a long absence. In contrast to
Forrest’s opening, he bagged five American units in
the center, making it difficult to form a defensive line
where the Americans are weakest. Vinny held it together until 18AM, when the Germans captured Bastogne and Trois Ponts. Down 16 units, he conceded.
Two former champs met in the Final although
their titles came 14 years apart. Bill’s Germans
rolled poorly in the north. Overall, his results were
just fair with but four units lost, and too many
units available to throw into the usually vulnerable
center. Fair don’t cut it against
this kind of tactician, and Rob
won his second B81 title, 19
years after the first.
Rob Doane, MD
Mark Miklos, GA
210
Dale Long, NJ
116
John Vasilakos, VA
81
Jim Tracy, OH
72
Cliff Hansen, NM
48
Volko Ruhnke, VA
42
Andrew Maly, TX
35
Robert McCracken, DE 33
Rob Doane, MD
30
Battles of the Am. Revolution (BAR)
F
ive past champions humbled! All ten top rated
players defeated! A 13-year old blazes a trail of
guts and glory across the battlefield! The original
“Saratoga” was the background for both the Mulligan & Round 1. 16 games were played with the
British taking ten. Players sensed early this was
not business as usual when two former champions, Andy Maly and John Vasilakos, were hors
d’ combat early. 12 players returned for Round 2;
the Howe’s Flank Attack scenario from “Brandywine
Creek.” The Americans prevailed in five contests
with Chris Easter eliminating 2009 champion Jim
Tracy. Young Champ Easter, the afore-mentioned
13-year old, managed the sole British win.
The “Guilford Courthouse” scenario yielded two
American triumphs as Chris Easter dismissed defending champ Dale Long while Rob Doane beat
Rob McCracken. Meanwhile the younger Easter,
again the lone British victor in a round, took down
5-time champion and designer Mark Miklos! With
three players remaining, and all former champions
vanquished, the bye went to Doane who had the
most points through three rounds. Rob would await
the outcome of the family clash for the right to oppose him in the Final.
The Washington’s Stand scenario from “Monmouth
Courthouse” ended in a draw with each holding 12
VPs, requiring use of a Morale tie breaker for the son to top the father. Alas, this
Disney tale of youth rewarded was denied by the veteran Doane who downed
the youngster in the Pensacola Final.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Tom Gregorio, PA
Bruno Sinigaglio, AK
Forest Pafenberg, VA
O Randy Heller, NH
O Johnny Hasay, PA
O Marty Musella, VA
Rob Flowers, MD
Daniel Speyer, NY
John Corrado, VA
O Wm. Kendrick, uk
O John Dextraze, on
O Bruce Hodgins, on
Randy Heller, NH
Edward Kendrick, uk
21  1999-2011
45  2010-2011
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Tom Gregorio, PA
K
Tom Gregorio, PA
227
Randy Heller, NH
223
Bob Ryan, MI
128
Phil Evans, fr
94
Bill Morse, VA
72
Forrest Pafenberg, VA 69
Steve Likevich, OH
57
Mike Mitchell, GA
42
John Grant Jr, CT
35
Bitter Woods (BWD)
evin Hacker nearly claimed a big scalp when
he had the game’s designer on the ropes with
a 50/50 chance for a winning breakthrough, but the
die would not cooperate. Randy Heller recovered
from this near death experience to finally reverse
several losses to Bill Morse in the 6-turn scenario.
Multi-champion Gregorio humbled his opponents in rapid succession during the closing rounds
of play. Speculation is that Tom toyed with his last
two adversaries by giving them a key victory point
location on Turn 2. In his game with Randy, Tom
lost both Bastogne and Parker’s Crossroads. However, by scenario end, he had eliminated more enemy units than he had lost, to include the capture
of General Dietrich. Not only did Randy not gain
enough kills, but he failed to avoid the loss of four
or more non-infantry class units as well.
The Final between Tom and defending champ
Sinigaglio drew a crowd of onlookers. Bruno
started out masterfully by blowing through Tom’s
defense on the first day and capturing Trois Ponts
with KG Peiper prior to the “Peiper breakout
turn.” Later, Bruno used artillery bombardment to
capture Bastogne. However, he was unable to garner the unit kills to acquire that particular victory
point. The decision came down to the last turn as
Bruno attempted to first finesse,
and then bludgeon, his way into
Parker’s Crossroads. The attempt
failed, giving back the crown to
Tom for the fifth time. It was his
11th overall tournament victory.
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Rob Flowers, MD
A
Bruce Hodgins, on
Rob Flowers, MD
Daniel Speyer, NY
Tom McCorry, VA
John Corrado, VA
Chris Skuce, on
William Kendrick, uk
David Platnick, VA
John Dextraze, on
Paul Sampson, OH
33
30
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18
12
12
9
9
6
6
Brass (BRS)
ttendance at the second tournament grew
by more than a third with four nations
represented in the field. Coupled with similar
growth in his Automobile design and the hit of
open gaming with his latest, A Few Acres of Snow,
Martin Wallace games are becoming all the rage
at WBC. The average score for the 22 games
was 123.6—up slightly over last year—with the
highest belonging to defending champion Bruce
Hodgins (166). There was again one game decided on a tie-break—this time during the heats—
and Chris Senhouse qualified with the highest
possible alternate score of 3.00.
After 17 preliminary games, 13 of the 15 unique
winners continued to the semis, so three runnersup (based on % of their winner’s score) were added
to form four 4-player games. On this occasion the
four semi-final winners advanced in orderly fashion and the Canal Era progressed evenly, with
all players building iron and developing. Speyer
shipped two mills to market early, but got caught
later, losing an M1 and failing to flip an M3 to finish the Canal era last. Corrado was confined to the
west coast by his cards and built ports up to P3,
allowing Kendrick to use them to ship two M3s.
Flowers shipped an M2 to another Corrado port
and overbuilt his own ironworks in Rochdale. A
second shipyard with a solid coal
and rail foundation—and no mills
or ports—took Flowers to a lowkey but very competent victory
with 138 points to Speyer’s 131.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
M. Birnbaum, NY
Mike Kaye, MD
Jim Eliason, IA
O Nels Thompson, NY
O K. Wojtaszczyk, NY
O Mike Rinella, NY
Ewan McNay, NY
Jim Jordan, MD
Micah Hultgren, CA
Barry Smith, NY
Scott Pfeiffer, SC
O Greg Hultgren, CA
James Jordan, MD
Andrew Cummins, uk
41  1991-2011
21  1994-2011
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Top Laurelists
Marvin Birnbaum. NY
T
Don Greenwood, MD 372
Nels Thompson, NY 300
Andrew Cummins, uk 276
Alan Applebaum, MA 204
Marvin Birnbaum, NY201
Jim Doughan, PA
187
Jim Eliason, IA
182
Bryan Eshleman, NC 169
Michael Kaye, MD
163
Tom Dworschak, GA 156
Breakout: Normandy (BKN)
he new edition arrived too late to see much
action but nonetheless spiked a rebound in
games played. The question remains whether the
new edition can breath life into a game that remains fresh despite its age. Bidding for the standard game averaged 37—down from last year’s 39.
Perhaps, not coincidentally, the Allies won 14 of
22 games. The L2 games split 3-2 to the Allies with
bidding between 0 and –7 for the Allies.
Behind these abstract figures lie the stories of
battles won and lost with Breakout’s trademark
twists of fate. The Americans being driven into
the sea at Omaha while Caen teetered in the balance a day later is certainly not a common sight.
Nor was a game wherein Caen was never contested ending in an Allied victory, St Lo falling to the
Allies on D+1, or Caen taken on D+1 by a single
Canadian regiment. Then there are those games
that never saw an unscheduled rain drop measured against those where the weather changed
six times in the first three days. The variety never
ceases to amaze.
The format is cruel for those who remember the
grueling days of five swiss rounds. Four champs
tasted defeat, none more notable than the end of
Nels Thompson’s three-year reign at the hands of
Marvin Birnbaum. The Final matched Marvin and
Michael Kaye—both Allied specialists—who reversed form with the
spectacle of an Allied bidding war.
Michael won the bid at 14, but lost
the title. Times have changed.
Ewan McNay, NY
20
Ewan McNay, CT
Nick Benedict, PA
James Jordan, MD
Scott Pfeiffer, SC
Mark Smith, KY
Randy Schilb, MO
David Gantt, SC
Barry Smith, NY
Rick Kirchner, KY
Richard Curtin, NY
348
192
156
83
82
74
70
67
64
64
Britannia (BRI)
11 will forever be known as the year of close
finishes. Ewan McNay’s Blues had just survived a 1-point win over Rick Kirchner’s Greens
(226-225) for one of three scarce Blue wins. Ewan
was looking forward to his first “closest win in the
heats” award when another one-point finish ended.
Rich Curtin’s Greens had topped Greg Hultgren’s
Yellows 229-228, and as closest is defined as percentage of the winner’s score, Rich had the closest win
by 0.000058 over Ewan. Steve Smith recorded yet
another 1-point triumph in the next heat when his
Reds outscored Llew Bardecki’s Yellows 233-232.
Not done yet, Jim Jordan’s Reds eked out a fourth
1-point win (in keeping with the theme of 2011) over
Scott Pfeiffer’s Yellows in the semi-finals where the
spread from top to bottom was a mere 14 points.
The Final commenced with Barry Smith’s rather uneventful Roman invasion. The action warmed
with Ewan McNay’s Saxon invasion. Barry’s Romano-British were eventually eliminated by the Saxons by Turn 11, but only after taking out 19 Saxon
armies. Micah Hultgren’s Danes then arrived on the
scene only to encounter tough sledding against Jim
Jordan’s Angles. Ewan’s Norsemen easily claimed
Hebrides and Orkneys to Red’s benefit. When the
last body was buried, Ewan’s Reds had hung on
for victory with 242 points. Jim’s Blues trailed five
points behind, while Micah’s Greens
stood at 228. Barry’s Yellows trailed
with 217 points. Ewan is now the first
name on the new Britannia tray, and
so we’re set for another 20 years.
Century Events
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Rob Drozd, IL
Sean McCulloch, OH
Jeff Mullet, OH
O Josh Githens, SC
O Anna Marion, PA
O Ralph Gleaton, SC
Arthur Wines, PA
Ryan Houman, NJ
Jeff Mullet, OH
O Barrett Straub, MD
O Patrick Monte, NY
O Eric Monte, NY
Katie McCorry, VA
Tom McCorry, VA
172  2006-2011
85  2002-2011
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Rob Drozd, IL
“R
Rob Drozd, IL
30
Elaine Pearson, NC
30
Danny Lewis, DE
30
Anne Norton, NJ
30
Rob Winslow, NY
20
David Burkey, PA
20
Sean McCulloch, OH 18
Marco DeLaurentis, PA 18
Brian Hanechak, MA 18
Ted Drozd, IL
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Can’t Stop (CNS)
aucus” doesn’t begin to cover the atmosphere of this late night event where the
WBC “No Kibitzing” rule is openly flaunted in
a crowded ballroom and cheering one’s favorites—often to their detriment—is the order of the
day. Indeed, cheering or “rattling” those deciding whether to push their luck is often viewed as
more fun than playing the game.
Gradually, most of the rowdy masses shuffled
off to bed, leaving four survivors who were now
close enough to smell wood. Josh Githens started
by best exemplifying the Can’t Stop mindset—no
matter what his situation, he refused to stop until
he finished a column. His luck that had got him
this far, finally deserted him, as he busted on every turn. After a few rounds, Rob Drozd had a
really good run, capping his second column and
placing another marker one space shy of his third.
He played it safe and stopped in expectation of
winning on his next turn. But Sean McCulloch
had a similar run. He also decided to play it safe
(or, “wimp out”) and hope that Rob would not be
able to roll his final number on his next try. Jeff
Mullet completed the round and his second column, but remained well off the pace. After Josh
busted yet again, Rob took the dice in control of
his own destiny. His first roll bore no fruit, and
hope sprang eternal around the
table. But it was in vain, as his second toss finished his third column,
allowing him to claim his second
WBC title.
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Arthur Wines, PA
D
Robbie Mitchell, VA 69
Arthur Wines, PA
48
Olin Hentz, CT
36
Debbie Gutermuth, TX 33
Carolyn Strock, PA
30
Katie McCorry, VA
30
Jennifer Visocnik, IL 30
Richard Jones, uk
30
Carcassonne (CAR)
ifferences between the German and Rio
Grande editions have caused some confusion
over farmer scoring. In the recent third edition, a
city may now be scored multiple times and, in an
often overlooked rule change, two-tile completed
cities are now worth four points so there is no special exception to the city scoring. Going forward
we will use the third edition rules that appear to be
the best balance between farmer and city scoring.
In the multi-player mulligan round, we still had
a noticeable shortage of the “Inns and Cathedral” expansion. I believe this is one of the best of the numerous Carcassonne expansions since it makes very
few additions to the rules (the addition of one super
Meeple per player, and tiles that make roads [Inns]
and cities [Cathedrals] score double if finished and
nothing if not) while adding many new tiles combinations missing from the base set. But given the lack
of necessary copies, we must return to the basic set
for the 2012 multi-player mulligan round.
Two of our recent champions missed WBC this
year. However, two-time champion Robbie Mitchell and defending champion Carolyn Strock were
front and center to compete. Last year’s runner-up,
Arthur Wines, returned to WBC for one day just to
win the Carcassonne championship and reclaim family bragging rights from his niece Carolyn. Mission
accomplished! In the end, the string
of six championships won by the
werewolf generation came to an end
and Arthur served notice that us teetering old folk aren’t quite done yet.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
A. Collinson, FL
John Tighe, Sr, NJ
Josh Githens, SC
Brian Wool, DE
Shawn Dorsey, SC
Scott Sirianna, NY
Jefferson Meyer, MA
Richard Moyer, MA
Kenneth Horan, PA
O Mike Kaltman, PA
O Andrew Gerb, MD
O Kevin Walsh, NY
John Jacoby, VA
Mike Kaltman, PA
80  1991-2011
34  2006-2011
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Jefferson Meyer, MA
I
Peter Putnam, MD
Andrew Gerb, MD
Sam Atabaki, CA
Jeff Meyer, MA
Michael Kaltman, PA
Rich Meyer, MA
Jeremy Spencer, NC
Cary Morris, NC
Rod Spade, PA
Kenneth Horan, PA
103
83
64
60
59
51
40
30
22
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Caylus (CYL)
s Caylus showing its age? The 2011 schedule
avoided the Puerto Rico conflicts of the past, but
put it on a collision course with upcomer Egizia
as the field shrank again. Nonetheless, the usual
familiar faces persevered, with 12 preliminary
games contested (seven in Heat 1, five in Heat 2).
The ‘Point’ Track ruled the heats. In ten games
where the winner’s favors were dutifully recorded,
seven found the winner reaching Level 5, and two
more saw the winner reach Level 4. In contrast, the
‘Building’ track was maxed out in only three games,
with the winner reaching level 2 in a fourth game.
Chris Senhouse netted the high preliminary
score of 113 (reaching Level 4 of the ‘Point’ track
and maxing out the ‘Building’ track) while John
Roizin edged his table (68-66-61-61). The 2-point
victory was the closest of the heats, while Ken
Horan enjoyed the largest winning margin, clearing
his table by 21, despite the presence of 2007 champ
Andy Gerb who would qualify in the next heat.
No one won both heats, although ten repeated,
so 12 victors were qualified to advance. Schedule
conflicts claimed four, advancing four alternates in
their place. The last of these was Jefferson Meyer,
who would make the most of his second chance. A
75-72 win over Michael Kaltman in the semi-final
advanced him to the Final for the fourth straight
year and apparently gave him the
momentum for his biggest win ever
as he recorded his strongest win of
the event (96-79-65-60) in winning
his first WBC title.
Top Laurelists
Angela Collinson, FL
A
Josh Githens, SC
263
Steve Katz, VA
144
Frank Sinigaglio, NJ 128
Tom Saal, MI
120
Anthony Musella, VA 117
Scott Sirianna, NY
85
John Tighe, Jr, NJ
78
Bill Beckman, SC
72
Mike Stanley, OH
60
Angela Collinson, FL 56
Circus Maximus (CMS)
nother bloodbath was expected for the 21st
Final. 12 of the 13 qualifiers had responded
with eight heavies on the card. Consequently, the
crowd was surprisingly subdued as the opening
laps proved to be bloodless pony rides. It was
not for want of trying, but only four heavies successfully attacked the horses—scoring a total of
one hit! The bored crowd started watching the
dueling popcorn vendors in hopes of catching a
glimpse of some real action. But then they entered
the backstretch of the last lap…
With two-time champion Josh Githens leading, John Tighe Jr moved into third by skewering
a horse on the lead chariot for the first kill. The
next chit let the lady charioteer show her stuff and
she did one better, taking the lead by killing two
horses —one each from John Jr and Shawn Dorsey. John Tighe Sr took advantage of this sudden
carnage to slip into second, but his chariot was
two faster than the Amazon could muster on her
best day. Meanwhile, Josh—or Chief Dull Knife
as he was soon dubbed—spent the next six turns
trying to cut loose from his dog food concession.
On the last turn, with John Sr drawing even with
the slower Collinson, she lashed for five extra to
cross first.
There were only three steeds lost with Angela
sending two of them to their reward. It was the
tamest race anyone could remember and perhaps consequently the
Circus crowned its first female
champion. Oh, the shame!
Century Events
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Bryan Collars, SC
Bob Heinzmann, FL
Bill Powers, VA
Joe Chacon, VA
O Michael Johnson, MA
O Peter Gurneau, WI
Bill O’Neal, NY
Jack Morrell, NY
Chad Mekash, NJ
Joe Yaure, PA
O Brian Conlon, CT
O Mike Pacheco, CA
Bryan Collars, SC
Andy Lewis, DE
40  2007-2011
44  2006-2011
Top Laurelists
Bryan Collars, SC
T
Bob Heinzmann, FL 150
Bryan Collars, SC
72
Michael Johnson, MA 52
Chris Byrd, CT
42
Mike Galandiuk, OH 40
J. R. Tracy, NY
24
Brian Hanechek, MA 24
David desJardins, CA 24
Bob Jamelli, PA
18
Bill Powers, VA
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Combat Commander (CBC)
he tournament went Hollywood as we relived
the vicarious adventures of refighting scenes
and situations from five World War II films. The
tournament again used the Swiss-Elim format with
four opening Swiss rounds advancing four players to SE playoffs. The Swiss portion was played
in successive rounds with many hanging in there
to complete all four rounds. The games were new
scenarios owing allegiance to cinema for their titles:
Objective Claremont—“Kelly’s Heroes”; Where the Iron
Crosses Grow—“Cross of Iron”; A Midnight Clear—
from the film of the same name; and The Bridge Too
Far whose film context should be obvious. Each was
received with much mirth as the players recalled the
respective actors. Two players ran the swiss gauntlet unbeaten while six more at 3-1 looked to the tiebreakers for the second chance that would prolong
the event for two of them.
Two-time champion Bob Heinzmann dispatched Joe Chacon while Bryan Collars downed
Bill Powers in the process of “Saving Pvt Reno” in the
semi-finals. Bob chose to return to Arnhem in 1944
for the Final by reprising his role in “The Bridge Too
Far” scenario. Bryan took the British to force Bob
into attack mode. The Germans, using their HMG,
applied intense pressure on the defending Limeys,
killing the best British leader. However, the Red
Devils proved resilient and traded
just enough space for time to see
the game set with Bryan holding a
1-point lead to take the title in his
second trip to the Final.
Top Laurelists
Bill O’Neal, NY
Bill O’Neal, NY
Chad Mekash, NJ
Brian Conlon, CT
Tony Curtis, OK
Jack Morrell, NY
Rick Young, NC
Allan Kaplan, NJ
Terry Cotter, CT
Jeff King, ME
Andy Finkel, uk
123
56
54
50
48
30
28
24
18
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Commands & Colors Ancients (CCA)
R
ound 1, fortified by the presence of five former
champs, was the swiss portion of a modified
swiss-elim format played in 4-player groups. A
round robin within each group using the Cannae
scenario followed with the best player in each group
advancing along with enough of the best runnersup to make 16. Side selection was determined by
bidding victory banners. Carthage won 36 of 66
games. Bids won the day for the Romans five times
and for the Carthaginians on three occasions so balance wasn’t much of an issue. Round 2 employed
another group round-robin using the Gabiene scenario from the 1st Expansion. This time, only the
winner of each pod would advance to the semis.
Antigones won 13 of 24 by over four banners while
Eumenes won his victories by just over two.
The semi-finals were conducted as two-game
matches, playing both sides of the Battle of Ipsus. In
the first match, 2007 champ Bill O’Neal faced Joe
Yaure. Both won as Selecus. Bill however was better as Antigonus, capturing seven banners to Joe’s
four. In the other semi, defending champ, Chad
Mekash met Jack Morrell. This time Antigonus was
victorious in both games and Jack edged Chad 5-4
in banners as Selecus.
The last test was Asculum pitting the upstate
NY rivals in a rematch of their 2007 Final. Both
players lost with the Romans by identical 6-2 scores so it was decided on total
blocks lost. Bill again got the better of
Jack and regained his title by losing 30
to Jack’s 37.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Randy Buehler, WA
Laura DeWalt, MD
Edward Fu, NY
Gordon Rogers, PA
Rob Renaud, NY
O Aidan Czyryca, MD
Ty Hansen, DC
Matt Fagan, NJ
Wray Ferrell, IL
O Joe Harrison, KY
O Joe Doughan, NJ
O James Denam, NC
Thomas Browne, PA
Brad Johnson, IL
112  2009-2011
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Randy Buehler, WA
T
Arthur Field, SC
Haim Hochboim, is
Randy Buehler, WA
Edward Fu, NY
Rob Renaud, NY
Sceaudeau D’Tela, NC
Edward Fear, NY
Andy Latto, MA
Laura DeWalt, MD
Jon Senn, PA
90
50
40
40
38
32
30
26
24
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Dominion (DOM)
he format changed slightly with the addition
of expansion sets—Intrigue in the opening
rounds, Seaside in the semi-finals, and a mixed
board of both for the Final. Game shortages again
put a ceiling on attendance. With only 28 copies
of Intrigue available, the field was thus limited to
112, and players without games again had to be
turned away.
Because of the smaller field, only 48 qualified for the quarter-finals with six double winners, 14 with a win and a second and 26 with
either a first and third or two seconds. The cutoff was at the first and fourth place totals. Only
two of seven at that mark qualified, but the four
alternates who came all found space with only
41 qualifiers present—again demonstrating the
importance of checking the alternate list if you
really want to play!
Edward Fu was alone in garnering two wins
in both of the first two rounds, and he kept that
streak alive through the semis as well, cruising into the Final with a 6-0 record. But timing
is everything, and Randy Buehler picked the
right time to begin a streak of his own, capturing
both games in the Final. Consistency paid off for
Laura DeWalt who garnered a second and third
place finish in the two games to earn second
place overall. Edward Fu struggled in Round 4
with a second and fourth place finish. It was Randy’s third win of the
week and cemented his initial reign
as BPA’s 2011 Caesar.
30  1992-2011
Top Laurelists
Ty Hansen, DC
D
Bill Dyer, IL
132
Phil Barcafer, PA
93
Glenn McMaster, on 91
Joe Abrams, CT
70
Steve Koehler, NC
70
Joe Harrison, KY
58
Jean-Francois Gagne, qc 55
Benoit Groulx, qc
48
Stephane Dorais, qc
45
Matt Fagan, NJ
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Dune (DUN)
une players are a small niche but very loyal.
More than a third of the field played in every heat. The average game lasted 4.1 hours and
spanned 6.8 game turns. The Guild continued its
four-year climb in the standings to emerge as the
top faction for the first year ever! Dune is always a
game of surprises, and this year was no different.
Interesting anecdotes included an Emperor being
funded by a Fremen ally, a Turn 2 Guild/Harkonnen victory fueled by traitor calls and hand swaps,
and a BG solo win by predicting the Guild in Turn 5!
Best Faction plaques were awarded to those
with the best single-game performance as each faction in the heats. Newcomer James Denam took
the honors for Atreides; Steve Cuccaro, BG; Jim
Garvey, Emperor; Stephane Dorais, Fremen; Matt
Fagan, Guild; and Joe Doughan, Harkonnen. With
his award, Matt became the only player to ever collect a full set of Best Faction plaques, having also
won for Atreides in 2005, BG in 2003, Emperor in
2004, Fremen in 2007 and Harkonnen in 2008.
Late in the Final, the BG emerged from the
shadows and brought force to Arrakis in earnest,
allied with the Emperor. Together, they controlled
four strongholds, wresting HRS away from the
Guild, who had held it nearly the entire game, and
edging the Harkonnen, who were a mere one spice
short of defending the Shield Wall. Ty
Hansen’s Emperor won the second
tie-breaker by virtue of retaining
nearly his full army intact on the
planet to claim the title.
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2011 Results
Curt Collins II, PA
Rob Flowers, MD
Drew Buboff, NJ
O Greg Thatcher, CA
O Jay Fox, NJ
O Jeff Meyer, MA
Rich Meyer, MA
Dave Steiner, DE
Jennifer Thomas, NY
Ken Gutermuth, NC
Paul Van Bloem, MD
O D. Gutermuth, NC
Rob Flowers, MD
Bob Stribula, PA
68  1999-2011
70  1999-2011
Top Laurelists
Curt Collins II, PA
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Rob Flowers, MD
Greg Thatcher, FL
Robb Effinger, on
Jason Levine, NY
Curt Collins II, PA
Jay Fox, OH
Geoff Pounder, on
Charlie Kersten, OH
Mark Guttag, VA
Stu Hendrickson, VA
103
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El Grande (ELG)
preliminary games generated no double
winners. Two eventual qualifiers (Bryan
Berkenstock and defending champ Curt Collins)
played every heat, getting their requisite win in
the last. The highest winning score was a 125-point
showing by JR Geronimo; the lowest, a 74-point
squeaker by Dominic Duchesne.
The semi-finals had an unfilled vacancy but
still included six of the last seven champions. Two
games required a second tiebreaker to select a winner. Four of the six former title holders advanced,
with the fifth seat being claimed by Drew Duboff,
the youngest finalist in the event’s history.
Drew took the lead with an early score card,
helped somewhat by Rob Flowers playing for position instead of points, when he moved the king
onto a region where Drew had sole control. Jay Fox
fell behind in the midgame, but caught up briefly
on a card that scored the 6s and 7s, before falling
back again. In midgame, Rob took a slight lead.
This led to attacks on his position, provoking a
complete “retrenching” move wherein Rob moved
his Grande out of his original home territory to
New Castille, where he had no pieces at all, but a
large Castillo force waiting to pounce. Meanwhile,
Curt Collins built position in preparation for the
final scoring. Rob’s previous tally of firsts and seconds had dropped into measly thirds while Curt
had several firsts and seconds. A large
buildup in the Castillo still had the
chance to upset Curt’s comeback, but
he won by a four-point margin.
Top Laurelists
Rich Meyer, MA
T
Richard Meyer, MA 172
Jim Yerkey, MD
110
Tom Dunning, NY
97
Eric Brosius, MA
95
Dave Steiner, DE
91
Tedd Mullally, NJ
79
Mark Kennel, DE
78
Debbie Gutermuth, NC 66
Donna Balkan, on
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Empire Builder (EPB)
he record 2011 WBC attendance was also reflected in a new high water mark for the 13th year of
Empire Builder. The Mexico map of Empire Builder
was played most often in Round 1 with Eurorails,
Martian Rails, India Rails, Lunar Rails, Iron Dragon, and
British Rails also played in decreasing frequency. 32
preliminary games yielded 25 unique winners. Jennifer Thomas and Dave Steiner were triple winners
while Tony Newton, Paul Van Bloem, and Mike Zorrer won twice to become the highest semi-final seeds.
Those seeds would work for three of the five.
The semi-finals used Empire Builder with Mexico. Jen and Dave continued their unbeaten streak.
Paul won his third game by the smallest margin
over Debbie Gutermuth who once again settled for
sixth place laurels. Rich Meyer and Ken Gutermuth
each won both their only Preliminary game and
their semi-final to get the most bang for their time
investment.
Jen and Ken started the Eurorails 4 Final by
dumping their hands in hopes of a better combination. It worked for Jen but not for Ken. In all, he
would dump his hand a staggering 15 times and
only delivered seven loads, although he played
the spoiler role effectively by grabbing all three
fruit loads to stymie Dave. He was still better off
than Paul who became a disaster magnet, drawing
four in succession. Meanwhile, without
much drama, Rich continued to make
deliveries to pass €250M for the win.
Dave had €208M, Jen €171M, Ken €137
and Paul €83M.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Scott Driessen, MD
Blair Morgen, NJ
Jonathan Izer, MD
O Mike Windle, DE
O Patrick Mirk, FL
O Evan Hitchings, DE
Eric Freeman, PA
Ken Shoda, DC
O B. Berkenstock, NJ
O Patrick Shea, VA
O Dan Cetorelli, PA
O D. Bohnenberger, PA
Bill Alderman, VA
Craig Moffitt, NJ
45  1991-2011
36  1999-2011
Top Laurelists
Scott Driessen, MD
N
Gordon Rodgers, PA
Matt Evinger, PA
Mike Sincavage, VA
Bill Peeck, NY
Evan Hitchings, DE
Blair Morgen, NJ
Mike Mitchell, GA
Tim Hitchings, DE
Robert Eastman, NV
Scott Driessen, MD
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41
36
36
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Enemy In Sight (EIS)
ine former champions returned but only
winners advanced, and this year 12 of 13
would not be deterred from playing in the last
WBC Final to start. This required adjusting the
‘Low Man Out’ rule to eliminate the two lowest
players for the first two hands.
As expected with such a wide horizon,
many played standing up to improve their vantage point. The first hand started slowly, but
banter was active, if low scoring. With the leaders tied at 33, three were still scoreless, necessitating a random die roll to dismiss 2005 champ
Wade Fowble and Nick Paciorek. Hand 2 went
faster. With the lead standing at 69 points, Alan
Arvold and Jeff Miller were evicted, both having nine or less points. Now down to eight
players, the third hand gained both speed and
scoring. Blair Morgen fell just two points short
of victory with 98 points and a substantial lead
over the pack that could muster little more than
70. So we went to a fourth and deciding hand,
with seven players, Rob Kilroy having been excused as low man on the totem pole. As expected, Blair drew lots of attention, as the leader
should. At the end of the day, Scott Driessen,
an absolute newbie, won it all, with 142 points,
more than half of them (73) in the last hand—
to collect his first WBC shield. Blair, who had
come so close to winning it a
hand earlier, overcame a deluge of attacks to survive and
take second.
Top Laurelists
Eric Freeman, PA
Jeff Cornett, FL
114
Aaron Fuegi, MA
70
Eric Freeman, PA
60
Craig Moffitt, NJ
54
John Kilbride, PA
42
Ananda Gupta, MD
42
Chetan Radia, uk
40
Rob Kilroy, PA
36
Matt Calkins, VA
32
Aran Warszawski, is 30
Euphrat & Tigris (E&T)
E
ight preliminary winners and four
runners-up filled three semi-final
tables. In one, Patrick Shea advanced (6-712-12) by a margin of seven hypothetical treasures
over Dan Cetorelli (4-5-5-7). In another, Craig
Moffitt initiated a farmer battle with defending
champ Eric Freeman who had just drawn a fresh
hand that included the three farms he needed to
win. In the last, Bryan Berkenstock (8-10-12-13)
scored a rare victory from the fourth seat, but Ken
Shoda (6-7-9-11) trailed by only five hypothetical
treasures, advancing them both.
Eric had the first choice and selected third
(Lion) player in the Final. Bryan (fourth, Potter), Patrick (first, Archer), and Ken (second,
Goat) completed the table. Patrick opened in the
southwest with his King, later expanded with his
Trader and settlements to claim the corner treasure. Ken started nearby in the southeast with his
Trader and expanded in the other direction with
markets. Bryan started in the northeast corner
treasure with two disjointed kingdoms. Eric got
out of the gates fast with a round 4 black/green
monument in the northwest that soon drew hostilities. Patrick used the first catastrophe on the
farm that connected Eric’s leaders to the monument and dropped in his leader. However, Eric’s
catastrophe on the corner temple removed all the
usurpers’ support. His ability to build,
hold, and reclaim monuments proved
decisive as he finished with 14-14-1416 (lowest in red) to retain his title.
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2011 Results
Matthew Beach, MD
Paul Bean, MA
O Eric Brosius, MA
O Kevin Lewis, DC
O Ted Drozd, IL
O Richard Irving, CA
Joe Powell, VA
Ray Stakenas II, CA
Dave Rynkowski, NY
O Bruce Reiff, OH
O Dan Dolan, Jr., VT
O Jim Vroom, PA
Sean McCulloch, OH
Bert Schoose, IL
72  1993-2011
Top Laurelists
Matthew Beach, MD
Richard Meyer, MA
Paul Bean, MA
Richard Irving, CA
Aaron Silverman, FL
Doug Hoylman, MD
Eric Brosius, MA
Ted Drozd, IL
Randy Cox, SC
Winton LeMoine, CA
Shantanu Saha, NY
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32
31
28
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Facts in Five (FI5)
C
ABS ran the event for the first time.
Despite, or perhaps because of, our
spreading rumors that we would have
categories like “Tattoo parlors where Ohio State
football players hang out”, a record SRO field appeared to test their WBC IQ.
Round 1 categories were: Harvard Courses of
Study, Kings of France, Shakespeare Plays, Jennifer Aniston movies/TV shows, and Constellation
names with the letters C, H, M, O, and R. 23 players
got 12 or more correct, led by Paul Bean who got
an incredible 18 right, made even more incredible
because he left three of the movies blank.
Round 2 featured categories by the reigning
Consul. Bruce’s categories reflected his passions
well: Allied Ship Names in Victory in the Pacific, Cities on the Trans America game board, current NHL
Franchise nicknames, cards in Dominion, and Kentucky Derby winners, with the letters A, C, O, S and
W. Relieved that he didn’t choose “Ohio State Wide
receivers of the 1980’s”, the players settled in to turn
in the highest-scoring round of the night which sez
a frightening lot about how many Reiff wanna-be’s
there are out there. 17 players scored 14 or higher,
led by Eric Brosius’s 19, the highest single round
score of the night.
Three rounds later we adjourned for the start of
Slapshot where the traditional reading of
the rules was interrupted to announce
Matthew Beach as the winner. Matt never
won a round but scored consistently high
in each to edge Bean and Brosius 66-64.
28  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Joe Powell, VA
Bruce Reiff, OH
258
Bill Cleary, MD
99
Ray Stakenas II, CA
66
Ken Whitesell, MD
63
Bert Schoose, IL
56
David Rynkowski, NY 45
Joe Powell, VA
42
Kevin Keller, MD
39
Paul O’Neil, MD
33
Dan Dolan, Jr, NJ
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Football Strategy (FBS)
P
erennial champion Reiff, squared
off against Don Greenwood in the
third installment of their annual grudge
match. The game was tight but the dice were
not and Bruce added to his ledger 24-17 with
the cruel aid of three TD/turnover dice rolls.
Jon Lockwood won in overtime and Nick Page
secured a 2-point win, but that was it for nail
biters as the rest of the round drew 7-point or
better margins. The protégé Reiff rolled up 41
points in the type of 28-point win you’d expect
from Ohio State.
Round 2 was closer. The elder Reiff bested
2004 champ Kevin Keller 14-12, but his daughter saw a reversal of fortune, losing by 28 to
Jim Vroom. 2009 champ Bert Schoose and Ray
Stakenas II won their second round matches by
20 and 24 points respectively to set up a third
round game against one another with Ray pulling out a wild 38-34 win. Ray dropped Jim 2620 in a Round 4 OT contest to set up the Heat
Final of Ray vs Bruce in a 2010 Final rematch.
This time Ray’s defense was up to the task in
a 14-11 win.
Heat 2 attracted only eight players—all of
whom were back for a second bite of the apple.
Newcomer Larry Hiemenz, scored a HUGE upset in knocking off Bruce. But it was
veteran Joe Powell who would author
a three-game winning streak to take
the heat and then deny Ray again in
the WBC Super Bowl, 20-9.
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2011 Results
James Pei, VA
Dave Dockter, MN
Bill Pettus, MD
Henry Russell, PA
O Michael Mitchell, GA
O Mike Casselberry, PA
Jason Levine, NY
Barry Smith, NY
John Schoose, IL
O Rejean Tremblay, qc
O Pierre Paquet, qc
O Bill Place, PA
Mark Herman, MD
Josh Githens, SC
33  1999-2011
Top Laurelists
James Pei, VA
D
James Pei, VA
David Dockter, MN
Mark Giddings, NY
Mike Mitchell, GA
Riku Reikkinen, fn
Trevor Bender, CA
Stefan Mecay, TX
Nicholas Pei, CA
Tim Miller, GA
Chris Byrd, CT
606
216
127
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68
62
60
56
52
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For The People (FTP)
espite being dominated by a Master, the
event reversed a downward trend with
its second largest attendance in 2011. Going
into the last game, the ledger was even at 12
wins per side. To no one’s surprise, the Master
had returned to bedevil his frequent victim, a
frustrated David Dockter, back after a 5-year
drought and determined to finally get the best
of his Lucy.
Things started well with the fez bearer winning the die roll for sides and finally getting his
wish to play the CSA to keep the rebs out of
the Master’s hands. David was very aggressive
on Turn 1, leveraging a Minor Campaign and a
bunch of 3-Ops to hammer the rebels at Manassas and closing the West Gulf Blockade Zone.
In addition, he raised the Blockade to Level 1.
About this time, onlookers inquired why James
was playing the CSA if he lost the roll for sides.
A dazed Dockter does not know how that happened. James being the sportsman he is offered
to start over, but Dockter wanted to soldier on.
James proceeded to win by doubling the Union
in the Fall of 1862 after he had broken through
in Pittsburgh and raided the Midwest. Turn 5
proved to be decisive as James finally drew a
nice reinforcement card and a Major CC. It is
clear to all that James used his Jedi Mind trick
on the Dockter to switch to his
favorite CSA side, but Dave
will be back again still trying
to kick that football.
88  2000-2011
Top Laurelists
Jason Levine, NY
O
Jason Levine, NY
Barry Smith, NY
Lance Fogel, PA
Roderick Lee, CA
Robert Kircher, MA
Mario Veillette, qc
James Kendrick, uk
Steve May, MD
Keith Levy, MD
Bill Dyer, IL
160
113
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30
30
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Formula De (FDE)
nce again the event brought drivers from
across the globe to the boardgame racing
capital of the world; Lancaster, PA. This is one
event where making the Final is its own reward.
GM Githens goes to great lengths to provide a
beautiful scale track for use in the championship race that provides quite a visual spectacle.
Adding a third heat in 2011 generated record attendance, with the new Monday race attracting
nearly as many drivers as the entire 2010 event.
Players were allowed to sit at any table of their
choosing, eliminating lengthy randomization,
while allowing players to sit with their friends a
la Slapshot and have fun at 200 MPH. In all, there
were 14 preliminary races with six to eight drivers each. There was little change in the choice of
tracks with Melbourne and Monaco seeing the
majority of action.
This year’s Final was contested on the Formula
De Expansion #3: Singapore. The starting grid was
filled with ten unique winners. The 1:64 scale GT
style cars comprised everything from a Ferrari 458
to a DMC Deloreon and a GMC Van. The pit boxes
were chosen in order of qualification.
In the end, defending champ Jason Levine
claimed his fifth title and third consecutive to disprove the “game is all luck” theorists. Move over
Reiff and Pei—a new Master is in town! Could “Stop
Levine” alliances be in the offing? No one walked
away empty handed, as everyone received the cars they drove
as a souvenir of the event.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Stefany Speck, MD
F. Wobbeking, MD
Robbie Mitchell, VA
O John Shaheen, MA
O Dominic Blais, qc
O Carolyn Strock, PA
Nick Henning, DC
Doug Galullo, MD
Andy Gardner, VA
Phil Entwistle, MD
O Bob Hamel, NJ
O Ben Gardner, VA
Chris LeFevre, AZ
Rolinda Collinson, MD
83  2001-2011
Top Laurelists
Stefany Speck, MD
Lisa Gutermuth, NC
Chris LeFevre, AZ
Jordan Flawd, PA
Stefany Speck, MD
Forrest Speck, MD
Dan Lewis, DE
Matt Evinger, PA
Debbie Gutermuth, NC
Mike Stachowski, NY
Bill Place, PA
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Formula Motor Racing (FMR)
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preliminary games were played with Matt
Fetzer the sole double winner. Never one
to forsake a risk, Harry Flawd called for a “Crash
Table”. His gentleman’s agreement requirement
to play at this table meant that if you got the
Crash card, you had to play it. John Shaheen,
Rob Kircher, Terri and Bob Wicks and Chris leFevre took up the challenge to the horror of the local Geico claims adjustor. True to form, the crash
card was played in every hand but to no effect in
the third race as Terri already lost a car to Spin
Out before the Crash card was played, and a ‘12’
was rolled. The collective disappointed sigh over
this development was audible across the room.
The other five races made up for it by knocking
out four cars. This provided the opportunity to
play the Tailender Turbo card to improve a sixth
position all the way to third.
Chris Greenfield’s 2010 record eight-car
loss remained intact another year as the Geico worst driver total this year was just six—
achieved by Judy Wobbeking, Anna Marion
and Josh Detamore.
The Final came down to the last play for
Stefany Speck. Running fifth, she played the
“Charge or Out” card with a 25% chance of disabling her car with each roll and needing four
tosses to take the lead. Four rolls later, a beaming Stefany had her first WBC title. Her 32 points
bested Faith’s 28, Robbie’s
26, John’s 25, Dominic’s 23,
and Carolyn’s 21.
63  1992-2011
Top Laurelists
Nick Henning, DC
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Nick Henning, CT
202
Pitt Crandlemire, MA 132
Nick Smith, uk
130
John Pack, CO
90
Bob Hamel, CT
75
Thomas Richardson, VA 64
Andy Gardner, VA
61
Jim Castonguay, PA 54
Mark Love, MD
53
John Elliott, MD
52
Gangsters (GSR)
fter thoroughly ventilating the Viper just a few
weeks before, “Ma” Collinson once again took
the GM reins. While Ma and her mob were well prepared, the transition to Class C put more lead in the
air than a cop car tailgating a lorry full o’ Ma’s finest
moonshine.
The Final was an odd affair with no one able
to collect dough despite the presence of two past
champs and a Top Ten laurelist. Halfway through,
the five mob bosses had less than three grand between ‘em. Consequently, the lot switched to monopoly strategies, with only one managing to collect any real dough. In the end, our new Godfather
prevailed by piling up real estate around the city
for his illicit rackets.
Change will be in the air for 2012: 1) Players will
opt for either experienced or non-advancin’ novice
divisions. 2) Novices will watch a 15-minute rules
video (also available on the website) or short onetopic strategy session. 3) Novices will compete for the
Junior Godfather award. 4) Helpful reminders will be
posted on each table. 5) The time of each move will
be limited to three minutes. Plus your mob badges
will be barcoded and scanned for fast admission
to our speakeasy (with all your preferences saved
from last year). The computer will assign
games to get players seated with others of
similar preference and playing even faster
than normal (and even keep mob families
on separate tables). Even better, after each
heat, the system will prepare reports for
the kiosk, semis, and “The Don.”
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Ted Drozd, IL
Richard Beyma, VA
James Tracy, OH
Doug Porterfield, VA
O Ed Menzel, CA
O Vince Meconi, DE
Ted Drozd, IL
Gettysburg (GBG)
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entrants provided a 20% increase
over 2010’s record field and logged
61 games. The 15 who played the required
three or more games to attempt playoff qualification
included defending champ Richard Beyma (7-1, 71
points), Jim Tracy (5-2, 64), Ted Drozd (4-0-1, 55), and
Doug Porterfield (3-1, 51). Richard was the sole returnee from last year’s final four. Other top contenders were four-time champ Ed Menzel (6-5), Vince
Meconi (5-3), Ray Clark (5-3), Mark Gutfreund (3-3),
Jeff Lange (3-1), and Tom Gregorio (2-2).
In the semi-finals, Richard’s rebels, bidding
10.5, scored a July 2 AV over Doug; 60-25.5. Meanwhile, Ted’s Blue accepted a Turn 18 concession
from Jim, who had bid 13 for the Gray.
Richard again took the South in the Final for
a bid of 10.5. Ted scored an early victory by eliminating the Anderson division on the first day, but
Reynolds’ and Slocum’s corps were cut off due to
a confusing ZOC situation on Cemetery Hill. On
day 2, the South defeated the isolated corps in detail and continued to push forward, but obtained
few hits on the remaining Union troops. The arrival of Sedgewick’s VI Corps turned the tide. The
CSA was facing a surrounded hilltop situation on
the night of July 2 and conceded. Casualty VPs
were virtually identical, but the Union held 15 of
16 territory VPs plus the 10.5 bid. Ted was Rookie
of the Year while playing in his
first tourney in 2003 and has
had six Top Five finishes prior
to 2011.
Justin Rice, VA
17  1993-2011
Top Laurelists
Ed Menzel, CA
207
Vincent Meconi, DE 176
Ted Drozd, IL
102
Allen Kaplan, NJ
91
Richard Beyma, VA
88
Dave Zimmerman, PA 78
Barry Shoults, MI
56
Mike Pacheco, CA
54
Jim Tracy, OH
54
William Place, PA
31
Chris Withers, CA
Doug Smith, PA
Rob Doane, MD
O Ed Beach, MD
O Justin Rice, VA
O Mike Metcalf, NC
Top Laurelists
Chris Withers, CA
N
Chris Withers, CA
Ed Beach, MD
David Cross, VA
Rob Doane, MA
Mark Booth, VA
B. Passacantando, CT
Paul Nied, KS
Steve Likevich, OH
Justin Rice, VA
Michael Pacheco, CA
393
255
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108
107
84
78
66
59
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Great Campaigns (GCA)
ew faces or old veterans—it doesn’t seem
to matter. Chris Withers defeats all comers.
Chris vanquished his eighth different challenger
to win his 11th Great Campaigns wood, this year
blasting newcomer Doug Smith’s Union forces
in “Battle of Chickamauga,” the 3-turn tournament
Final which was resolved after just one turn. Forrest’s cavalry led Hood and Walker’s infantry
over the northern bridges and swarmed through,
around and over Steedman’s reserve corp. With
Polk pinning a good portion of the Union right,
the rebel cavalry handed the Union left a large
number of VP casualties, and Forrest took Chattanooga by rolling a +3 on a +0 attack. By the end
of the first turn, the Rebels had 56 VPs, with nearly 20 from the difference in casualties. That was
enough to force an early concession.
Though he didn’t win, Doug’s march to the
last round was the story of the tournament. We
made a format change, reducing the preliminary rounds to three, with plans to advance all
who won any two games. Doug—who had just
learned GCA in the previous year—defeated
veterans Dave Cross and Greg Tanner in the
first two rounds (Crossing Chickamauga Creek
and Battle of Chickamauga) to secure a spot in
the playoffs. He then proceeded to beat Mike
Metcalf (McLemore’s Cove) and Ed Beach (Wilderness) to reach the Final and a
date with the unbeaten defending
champ who was destined to take
home his 15th BPA shield.
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2011 Results
Malcolm Smith, VA
Lyman Moquin, DC
Fred Bauer, VA
O Ron Draker, VA
O Ray Freeman, CA
O Tim Hall, UT
Lyman Moquin, DC
Chris Byrd, CT
Jim Heenehan, PA
James Pei, VA
Stuart Tucker, MD
Henry Rice, NM
Lyman Moquin, DC
Stuart Tucker, MD
24  2003-2011
Top Laurelists
Malcolm Smith, VA
George Seary, NY
Lyman Moquin, DC
Rick Young, NC
Hank Burkhalter, GA
Ric Manns, IN
Phil Barcafer, PA
Bruce Reiff, OH
Fred Bauer, VA
Bill O’Neal, NY
Susanne Tuch, NY
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157
108
87
68
53
51
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Hammer of the Scots (HOS)
S
adly, former champs Barcafer and
Seary went AWOL with several other
contenders, but that left an opening for
new blood to ascend. There were 24 games with
14 Scot victories and the bidding reflected it.
Round 4, saw defending champ Moquin
paired against rising force Malcolm Smith, while
Fred Bauer’s opponent opted out, ushering in
Ron Draker as the eliminator. And that’s what
he did, eliminating Fred with the English! So, the
semi-final became the de facto Final. Lyman took
the English with an E1 bid, but that didn’t seem
to matter much, as the King appeared more often than not. The Scots never made it to the magic
“eight” nobles to actually get the French or their
King onto the board. And with a moderately
good wintering, Lyman finally got a “3” to take
the initiative and trap Wallace in the North. The
resulting bloodbath sent the remnants of the English army scattered across the northern half of the
board, but nearly every block of merit was packing one or two pips. Going into the last round,
both sides had seven nobles under control. Malcolm’s final card play sent the Norse block, with
a single pip, deep behind enemy lines to attack
a single block in Mentieth—who, unfortunately
ALSO only had one pip and even more unfortunately happened to be the Noble Lennox—who
didn’t know what hit him. When he
went home to winter, he also went
Scot, giving Malcolm a “twofer” and
the 2011 crown.
55  1996-2011
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Lyman Moquin, DC
C
James Pei, VA
Keith Wixson, NJ
Jim Heenehan, PA
Chris Byrd, CT
Lyman Moquin, DC
Peter Reese, VA
Randall MacInnis, NJ
Stuart Tucker, MD
Gary Andrews, NY
Nick Anner, NY
392
301
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211
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91
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Hannibal (HRC)
arthage dominated Rome again, winning 53 of 84. The opening rounds
saw the demise of three of the eight seeds.
The unbeaten at the end of the day included many
surviving close calls. Marvin Birnbaum had to
brave a 50-50 naval move to drive Nick Frydas’ besieging army off of Carthage. Tim Hall had to sail
Marcellus back from Africa to fend off Bob Woodson’s siege. Jim Heenehan drew the Messenger
Intercept on Turn 9 to preserve a 9-9 victory over
Grant LaDue. Andy Latto suffered the Intercept on
Turn 9, but his Romans invaded a deserted Spain
to preserve a 10-8 victory over Chris Senhouse. Michael Ussery used a Turn 8 Intercept to secure a 9-8
victory over Martin Sample, then played Syracuse
on Turn 9 to defeat Randall MacInnis 9-9.
Six players entered Round 4 undefeated. Twotime champ Heenehan’s Romans trapped reigning
champion Pei’s Hannibal in Etruria, destroying his
army and his title defense. Byrd defeated Wigdor
in a long-fought war while Tucker defeated Moquin’s Numidian incursion and reduced Rome to
11 CUs. Moquin then shipped his last army to Carthage, and used the Messenger Intercept to gain
four unhindered siege rolls to sack Carthage and
grab victory from the jaws of defeat.
Five swiss rounds proved insufficient to
crown a champion of WBC’s premier
event. With two 5-0 players remaining,
a sixth round was required to squire
our 12th champion, Lyman Moquin,
past 2004 champ Chris Byrd.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Justin Rice, VA
Kirk Harris, NJ
Barry Setser, MD
John Vasilakos, VA
Jon Tarquino, NJ
O Henry Rice, NM
Kevin Youells, PA
Henry Dove, MD
Nathan Barhorst, MI
Greg Crowe, MD
Gregory Kulp, NJ
Ray Bergeron, NY
Ed Beach, MD
Kevin Youells, FL
54  2006-2011
Top Laurelists
Justin Rice, VA
M
Jeff Burdett, NY
Alan Sudy, VA
Dave Cross, VA
Bryan Collars, SC
Justin Rice, VA
Larry Mull, NV
Dan Gallagher, MD
John Wetherell, PA
Kirk Harris, NJ
Jeremiah Peterson, IL
125
91
72
68
62
60
60
60
54
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Here I Stand (HIS)
ilitary powers dominated. The Heat 1
winners were Justin Rice (Hapsburgs),
Brad Merrill (England), Dan Hoffman (Hapsburgs), Jeremiah Peterson (England), John
Vasilaskos (Ottoman), Henry Rice (England),
and Nathan Hill (Hapsburg-Papacy in a
3-player game).
The Protestants and French were able to
join the victory party in the second heat, but
the Hapsburgs remained the dominant power. Victories for Charles V and his Holy Roman colleagues were won by Kirk Harris, Justin Morgan, and Andero Kuusi. Other Thursday winners were Dennis Mishler (Protestant), Manuel Bravo (France) and Barry Setser
(Ottoman). All 13 preliminary games went at
least two turns again.
Ten of those 13 winners joined eight alternates for the semi-finals. Henry Rice was first
to punch his Final ticket, catching an amazing run of piracy results to secure a one-turn
Ottoman win. John Vasilaskos’ Ottoman pirates also did well in the second semi, scoring
nine Piracy VP over two turns, but it was not
enough to defeat Barry Setser, who advanced
with the Protestants. The closest game was a
three-turn contest won by Jonathan Tarquino’s
English over Kirk Harris’s Turks
by a single VP. Justin resorted to
the Hapsburgs again in the Final
to edge Kirk’s France 23-21-19-1916-13 to take his first WBC title.
46  1993-2011
Top Laurelists
Kevin Youells, PA
Jeff King, OH
124
Kevin Youells, FL
97
Rolinda Collinson, MD 90
Jonas Borra, NY
84
Henry Dove, MD
80
Gregory Kulp, NJ
74
Mike Backstrom, MN 68
Haim Hochboim, is
60
Robert Destro, NJ
60
History of the World (HWD)
N
otable among the newcomers was Nathan Barhorst who learned the game at
the demonstration and received his graduate
training in the Final. As always, the preliminaries provided entertaining highlights. Powered by Spain and an amazing 71-point Russian turn, Nick Pei scored a tournament-high
229 points, besting Dave Casciano’s 209, which
would have won any other game. By contrast,
the lowest winning score was Crowe’s 190.
Greg Kulp managed to lose his French Jihad
on the first die roll. One unlucky player unleashed a Pestilence, killing nothing but three
of his own units. Although the Aryans are the
worst empire, Dave Earls established a new
low, scoring a total of one point with them! In
the same game the Barbarians, drunk and full
of vigor, emerged out of the mountains of Tibet and won seven out of seven battles. Rome
conquered back the territories only to have the
Barbarian’s descendants return and take seven
of seven battles again!
The heat winners were Dominic Duschesne,
Nick Pei, Rob Brode, Greg Crowe, Kevin
Youells, Joe Collinson, Chris Bauch, Jeff Miller,
and Nathan Barhorst. The three closest runnersup (Greg Crowe, Greg Kulp and Henry Dove)
joined a Final clash of civilizations
with Kevin taking the honors with
205 points followed by Henry 187,
Nathan 183, Greg C 175, Greg K
173, and Ray 144.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Dennis Mishler, GA
John Shaheen, MA
Blair Morgen, NJ
O John Kilbride, PA
O Romain Jacques, qc
O Gordon Rodgers, PA
Marcy Morelli, PA
Meg. Friedmann, MA
Steven LeWinter, NC
O Shannon Keating, IN
O Rebecca Hebner, DC
O Jenna Sunderlin, NY
Blair Morgen, NJ
Peter Stein, OH
16  2007-2011
Top Laurelists
Dennis Mishler, GA
I
Blair Morgen, NJ
Patrick Maloney, PA
Romain Jaques, qc
Rob Seulowitz, NY
Dennis Mishler, GA
Jeff Bowers, UT
Tony Defeo, CT
John Shaheen, MA
Mike Wojke, PA
Jim Doughan, PA
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26
18
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12
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Imperial (IMP)
mperial is a challenging three-hour World
War I game that is not a wargame with
multiple paths to victory, extreme variability in play, and no luck. Designed and tested by
Mac Gerdts and his team over a ten-year span, Imperial is part of the Rondel Series that includes Antike, Hamburgum, and Navegador. On Boardgamegeek, Imperial ranks among the top 40 boardgames
of all time, with more than 4,500 voters.
With the trappings of a Euro and the intensity
of an old classic, we believe Imperial should have
broad appeal at WBC. This year, the new GM’s
first attempt, attendance dropped like a rock—right
out of the Century. Invariably, when this happens
scheduling gets the blame. Unfortunately, we double-booked ourselves against Navegador (the newest
and much hyped game in the Rondel series) and the
ever popular Puerto Rico, so we will work to avoid
that if the membership votes the event a second life.
In the Mulligan round Dennis Mishler, a 2009 laurelist, and defending champion Blair Morgen qualified. In Round 1, Romain Jacques advanced for the
second straight year, as did John Shaheen and John
Kilbride (the eight-time champ of various events
who hasn’t won a tournament in ten years).
Dennis Mishler became our third champion
in five years to complete his “bookend plaques”
year by picking up companion wood
for his Dominant Species crown. As
champion, Dennis also received a
new copy of Imperial 2030, the latest
version of the game.
138  2007-2011
Top Laurelists
Marcy Morelli, PA
T
Steven LeWinter, NC
Marcy Morelli, PA
Brittany Bernard, PA
Andy Latto, MA
Meg. Friedmann, MA
Bruce Reiff, OH
Chris Johnson, CA
Joe Yaure, PA
Jason Levine, NY
Matt Calkins, VA
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Ingenius (ING)
he Sunday semi gave us a slice of WBC history.
Bruce Reiff had yet to win a tournament and this
was his pathetic last stand. The table assignment
random draw was not kind as he drew returning
finalists Jason Levine and Meghan Friedmann, plus
Rebecca Hebner—the former wunderkid with a few
records of her own. In the end it would be Meghan
who got credit for the kill as Bruce limped home in
third place. The 20-year streak of winning at least
one tournament had ended!
Like the day Ruth called his shot, years from
now there will be thousands claiming they were at
the game that ended the streak. Well, maybe not.
With that streak ended, Steve LeWinter tried to start
his own. The defending champ topped Jenna Sunderlin, Laura DeWalt and Pete Gathmann to regain
the Final for the chance to become our first twotime winner. Shannon Keating just missed a perfect
score and pulled away from Tim Packwood, Karl
Henning and Robbie Mitchell. The last seat went
to Marcy Morelli at the expense of Jefferson Meyer,
Carolyn Strock and Matthew Craig.
An Ingenious Final always seems to be a
low scoring defensive struggle and this was no
exception. The color was yellow and at game’s
end although Meghan had most of it, her score
of 9 in red and orange was not enough to overcome Marcy’s 9 in Yellow and 12
in orange. Steve didn’t repeat but
he provided the only testosterone
relief to WBC’s only All-Girl Laurelist Review.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Keith Levy, MD
J. Wobbeking, MD
Angela Hoffman, NC
O Stefany Speck, MD
O Ted Bohaczuk, PA
O Brian Mongold, MD
Matt Bacho, MD
Daniel Lawall, VA
G. Schmittgens, KS
O Bill Beckman, SC
O Bryan Collars, SC
O Tim Rogers, SC
Brian Mongold, MD
112 
2001-02, 05-06, 08-11
40  2007-2011
Top Laurelists
Keith Levy, MD
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Keith Levy, MD
David Rohde, NC
Andy Latto, MA
Dave Buchholz, MI
Bob Titran, NY
Steve Scott, CA
Judy Wobbeking, MD
Tim Keating, IN
Terri Wicks, CT
Angela Hoffman, NC
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20
20
20
19
18
18
18
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Ivanhoe (IVH)
ttendance in this four-heat, late night event
continued to climb and set a new record with
its third straight triple digit field. Ivanhoe is easy to
learn so there were plenty of squires and damsels
who were taught the game just prior to the tournament and proceeded to win their share of contests. The first heat drew 18 4-player games. Attendance lessened as the week progressed but never
fell below 13 games per heat. As a new GM, Brian
Mongold quickly discovered that planning and
organization is required for quick sign-ins and administration of a tournament of this size and plans
to improve in that area in 2012.
The 2011 semi-finals were expanded to five
5-player games from the four 4-player games of
previous years. When five qualifiers did not appear, alternates replaced them. Matt Fetzer was the
only player to win every heat, but timing is everything and he picked a poor time to end his fourgame winning streak. Judy Wobbeking ended his
reign of terror in the semi-finals and advanced to
the Final in his stead. Ted Bohaczuk was next to
earn a spot by besting GM Brian Mongold among
others. A pair of fair damsels, Stephany Speck and
Angela Hoffman, joined 2009 champ Keith Levy
in completing the final quintet. Stephany was enjoying a good week, having already
won Formula Motor Racing, but her
karma left her long enough for Keith
to reclaim his title and become the first
two-time Ivanhoe champion. It was his
fifth BPA tournament title.
Jim Day, MD
Top Laurelists
Matthew Bacho, MD
Matthew Bacho, MD
Joel Tamburo, IL
John Emery, SC
Kevin Emery, SC
Phil Barcager, PA
Bryan Collars, SC
Daniel Lawall, NJ
Rob Winslow, NY
Greg Schmittgens, KS
Nick Kiswanto, VA
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Kaiser’s Pirates (KPR)
A
s in previous tournaments, the basic
game system was used with the addition of two of the published optional rules:
6.4 Tournament Balance and 6.8 Additional Damage.
The Tournament Balance rule assures that each player’s initial German force contains at least one warship
of equal capability. It also keeps some of the weaker
German raiders out of the initial deal. That way each
player starts with a German force of roughly equal
strength. The Additional Damage rule helps to move
play along by marking damage for every hit. Typically a ship only absorbs a single damage hit.
The qualifying semi-finalists played a single
hand to determine which four would advance to
the Final. Those advancing were all new finalists:
Dan Lawall, Greg Schmittgens, Bill Beckman, and
Matt Bacho. The Greenville Mafia gang continued
their strong representation securing two of the four
seats, albeit without the last two champs. It is readily apparent that they play a fair amount of The Kaiser’s Pirates in South Carolina.
These four finalists faced off in a complete game.
Previously, they played single hands, but now they
would fight it out in a game composed of three hands.
In this configuration, one great hand alone could not
carry a player to victory. Each player started with a
formidable force of German ships: Dan the Nürnberg, Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Wolf;
Greg the Dresden, Möwe and Grief; Bill
the Emden, Cap Trafalgar and Kronprinz
Wilhelm; and Matt the Königsberg, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and Leopard.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Bob Jamelli, PA
Richard Curtin, NY
John Keating, IN
O Steve Cuccaro, MD
O Scott Beall, OR
O Philip Yaure, PA
Daniel Eppolito, NV
Nick Page, on
O Mike Kaltman, PA
O Daniel Speyer, NY
O Chris Senhouse, MD
Steve Cuccaro, MD
Keith Layton, NJ
41  1991-2011
39  2010-2011
Top Laurelists
Bob Jamelli, PA
T
Steve Cuccaro, MD 163
Peter Stein, OH
116
Tom McCorry, VA
46
Lee Rodrigues, VA
42
Ewan McNay, CT
40
Llew Bardecki, on
40
Marc Houde, VA
35
Bob Jamelli, PA
30
Nick Smith, uk
30
Kremlin (KRM)
hree players won two heats each.
Two others qualified by winning
their first heat, and the last qualifier won
his second heat and placed 2nd in his third. The
GM topped out at first alternate, but managed to
advance when a qualifier didn’t show.
Apparatchik died quickly. The new Party
Chief, Purgemoff, was controlled by John Keating, who recorded one wave before leaving office in Turn 3. Richard Curtin took over, keeping
Shootemdedsky in office through Turn 6; scoring
two waves, a failed attempt and a card invite
to the Sanitarium. He finally kicked on Turn 7,
bringing Krakemheds to power and giving threetime champion Steve Cuccaro his first and only
wave. Steve’s hopes were dashed on Turn 8 as
the Party Chief was convicted of treason. Before
the Funeral Commission could begin, the KGB
Head Eatstumuch was assassinated and heads
started to roll as the health dice took their toll of
the depleted Politboro. The GM had influence on
Protzky, so to force the issue he sent the Foreign
Minister down to the People. Unfortunately for
Steve, Bob Jamelli turned out to have the most influence on the new Party Chief. Having arranged
the Politburo to his liking, and the other players
having used all their Intrigue cards in the very
active Turn 8, Bob went on to wave twice and to
win on Turn 10 when the Politburo
could not be filled. Thus ended a
14-year Jamelli drought between his
first and second WBC shield.
Top Laurelists
Daniel Eppolito, NV
Nick Page, on
Kenneth Horan, PA
Nick Henning, CT
Mike Kaltman, PA
Daniel Speyer, NY
Chris Senhouse, NY
Steve Pleva, CT
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18
15
15
3
3
Daniel Eppolito, NV
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Le Havre (LHV)
heavy reliance on loans was a key ingredient in the strategy employed by each of the
finalists: Mike Kaltman, Nick Page, Ken Horan,
and Dan Eppolito. Nick and Dan, were holdovers
from the first Final. All four advanced through a
three-game semi-final with one 4-player and two
3-player games. One of these semi-finals offered
up scores that were separated by only five points,
while the 4-player game produced a 32-point
winner with the two trailers unable to manage
double digits.
In the Final, Round 12 was the first where no
one took loans to feed other than Round 1, and
loans were often taken to pay interest. Both wharfs
and the Shipping Line were in the same column
of standard buildings, with none of them built in
the early game because the Smokehouse, the first
building of that column, was not built by the state
until Round 7. Few iron and wooden ships were
acquired, but the steel ships were scooped up almost immediately, and only one luxury line remained on the board after the final round.
In the end, Le Havre served up a repeat champion, with Dan Eppolito retaining his title. Dan’s
final score again saw a good balance between
money, ship and card points. His 45 francs at
game end was a key component of his victory, as
the next highest player in money ended the game with only 11
francs! Dan remains in a class
by himself as the undefeated
WBC Le Havre champion.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
K. Wojtaszczyk, NY
Andrew Emerick, CT
Josh Githens, SC
O Tim Packwood, DE
O Jeff Plummer, NC
O Glen Pearce, on
Eric Hufford, PA
Ewan McNay, NY
Sean McCulloch, OH
O Steve Raszewski, MD
O L. Wojtaszczyk, NY
O Yoel Weiss, NJ
Jason Levine, NY
Ivan Lawson, MD
213  2003-2011
180  2000-2011
Top Laurelists
Kevin Wojtaszczyk, NY
L
Josh Githens, SC
48
Daniel Hoffman, NC 36
Kevin Wojtaszczyk, NY 30
Richard M. Shay, MA 30
Bernard Beckerman, NY30
Kathy Kilroy, PA
30
Josh Lanham, MD
30
Thomas Browne, PA 30
Lucimara Martins, bz 30
Liar’s Dice (LID)
iar’s Dice remains one of the three late night
jewels in the WBC triple crown. Again, over
200 crazed liars ended their day with hopes of
becoming the ultimate fibber. Many lied, but
few were believed. 36 prevaricators stretched
the truth well enough to advance to Round 2.
The semis separated the politicians from the ordinary liars and six fully qualified presidential
candidates emerged in the form of Josh Githens,
Jeff Plummer, Glen Pearce, Tim Packwood, Andrew Emerick, and Kevin Wojtaszczyk. Josh, the
inaugural champion, has now made the Final
three times and if that doesn’t qualify him for the
oval office, nothing does. Only four other players have ever scored laurels even twice, but in
2011 he would settle for the bronze.
At this point, Kevin led Andrew three dice to
two, but that wouldn’t last. Andrew bid three 5’s
while showing a star and re-rolling his other die.
Thus encouraged, Kevin called only to find three
showing so both players were now even at two
dice apiece. Andrew started the bidding with two
5’s and Kevin didn’t fall for Andrew’s bluff this
time without a re-roll. His call revealed only one
and reduced Andrew to one die. Kevin bid two 5’s
to start the deciding round. Andrew called since he
had none but when Kevin’s safe roll of two 5’s was
revealed, Kevin won his 14th tournament. He became the ninth different
player in as many years to win the
Liar’s Dice championship. A career in
politics can’t be far behind.
Top Laurelists
Eric Hufford, PA
L
Rebecca Hebner, CA 68
Andy Latto, MA
61
Jared Scarborough, IL 48
Daniel Karp, MD
32
Eric Hufford, PA
30
Eric Brosius, MA
30
Jarett Weintraub, NY 30
Chris Entwistle, MD 30
Daniel Broh-Kahn, MD30
Lost Cities (LST)
ost Cities retained its staying power and recorded its seventh straight triple-digit field while
many new titles continue to come and go every
year. The first heat drew 55 pairs, while the other
three remained consistent at 49, 48 and 48 pairs, respectively. 27 vied in all four heats and 45 played
in three heats. The triple winners were Rob Brode,
Sam Brosius, David L. Anderson, Steven Raszewski, Steve Lollis, Timothy Keating, Stephanie Welch,
Shannon Keating, David Earls, Edward Roberts,
Norman Rule, Patrick Gorman, Paul Weintraub,
Andy Latto, Meghan Friedman, Alyssa Mills, Sean
McCulloch, Eric Brosius, Bruce Bernard, Shea
Lawson, Vien Bouma and Ashley Kilroy.
Rob Brode amassed 237 to best Brian Stone’s 229,
yielding the highest cumulative score of 466. Andrew
Emerick posted the top individual score of 389, and
the only score over 300, in part by crafting two expeditions with bonuses to score 228 in the second hand
alone. Defense was Angela Hoffman’s forte with a 32
to -26 win over Cally Perry in “one of those games.”
Entering the elimination rounds, each of the
32 qualifiers plus six alternates had at least two
wins with only two of the latter needed. After
three rounds, Eric Hufford, Ewan McNay, Steve
Raszewski and defending champ Sean McCulloch remained. Sean led after two hands, but
lost to Eric’s bonus expedition in the
third hand, 164 to 73. Steve and Ewan
played defense, ending in a Ewan 8464 win. Eric took an early lead in the
Final to win 122-59.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Richard Beyma, VA
Bill O’Neal, NY
Nathan Hill, MD
O Allen Hill, MD
O J.R. Tracy, NY
O Bob Heinzmann, FL
M. Birnbaum, NY
Jeff Finkelday, OH
O K. Gutermuth, NC
O K. Engelmann, it
O Terry Coleman, CA
O D. Gutermuth, NC
Andy Lewis, DE
Terry Coleman, CA
43  2008-2011
Top Laurelists
Richard Beyma, VA
F
Richard Beyma, VA
George Young, VT
John Emery, SC
Chris Byrd, CT
Bill O’Neal, NY
Aran Warszawski, is
John Miklos, GA
Nathan Hill, MD
Kevin Emery, SC
Jeff Paull, IN
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Manoeuvre (MAN)
our swiss rounds advanced eight to single elimination. The tie breaker was based on having
played the lesser played countries from 2010. Only
two nations were played 20 or more times compared
with five last year. It seems the tie-breaker points
have changed preferences. The W-L records for the
countries in win percentage order were: France 16-7,
Ottoman Empire 8-4, Britain 10-7, Spain 6-5, Prussia
9-9, Russia 9-13, Austria 4-8, and USA 0-9.
Three unbeatens again led five 3-1 survivors
into the play-offs after application of tie-breakers.
Only two players who made the playoffs in 2010
repeated that run in 2011. In quarter-final action,
the only repeating laurelists met early with Richard Beyma’s British defeating 2009 champ John
Emery’s French. Bill O’Neal’s British topped Bob
Heinzmann’s Austrians. Nathan Hill’s Spanish
downed Henry Rice’s British while Nathan’s father, Allen, used the French to defeat JR Tracy’s
British. So the British took the field in all four
Round 5 matches, going 2-2.
Bill’s Russians then defeated Nathan’s Austrians
while Richard’s Ottomans dismissed Allen’s British.
For the second year in a row, a father and son duo
made to it the semis and no further. And again, the
son edged his father for the third place plaque. There
would be no switching of sides to compare quality
of wins this year. The Final was one game—winner
take all. Nation choices were down to
two and since neither wanted to play the
USA, it was Richard’s Prussians taking
the championship from Bill’s Austrians.
54  1992-2011
Top Laurelists
Marvin Birnbaum, NY
Bruce Monnin, OH 112
Terry Coleman, CA
93
Dennis Nicholson, NY 90
John Coussis, IL
79
Ken Gutermuth, NC 74
Marvin Birnbaum, NY 68
Harry Flawd, PA
67
Peter Staab, PA
66
Bruce Reiff, OH
64
Derek Landel, NY
58
March Madness (MMS)
K
aarin Engelmann finally decided to
test the waters after years of procrastination. She went straight from the MMS
demo to wins over Chris Palermo, Mark Yoshikawa, and Rob Rund. So much for years of sports
game experience! Not content with humiliating
the men, Kaarin also took it to former champ Debbie Gutermuth to win the heat!
Elsewhere, it was the tale of two Kens. Former
champ Gutermuth plowed through Dennis Nicholson, Nicole Reiff, Jeremy Billones, and Rob Rund.
Ken Samuel tried to emulate his namesake with the
top seed in the third heat—but came up short in the
heat Final vs. Marvin Birnbaum’s balanced attack.
After all of that, Jeff Finkeldey practically snuck into
the Final Four, despite a double-overtime thriller
over Max Jamelli, and wins vs Nicole Reiff, and
Doug Porterfield. Doug’s big accomplishment was
logging the biggest upset of the event by depriving
defending champ Bruce Reiff a chance to defend his
crown. By the time of the regional final, it was practically ordained that Jeff would find a way to win,
and he came from behind to beat four-time champion Terry Coleman by three points on the last roll.
Jeff’s luck continued against Kaarin’s upstarts
in the Final Four as foul trouble put an end to her
Cinderella run, 65-63. Meanwhile, Marvin had managed to defeat Ken’s team
in the other semi, putting the ‘02 Caesar
in position for his second MMS title.
Deadlocked at halftime, Marvin pulled
away to claim his 14th BPA tournament.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Scott Cornett, FL
Jason Long, PA
Marc Beauregard, qc
O Eyal Mozes, MD
O Chris Gnech, PA
O Doug Galullo, FL
Johan Vanhuyse, bg
Sam Edelston, CT
Jeff Cornett, FL
O Chuck Turpin, VA
O Jeff Paull, NJ
O David Metzger, NY
Doug Galullo, FL
Sam Edelston, CT
58  1999-2011
70  2004-2011
Top Laurelists
Scott Cornett, FL
N
Jeff Cornett, FL
68
Tom Stokes, NJ
55
Gary Noe, FL
52
Doug Galullo, FL
44
Bruce Reiff, OH
43
Peter Staab, PA
40
Ann Cornett, FL
40
Robert Drozd, IL
38
Medici (MED)
ew faces manned the Final this
year with no returning finalists
and only two former laurelists in view.
Scott Cornett slow played the semi-final waiting until the end to fill his boat with free goods.
This was sufficient to carry him to a huge lead
over former champions Carmen Petruzelli and
Doug Galullo. Scott maintained his lead and
never looked back, breezing into the Final with
a 30-point victory over Doug—a margin of victory that cost the 2001 champ his seat at the
Final. The other two semi-finals proved closer
and advanced a pair of runners-up and winners
absent from the laurelist rolls: Jason Long, Chris
Grech, Marc Beauregaurd and Eyal Mozes.
Goods were at a premium in the Final during the commodities shortage resulting from
commodities being discarded. Scott and Marc
were tied with 53 points after one round, trailing Jason’s 56. Chris and Eyal were 20 points farther back. Scott closed the gap in Round 2 to two
points while Marc slipped five points behind
Jason. Eyal made a run at the leaders to finish
the round only 11 behind Jason. Chris became
a long shot at this point, falling 30 points off the
pace. In Round 3 Scott eked out a one-point win
over Jason to become the third Cornett to win
the Medici title and completed the
4 for 4 performance of the Cornett
family in the Medici laurels list. It
was his sixth title after an absence
of several years.
Top Laurelists
Johan van Huyse, bg
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Joe Harrison, KY
117
Robert Eastman, NV 68
Jonathan Miller, DC 57
Sam Edelston, CT
54
Steve Lollis, MD
54
Johan Vanhuyse, bg
40
Gordon Rodgers, PA 36
John Skiba, NY
30
Scott Gibson, VA
30
Harrison Anderson, PA 26
Memoir ‘44 (M44)
esigner Richard Borg, was present, providing
six new scenarios on the German invasion of
Crete in printed WBC 2011 booklets. The field was
the largest in five years, and included three former
champions. In the first four rounds, the Germans
were all Special Forces, while the Allies had a tank
(but only two figures) and usually artillery. There
was a lot of terrain, and players had to use it. As
usual, the format was six rounds, SE, with a Mulligan the night before. All three former champs (Joe
Harrison, Steve Lollis, and John Skiba) had been
eliminated by Round 4.
An eliminator was enlisted to reduce the field
to an even number to no avail. So Round 5 ended
with three players still kicking: Sam Edelston (9-1),
Jeff Cornett (8-2), and Belgium’s Johan Vanhuyse
(8-2). A “round robin” was played, eliminating Jeff.
The Final was Galatos, a 7-medal game with a
2-medal town. In Game 1, Johan’s Germans were
victorious in six turns. Sam was lucky to escape
with a 7-3 loss. In the rematch, Johan advanced
his artillery into the town. Sam lacked center
cards, so he concentrated on the flanks. When
he finally got a unit into Galatos, the Allies obliterated it and regained the town medals. Now,
with a 6-3 lead, Johan played an Armor Assault
with his one tank, close-assaulting a full-strength
German infantry. He rolled three grenades and
an infantry. Boom! 7-3 for the
second game, too, and our first
foreign champion was crowned
in dominant fashion.
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2011 Results
Bill Crenshaw, VA
Eric Wrobel, MD
Charles Kickok, PA
K. Gutermuth, NC
O Vassili Kyrkos, NY
O Eyal Mozes, MD
Nick Henning, CT
M. Birnbaum, NY
Mike Eoppolo, DE
O Derek Landel, NJ
O Lissa Rennert, MD
O Erica Kirchner, KY
Richard Irving, CA
Mark Love, MD
48  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Bill Crenshaw, VA
T
Bill Crenshaw, VA
Eric Wrobel, VA
Joe Abrams, CT
Eyal Mozes, MD
Luke Koleszar, VA
Steve Dickson, CA
Debbie Otto, MO
Charles Hickok, PA
Ed Wrobel, VA
Chuck Foster, TX
126
118
66
61
58
56
56
55
52
42
Merchant of Venus (MOV)
he three heats filled 20 tables. The closest was
Table 1 where each player would have won
if they had but one more turn, even though the
winner, Eric Monte, had a minor glitch. His Mulligan Drive equipped Clipper rolled a 1-1-1-1 and
rerolled one for a 2. On Table 4, Richard Irving using an early Spy Eye—bypassed a Relic Yellow
Drive to claim a Mulligan Gear. The bluff paid off
in victory as the Drive was still there when he returned to the Asteroid System. Table 10’s Debbie
Gutermuth ended with $2,072 but finished second
to Kevin Wojtaszczyk. Aaron Fuegi won the closest
game of the tournament over Michael Holmquist by a single credit, $2,009 to $2,008 in Heat 3!
14 of the 19 winners and two alternates advanced. It was a good day for former champions
with five still in the running. 2001’s Bill Crenshaw
edged Debbie Gutermuth (2009), Alex Gesing and
Richard Irving. Ken Gutermuth cruised over Jim
Fardette, Patrick Maloney and Eric Monte. Defending champ Eric Wrobel prevailed over John Corrado, Kevin Wojtaszczyk and Gary Dickson. 2002’s
Charles Hickok cashed the last golden ticket by a
mere $130 over Vassili Kyrkos, Eyal Mozes (2006)
and Doug Faust.
The Final featured three former champs and an
overdue fourth (Ken). Bill used an early Jump Start
to establish a loop only he could use
and consequently took a relatively
easy win. All four finalists selected
a science fiction DVD as a supplemental prize provided by the GM.
58  1998-2011
Top Laurelists
Nick Henning, CT
Nick Henning, CT
140
Rebecca Hebner, CO 77
Steve Scott, CA
68
Joe Sposito, NJ
63
David Brooks, TN
62
Tom Meier, VA
50
Matthew Beach, MD 45
David Meyaard, CT
30
Daniel Val, es
30
Monsters Ravage America (MRA)
H
ighlights: Mike Eoppolo was the top MONSTAR of the Silver Screen. He was sent to Hollywood three times, but won a heat, and the semi-final.
Alex Bell created a Ravage board four times the size
of the original complete with miniature skyscrapers
and monsters. Young Andrew Doughan became the
top seed in the adult tournament, the only player to
win three heats, in addition to winning the Junior
plaque. Kelly Czyryca won two heats.
The Final shaped up as a duel of three-time
champs with Marvin Birnbaum’s Air Force & Konk
team tangling with Nick Henning’s Navy & Tomangi duo. Derek Landel countered with Marines
& Bronacle of the Depths, while Mike Eoppolo fielded Army & Frothomir. Konk stomped BaltimoreWashington repeatedly, and gained health from
mutation. Tomanagi stomped LA and San Francisco. Frothomir attacked Boston, NYC and Toronto
before mutating at 3-Mile Island. Bronacle stomped
Chicago and St. Louis before mutating with Whip
Tentacles only to meet Mike’s Blonde Lure and be
sent to Hollywood permanently!
Tomanagi initiated the Challenge round. Bronacle never broke out of Hollywood. Marvin attacked and beat the military monsters, but was left
with only 11 health with which to face Nick’s 30
health. Konk continuously gets the best of Tomanagi,
but the attrition is telling. Konk, cut
down to two health faces Tomanagi’s six, but strength wins in the end
as Nick Henning becomes “King of
the Monsters” for the fourth time.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Bruce Young, SC
Tom Eskey, MD
Jim Castonguay, PA
Nick Frydas, uk
Ml. Casselberry, PA
F. Czawlytko, MD
Peter Gurneau, WI
David Dockter, MN
Nick Frydas, uk
Pete Reese, VA
Kevin Sudy, VA
Tom Gregorio, PA
MelvinCasselberry,PA
Peter Reese, VA
54  2003-2011
27  1999-2011
Top Laurelists
Bruce Young, SC
Bruce Young, SC
206
John Emery, SC
138
Lane Hess, PA
132
Henry Russell, PA
102
Melvin Casselberry, PA 99
Ed Rothenheber, MD 96
Scott Moll, VA
80
Mike Casselberry, PA 60
David Gantt, SC
60
Forrest Speck, MD
60
The Napoleonic Wars (NW5)
N
ick Frydas selected Britain, leaving the French
to Melvin Casselberry. Tom Eskey, choosing
third, opted for Prussia and Jim Castonguay hastily claimed Russia—leaving hapless Bruce Young
to play Austria. Napoleon forced march to Venice
so Bruce quickly knew he was in for a long day. He
fell back, reinforced by the arriving Russians, and
Parliament did its part. So far, so good—the Coalition held firm. The British fared poorly, losing both
Naples and Lisbon. France led but was denied a
victory roll by British and Austrian card sacrifices.
Turn 2 dawned on campaigns in central Europe with Russian armies eventually taking Munich. Prussia remained neutral to enlist Turkish
allies. Britain landed in Spain, but Davout ensured
Spain’s loyalty. Wellington took Madrid on Turn 3
but Melvin played Dos de Mayo to break the Spanish pact before the conquest could be completed.
The Spanish ulcer, however, enabled the RussoAustrian armies to prevail. Neutral Prussia added
Sweden as Russia failed an attempted roll for victory, prompting Prussia to join the Coalition.
Turn 4 brought the French collapse. However, Napoleon was not yet done. With the Allies
in Paris, Melvin launched a heroic campaign in
the east, flagging Vienna and three other Austrian keys using Overruns and resources gained
along the way to fuel the unlikely
campaign. However, it was all for
naught since he did not get the Capitulation card which would have
forced Austria’s surrender.
Top Laurelists
Peter Gurneau, WI
Tom Drueding, MA 428
Stefan Mecay, TX
352
David Dockter, MN 328
Peter Reese, VA
258
Chris Byrd, CT
208
Rob Hassard, NJ
181
Nick Anner, NY
162
Jim Falling, MI
117
Stephan Valkyser, de 96
Paths of Glory (POG)
P
OG continued its recent fall from
grace with a 46% decline from 2009
entry levels in a banner year for WBC attendance. A casualty of this reduced field was the
infamous POG roll-off to complete the Elite Eight,
since we had just enough 2-1 records. The slow
attrition of the POG playoffs delivered a Final of
Peter Gurneau vs David Dockter.
The early game witnessed an aggressive series
of AP attacks in the West and an early Italian entry,
putting Peter’s CP on the defensive and leading to
a modified Defend-the-Rhine strategy. The early
mid game witnessed an aggressive Allied Balkans
strategy that eventually required two reinforced
German armies to subdue. On Turn 11, disaster
struck the Allied cause. The AP, using Allenby,
had started a spring offensive out of Egypt. As
summer arrived on Turn 10, the Allied player left
Allenby screened by only a corps and ordered AP
HQ to address the issue on the sixth impulse. HQ
got distracted, the season changed to fall and the
CP took and won a 50/50 shot at sending Allenby
to the showers.
On Turn 16, the great German offensive began
in the east. Despite a series of Russian entrenchments, the Tsar took command on Turn 17 and
fell on Turn 18, with the revolution and the treaty
following soon after that. The three Egyptian VPs
turned out to be the margin of
victory, resulting in our 8th POG
champion in 13 years as Peter won
his first WBC shield.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Jacob Hebner, CO
Chad Gormly, RI
Harry Flawd, PA
O B. Passacantando, CT
O Brian Conlon, CT
O Steve Scott, CA
RJ Gleaton, SC
Joshua Arndt, MD
Carol Haney, CA
Brandon Bernard, PA
O Katie Elliott, MD
O Jodi Folk, PA
Harry Flawd, PA
Larry Lingle, PA
52  1993-2011
101  2005-2011
Top Laurelists
Jacob Hebner, CO
I
Devin Flawd, PA
Harry Flawd, PA
Jacob Hebner, CO
B. Passacantando, CT
Bill O’Neal, NY
Mike Destro, NJ
Chad Gormly, MA
Derek Landel, NJ
Barry Shoults, NI
John Ellmann, MD
Top Laurelists
200
192
42
41
40
36
30
28
24
22
Paydirt (PDT)
n the AFC heat, 44 players paired off, and after
two rounds of play, there were ten left standing. Both John Coussis and Robert Rund guided
their respective Patriot teams to wins, along with
Dan Dolan’s Steelers, Chad Gormly’s Titans, and
Harry Flawd’s Chargers. In the closing seconds,
2009 champ Bruno Passacantando chucked a
Hail Mary to overcome Rund, 34-31, and Chad
systematically destroyed Dolan 39-13. Chad and
Harry then played a classic back and forth game,
with Chad pulling out the 24-21 upset. So the
AFC title game was set, and again, it was back
and forth, until, Chad finally secured his spot in
the Super Bowl with a 35-34 victory.
The NFC heat attracted 26 coaches, six of
them new. Round 2 saw Brian Conlon’s Giants
defeat Joe Yaure’s Seahawks 24-21, Jacob Hebner’s Bucs avenge some previous year “whoopass” on Reiff’s Eagles 40-13, and Harry Flawd’s
version of the Eagles faring much better in downing Conal Jaeger’s Redskins 40-37. Harry defeated
John Conlon 20-15, and Steve Scott got by Bruno’s
Packers 37-31. Jacob, who had fallen to Harry in
each of the last three seasons, met him again in
the NFC title game where Jacob rallied and hit a
bomb to the Eagles 2 with seconds left to win by 1!
The Final was a rare event with nary a
Flawd in sight and two players in their first
Final. Jacob pulled it out with another long pass deep inside Titan
territory to hit the game (and title)
winning FG!
RJ Gleaton, SC
T
Tom Pavy, OH
Brandon Bernard, PA
Paul Weintraub, MD
RJ Gleaton, SC
Chris Striker, PA
Ashley Collinson, MD
John Elliott, MD
Henry Pfeiffer, SC
Forrest Speck, MD
Joshua Arndt, MD
69
52
51
40
36
30
30
27
27
24
Pirate’s Cove (PRC)
he seven seas were downright crowded
this year with 101 cutthroats signing de
articles to sail with ol’ Cap’n Larry on one
or more of his four voyages for plunder and
adventure.
In the semi-finals Carol Haney, defending champ Brandon Bernard, Katie Elliott,
Josh Arndt and young RJ Gleaton (by a single
point, no less) showed their merit by advancing to the Final. It twas a green crew—only
Brandon had sailed these waters before—but I
liked the cut of the jib of that cabin boy.
Shore enuff—ol’ Cap’n Larry can spot ‘em.
RJ plundered all by hisself the first five turns
to take a big lead while the others kept slugging it out for his scraps. RJ had neither cards
nor parrot—just true grit. Brandon got sunk the
first six turns, coming close to former champ
Tom Pavy’s infamous record of sinking eight
times in a Final. Katie spent most of her time
at Pirate’s Cove repairing her ship. Methinks
she’s got an eye for the carpenter. Carol did a
little better but Josh collected point cards like
a squirrel hoarding nuts for the winter. When
the smoke cleared, RJ had 42, and Josh added
eight points to his 33 to come up one short. Josh
would have blown RJ out of the water in a sudden death shootout, but ifs and buts ain’t worth
nothin’ on the bounding main.
Have ya ever seen a finer specimen of manhood than this young
cutthroat on his first voyage?
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2011 Results
Bob Woodson, NV
Jason Ley, WA
M. McCandless, LA
Chris Senhouse, MA
Alex Gesing, NY
Randy Buehler, WA
Jason Levine, NY
Greg Thatcher, CA
O Eric Freeman, PA
O David Platnick, VA
O Edward Fear, NY
Jim Castonguay, PA
Eric Brosius, MA
161  2004-2011
61  2001-2011
Top Laurelists
Bob Woodson, NV
I
Eric Brosius, MA
103
Kevin Garber, VA
90
Robert Woodson, NV 72
Richard Meyer, MA
72
Bill Murdock, NY
72
Bill Crenshaw, VA
63
Patrick Shea, VA
60
Doug Galullo, MD
42
Daniel Eppolitto, CA 40
Power Grid (PGD)
T was the fifth straight year of greater attendance as 51 games (primarily 5-player) were
logged in the preliminaries. 95 played in one
heat, 42 played in two, and 24 diehards played
in all three! Heat 1 generated 19 games with a
map choice of Germany or Spain & Portugal.
12 were played on the former. Heat 2 yielded
18 games with a map choice of Italy or Central
Europe. Heat 3 provided 14 games with a map
choice of USA or Benelux. The map choices
were split for the last two heats.
The Final used Japan; a very narrow fiveregion map. Four of the five regions have one
city that is a 10/15 and all five have one city
that is a 15/20; this makes for nine less cities.
There are six 10/10/20 starting cities; one per
region with the Tokyo green region having
two. At game start a player may only build 0,
1, or 2 starting cities (the 10/10/20s). A significant, game-altering rule is that you can start a
second network at any time by building into
your second starting city; enabling a player
to have two build areas on opposite ends of
the board!
Coal remained pricey throughout the game.
The two 7-power plants that did make it into
play gave Bob and Jason 15 uncontested power to separate them by just $3. Champion Bob
Woodson improved on a 6th place
finish in 2010 so he now has both
coveted ends of the Power Grid
spectrum covered.
Top Laurelists
Randy Buehler, WA
19
Rod Spade, PA
Eric Brosius, MA
L. Dan Hoffman, MD
Eric Freeman, PA
Aran Warszawski, is
Brian Reynolds, MD
John Kerr, VA
Arthur Field, SC
Doug Kaufman, MD
David Platnick, VA
112
100
72
57
50
50
50
50
49
45
Princes of Florence (POF)
qualifiers and three alternates appeared for
the semis, but we needed only the top alternate, Randy Buehler, to fill five 4-player games.
Jason Levine had the closest victory, by 1 PP over
Edward Fear, leaving Edward with sixth place
laurels. David Platnick won by a bigger margin
using a Builder strategy, and putting on only
three works but piling up 78 PP. Randy, our lone
alternate, won as well, beating two-time champ
Eric Brosius by 4 PP.
The Final was unusual, with David buying
four Forests and both Jason and Randy giving
up PP for money to fund purchases after spirited
bidding for a Lake and a Park in Round 7. After
the final set of actions, Eric was in the lead, but
each of the others had a Prestige Card yet to reveal, and the scores were close enough that these
cards would determine the winner. After adjusting the players’ scores accordingly, Randy and
Jason were tied!
The rules provide a tiebreaker for such cases.
But neither Randy nor Jason had money left. Since
WBC tournaments cannot end in a tie, a second
tiebreaker was employed: the lowest-numbered
Profession card on the table wins. Randy’s Mathematician (#1) was lower than Jason’s Pharmacist
(#16) so Randy, the alternate, won on the second
tiebreaker in the closest POF Final ever
to cement his hold on the 2011 Consulship with his third title of the week! The
final scores were: Randy and Jason 56,
Greg 55, Eric 53, David 51.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
David Platnick, VA
Edward Fear, NY
Sceadeau D’Tela, NC
Jason Ley, WA
Eric Freeman, PA
Richard Meyer, MA
Mike Kaltman, PA
Alex Lange, ae
Henry Dove, MD
O Curt Collins II, PA
O Luke Koleszar, VA
John Weber, MD
Steve Scott, CA
140  2002-2011
Top Laurelists
David Platnick, VA
D
Barb Flaxington, NJ
David Platnick, VA
Christian Moffa, NJ
John Weber, MD
Arthur Field, SC
Luke Koleszar, VA
Bill Murdock, VA
Malinda Kyrkos, NY
Raphael Lehrer, MD
Steve Pleva, CT
173
158
104
100
96
66
64
63
60
60
Puerto Rico (PRO)
avid Platnick’s resume includes three PrezCon wins and one at Origins, but the big
victory had eluded him. Although three consecutive seconds gave him a high perch in the laurel
count, he had not added to that total in five years.
2011 would end all that. He won a tough opening
match, then went the rest of the way undefeated.
It was a well-deserved win for a player whose record in the first ten years of WBC has been the
most consistent: four Finals, five laurelist finishes,
eight years of semi-finals, and advancement to the
elimination rounds nine years out of ten. We have
had ten different champions in as many years.
However, Dave’s record is unparalleled. At the
outset, special prizes were awarded to those who
have participated in all ten events: Mike Backstrom, Barbara Flaxington, John Jacoby, Cheryl
Mallon, Platnick, Bob Stribula, Kevin Walsh and
GM John Weber.
Then, it was on to 2011. The proverbial “tough
draw” applied in a couple of instances. 2006
Champ Chris Moffa was paired with Platnick in
a high scoring 3-player game that went to Dave,
63-60 with Marcy Morelli just one point back. This
was a reversal of the 2006 Final, where Chris edged
Dave by a half point in the closest Final to date,
with the difference being their respective bids.
There would be more trouble to come for the four
former Champs in the field, but
Dave had already passed his sternest test and was gaining momentum as he progressed.
170  2000-2011
Top Laurelists
Richard Meyer, MA
R
Alex Bove, PA
Tom Dunning, NY
Joe Jaskiewicz, MD
Winton LeMoine, CA
Mike Kaltman, PA
Steve Scott, CA
Richard Meyer, MA
David Buchholz, MI
Bobbi Warczak, CA
Chris Terrell, VA
212
178
70
64
44
44
40
40
40
40
Ra (RA!)
a posted its tenth straight year of triple digit
fields. The four heats drew 12, 15, 17 and 16
games respectively. The top qualifier was Jennifer
Gorman, the only triple winner, as she followed
in the footsteps of female pioneer Lexi Shea as
the only winner of three games last year. Six
other qualifiers won twice. To further debunk the
“luck” rap that Ra has in some quarters, three of
those six were 4-time champ Alex Bove, 2006 victor Chris Terell and 2010 laurelist Alex Lange.
In 2010 the 82nd qualifier made the 25-player
semi’s due to no-shows. This year, that honor
went to Mark Parauda in the #98 position. In the
first semi-final, Jennifer Gorman collected her 4th
straight win. It was a monumental victory since
it ended defending champ Alex Bove’s quest for
an unprecedented 4th consecutive Ra title. Another former champ went down in the second
semi-final as Dominic Blais beat Chris Terrell by
7. Lexi Shea, who has won five heats in the past
two years and 2010’s third place laurelist Alex
Lange also ended their quest here. In semi-final
#3 Rich Meyer beat Carol Haney by 11 while
Harry Flawd took a break from the sports parlor
long enough to enjoy a comfortable 10-point win
in semi #4. Ken Horan completed the finalists by
edging Ed Fear by a single point, earning Ed 6th
place laurels.
The Final was a nail-biter befitting a championship game as Rich
edged Dominic by one point to win
his first Ra title and sixth overall.
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2011 Results
Aaron Fuegi, MA
Nick Kiswanto, VA
Charles Hickok, PA
Rob Renaud, NY
O Pei-Hsin Lin, NJ
Sue Lanham, MD
Angus McDonald, on
Mark Kennel, DE
John Karr, PA
Brian Smith, NY
O Eve Secunda, MD
Stuart Tucker, MD
Ron Secunda, MD
78  2008-2011
36  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Aaron Fuegi, MA
A
Robert Renaud, NJ 109
Aaron Fuegi, MA
48
Rob Kircher, RI
27
David Platnick, VA
27
Andrew Yao, VA
20
Doug Faust, NJ
20
Mark Delano, CT
20
Pei-Hsin Lin, NJ
18
Nick Kiswanto, VA
18
Don Sutherland, CT 18
Race For the Galaxy (RFG)
lthough attendance hit a new low, it was
somewhat misleading since the new format
doubled the number of starts in each heat. Players needed to win just once in four opportunities
spanning two heats to advance. The defending
three-time champion, Robert Renaud, arrived late
for Heat 2 and found himself in a 5-player game,
coming in second to Eric Brosius. Fortunately, Renaud’s second game was an easier test, allowing
him to advance.
With four AWOL qualifiers, 28 winners played
in the quarter-finals. David Platnick won at the defending champ’s table, but Renaud continued his
surprisingly challenged title defense by placing
second. In the semi-finals, the bar was raised, with
only winners advancing from the four 4-player
games. Charlie Hickok took advantage of a second
life to win by a healthy margin. Renaud returned
to form finally by running away with a 20-pt. victory over Geoff Pounder. Scott Anthony’s impressive 4-for-5 run came to a sudden end in the closest
semi, falling short by seven points, while Fuegi
won by a single point over Pei-Hsin. Nick Kiswanto advanced over Platnick by nine.
Renaud started the Final with Earth’s Lost Colony, Hickok had the Alien Factory, and Kiswanto
began with New Sparta. When the last satellite
had lost orbit, Renaud had 27 points,
Hickok 37, and Kiswanto 38, but
Fuegi who started with the Imperial
Warlord had 43 to become the first
non-Renaud RFG champion.
Top Laurelists
Sue Lanham, MD
O
Mark McCandless, LA122
Steve Okonski, MD 120
Ron Secunda, MD
101
Mark Kennel, DE
80
Doug Galullo, FL
80
Brian Conlon, OK
74
Inger Henning, CT
66
Angus McDonald, on 60
William Duke, MD
60
Chuck Foster, TX
60
Rail Baron (RBN)
utnumbered 12-1, three ladies dominated
the preliminaries over their male counterparts. Sue Lanham, Eve Secunda, and Inger Henning were the only players to win two heats. Sue
then proved she meant business by winning the
whole shebang. Eve Secunda was also a winner
of sorts - capturing the prize for visiting the most
“hostile” destinations (14) in a game.
The Final was more interesting than the average heat game. Five-player games ensure more
shortages with an increased chance of auctions.
Only Sue used the home swap rule, changing her
initial home city from Portland, OR to Oklahoma
City. The other Home cities, in turn order, were:
John - DC, Mark - Louisville, Gus - Kansas City,
and Brian - Chicago.
The end was anti-climactic. Gus did not have
enough cash to declare for Kansas City while in
Cleveland, so he rolled an unfriendly Jacksonville
destination. Sue delivered in Birmingham to reach
$250K. She found herself close enough to make
Oklahoma City. She “Declared”, needing a 9, and
rolled an 11, paid the $20k in use fees, and won her
first title. Player’s networks and cash on hand at the
end (in finish order) were: Sue PA, SP, MP, CB&Q,
N&W, SAL - 71% coverage, $231.5; Gus NYC,
AT&SF, D&RGW, CMSTP&P, SLSF - 55%, $194.5;
Mark B&O, GM&O, L&N, T&P - 35%, $102.5; John
UP, GN, WP, C&NW, SOU,
RF&P, IC, NYNH&H - 58%,
$21.5; Brian C&O, CRI&P,
NP, B&M, ACL - 46%, $46.
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2011 Results
Brad Johnson, IL
Charles Squibb, PA
Tom McCorry, VA
Jeff Finkeldey, OH
O Bill Navolis, DE
O Chris Gnech, PA
Rob Beyma, MD
Art Lupinacci, on
O Martin Musella, VA
O Jim Tracy, OH
O Jeff Hacker, PA
Marc Houde, VA
Rob Beyma, MD
72  1999-2011
18  2006-2011
Top Laurelists
Brad Johnson, IL
W
Brad Johnson, IL
288
Bill Navolis, MD
61
Alexandra Henning, CT 56
Jason Levine, NY
50
Jeff Finkeldey, OH
40
Bill Dyer, IL
40
Jeff Cornett, FL
40
Jeff Ribeiro, NH
40
Dan Lawall, VA
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Robo Rally (RRY)
e introduced the Kaarin Engelmann Memorial Crash & Burn award that is presented to the player who is eliminated first in
each round. It comes complete with a player
aid based on a design by the namesake where
the palms of the hands have a large L and R on
them to guide them in their decisions. The very
first ever winner of this prestigious award was
the WBC’s own legal counsel, Scott Pfiefer. Everyone knows how good lawyers are with spatial relationships. I suspect the player aid will
be useful to Scott in other aspects of his life as
well, like driving, and waving.
Only nine of 14 qualifiers appeared for the
semi-finals. Ryan Friedmann managed to be the
first and only player eliminated. Though both
Henry Pfiefer (like father like son, maybe Henry
can borrow Dad’s award), and Mark McCandless managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of
a third place finish. Sadly, one of our finalists
misread the schedule, and failed to arrive on
time for the last round. With only five players
and four plaques, it was questionable whether
anyone would have the temerity to earn the final
Crash & Burn award, but veteran Bill Navolis
did not let us down, losing his last robot on the
final leg of a tight race for third place, thus ensuring that all of the finalists received
something to take home.
Oh, and Brad Johnson (yawn) won
his seventh Robo Rally title to move up
to orange on the Masters board.
Top Laurelists
Richard Beyma, MD
T
Rob Beyma, MD
168
Art Lupinacci, on
81
Richard Beyma, VA
72
Jim Eliason, IA
48
Jim Miller, VA
21
Charles Catania, MD 15
Jim Tracy, OH
12
Craig Champagne, NJ 12
Martin Musella, VA
9
Lembit Tohver, on
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Russia Besieged (RBS)
he more things change, the more they stay the
same. No, not a reference to politics, but the
end of the five-year reign of Rob Beyma and the
coming of age of Beyma the Younger. The rest of
us are still looking up at a Beyma on the medals
stand. Eight players advanced to Round 2. Richard Beyma’s strong Russian defense stopped
Jim Tracy with the help of some October Mud.
Despite heavy winter losses, Art Lupinacci’s
Germans grabbed some additional VPs in the
spring of 1942 to edge John Martino. Despite bad
weather in the fall of 1941, the defending champ’s
Germans hung on to overcome Jeff Hacker. Marty
Musella’s Germans edged Charlie Catania in a
long game to reach his first semi-final.
Richard bid 21 to play the Germans and soon
found a weakness inArt’s defense to tally 23 VPs for
the win. Marty bid 20 to play the Germans and got
off to a good start vs the elder Beyma by winning
a key blitz attack against the Western MD and trapping many Russian units, but the German hopes
were dashed by snow in Nov/Dec.
That created another Father vs Son Final and
the two frequent adversaries battled to a draw for
the first three turns. Two weakened armies faced
each other from Moscow to Stalino with the outcome dependent on the all-important Nov/Dec
weather. A Lt Mud/Mud result would
end the champ’s reign at the hands
of his son. A Snow/Snow outcome
would prolong the streak. All hail the
new champ!
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2011 Results
John Ohlin, FL
Tom Gregorio, PA
Alan Zasada, IL
Tim Nielsen, VA
Greg M. Smith, PA
O Gary Dickson, CA
Charles Hickok, PA
Jason Levine, NY
Cliff Ackman, PA
O Mark Globus, WA
O Randy Buehler, WA
O Lawr. Solomon, VA
Tom Gregorio, PA
Tom DeMarco, NJ
41  1991-2011
114  2005-2011
Top Laurelists
John Ohlin, FL
Doug James, NC
368
Gary Dickson, CA
355
Tom Gregorio, PA
338
Bert Schoose, IL
195
George Karahalios, IL 86
John Ohlin, FL
81
Rob Beyma, MD
76
Phil Evans, VA
63
Pat Flory, CT
61
Alan Zasada, IL
48
Russian Campaign (TRC)
98
games were logged in our biggest
event ever. The Germans won 55%
while giving the Russians an average 10.97
extra replacements. There was minimal correlation
between the weather and outcome, but there were
eight German AVs due to the loss of Moscow in 1941.
In the first semi-final match, John Ohlin pushed
the bidding for the Germans and then demolished
Alan Zasada’s Red Army with the aid of favorable
weather. In the other match, the light mud weather
combination again allowed the Germans to doom
a Red Army that was determined to contest every
hex as Tom Gregorio downed Tim Nielsen.
John again upped the German bid in the Final.
Despite anticipating a light mud weather result in
Sep/Oct 41, Tom was unable to stave off the Wehr
macht’s countless low-odds attacks to seize victory cities. The last Russian turn saw an effective
deployment of German screens and fully stacked
VP cities that handily thwarted any low percentage
plays to save the day. There continues to be an evolution in German play, particularly with regards to
the opening assaults. The ramp-up of German bids
in the elimination rounds indicates that the 55%
German win rate is no fluke and shows a need for
serious Soviet analysis in the off-season! It’s been
21 years since that first “Avaloncon”. The event and
its players have continued to evolve. John
Ohlin reached the top in 2011 but will
soon discover that subsequent titles are
even more difficult to achieve while
wearing a Centurion shirt.
Top Laurelists
Charles Hickok, PA
19
Arthur Field, SC
102
Tom DeMarco, NJ
87
Anne Norton, NJ
60
Chris Robbins, UT
52
Randy Buehler, WA
50
Charles Hickok, PA
40
Curt Collins II, PA
40
Norman Herrick, NE 40
Vien Bounma, NJ
39
Tom Browne, PA
38
Saint Petersburg (SPB)
games were played in the Monday heat. Norman Rule got an all-important win-in-firstheat-played with the highest score in a 4-player
game at 117 points, including a Mistress of Ceremonies (M), an Observatory (O), and 45 points from
nine unique orange cards. In contrast, Joel Lytle
won his game with 46 points, the lowest winning
score in the first round. Heat 2 produced 15 games
and Kathy Stroh, Randy Buehler, Cliff Ackman
and Joel Lytle each emerged with their second win.
Only 38 players appeared for Heat 3, yielding four
more double winners (Mark Globus, Tom McCorry, William Hoch, and Charles Hickok). Heat 4 generated eight games and made Joel the only triple
winner while creating five more double winners
(Marcy Morelli, Pei-Hsin Lin, Norman, Lawrence
Solomon, and Eric Brosius). So after four heats 38
people were “eligible” for 16 semi-final spots.
20 appeared for the semi-finals: a triple winner, eleven of the 13 double winners), and eight
single winners—of which only four would play.
In those four games Charles (MO) beat Joel,
Norman (O) and William; Cliff (MO) surpassed
Thomas, Chad and Marcy (O); Mark outscored
Pei-Hsin, Lawrence, and Ted; while Jason Levine
(the last qualifier) (O) won on a 1 to 0 ruble tie
breaker over Randy (M), Drew (MO) and Eric.
Charles gathered seven orange cards
in the Final for 28 points, giving him 52
and a one-point win over Jason. Cliff was
third with 43 and Mark had 40. It was
Charles’ first WBC title since 2002.
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2011 Results
Greg Thatcher, CA
Rob Kircher, RI
Jeremy Billones, VA
Eric Brosius, MA
O Ken Schlosser, PA
O Tom Browne, PA
Michael Shea, CT
Pat Mirk, FL
Bill Peeck, NY
O Steve Shambeda, PA
O Vien Bounma, NJ
Rob Kircher, RI
Jeff Mullet, OH
32  2003-2011
99  2004-2011
Top Laurelists
Greg Thatcher, CA
E
Bruce Reiff, OH
Tom Browne, PA
Jeff Mullet, OH
Raphael Lehrer, MD
Rob Kircher, RI
Greg Thatcher, CA
Bill Salvatore, MD
Nick Page, on
Eric Brosius, MA
Pete Stein, OH
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50
46
36
30
30
24
23
20
San Juan (SJN)
very year I consider dropping the demo, so I’ll
have more time to myself. Surely, after seven
years everyone knows how to play by now. But
every year about 20 people appear to either learn
or jog their memory. The format consisted of four
swiss rounds requiring three wins to advance.
28 ran the preliminary gauntlet with at
least three wins and advanced to the elimination rounds. The usual pool of sharks and a few
newcomers battled it out until only Rob Kircher
and Greg Thatcher were left. The playoff scores
were way down. In years past, it usually took
scores in the mid-40’s to win. As I watched
several games unfold, everyone got atrocious
cards. People were winning games 31-26, 32-23,
31-29. It was very unusual. Every time I would
look at someone’s hand, I would think to myself: “That guy can’t win”. Then I’d look at his
opponent’s hand and think, “He can’t win either!” The Final followed form. As it unfolded,
both players would grimace as they drew their
cards. And I couldn’t blame them. There were
no carpenters, quarries, libraries or prefectures to be had in the early going. And neither
player could find a “6” building to save their
lives. Mercifully, the game ended and Greg,
a shark in many environs, but relatively new
to San Juan, came out ahead and
grabbed his fifth overall title. Rob
would collect what was to become
his first of seven laurel finishes this
year without a championship.
Top Laurelists
Michael Shea, CT
Tom DeMarco
48
Rob Kircher, RI
47
Michael Shea, CT
44
Andy Lewis, DE
38
Bill Peeck, NY
36
Bob Wicks, CT
32
Chris Palermo, NY
22
Phillip White, MD
22
Grant LaDue, NY
22
Santa Fe Rails (SFR)
B
ill Peeck was the only former
champion of the six present to
make the Final again. Pat Mirk and
Steve Shambeda were making their first appearance while Mike Shea was back for his
third bite of the apple.
The Kansas Pacific was pushed north early and reached as far as Portland. The Great
Northern had reached Billings. Meanwhile
the rest of the trains were focused south in
the area of Dallas and Oklahoma City. Southern Lines Pacific went on the next run being
helped by Steve and Pat both taking 4 in 1.
Steve connected Las Vegas and Salt Lake City
and Pat connected through Albuquerque and
El Paso. Mike had made Steve look like the
bad guy and kept taking trains to stay away
from the southwest. Over the last four turns
Bill played four cities to gain 48 pts. Steve
only played two cities for 31 pts but did play
a 21 pt-Portland after playing a 2x the turn before. Mike gained 47 with three cities and a
boomtown Turn 14 to help Minneapolis. Pat
also played four city cards for 53 pts, making a
late charge in the end. The deck and trains ran
out on Turn 15. Pat and Bill had the most city
points, but a late Portland draw
worth 21 pts along with the most
cash gained, made Mike Shea our
eighth champion in nine years. It
was his first WBC title in a year
when he would win two.
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2011 Results
Andrew Arconti, MD
John Min, NJ
Chad Martin, PA
Allyson Field, SC
Rob Kircher, RI
Rebecca Hebner, DC
Nicole Reiff, OH
Luke Parauda, NJ
Natalie Beach, MD
Drew DuBoff, NJ
O Len Omolecki, NY
O Samantha Berk, PA
Joseph Maiz, NJ
Sean McCulloch, OH
138  1999-2011
Top Laurelists
Andrew Arconti, MD
T
Rick Dutton, MD
Brian Reynolds, MD
Charles Faella, RI
Rob Kircher, RI
Tom Dunning, NY
Matt Tolman, UT
Andrew Arconti, MD
Roy Gibson, MD
Tom Stokes, NJ
Rob Effinger, on
226  1993-2011
Top Laurelists
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113
96
96
87
84
66
66
60
60
Settlers of Catan (SET)
he 2011 tournament enjoyed the largest attendance in 11 years. As a continuous event,
it was second only to 7 Wonders and the late night
“parties” in drawing a crowd and far surpassed
those in total hours. Despite the multitude of
entrants, several 2010 semi-finalists returned to
the playoffs, including defending champ Robert
Kircher, but none made it to the Final.
The lowest qualifying score was a 12, which required two wins and a third. The tie breaker system
saw service down to the fourth tier, in selecting the
Sweet 16. Chad Martin (besting Janet Ottey, Keith
Richardson and Rob Kircher), Allyson Field (over
Mike Shea, Yoel Weiss and David Hood), John
Min (defeating Bob Wicks, Forrest Speck and Rich
Miller) and Andrew Arconti (downing Rebecca
Hebner, Carolyn Strock and Chris Czyryca) all prevailed by one point to reach the Final.
There, the early game saw six rolls of the 6/8
combo in the first four of 15 eventual rounds.
Chad went the city building route to increase
his production, but was unable to expand fast
enough. John opted for Development cards, but
could not find the elusive 3-army combo in time.
Allyson went for the longest road but was stuck
on the map edge, with less common numbers for
better production. Andrew took more of a middle
ground position, doing a little of
everything to maximize production and it worked for his first WBC
title. The Final scores were Andrew
10, John 8, Chad 7 and Allyson 5.
Nicole Reiff, OH
I
Ken Gutermuth, NC 54
Josh Githens, SC
46
Derek Landel, NJ
41
Nicole Reiff, OH
40
Alexandra Henning, CT 40
Ted Simmons, NJ
40
Greg Berry, VA
39
Leonard Omolecki, PA 38
Jeff Cornett, FL
30
Slapshot (SLS)
t was the perfect ending—or so it seemed to
those who have been forcibly reminded of
Bruce Reiff’s infamous winning streak over the
years. The end of a long week is the time to blow
off steam at the crazy party that is Slapshot—and
set an attendance record too! There were many
stories in those 35 games, but the most impressive Preliminary win belonged to Keith Boone,
who won his table in style, as Tiny Tim scored
the deciding goal.
With the losers off to bed, the Massively Unfair semi-final round commenced, generating
eight finalists yawning above the fray. Most were
on the younger side. Whether this is because they
are gaining skill, or more immune to the allure of
sleep is left to the reader.
Cutting to the chase—Luke Parauda’s bruiser
faces Nicole Reiff’s superior team in the Final series. Nicole loses her best player to the bruiser,
but the Reiff luck must be genetic, as she draws a
Superstar replacement. Games 5 and 6 go to overtime. In the deciding game 7, Luke’s best player is
up against Nicole’s goalie. If he can just make the
roll, he will force overtime. Alas, it has been my
experience that the two luckiest things in WBC
are Reiffs and teenage girls. Nicole encompasses
both of these, and poor Luke was doomed from
the start. Nicole enjoyed the long ride
home, clutching the coveted Superstar shield, and plaque-checking her
woodless father at every other exit
along the way.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Tim Carnahan, MD
Don Tatum, MD
Mike Aubuchon, PA
O Kevin Keller, MD
O Doug Schultz, MD
O Scott Cornett, FL
A. Cummins, uk
Eric Stranger, OH
Pete Pollard, TN
Chuck Leonard, PA
O Scott Bramley, NJ
O Phil Grasha, PA
Doug Schulz, MD
Pete Pollard, TN
29  1991-2011
22  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Top Laurelists
Tim Carnahan, MD
T
Scott Cornett, FL
166
Kevin Keller, MD
107
Doug Schulz, MD
94
Terry Schulz, PA
92
Gerald Lientz, VA
81
Lane Newbury, TX
66
Jimmy Fleckenstein, VA 66
Dennis Nicholson, NY 60
John Welage, OH
56
Lance Ribeiro, NH
52
Speed Circuit (SCT)
hree new tracks (Valencia, Suzuka, and
Sepang) awaited the drivers in 2011, but
most of the attention went to the revised car
construction table that allowed 80 mph acceleration and deceleration; 120 mph start speed, and 0
skill—all for the first time. The result was a lively
debate of the merits of perhaps too easily allowing 80 mph acceleration.
The Final was run on Istanbul. The grid was
arranged from front to back like this: Tatum &
Keller; Carnahan & Cornett; Aubuchon & Galullo; Schulz & Nicholson; Rae & Haskell; Rund
and Long. Five cars were separated by a mere
two spaces after sector 2 of the first lap: Carnahan, Tatum, Keller, Schulz, and Galullo. By this
point, the next car (Cornett) had already fallen
six spaces behind the leader.
The leaders lengthened the gap between them
and the rest of the field. As they ran down the
back straight for the last time, Tatum was three
spaces in front and 11 spaces clear of Galullo in
third. Tatum ran the last two corners clean but
Carnahan needed two chance rolls and a test
brakes in order to contest for the win… and he
made them all to pull alongside Tatum mere spaces before the finish line. On the next turn, Carnahan had the advantage of exiting the last corner
faster than Tatum and succeeded in pushing both
his acceleration and top speed
in order to cross the line one
space ahead to win the championship at his first WBC.
Andrew Cummins, uk
Pete Pollard, CA
208
Bill Thomson, TX
180
Andrew Cummins, uk 154
Eric Stranger, OH
91
David Bronkhorst, VA 86
Mike Pacheco, CA
78
Phil Grasha, PA
66
Chuck Leonard, PA
40
Michael Hennessy, VA 30
Scott Bramley, NJ
28
Squad Leader (SQL)
51
games were logged during our second year in the Grognard format.
After a week of play, four players stood
atop the pack. Although the records varied, it is a
matter of whom you defeat in the Grognard scoring system. Seeding was clarified as #1 four-time
champ Pete Pollard (68 points), #2 two-time champ
Eric Stranger (50), Chuck Leonard and #4 defending champ Andrew Cummins (48).
Fate would decree a Final pairing of two-time
champs in the “Eviction Notice” scenario with Eric’s
Germans defending. Eric took an aggressive setup
with many of his forces ahead of the central victory
location, a multi-hex stone building on board 3. His
goal was to slow the Ami advance long enough for
reinforcements to arrive. However, Andrew’s forces
were mobile and he used that to his advantage. He
pinned down Eric’s screening force and swung behind them to seize the objective. An anti-tank gun
destroyed a US tank, but it was not enough. Now
Eric found his defensive role changing as he needed
to mount a counterattack to retake the objective and
it proved to be a task for which they were ill suited.
Andrew also won wood for eliminating the
Pollard PLC in the event’s unique secondary competition. Eric managed to salvage something from
his loss as his Personal Leader Counter assumed
the role of chief target in 2012 by surviving the
week with the best performance.
His best day actually came in defeat during the Final, surviving to
face the 2012 bounty hunters.
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2011 Results
Bill Morse, VA
David Platnick, VA
Carolyn Strock, PA
O Larry Lingle, PA
O Gino Sinigaglio, NJ
O Ted Lange, ae
Luke Koleszar, VA
Fabio Pellegrino, it
Curt Collins, PA
O Mark Mitchell, VA
O Steve Cameron, PA
O John Weber, MD
Buddy Sinigaglio, CO
Michael Garton, VA
46  2002-2011
37  1999-01; 05-11
Top Laurelists
Bill Morse, VA
Larry Lingle, PA
118
Brian Sutton, MD
96
Karl Henning, CT
57
Bill Morse, VA
54
Alex Bell, MD
39
Buddy Sinigaglio, CO 34
Andrew Wilson, NJ
30
Nick Page, on
30
William Sparks, MD 30
Phil Rennert, MD
27
Top Laurelists
Luke Koleszar, VA
Seth Gunar, NJ
Phillip White, MD
Luke Koleszar, VA
Steve Caler, OH
Bill Beckman, SC
Kevin Brown, GA
Jean Younkin, VA
Devin Flawd, PA
Tim Dolan, NJ
Jim Bell, MD
84
60
42
36
30
30
30
30
30
27
Star Wars; Queen’s Gambit (QGB)
Stock Car Championship (SCC)
n the preliminary heats each side won 22
games. With no time limit in the preliminary
games, balance slants towards the Naboo. In the
time-limited playoffs, however, the Trade Federation wins if it is still standing after two hours—
this reflects the time-limited aspect of the battle
in the theatre. In 2011, the Naboo won eight of 15
playoff games, so the final tally was Obiwan 30,
Darth Maul 29.
In the semi-finals, Bill Morse upset Carolyn
Strock who has had his number in the past. In the
other bracket, David Platnick used Larry Lingle’s
chivalry to advance. Larry would have surely won
by honestly playing out his turn and winning by
time limit; but, if there was no time limit, he could
just as easily lose. So, the three-time champion unselfishly “passed” on his card plays, permitting
David to win as Anakin shut down the droids in
the last seconds before the time limit expired.
Bill played the dark side in the Final and
his Darth Maul was triumphant as he blocked
an uncanny number of Jedi hits. David’s Red
Queen and Captain Panaka sacrificed themselves amongst the battle droids and droideka
on the first floor of the palace enabling the
Purple Queen and four palace guards to use
window ledge movement into the throne room.
Alas, Bill’s droideka on the third floor killed the
Purple Queen and too many palace
guards while Anakin was stuck
amidst star fighters two spaces
from the druid control ship.
he green flag dropped on 21 cars for
the start of the largest Final in WBC
Stock Car Racing history. The second
turn brought out a yellow flag and Brian Mongold became the first casualty with an Overheating problem. Joshua Garton cruised into
the lead. On Turn 6 the yellow flag flew again
for a crash that claimed 2009 Champion, Phil
White. Garton then experienced transmission
problems on Turn 8, as Mark Mitchell claimed
the lead for the next 147 laps.
Curt Collins made the move of the day on
Turn 19. From sixth place, he made a sling pass
to the outside lane behind Koleszar. With no
cars in front of Koleszar, Collins bump drafted him to be tied with the inside lane leader.
Cameron was running first and played a Two
Wide to try to protect his tenuous lead. Fabio
Pellegrino immediately attempted to pass Cameron for the inside lead, but was challenged and
his pass failed. His outside attempt opened up
the inside for a try and Pellegrino followed the
outside attempt with an Inside Advantage passing Cameron for the inside lead and a chance
at the checkered Flag. The photo finish had
Koleszar beating Pellegrino to the line for the
win, but the Italian was deservedly
proud of his second place finish. For
two years in a row the Bump Draft has
propelled the winner to the checkered
flag, showing a little teamwork goes a
long way in racing.
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2011 Results
Cary Morris, NC
Nick Henning, DC
Eric Freeman, VA
Greg Thatcher, CA
O Dan Eppolito, CA
O Deb Yaure, PA
Harry Flawd, PA
Richard Moyer, MN
Jacob Hebner, CO
Bill Beckman, SC
O Francis Beaudet, qc
O Roderick Lee, CA
Chris Palermo, NY
Eric Engelmann, MD
159  2009-2011
Top Laurelists
Cary Morris, NC
T
Cary Morris, NC
Eric Freeman, PA
Marvin Birnbaum, NY
Christopher Ellis, FL
Virginia Colin, VA
Stefan Mecay, TX
Nicolas Henning, DC
Rod Bacigalupo, MD
Scott Fenn, MD
Greg Thatcher, CA
82
70
40
40
34
30
30
30
24
24
Stone Age (STA)
he tournament got off to a rousing start by
attracting 84 players for the Monday heat.
Three heats later, that number nearly doubled in
a grueling format that used two rounds in each
heat with a combination of early morning and
late-night starts to suit every taste.
13 players qualified automatically for the semifinals with consecutive wins in one heat—a new
and unique form of advancement qualification to
be sure. One opted for other diversions, leaving
exactly 12 to advance, much to the dismay of the
alternates on hand who were hoping to fill a fourth
table. Starvation was the clear winning strategy in
the preliminaries, but proved far less successful
when opposed by a table of double win qualifiers.
Two of the three semis were won via culture symbols (green background) civilization cards.
The Final foursome numbered 20 titles between
them for the one-of-a-kind World Champion leather cup. Cary Morris, whose resume was the least
cluttered with past titles, was nonetheless the ranking STA laurelist. While each was tempted to use
the starvation strategy, they knew this would make
them a target. After a few turns, Nick nonetheless
opted to starve. Throughout, the game remained
too close to call. The final scores were tight: 143, 135,
135, and 134. Cary won with a very balanced strategy, generating 81 board points, six
culture cards for 36 points, five points
for five tools, five for five huts, 12 on
six people, and four leftover resources. It netted him his third WBC title.
39  1991-94, 96-11
Top Laurelists
Harry Flawd, PA
A
Rich Moyer, MN
Harry Flawd, PA
Bill Beckman, SC
Chris Palermo, NY
Terry Coleman, CA
Mark Giddings, NY
Randy Cox, SC
Ken Samuel, VA
Devin Flawd, PA
John Welage, OH
174
146
68
47
44
40
28
28
22
20
Superstar Baseball (SSB)
ttendance held steady, although the games
played dipped slightly. This was disappointing, considering that all teams were available to
be selected for the first time. The eight making
the playoffs were: Rich Moyer (1902 Pirates); Bill
Beckman (1997 Indians); Harry Flawd (2004 Red
Sox), Jacob Hebner (2007 Rockies); Francis Beaudet (1981 Expos); James Terry (1969 Pilots); Johnny
Wilson (1963 Dodgers); Roderick Lee (2009 Dodgers). Moyer continued his run as the team to beat.
Despite having a new team he still had a perfect
13-0 record in two heats. Perennial contender Beckman was edged out in the first heat by Hebner’s
Rockies, forcing Bill to play in Saturday’s heat to
make the playoffs.
In the first round, Beaudet’s Expos and Lee’s
Dodgers emerged triumphant. In Round 2, Beaudet
was dispatched by Hebner, while Lee’s Dodgers ran
into the Flawd buzzsaw, 5-3. Hebner’s luck would
end in Round 3 against the champ. Moyer had a predictable 5-0 lead going into the seventh inning, when
the Rockies put together four runs in two innings, to
raise a rare sweat in Moyer-ville. Yet, for the fifth time
in six years, Rich would make the Final.
On the other side of the bracket, the Red Sox
were taking down the Indians 5-4, leaving Flawd
with neither ace for the Final. Instead, Bronson Arroyo took the hill for the Sox vs Jack
Chesbro (28-6). But Moyer’s title defense ended there, as Flawd added the
summer pastime to his sports resume
in a surprisingly easy 9-2 upset.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Jason Ley, WA
Randy Buehler, WA
Z. Mowshowitz, NY
Andrew Emerick, CT
Dom. Duchesne, qc
O Charles Hickok, PA
Kyle Smith, PA
Alex Bove, PA
O Randy Buehler, WA
O Cary Morris, NC
O Alex. Henning, PA
Raphael Lehrer, CA
Andy Latto, MA
53  2008-2011
112  2006-2011
Top Laurelists
Jason Ley, WA
Through the Ages (AGE)
A
Top Laurelists
Jason Ley, WA
108
Randy Buehler, WA
86
Joel Lytle, NY
54
Raphael Lehrer, CA
52
Rob Flowers, MD
26
Zvi Mowshowitz, NY 24
David Metzger, NY
24
Alan Sudy, VA
20
Andrew Emerick, CT 18
Eric Brosius, MA
16
ttendance set a new record as PreCons continued to flourish. With more
heat winners than semi-final slots, the competition was fierce on Sunday evening as everyone
tried for a second win to assure advancement. The
five players who managed it included the three former champs (Jason Ley, Raphael Lehrer, and Randy
Buehler) plus two newcomers who came just to
play AGE (Mark Globus and Zvi Mowshowitz).
16 advanced to four 4-player semi-finals where
three of the five double winners picked up their
third win. The fourth finalist was another newcomer
who came specifically to play in this event: Andrew
Emerick, whose only heat loss was to Jason but who
then beat double-winner Mark Globus in the semi’s
with a brutal combo of Turn 3 and 4 Enslaves.
The opening turns of the Final seemed to favor Randy as he grabbed both Caesar and Pyramids (arguably the two best Age A cards). Zvi
was Aristotle while Andrew went with Alexander
and was able to convert his temporary military
advantage into a successful early Raid, destroying Zvi’s philosopher. Jason didn’t have an Age
A wonder or leader, but he made up for that by
grabbing both Michaelangelo and St. Peter’s Basilica relatively early in Age 1. Mostly, though,
the difference was Jason piloting a high variance
strategy flawlessly, building up
a huge culture lead early via Michaelangelo, and doing everything
he needed to do to hold onto that
lead despite being the target.
Kyle Smith, PA
P
Andy Latto, MA
108
Anne Norton, NJ
75
Rob Kircher, RI
72
Tom DeMarco, NJ
40
Raphael Lehrer, MD 32
Kyle Smith, PA
30
Aran Warszawski, is 30
Rod Spade, MD
30
Alex Bove, PA
27
Thurn & Taxis (T&T)
revious years had been dominated by familiar faces in the elimination rounds.
However, this was a year of new blood that
was only fitting given the record attendance
for the two heats. Only two former semi-finalists, Randy Buehler and Andy Latto, reached
the same stage this year. Alexandra Henning
was the third member of her family to reach
the semi-finals, and fell one point short of being the third Henning to reach the Final as
well, settling for sixth instead.
Randy had to discard a route early and was
soon out of contention. Kyle played a game of
nearly perfect efficiency. The others saw how
well he was doing and united against him. Kyle
did not get a Lodz card the first time through
the deck, and needed one the second time
through to get the all-colors bonus, so Randy,
playing before Kyle, fell on his sword and took
a Lodz card to keep it out of his hands. Kyle
responded by pulling another from the top of
the deck. And so it went. In a game in which
he never used the Administrator, Kyle won in a
runaway, 15-14-12-25.
Of the 38 4-player games, the first seat won
13. The later three positions won six, eleven, and
eight respectively. Combining this with results
from the previous two years, we have 32 wins
from players going first, 20 from second, 26 from
third, and 22 from last which
argues for adding bids for seat
position in 2012.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Patrick Monte, NY
Lori Miskoff, NJ
Tom Idzikowski, MI
Curt Collins II, PA
Mark Geary, OH
Max DuBoff, NJ
Bryan Eshleman, NC
Ray Freeman, CA
Tom Thornsen, NY
O Jim Kramer, PA
O Charles Drozd, IL
O Ric Sciacca, FL
Ray Freeman, CA
Claire Brosius, MA
17  2000-2011
207  2004-2011
Top Laurelists
Patrick Monte, NY
T
Jay Fox, NJ
Virginia Colin, VA
Eric Monte, NY
Anni Foasberg, NJ
Kyle Greenwood, HI
John Faella, RI
Steve Shambeda, PA
Patrick Monte, NY
Lori Miskoff, NJ
Daniel Karp, MD
72
70
70
60
60
60
54
50
48
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Ticket to Ride (TTR)
icket to Ride was again one of the largest tournaments, breaking the 200 mark for the fourth
straight year and causing the Distelfink depot to
burst at the seams with 119 at the first heat and
96 at each of the other two. But registration went
smoothly under the direction of WBC’s newest
GM of the Year, Claire Brosius, and her two Conductors; Sarah Beach and Nikki Bradford. Most
games finished in approximately 45 minutes.
The preliminaries produced seven double winners, with Faith Wobbeking seeded first with two
wins and a second. The best single game score in
the heats belonged to John Mewshaw with 178,
making nine out of nine tickets and getting the
most tickets bonus in 1910 while denying Faith
her third win. Curt Collins came out the victor in
a 107-106-104-103 quarter-final that became the
closest game of the tournament when leader Lynda Shea missed a two-train connection between
Boston and New York.
Our four finalists were Collins, Patrick Monte,
Thomas Idzikowski, and a rare repeat performance by 2010’s 4th place laurelist, Lori Miskoff.
It was a fast, efficient game with the northwest
corner getting built first and spreading out from
there. Patrick Monte quietly made all seven of his
tickets as he flew beneath the radar to claim his
first title with a score of 137 and most tickets made.
Lori took second with 130 while
Thomas claimed third with
95 and the longest route. Curt
manned the caboose with 85.
Top Laurelists
Bryan Eshleman, NC
T
Ray Freeman, CA
214
Bryan Eshleman, NC 122
Tom Thornsen, NY
97
Mike Mishler, CA
96
Jim Winslow, ME
90
Rick Young, NC
73
Brad Jones, FL
60
Robert Mull, CO
36
Murray Cowles, uk
32
John Ellsworth, IL
30
Tigers in the Mist (TIM)
he fourth and last round was a busy one,
with four games played! Ray Freeman and
Bryan Eshleman faced off for the championship,
but no less than four others had a shot at second
if Ray won.
Ray made a serious mistake, giving Bryan
the US for 0. The Germans got off on the right
foot clearing Vianden, Holzhum and Lutzkampen, but Habscheid held. This would prove to be
critical later. The bridges stayed down such that
a follow up attack on Marnach was not possible.
However, Diekirch, Hoschied and Burg Reuland
also fell. However, the 106th in Bleialf survived.
Both units of the 106th retreated to St. Vith and
Recht. By the end of 20-3, the US line was still
Neufchateau, Moircy, Champion, Lignieres, and
Grandmenil. Ray made a series of desperation
attacks on 21-1, but all of them failed and there
was nothing left to do but resign. Bryan played
his usual extremely precise game and got favorable attrition to claim his third title. Ray was able
to take Bastogne on the 18th, but could not make
any significant progress after that against Bryan’s
fierce defense and had his bid for an event-leading fourth title denied again.
11 games had no bid, four games had an Allied
bid of 1.0, two 1.5, and three 2.0. In a significant departure from past events, the Germans dominated
dramatically, going 14-6! Stubbornness awards go to Jim Kramer
(US) and Ray Freeman (Germans)
respectively with 3-1 records.
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2011 Results
David Finberg, MA
Dan Strock, PA
Aaron Fuegi, MA
Dave des Jardins, CA
Kevin Hillock, VA
O Rich Atwater, WA
Jordan Shea, CT
Thomas Melton, VA
O Ewan McNay, NY
O John Speck, MD
O Bram Walzl, VA
O Joanna Melton, VA
Bruno Wolff, WI
Greg Crowe, MD
43  1991-2011
81  1997-2011
Top Laurelists
David Finberg, MA
T
Dave Finberg, MA
Aaron Fuegi, MA
David desJardines, CA
Jason Ley, GA
Rich Atwater, WA
Brian Sutton, MD
Dan Strock, PA
Kevin Hillock, VA
Steve Koleszar, VA
Ed Rothenheber, MD
269
263
185
146
123
117
102
90
84
70
Titan (TTN)
he Final began poorly for Dave Finberg. He
was last and mulligan’d a 2 only to re-roll
another 2. One of his legions didn’t recruit until
Turn 3.
Eventually, defending champ Aaron Fuegi
made an attack on one of David des Jardins’ legions. David missed a 33% chance to kill Aaron’s
titan. Aaron then had titan (8), two angels, warlock, gorgon, and cyclops. David teleported to
get a second wyvern in his titan legion but was
trapped by Aaron. David then attacked Dan
Strock’s angel legion with his own angel legion to
try to clear a way out. He was caught and killed
by Aaron in mid-flight. At this point things were
looking good for Aaron who had titan (11), two
angels, warlock and cyclops for his titan legion
and another legion with a hydra.
However, Aaron then attacked Dan’s two behemoths, gorgon, and three cyclops in the jungle.
Aaron later admitted that given his position, he
should never have attacked. The battle went poorly and Dan eventually got a serpent. In the end he
ended up losing the battle on time. Dan had 397
points, but wasn’t able to exceed 400 until after it
was an immediate win to teleport. Dave had few
points, so it took a long time for him to recover.
He recruited very well, eventually recruiting all
ten colossus, and got 400 points to
teleport on Dan’s titan for the win
and his fourth TTN championship
to take the Titan Masters lead over
Aaron. Patience is a virtue.
Top Laurelists
Jordan Shea, CT
Rebecca Hebner, CA 57
Alan Witte, NJ
50
Harry Flawd, PA
42
Joseph Sposito, NJ
40
Devin Flawd, PA
38
Bruce Monnin, OH
38
Dan Eshleman, NC
36
Robert Kircher, RI
33
Brendan Coomes, OH 32
Titan: The Arena (TTA)
T
he rising tide of WBC attendance briefly cost the event its place in the Century
until the 2011 Board voted it alone Legacy
status from among ten eligible candidates. The 26
preliminary games yielded 24 qualifiers, with two
double winners, Joanna Melton and Bram Walzl.
A quarter of those were AWOL for the semi-finals,
so two alternates were added to man five 4-player
tables. Round 2 was dominated by Ewan McNay’s
performance, killing all five creatures and earning
the highest score of the year (18 points).
Joining Ewan at the Final were Bram Walzl,
John Speck, Jordan Shea, and Thomas Melton—
the youngest of the well-versed Melton clan.
In Round 1 the cyclops exited quickly, almost
through unanimous consent, or possibly due to
lack of depth perception. Instead of offing the
only creature left with no first round bet (titan)
or one of Thomas’ two first-round bets, Bram
ended up killing John’s Hydra in Round 2. The
titan shuffled off its immortal coil in Round 3,
along with Jordan’s second-round bet. There was
no way for Thomas to save both of his first-round
bets, and so his Ranger died valiantly in Round 4,
taking bets from Bram and John with him. What
none of them knew was that all five secret bets
were still alive in Round 5. When the Warlock bit
the dust, Jordan Shea emerged the winner.
TTA has produced 15 different
winners in as many years, making
it easily the longest-running event
with no repeat winner.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Aaron Fuegi, MA
Dave des Jardins, CA
Jason Ley, WA
O David Finberg, MA
O Dan Strock, PA
O Brian Sutton, MD
Stefan Mecay, TX
Keith Wixson, NJ
K. Hammond, NY
Chris Byrd, CT
O Derek Landel, NJ
O C. Georgantzas, NY
Rich Atwater, WA
George Young, VT
24  1994-2011
55  2006-2011
Top Laurelists
Aaron Fuegi, MA
T
Aaron Fuegi, MA
David desJardins, CA
Brian Sutton, MD
Dan Strock, PA
David Finberg, MA
Sean McCulloch, OH
Jason Ley, WA
Andrew Gross, WA
John Sharp III, FL
Ed Rothenheber, MD
196
149
81
73
57
57
50
49
32
30
Titan Two (TT2)
he cream came to the top this year.
Round 3 of this single elimination
tournament fielded the most powerful
set of players to ever participate at this late
stage. Each of the surviving six had an Area
rating residing in the top seven positions of
the list. Not so coincidentally, that statement
holds true for the upper echelons of our Laurel List as well. Five of the six were former
champions of the two-player event. In a related happenstance, in each of the three Round 3
contests, the higher rated player won.
The semi-final pit David des Jardins vs
Jason Ley as defending champ Aaron Fuegi
received the high rent bye. Two wounded
rangers each rolled three hits out of four in
retaliation to kill Jason’s titan. Aaron and David then met to decide who would become the
first 4-time winner. Their matches tend to be
either very short or very long. This was one
of the brief ones. Only one conflict took place
early, so both titans were six pips. Aaron had
two stacks chasing David’s titan. One had a
griffon, a guardian, two rangers and three lions; the other had an angel, five rangers and
a guardian. David’s titan was weaker, with
three trolls and a warlock, when it went into
the tundra to recruit a warbear, taking a risk
in the attempt to become better.
Aaron’s angel stack was able to
catch the titan and the battle was
over swiftly.
Top Laurelists
Stefan Mecay, TX
T
Stefan Mecay, TX
413
Chris Withers, CA
125
Keith Wixson, NJ
110
Rick Young, NC
100
Bill Edwards, VA
54
Bruce Monnin, OH
46
Chris Byrd, CT
42
James Terry, NJ
37
Rob Hassard, NJ
32
Twilight Struggle (TWS)
he Deluxe Edition with the Chinese Civil War
variant was the default version. This was intended to dampen the Russian advantage, which
remained (34-26), but not as strong as previously.
The key match occurred in Round 2 when perennial laurelist George Young had four-time defending champion Stefan Mecay on the ropes, only to
get caught in a Bear Trap for which he missed four
consecutive rolls, allowing Stefan to turn the tide.
Chris Byrd led Keith Wixson throughout the
first semi, and needed only to draw Wargames to
win, but Keith held the stronger board position.
When the event did not materialize, final scoring
gave Wixson the win. Stefan Mecay’s Russians
had no such problems in the other semi, using
Decolonization and Destalinization to build a strong
board position over Kevin Hammond.
In the Final, Stefan bid 3 for the US. Keith
gained the early advantage in Asia but it would
not last as he was stuck with too many scoring
cards, a theme that would prevail throughout. In
mid-war, Keith got six out of seven scoring cards.
However, he still had a slight lead and was within
Wargames range until Turn 6. Keith headlined Decolonization while Stefan headlined Grain Sales. Stefan’s random draw plucked Africa Scoring! This
was huge as Stefan could play it immediately for
10 points whereas Keith could have
used his De-col to cut it down to 1
for Russia. On Turn 8 Stefan claimed
his fifth straight win—all ended with
Wargames—and his fifth title.
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Century Events
2011 Results
2011 Results
Curt Collins II, PA
Bruce Reiff, OH
Bob Wicks, CT
O Jason Ley, WA
O Chris Trimmer, TX
O Rob Kircher, RI
Bruce Wigdor, NJ
Ralph Gleaton, SC
Jeremy Billones, VA
O Bill Alderman, VA
O John Emery, SC
O Jeff Spaner, MD
Bruce Reiff, OH
Jim Burnett, TN
48  2000-2011
Top Laurelists
Curt Collins II, PA
A
Arthur Field, SC
Curt Collins II, PA
Bruce Reiff, OH
Luke Koleszar, VA
Jeff Mullet, OH
Steve Shambeda, PA
Fred Minard, PA
Joe Lux, NY
Bruce Young, SC
Jamie Tang, MD
92
60
48
48
43
42
35
34
30
30
Union Pacific (UNP)
fter three rounds, Bob Wicks, 2009 champ
Curt Collins II and defending champ
Bruce Reiff all safely reached the Final with
13 points. There was a three-way tie between
Rob Kircher, Jason Ley and Chris Trimmer at
11 for the last seat that went to Jason on the
second tie-breaker.
Jason decided not to try for the Union Pacific and lay shares instead. Curt, not one to
look a gift horse in the mouth, plowed right on
through as well as Bob and Bruce in a vain attempt to keep up. The third round saw Bruce
becoming intertwined with Jason and Bob.
Curt, knowing that the UP would be paying
off, just tried to keep his hold on the smaller
stocks and keep pace with Bruce in Black and
Purple. At the end of Round 3 Curt had 78,
Bob 75, Bruce 73 and Jason 63.
The final scoring card came early and
Bruce had managed to get a piece of Bob’s
Red and Green lines. Curt won with 131, to
Bruce’s 118, Bob’s 114 and Jason’s 102. Curt
had received $45 from his UP investment, Bob
and Bruce $31 and Jason $18. Those margins
are reflected about evenly in the results. You
can draw your own conclusions on the wisdom of not trying for the UP, but this first
title defense had ended badly for the defending Consul and was the sign of
even better things to come in
the week ahead for long suffering Reiff observers.
27  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Bruce Wigdor, NJ
W
John Emery, SC
Bruce Young, SC
Ray Stakenas II, MI
Bruce Wigdor, NJ
Ray Stakenas Sr, MI
Paul Wright, PA
Ed Kendrick, uk
Ralph Gleaton, SC
Larry Davidson, CA
Herbert Gratz, aa
197
150
106
104
64
52
51
48
46
34
Up Front (UPF)
ith the casualties removed from the first five
swiss firefights, eight were left standing with
records of 3-2 or better. The 2001 vintage champ,
Bruce Wigdor, led the field at 5-0. Frequent victors
John Emery and Bruce Young joined ‘09 Champ Jeff
Spaner and Jeremy Billones at 4-1. Favorable tiebreakers allowed journeymen Bill Alderman and
Ralph Gleaton to make the cut at 3-2 along with
Kevin Emery representing the next generation.
Despite these cuts, the playoffs would include four
former champs in possession of 11 shields.
Four different scenarios were chosen as the four
former champs paired off against those not yet so
anointed. Those left standing were Billones’ Japanese attackers in scenario “T”, Alderman’s Germans
in “B”, Wigdor’s Japanese in “A”, and Gleaton’s
Germans in “L”—all Axis winners that handed
three former champs their walking papers. The
semi-finals got underway with a broken German
MG sealing Bill’s fate as Ralph advanced in scenario
C. In the other bracket, Bruce’s Japanese scored a
third deck KO of Jeremy’s British in scenario “M”.
Bruce’s GI’s attacked Ralph’s Japanese in the
“Outpost” for the title. The initial shuffle gifted Bruce
with a Hill card for his AFV. It promptly killed three
Japanese as Ralph desperately managed to pin it
too late. It was enough to ensure a return to grace
for Bruce on the 10th anniversary of his
initial title. The Japanese broke early in
the second deck, leaving behind a perfect 8-0 Wigdor title run and yet another
“bridesmaid” finish for Ralph.
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2011 Results
Steven LeWinter, NC
Nick Page, on
Rob Flowers, MD
O J. Oppenheim, VA
O Mark Love, MD
O David Duncan, PA
Ed Paule, NJ
Charles Drozd, IL
Andy Gardner, VA
Jim Kramer, PA
Jim Eliason, IA
Ed Menzel, CA
Eric Freeman, PA
Charles Drozd, IL
94  2008-2011
36  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Steven LeWinter, NC
Eric Freeman, PA
Nick Page, on
Andrew Gerb, MD
Steven LeWinter, NC
Randy Buehler, WA
Rob Flowers, MD
Matt Peterson, MN
Scott Chupack, IL
Kevin Brown, GA
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36
33
30
30
18
12
12
12
12
Top Laurelists
Ed Paule, NJ
Andy Gardner, VA
Dan Henry, IL
Michael Kaye, CA
Ed Menzel, CA
Charlie Drozd, IL
Darren Kilfara, uk
Ed Paule, NJ
Michael Ussery, MD
John Pack, CO
Alan Applebaum, MA
342
272
246
232
188
146
126
118
114
113
Vegas Showdown (VSD)
Victory in the Pacific (VIP)
espite being out of print, 2011 was VSD’s most
successful year in its fourth outing at WBC.
Thanks to Bob Wicks, Mohegan Sun, a Connecticut
casino, sponsored the event with prize support in the
form of a T-shirt and deck of cards for each player.
The three heats produced 29 games, from which,
Alex Bove and defending champion Randy Buehler emerged as double winners. The closest game
was also the lowest scoring contest in the history of
the tournament; Jim Fry besting Doug Faust, Alfred
Smith and Eric Cheatam, 27-26-25-24. In contrast, the
biggest win (23 points) belonged to Mark Globus.
Six of the 27 qualifiers opted out, allowing
four runners-up to advance as alternates to the
five 5-player games of Round 2. The closest semi,
both between first and second as well as overall
from top to bottom was Nick Page over alternate
David Duncan. They finished tied at 43 with Nick
advancing due to $9 in change besting David’s
$5. Eric Monte, 2009 champion Eric Freeman, and
Cary Morris followed close behind at 40, 38, and 35
points respectively. Both Erics were also involved
in the closest top to bottom semi-final last year.
The largest victory in the semis went to another alternate, Mark Love, who finished a comfortable 17 points over defending champion Randy
Buehler and Greg Thatcher. In the other semis, it
was Rob Flowers by seven over 2008
champ Andy Gerb, Steve LeWinter by five over Michael Kaltman,
and Jeremy Oppenheim by six over
James Denham.
he bids increased from 4.5 to 4.8,
and the Japanese winning percentage dropped eight points, but remained
a very strong 60%. After five rounds, Jim Eliason
was the only unbeaten player—no doubt yearning
for a return to the days of the last man standing
swiss format. Four former champions manned the
gauntlet standing between him and his first VIP
title. Ed Paule, defending champ Andy Gardner,
2006 champ Ed Menzel, and 2008 champ Charles
Drozd manned the next tier at 4-1. The remaining
three places were filled by John Sharp, 2009 champ
Mike Kaye, and Jim Kramer who edged four other
3-2 players by tie-breaker.
Eliason’s luck ran out in Round 6 against
Kramer’s hot Allied dice. Paule, Gardner and Drozd also advanced. Round 7 found Ed, the new top
seed, bidding 6.5 to play the IJN vs. Andy while
Jim bid 5.5 vs. Charles. In both games, the 7th AF
did not survive Pearl Harbor, putting the Allies in
trouble. Andy surrendered after Turn 4 with both
Samoa and Pearl Harbor in IJN hands. However,
Charles was able to keep the IJN PoC low, forcing
Jim’s concession after Turn 6 .
The Final matched an unstoppable force
(Paule, 6-0 with the IJN) vs. an impenetrable defense (Drozd, 5-0 with the Allies). True to form,
Paule bid 5.5 POC for the IJN. Charles
gamely held out till Turn 7 but the
game was all Japanese from the outset and Ed Paule became the 12th different VIP champion.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Steve Packwood, MN
Charlie Drozd, IL
Andy Choptiany, PA
D. Nicholson, NY
O Pat Richardson, VA
O Bruce Monnin, OH
Ty Hansen, DC
Alan Sudy, VA
Lucas Rhodes, PA
O Todd Treadway, VA
O Ted Lange, ae
Vince Meconi, DE
Kevin Wojtaszczyk, NY
42  1991-2011
23  2006-2011
Top Laurelists
Steve Packwood, MN
S
Andy Gardner, VA 169
Pat Richardson, FL 158
Ray Freeman, CA
133
Dennis Nicholson, NY127
Jon. Lockwood, VA 125
Vince Meconi, DE
123
Ed Menzel, CA
116
Darren Kilfara, uk
99
Bruce Monnin, OH
82
Ewan McNay, CT
80
War At Sea (WAS)
teve Packwood (6-2) won his second title 15
years after taking his first by defeating Charlie Drozd (6-1-1). Charlie also was runner-up in
VIP, narrowly failing to become the first player to
win both in the same year. Jonathan Lockwood
(4-2) became the only player since the elimination rounds were expanded to make the playoffs
four years in a row. In the quarter-finals, top seed
Charlie’s Axis cruised past Ray Freeman (3-3),
Dennis Nicholson’s Axis (4-3) upset Pat Richardson (4-1-1), Andy Choptiany’s Allies (4-2-1) were
.5 better than Jonathan, and Steve’s Axis crushed
Bruce Monnin (4-2). A round later, Charlie’s Axis
overcame Dennis using only nine ASW to sink his
first seven U-boats and won anyway. Meanwhile,
Steve’s Allies defeated Andy.
In the Final, Charlie left his Axis comfort zone
and took the Allies for a 2.0 bid. On Turn 4, the
Axis sortied in the Barents, winning the area and
sinking Convoy 2B. On Turn 7 eight Allied ASW
rid the South Atlantic of six U-boats, but Axis LBA
sank Convoy 3C. The Allied bid of 2.0 flipped an
Allied 1-POC victory to a 1-POC loss.
Charlie copped Best Axis Player with a 5-01 log, while Jonathan nabbed Best Allied Player
laurels at 4-1-0, the sixth time he has been so designated. The Allies won 43 of 76 contests, with
three ties. These results contrasted
with last year’s, when the Axis won
a majority of the games. However,
this year the Axis won six of seven
playoff contests.
Top Laurelists
Ty Hansen, DC
Chris Trimmer, TX 106
Kevin Wojtaszczyk, NY101
Ty Hansen, DC
42
Phil Rennert, MD
30
Jason Levine, NY
24
George Young, VT
24
Alan Sudy, DC
18
Jacob Hebner, CO
18
Nick Anner, NY
17
Lyman Moquin, DC 16
War of the Ring (WOR)
T
he sixth battle for Middle Earth
ended with a pair of new finalists as
the rotating titles of Chris Trimmer and
Kevin Wojtaszczyk were laid to rest! 26 games
were played with the Free People winning 12.
The new SE format reduced the field to three unbeatens by Monday night. Ty Hansen narrowly
avoided defeat vs two-time champion Wojtaszczyk when there was no dawn on the final turn,
eliminating a possible game dunking Will of the
West. A.J Sudy needed two Free People wins
to stay unbeaten and Lucas Rhodes had to put
down defending champ Trimmer to round out
the top three.
A.J. was paired with Ty, handing Lucas
the eliminator game vs the GM. Lucas’s Free
People were found early and had a slow go of
it while the Shadow had great action dice and
event cards which eliminated all the DEW,
Lorien and HD with Peligar to close out the 10
VPs before the fellowship could reach Mordor.
This successful eliminator role transformed the
Ty vs AJ semi into a Final. Ty managed to get
Aragorn crowned in Turn 2 while AJ put the
Corsairs in play. The Ents were mustered and
Smeagol guided the Fellowship on a steady
pace. On Turn 11 the Shadow were laying siege
to three strongholds and in position for the win,
but Frodo dunked the ring first
giving Ty his first WOR shield and
the first of three titles he would
earn that week!
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2011 Results
2011 Results
Rob Winslow, NY
Greg Hultgren, CA
Stan Myszak, qc
O Derek Landel, NJ
O Steve Smith, NE
O Robert Sohn, NJ
Mike Mitchell, GA
Tom Drueding, MA
George Young, VT
M. Birnbaum, NY
O Michael Ussery, MD
O Bill Powers, VA
Bruce Monnin, OH
MarvinBirnbaum,NY
36  2009-2011
Top Laurelists
Rob Winslow, NY
W
Rob Winslow, NY
Terry Coleman, CA
Greg Hultgren, CA
Lembit Tohver, on
Stan Myszak, qc
Derek Landel, NJ
Gary Phillips, FL
Jason White, VA
Steve Smith, NE
Chad Mekash, NJ
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30
24
18
16
12
12
12
8
6
Warriors of God (WOG)
arriors of God again increased attendance in
its Junior year. Over 30 people appeared for
Terry Coleman’s demonstration followed by 36
players in the first round. Miraculously, exactly
half of them brought a game, so none had to be
turned away. The English dominated in Round 1,
going 13-5. The French made a comeback in Round
2, winning six of nine, including the twin demise of
defending champion Coleman at the hands of Greg
Hultgren and 2010 runner-up Lembit Tohver to
Rob Winslow. These two new worthies would persevere all the way to the Final. The English regained
the upper hand in the remaining rounds, winning
six of seven to claim 22 of 34 games overall.
In the semi-finals, Rob Winslow (the only returning laurelist to make the prize rounds) won
as the English against Stan Myszak’s French,
while Greg Hultgren’s English did likewise
against Derek Landel.
The Final began close with Greg’s French
looking good early in the victory point count. The
fickle dice turned against him however as Turns
4, 6 and 7 saw French leaders drop like flies. Rob’s
English, with numerous healthy leaders, took advantage of this leadership shortage by taking Ilede-France on Turn 8 and holding it through the
end. Not even Joan of Arc could change the tide
for the French, and Rob’s lead grew
until he achieved a 30+ VP automatic victory on Turn 11 to claim
the first of two titles he would win
that week and his sixth overall.
68  1994-2011
Top Laurelists
Michael Mitchell, GA
I
George Young, VT
260
James Pei, TX
217
Paul Gaberson, PA
198
Brian Mountford, NY 179
Keith Wixson, NJ
120
John Poniske, PA
91
Mike Mitchell, GA
61
Dan Leader, MA
60
Joe Collinson, MD
52
Washington’s War (WWR)
t took over 18 hours from the opening round
to the end of the Final, but Mike Mitchell’s
British bested Tom Drueding in a 1779 win for
the championship—marking 15 years between
titles for Mike since the days when he dominated in Third Reich. The Final proved a bit of
an anti-climax as the beginning was the usual
PC placement fest. Then the British focused on
New England while Washington ran around the
board battling at Fort Detroit and the middle
states to obtain French Intervention. Alas, the
game ended before the colonists could make
any progress with their newfound strength.
The result was typical as the British held a
47-34 advantage. The duration of the swiss segment was not determined until after Round 3.
Five players had earned Elite 8 status with a
3-0 start, leaving 11 2-1 players vying for three
remaining slots. Per the event preview a secret
vote was taken whether to add a fourth round
or a dice off for the last three slots. Only one
vote was needed to require a fourth round. To
my surprise the most popular response was “I
want to play but if I am the only one, change
my vote”. Gamers are gamers. Ten elected to
continue knowing that two of the five winners would be eliminated in a dice off
following Round 4. Champion Mike
Mitchell won in that fourth round,
rolled good dice and then produced
three wins in the single elimination
portion for his title.
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Century Events
2011 Results
2011 Results
Ray Clark, CT
Joe Angiolillo, CT
O Tim Miller, GA
O Marty Musella, MD
Rejean Tremblay, on
T. Casselberry, VT
Peter Reese, VA
O Jesse Boomer, KS
O M. Casselbury, PA
O F. Morehouse, PA
Marty Musella, VA
Rob Olsson, MD
25  1991-2011
Top Laurelists
Richard Beyma, VA
T
Rob Beyma, MD
Marty Musella, VA
Richard Beyma, MD
John Clarke, FL
Bruno Sinigaglio, AK
Chuck Stapp, NJ
Joe Beard, AZ
Mark Gutfreund, KY
Ray Clark, CT
Pat Mirk, FL
162
146
107
97
61
31
30
30
27
27
Waterloo (WAT)
wo minor rule changes concerning
Prussian & Anglo-Allied (PAA) stacking and attack coordination were added
in 2011 to fine tune the play balance. Prohibiting
Prussian units stacking in the same hex with British
or combining to attack the same French unit also
reflect the lack of tactical coordination between the
British and Prussian armies.
Ray Clark’s French downed Tim Miller’s PAA
forces in one semi while defending champ Richard
Beyma’s PAA were able to deny Joe Angiolillo’s
French in the other.
Richard’s PAA triumphed in one of the closest
Finals of recent vintage. The French gained an early
advantage by sweeping the Prussians from the
heights at Quatre Bras with two 2-1 assaults while
conducting holding attacks along the entire front
limiting Richard’s counterattack options. Ray’s aggressive advance forced Richard’s PAA back to the
center. By the end of the first day the loss ratio favored Ray. Dawn saw the tide turn as Ray gambled
on two large assaults against doubled PAA positions resulting in exchanges while Richard skillfully maneuvered his PAA forces concentrating
his attacks on vulnerable French divisions whose
retreats were blocked by restricting rivers and forests. Nevertheless, Ray’s French were threatening
to turn the PAA left flank, but his attacks netted only exchanges while
Richard’s eliminated defenders. With
the Prussian IV Corps approaching
his rear, Ray conceded.
26  2006-2011
Top Laurelists
Rejean Tremblay, on
T
Peter Reese, VA
120
Ed Rothenheber, MD 66
Henry Russell, PA
48
Rejean Tremblay, on 30
David Gantt, SC
30
Melvin Casselberry, PA 27
Tracey Casselberry, VT 18
Al Hurda, on
12
Jesse Boomer, KS
12
Rob Olsson, MD
12
Wellington (WLL)
he tournament was rich with events of note,
including the beginning of a family dynasty
in Wellington and even a participant from Wellington, New Zealand. The Casselberry family
brings a lot of Wellington experience to the table
at the WBC, and in the Mulligan round, secured
three of the four victories.
One of the more difficult aspects of Wellington is that erstwhile teammates must gauge their
support for one another when only one can advance. With only two tables of four semi-finalists,
the victorious teams did not face this conundrum.
There was a more genuine esprit de corps among
the allies as the semi-finals began with each player now expecting his ally to fully support his advance for the first time. This worked for the Allied
teams of Tremblay/Tracey C. and Reese/Boomer.
In the Final, defending champion Reese
turned the first choice into Britain. Jesse Boomer
then chose to remain his ally. Rejean Tremblay
chose Armee du Nord leaving Armee du Sud to
his former teammate, Tracey Casselberry. Britain began the march to Madrid, but after taking
Ciudad Rodrigo, the dice abandoned them. Wellington went south to remove the threat posed by
Soult, but in a devastating battle, was routed. A
‘6’ Peace Roll brought a swift French victory and
since his Armee du Nord outscored
Tracey’s Armee du Sud 12.5 – 11, Rejean’s first WBC title. Peter took the
bronze with Britain’s 5 points over
Jesse’s 2-point Spanish effort.
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2011 Results
2011 Results
James Pei, VA
Michael Ussery, MD
Grant LaDue, NY
O George Young, VT
O Paul Gaberson, PA
O Keith Wixson, NJ
Paul Milne, MN
Steve Erickson, CA
Don Stanley, sk
Timothy Francis, MD
Jon Hogen, CA
Jerry Smolens, PA
Keith Wixson, NJ
Mike Crowe, VA
26  2002-2011
32  92-00; 02-11
Top Laurelists
James Pei, VA
J
James Pei, VA
Keith Wixson, NJ
Paul Gaberson, PA
Ron Fedin, PA
Peter Reese, VA
George Young, VT
John Buse, IL
Tom Drueding, MA
Rob Winslow, NY
Bruce Wigdor, NJ
Top Laurelists
336
250
186
141
111
107
99
98
70
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Wilderness War (WNW)
ames “The Master” Pei became the first four-time
winner in the event’s history. Pei was undefeated,
beating Chris Jones, Bob Jamelli, and Michael Ussery in the preliminaries, George Young in the semifinals and Ussery again in the Final. Ussery defeated
Ernie Chambers and Doug Smith in the preliminaries and advanced to the semi-finals on tiebreakers
despite losing to Pei in Round 3. He defeated Grant
LaDue in the semi-finals to advance to his rematch
with the Master. Young and LaDue were each unbeaten in the preliminaries. In Round 3 LaDue
knocked out Paul Gaberson, the defending champ,
while Young outlasted GM Keith Wixson, 2010’s
other finalist. The finalists got to choose between a
warhawk and a spiked ballhead warclub replica.
The losing semi-finalists each received a book.
The rule changes implemented to address the
game’s inherent French advantage may have finally
hit home. British players are now allowed to retrieve
a reinforcement card from the discard pile at the
start of each turn (if conditions permit), the French
Marine Detachment units have been reduced to only
one loss step, the starting French VPs have been reduced to 3 and side selection has been made random in order to eliminate specialization. This year
the games split evenly with each side winning 16 (as
compared to French advantages of 69%,
65%, 67%, 61%, 52%, 56%, 71% and 62%
in the last eight years. Similar results
from the current online tournament
have reinforced this trend, but time will
tell if this isn’t just a statistical anomaly.
Paul Milne, MN
I
Jason Moore, NY
Paul Milne, MN
Bruce Harper, bc
Jon Hogen, CA
Greg Wilson, NJ
Bill Moodey, PA
Herbert Gratz, aa
Tim Francis, MD
Eric Thobaben, MI
Randy Scheers, TX
156
144
121
118
96
96
78
72
72
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World At War (WAW)
f one takes the term “unique” literally, it is safe
to say that this is indeed a unique event. Unlike
conventional tournaments, World At War takes the
form of an ongoing playtest of an incredibly detailed game taking a week to play that has been
underway for over 20 years. The participants meet
at the end of the week to vote who “won” and
decide on the rule changes for next year! If that is
not unique enough for you, the participants come
equipped with fully magnetized versions of the
game which came in extremely handy during the
need to change locations due to the unavailability
of Lampeter Hall during the auction.
They must be doing something right because
they attracted their largest field ever—allowing for eight full campaign games. Two games
involved failed invasions of England that were
followed by invasions of Russia. One featured an
Axis conquest of Spain and Turkey, followed by
a 1942 invasion of Russia. And in another, the Allies managed to invade France in 1942, and stay
ashore. Two were one-point Axis victories (which
means one theater tied, while the Axis won by
one turn in the other theater); one was a draw;
two were Allied victories; and three were Axis
victories ranging from four to eight points.
One of our players, Elihu Feustal, used a
video camera to interview each
player at three intermittent points,
providing a visual and oral history
of each match that were posted on
You Tube.
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The Seven Heroes of 2011
2011 is destined to be remembered ever more as
the end of “the streak”. Consul Reiff, he of the
44 titles, had never failed to win at least one for
20 years. In two decades he has amassed more
bragging rights than any one mortal should
ever enjoy, so his recent struggles were met with
considerable mirth. Herewith, we salute those
who brought this reign of terror to an end.
It all started quietly on Monday afternoon with
Bruce defending his 2010 Union Pacific title from
his customary vantage point in the Final. But
Curt Collins, the 2009 champ, had other ideas and
made him settle for silver with a 131-118 victory.
Tuesday brought another opportunity as he
sought his fifth Auction title. But our auctioneer
was slow to respond and barely qualified as the
last non-winning alternate. He ended his day in
the semis at the hands of Rob Buccheri who went
on to finish second overall.
Wednesday and Thursday were spent in pursuit
of his tenth Football Strategy plaque. Ray Stakenas
II denied him 14-11 in the fifth round of the first
heat. Bruce hastily rearranged his schedule to play
in the poorly attended second heat for a backdoor
route to the Final. But out of nowhere, rookie
Larry Hiemenz upset the nine-time champ in the
first round! Reiff watchers were now excitedly
questioning whether this could be the year.
Friday brought Battleline, an event he has owned
four years running. There would not be a fifth.
Barrington Beavis stopped the defending champ
in the Quarter-finals on his way to a second place
finish. Bruce would settle for 6th—but no fez—in
the Trial event and the pressure mounted.
Saturday’s title hopes came down to six rounds
of Battle Cry but Bruce was ousted short of laurels
in the Quarter-finals by Phil Shea who lost in
the next round to finish third. Daughter Nicole
rubbed salt in her father’s wounds by winning
Slapshot late that night.
Sunday dawned on the Streak’s last hope: the
Ingenius semi-finals—or as fellow Cabbie Pete
Stein put it: “Bruce’s pathetic last stand”. Paired
with Jason Levine, Rebecca Hebner and Meghan
Friedmann, the Consul could manage no better
than third. Winner Meghan was destined to
finish second in the next round but had already
won the most important game of the week. The
streak was over!
I invite all seven to toast an end to the streak at
the Good Spirits Bar before the Sandman Parade
on Thursday. The drinks are on me.
Century Events
Upcoming BPA Competition
BPA members can revel in several
opportunities to relive past glories or improve
on their best performances in the year ahead.
WBC Pre-Cons
Saturday, July 28th, 2012
So many games, so little time! Pre-Cons are the
answer to schedule conflicts for “meaty” games
requiring your full attention. This year offering
• Age of Renaissance • Axis & Allies
• 18XX • Hannibal and Grognardcon including
• Afrika Korps • Anzio • Bulge ‘81 • Gettysburg
• Panzerblitz • Russian Campaign • Squad Leader
• Waterloo • Wooden Ships & Iron Men.
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
• A Few Acres of Snow • Manifest Destiny
• Paths of Glory • Through the Ages
• Victory in the Pacific • War of the Ring
July 30th – August 5th, 2012
WBC 2012
Lancaster Host Resort, Lancaster, PA
November 1st–4th, 2012
EuroQuest X
Hilton Pikesville, Pikesville, MD
A dozen Euro tournaments, open gaming
galore, and the debut of the latest Euros
from Essen.
January 24th–27th, 2013
Winter Activation Meeting (WAM) XI
Holiday Inn, Timonium, MD
Four tournaments for Card Driven Wargames.
Play By Email Tournaments
Frequent partial play keeps skills sharp
and provides daily vicarious thrills at your
convenience. Ongoing events include:
• Battles of the American Revolution
• Washington’s War • Russian Campaign
• Breakout Normandy • Manifest Destiny
• Afrika Korps • Bitter Woods • Here I Stand
• Age of Renaissance • Stone Age
• Gettysburg • War At Sea • Squad Leader
• Victory in the Pacific • Advanced Civilization
• Amun-Re • Paths of Glory • March Madness
• Wilderness War • Great Campaigns
• Pro Golf • Speed Circuit • For The People
2011 Trial Events
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To read after-action reports, visit http://www.boardgamers.org/yearbook11/
7 Wonders (7WS)
1776 (776)
170  2011
12  1993-2011
 Matthew Beach, MD
O Dominic Blais, qc
O Robbie Mitchell, VA
O Chris Terrell, VA
O Ken Schlosser, PA
O Karl Henning, VT
 Steve Packwood, MN
O Robert Frisby, VA
O David Dockter, MN
O Greg Tanner, AZ
O Matt Burkhins, MD
O Pat Mirk, FL
Kathy Stroh, DE
Robert Frisby, VA
Ace of Aces (AOA)
Afrika Korps (AFK)
36  2004-2011
22  1991-2011
 Joseph Belyeu, AL
O Grant LaDue, NY
O Richard Irving, CA
O William Burch, MD
O George Deutsch, MD
O Noah Engelmann, MD
 Vincent Meconi, DE
O Ed Menzel, CA
O Bert Schoose, IL
O Jim Tracy, OH
O Randy Heller, NH
Doug Porterfield, VA
Jonathan Lockwood, VA
Amun Re (AMR)
Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)
75  2003-2011
28  2011
 Raphael Lehrer, CA
O Andrew Emerick, CT
O Alex Bove, PA
O Doug Smith, PA
O Bill Zurn, CA
O Matt Calkins, VA
 Pierre LeBoeuf, MD
O Akihisa Tabei, jp
O Daniel Barnes, CA
O Dave Metheny, PA
O John Ford, PA
O William Burch, MD
Greg Thatcher, FL
William Wallace, OH
Battleline (BAT)
Brawling Battleships (BBS)
40  2001-2011
14  2004-2011
 Sean McCulloch, OH
O Barrington Beavis, uk
O Eric Filipkowski, MD
O Chris Yaure, PA
O Robert Kircher, RI
O Bruce Reiff, OH
 Brad Raszewski, MD
O Pat Mirk, FL
O Stephen Shedden, TN
O Huston Johnson, MD
O Jonathan Barry, PA
O Jason Fisher, NC
Bruce Reiff, OH
Jeff Billings, MD
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2011 Trial Events
Chicago Express (CHX)
C&C: Napoleonics (CCN)
29  2009-2011
26  2011
 Phillip Shea, FL
O Eddie Burmester, PA
O Jessica Crandell, FL
O Jim Fry, MD
O Courtney Arndt, MD
O Akihisa Tabei, jp
 Michael Shea, CT
O Richard Bliss, CA
O John Grasse, CT
O Jack Morrell, NY
O Jeff Lange Sr, ae
O Andy Stapp, NJ
Bryan Eshleman, NC
Anthony Curtis, OK
Conquest of Paradise (CQP)
Crusader Rex (CRX)
28  2008-2011
11  2007-2011
 Daniel Pappas, MD
O Phil Rennert, MD
O David Cross, VA
O Keith Ferguson, VA
O Brian Greer, VA
O Steve Simmons, NJ
 Nick Benedict, CA
O Llew Bardecki, nz
O Ron Draker, VA
O Fred Bauer, VA
O Doug Bryant, PA
O N/A
Kevin McPartland, MD
Grant Dalgliesh, WA
Days of Steam (DOS)
Dominant Species (DSP)
25  2011
46  2011
 Curt Collins II, PA
O Kevin Lewis, DC
O Dusty Unser, PA
O Craig Trader, VA
O Patrick Mirk, FL
O Chad Weaver, PA
 Dennis Mishler, GA
O Tom McCorry, VA
O Lane Hess, PA
O Tracey Casselberry, VT
O John Emery, SC
O Kevin Emery, SC
Max Jamelli, PA
Dave Long, NC
Egizia (EGZ)
Eisenbach Gap (EBG)
49  2011
13  2009-2011
 Randy Buehler, WA
O Sceadeau D’Tela, NC
O Redie Smith. NC
O Kyle Smith, PA
O Lars Astrom, NC
 Jeff Schulte, NJ
O Matthew O’Connor, NJ
O Derek Pulhamus, NY
O Rob Schoenen, PA
O Stan Myszak, qc
O Gary Libby, RI
Jeff Schulte, NJ
2011 Trial Events
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Elchfest (ELC)
Empire of the Sun (EOS)
67  2001-2011
26  2005-2011
 Dan Dolan Sr, NJ
O Josh Githens, SC
O Rebecca Hebner, CO
O Brandon Bernard, PA
O Scott A. Smith, PA
O Alexander Metzger, NY
 Antero Kuusi, fn
O Dennis Culhane, PA
O Craig Yope, MI
O Mark van Roekel, VA
O Matt Ellis, uk
O Tom Thornsen, NY
Dan Dolan Sr, NJ
Mark Herman, MD
Founding Fathers (FGF)
Fresco (FRS)
31  2011
33  2011
 Danny Lewis, DE
O Joel Feldman, MA
O Daniel Pappas, MD
O Stefan Mecay, TX
O Nick Kiswanto, VA
O Lawrence Hiemenz, MD
 Kyle Smith, PA
O Tom DeMarco, NJ
O Matthew Craig, NC
O Randy Buehler, WA
O Carmen Petruzelli, NC
O Heather Spangenberg, PA
Jacob Nixon, WV
Jim Vroom, PA
Galaxy (GXY)
Hearts & Minds (H&M)
39  2000-2011
12  2011
 Rob Winslow, N
O Craig Melton, VA
O Martin Sample, NH
O Max DuBoff, NJ
O Steve Cameron, PA
O John Speck, MD
 Andrew Friedmann, MA
O Douglas Epperson, MD
O Jack Stalica, on
O Stan Hilinski, on
O Michael Boucher, on
O Tom Drueding, MA
Mark Mitchell, VA
Andrew Friedmann, MA
A House Divided (AHD)
Julius Caesar (JUC)
34  1999-2003, 2010-2011
23  2010-2011
 John Sutcliffe, uk
O David Metzger, NY
O Phil Rennert, MD
O Linus Park, IL
O Jack Stalica, on
O Steven Raszewski, M
 William Austin, VA
O Justin Thompson, VA
O Malcolm Smith, VA
O Andy Friedmann, MA
O Ron Draker, VA
O Brian Greer, VA
David Metzger, NY
Justin Thompson, VA
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2011 Trial Events
King Philip’s War (KPW)
Labyrinth (LBY)
36  2011
33  2011
 Geoff Allbutt, NY
O Rob Shoenen, PA
O Tom Drueding, MA
O Jonathan Squibbs, PA
O Dan Hoffman, NC
O Philip Yaure, PA
 Chris Yaure, PA
O Stefan Mecay, TX
O Jeremy Martin, GA
O Martin Sample, NY
O Roger Taylor, VA
O Andrew Ruhnke, VA
Kaarin Engelmann, it
Joel Tamburo, IL
Leaping Lemmings (LLM)
LOR Confrontation (LRC)
50  2011
36  2010-2011
 Andy Lewis, DE
O Mary Ellen Powers, VA
O R. J. Gleaton, SC
O Jeff Pattison, MD
O Forrest Speck, MD
O Anthony Curtis, OK
 Nick Henning, CT
O David Rennert, MD
O Rob Flowers, MD
O Alexandra Henning, PA
O Nick Page, on
O Derek Miller, VA
Rick Young, NC
Jim Doughan, PA
Macao (MCO)
Manifest Destiny (MFD)
37  2011
14  2005-2011
 Sceadeau D’Tela, NC
O Dennis Mishler, GA
O Mike Kaltman, PA
O Jason Levine, NY
O Tedd Mullally, NJ
O Pei-Hsin Lin, NY
 Bill Crenshaw, VA
O Kevin Sudy, VA
O Bob Woodson, NV
O Eric Wrobel, MD
O Pete Pollard, TN
O Eric Monte, NY
Raphael Lehrer, MD
Bill Crenshaw, VA
Naval War (NVW)
Navegador (NVG)
25  1992-2011
48  2011
 David L. Anderson, MI
O Brian Goodwin, VA
O Jim Fleckenstein, VA
O Ben Collinson, Sr, MD
O Doug Richards, on
O James Kramer, PA
 Andrew Emerick, CT
O Samantha Berk, PA
O John Sizemore, VA
O Emily Bacon, PA
O Rob Kilroy, PA
Jon Lockwood, VA
Anni Foasberg, NJ
2011 Trial Events
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Panzerblitz (PZB)
Pro Golf (PGF)
25  1991-2011
63  1994-2011
 Greg Tanner, AZ
O Bert Schoose, IL
O Chuck Leonard, PA
O Marty Musella, VA
O Alan Arvold, IL
O Bill Scott, VA
 Daniel Pappas, MD
O Danny Lewis, DE
O Bruce Young, SC
O Paul Risner, FL
O Paul Bean, MA
O Ken Gutermuth, NC
Rick Northey, MA
Bruce Monnin, OH
Ra: The Dice Game (RDG)
Samarkand (SMK)
107  2010-2011
21  2011
 Chester Lanham, MD
O David Meyaard, NY
O Anna Marion, PA
O Chris Gnech, PA
O James Gilmore, MD
O Patrick Gorman, PA
 Jonathan Jones, VA
O Dvid Avins, NJ
O Curt Collins II, PA
O Elaine Pearson, NC
O Randy Buehler, WA
O Steve Cameron, PA
Scott Buckwalter, MD
Carmen Petruzelli, PA
Storm Over Stalingrad (SOS)
Stronghold (SGH)
10  2009-2011
8  2011
 Stan Myszak, qc
O Jack Stalica, on
O Isaac Clizbe, VA
O Stephen Shedden, TN
O Malcolm Smith, VA
O N/A
 Linus Park, IL
O Jarrett Weintraub, NY
O Don Tatum, MD
O Eric Caron, qc
O N/A
O N/A
Jack Stalica, on
Charles Simon, PA
Successors (SUC)
Tikal (TKL)
19  1998-2011
38  2000-2011
 Craig Melton, VA
O Bruce Blumentritt, TX
O Phil Rodrigues, VA
O Dan Blumentritt, TX
O Doug Smith, VA
O Rob Seulowitz, NY
 Jack Jaeger, VA
O Greg Thatcher, CA
O Kevin Broh-Kahn, MD
O John Min, NJ
O Randy Buehler, WA
O Dominic Blais, qc
Robert Seulowitz, NY
Daniel Broh-Kahn, MD
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2011 Trial Events
TransAmerica (TAM)
Twilight Imperium (TWI)
58  2004, 2006-2011
28  2009-2011
 Janet Ottey, PA
O Chris Gnech, PA
O Nick Smith, uk
O Rob Kircher, RI
O Cary Morris, NC
O Jennifer Gorman, PA
 Michael Buccheri, MD
O Will Kenyon, GA
O Ed Jones, uk
O Peter Walsh, PA
O Patrick Neary, NY
O Rob Olsson, MD
Ken Gutermuth, NC
Michael Buccheri, MD
White Star Rising (WSR)
Win, Place & Show (WPS)
17  2011
22  1992-2011
 Derek Pulhamus, NY
O Michael Buccheri, MD
O Michael Nagel, NJ
O David Deitch, PA
O Sean Druelinger, MD
O John Vasilakos, VA
 Jeremy Billones, VA
O Craig Fox, PA
O Gadoon Kyrollos, NJ
O John Welage, OH
O Jason Levine, NY
O Ken Gutermuth, NC
Michael Buccheri, MD
Jim Burnett, TN
Wooden Ships & Iron Men (WSM)
Yspahan (YSP)
20  1991-2011
39  2008-2011
 George Deutsch, MD
O Evan Hitchings, DE
O Paul Owen, VA
O Joseph Belyeu, AL
O Tim Hitchings, DE
O Rob McKiney, VA
 Eric Freeman, PA
O Rob Kircher, RI
O Andy Latto, MA
O Deb Yaure, PA
O Tim Mossman, MD
O Rob Kilroy, PA
Tim Hitchings, DE
Richard Shay, MA
~ Memorial ~
Sadly, 2011 was also noteworthy for
who wasn’t there as we lost three
of our longtime comrades who
passed away in the preceding year.
The friends of John Wetherell, Paul
Bolduc and Bob Dwyer will miss
their friendly, yet spirited, adverserial attempts to best them across the
gameboard.
John Wetherell
1960-2011
Paul Bolduc
1949-2011
Bob Dwyer
1955-2011
Team Champions
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~ Go Flank Yourself ~
Justin Rice, VA
Rob Doane, MD
Dave Cross, VA
Brad Merrill, ME
Here I Stand • 9
Battles of the Am Rev • 8
Conquest of Paradise • 2
Wilderness War • 0
G
o Flank Yourself, ranked 50th in the 84team field, edged perennial favorite Nest
of Spies by a single point to take the 20th Run
for the Slivers in the 2011 WBC Team Tournament. The 150-1 longshot scored three bonus points in the WBC handicapping system
for scoring in events which they had not won
previously as Justin Rice and Rob Doane
were rewarded for their first titles in Here I
Stand and Battles of the American Revolution
respectively while Dave Cross also picked
up a bonus point for his third place finish
in Conquest of Paradise. The Nest, in contrast
was ineligible for bonus points from its three
scorers who had combined for 17 titles in
their respective team events as the prohibitive favorite settled for also-ran status for the
fourth year in a row.
The colorfully named Amish Chicks Dig
Wood overcame 83-1 odds to take third—a
mere point behind the Nest, and 31 places
above its 34th ranking—fueled by the CCA
and WOG titles of Bill O’Neal and Rob Winslow respectively. That put them one point
ahead of the MIT Strategic Gaming Society
whose lock on the two Titan events remained firmly controlled by Dave Finberg
and Aaron Fuegi. The 5th place Shockers and
8th place Band of Fools were the only teams
able to score points with all four members.
The year’s biggest over-achievers were
the 62nd-ranked Team Looking Glass who
eschewed recruiting ringers and fielded
a strictly famiiy squad to overcome 264-1
odds to finish in the Top Ten. Also thumbing their noses at the Happy Handicapper
were the ladies of the aptly named Lady
Luck whose estrogen ignored 340-1 odds to
finish 19th.
With a substantially smaller field, shutouts decreased to 28, but remained steady
at approximately a third of all entries. The
highest ranked squad to post nothing but
goose eggs and thereby earn the 2011 title
for Most Overrated was the 21st ranked
Gang Green. However, the second-ranked
Win or You’re Grounded squad was the
highest ranked team to fall out of the Top
25—and it did so while scoring one measly
point. So much for “manly men”.
The Werewolf Bait team retained the Misery Loves Company title with 506 entrants
for an average of 126.5 entrants per event
while scoring 5 points. On the opposite end
of the scale, claiming the Big Fish in the
Small Pond title with but 3 points were the
Gaming Speed Bumps whose 97 total entrants
averaged just 24.25 players per event. In all,
22 Team participants (6.5%) won their selected events—down from 38 (9%) in 2009
and 33 (8%) in 2010.
Predicting all of this doesn’t appear
to be so easy after all. Overall, the Happy
Handicapper held steady with 14 of his top
25 picks making the Top 25 cut—the same
as last year—and keeping his five-year average at 56% which is apparently more than
any of the rest of us can say. On average,
contestants in our Team Tournament prediction contest correctly picked only 2.44
teams in ten guesses as making the Top
Ten—down from 2.66 last year. Mark Love’s
2009 winning score of six correct guesses in
our initial contest remains the high water
mark as this year’s high score was just five
teams—selected by Bruno Wolff who was
the only entrant to manage 50% accuracy
in 2011. Bruno correctly selected #2 Nest of
Spies (as did every other entrant), #4 MIT
Strategic Gaming Society, #8 Band of Fools,
#6 Central Florida Gamers and #9 Tell Me the
Odds in that order. Bruno won a free 2012
membership for winning our Third Annual
Bracket Busting Contest. Read our pre-convention email newsletter in July to try your
hand in our next Bracket Buster.
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EuroQuest IX
C
Aran Warszawski • is
onvention Directors John Weber and Norman
Rule are to be congratulated for the best Euroquest conference run to date. Euroquest 2012
set a host of records during its continuing evolution with several new faces gaining momentum
and attention in the quest for BPA laurels. An attendance of 340 was a 10% increase over our initial year at the Pikesville Hilton and meant that
the convention has now more than doubled in
size since its inaugural edition
in 2003 and has us once
again searching for additional space options.
This year’s event had
a truly international
flavor, as attendees
representing
four
different continents,
from as far away as
Australia, Israel and
Rumania, converged
at the Hilton Pikesville
near Baltimore for
four days of fun and
Daniel Eppolito
competitive gaming.
This year’s program
Harold L. Siegelman
was
jam-packed
Award Winner
with tournaments,
new game demos
and a variety of other activities in a welcoming
environment. Tournament attendance swelled as
well, with eight of 11 returning main events setting all-time highs, with the remaining three nearing their previous highwater marks. The Hot New
Game for 2011—7 Wonders—led the way with an
all-time Euroquest single event attendance record
of 80, shattering the old mark of 68 set by Ticket
to Ride in 2009 when that tournament doubled as
a qualifier leading to the World Championships
sponsored by Days of Wonder. Ticket to Ride attendance also broke that old mark, by 10, with a
total of 78, while Stone Age tied the old mark at 68.
Dramatic finishes were the order of the day
with new attendees playing a leading role. Heading into the finals on Sunday, Haim Hochboim
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Ben Scholl • PA
Daniel Eppolito • CA
41
Ben Scholl • PA
54
Haim Hochboim • is
57
Daniel Eppolito • CA
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EuroQuest IX
of Israel stood atop the HLS leaderboard with
28 points, while advancing to the final of Ticket
to Ride, guaranteeing even more points. Thus, it
seemed likely that the HLS Trophy—which had
made it all the way to Seattle and back in 2010
(in the custody of Randy Buehler)—might travel
even further afield this year. Former HLS winner
Rob Kircher’s bid for a second brass plate on the
trophy ended when he flamed out in the Settlers
final, finishing fourth. However, all was not lost
for the host country as the Power Grid final also
featured Daniel Eppolito, another EQ rookie but
WBC veteran, who was still in contention, bidding
for his second event win after having captured the
Ra title. The Power Grid game, which took a long
time to complete, went Dan’s way, enabling him
to surge past Haim in the HLS standings. At this
point the pressure shifted to Haim, as only a first
or a second in the Ticket to Ride final could tip the
balance in his favor. However, it was not to be,
and the HLS Trophy went to Dan Eppolito who
amassed a record total of 33 HLS points. Haim
Hochboim (30 points) finished second, followed
by California’s Bill Zurn, who zoomed to third
place overall with a win in the final event to finish—7 Wonders. Bill’s 28 HLS points carried him
ahead of a trio of former Siegelman Trophy winners: 2007’s Rob Kircher (25 points); defending
Champ Randy Buehler (25 points) and 2009’s
Sceadeau D’Tela (24 points) who came in fourth,
fifth and sixth, respectively.
Dan’s two wins in Power Grid and Ra were
matched by Ben Scholl, who was also a double
winner in Agricola and Puerto Rico. Like Dan, Ben
was attending his first Euroquest. Haim Hochboim put himself near the top of the Siegelman
charts with a win in Dominion, followed by a runner-up finish in Agricola, assuring that there was
going to be some “wood” on the plane back to Israel. Haim’s countryman, Aran Warszawski, was
not to be outdone, taking top honors in Princes of
Florence, which was the first event to finish. Bill
Zurn (7 Wonders), Vien Bounma (St. Petersburg)
and Jim Castonguay (Thurn and Taxis) rounded
out the list of first-time EQ champions
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68
Virginia Colin • VA
78
Sceaudeau D’Tela • NC
45
Jim Castonguay • MD
55
Brian Reynolds •MD
80
47
Bill Zurn • CA
Vien Bounma • NJ
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PBeM Champions
P
lay-by-e-mail tournaments are the answer to many players’ most common complaints—lack of time and inability to find skilled opposition. BPA does not run
PBeM tournaments; rather, we provide support for hobbyists willing to host events.
E-mail tournaments are counted the same as face-to-face action in BPA’s prestigious Caesar competition, with Laurels based solely on size of the field and the average face-to-face playing time.
Entry in these tournaments is free to current BPA members. For anyone who is not already
a member, an Associate membership costs only $10 to cover the costs of this program. (Players
have no obligation to keep their memberships current once the tournament begins.) For information about running a PBeM tournament, contact the BPA PBeM coordinator Hank Burkhalter at
[email protected] or check out his webpage at www.abovethefields.com/top_pbem.
Event Results
 Bob Menzel, VT
O Thomas Browne, PA
O Debbie Bell, MD
O Harry Flawd, PA
O Mike Pacheco, CA
O Daniel Leader, MA
Bruce Monnin, OH
Event Results
 Michael Ussery, MD
O Jim Eliason, IA
O Michael Day, AZ
O N. Markevich, CA
O Robert Drozd, IL
O Bryan Eshleman, NC
John Pack, CO
Event Results
 Michael Pacheco, CA
O Bill Thomson, TX
O Daniel Overland, MI
O Ed Menzel, CA
O Dennis Nicholson, NY
O Tom Gregorio, PA
Vince Meconi, DE
Previous Winners
2004 Peter Staab, PA 30
2005 Jim Gutt, TX 30
2006 Bruce Monnin, OH 32
2007 Jeffrey Martin, CT 40
2008 Bruce Monnin, OH 38
2009 A. Warszawski, is 38
2010 D. Nicholson, NY 42
Next Tournament in progress
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Previous Winners
1999 N. Markevich, CA 20
2001 Ed Menzel, CA 32
2004 Rob Flowers, MD 32
2007 Charles Drozd, IL 35
2009 Joe Dragan, MI 42
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Previous Winners
2006 Barry Shoults, MI 26
2008 Vince Meconi, DE 28
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Event Results
Previous Winners
 Dennis Nicholson, NY
O Bruce Reiff, OH
O Michael Pacheco, CA
O Debbie Gutermuth, NC
O Bill Morse, VA
2010 L. Gutermuth, NC 41
Bruce Monnin, OH
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PBeM Champions
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Event Results
Previous Winners
 Larry Mull, AZ
O Jeremiah Peterson, IL
O Rob Mull, CO
O Kaarin Engelmann, it
O Scott Burns, uk
O Bryan Collars, SC
2009 D. Gallagher, MD 54
Bryan Collars, SC
Event Results
 Gary Dickson, CA
O Douglas James, NC
O Michael Kaye, MD
O John Ohlin, FL
O Ari Kogut, TX
O Ed O’Connor, NJ
John Ohlin, FL
Event Results
 Keith Wixson, NJ
O Al Owen, au
O John Buse, IL
O Adam Deverell, au
O Stefan MeCay, TX
O Kevin Worth, ab
Keith Wixson, NJ
Event Results
 Eric Freeman, PA
O Stefan Mecay, TX
O Scott Fenn, MD
O Greg Thatcher, CA
O Chris Yaure, PA
Max Jamelli, PA
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Previous Winners
1999 Gary Dickson, CA 19
2000 Gary Dickson CA 22
2001 Doug James, NC 23
2003 Tom Gregorio, PA 40
2006 Doug James, NC 34
2008 Tom Gregorio, PA 31
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Previous Winners
2005 James Pei, VA 64
2006 John Buse, IL 50
2008 James Pei, VA 62
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Previous Winners
2010 Eric Freeman, PA 23
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Event Results
Previous Winners
 Mark Gutfreund, KY
O Michael Kaye, MD
O Tom Dworschak, GA
O K. Hammoond, WA
O M. Birnbaum, NY
O Scott Fenn, MD
1999 Jim Doughan, PA 34
2001 John Crabtree, CA 36
2003 B. Passacntndo, CT 48
2004 D. Greenwood, MD 47
2006 T. Dworschak, GA 50
2011 D. Greenwood, MD 38
Mark Gutfreund, KY
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Gamemasters
Longest Current Serving Gamemasters
WBC would not exist were it not for those few who give their
time, effort and enthusiasm to promote competition in one of their
favorite games and continue to do so year after year. Many go so far as to
fund special prizes out of their own pocket to support the grand alliance.
Herewith we honor the longevity of their dedication by recognizing their
years of service to a single event. In doing so, we also give a nod to
the Jim Vrooms and Kathy Strohs of our GM cadre who annually
serve where ever they are needed while changing events.
David Terry, MD • 21
Harry Flawd, PA • 18
Bruno Wolff, WI • 18
John Pack, CO • 16
James Jordan, MD • 14
Vince Meconi, DE • 14
Marc Houde, VA • 14
Tom Gregorio, PA • 13
Mark Love, MD • 13
John Jacoby, VA • 13
John Coussis, IL • 13
Jon Lockwood, VA • 13
Pierre LeBoeuf, MD • 13
Mark Miklos, GA • 12
Brad Johnson, IL • 12
Ray Freeman, CA • 11
Tim Hitchings, DE • 11
Stuart Tucker, MD • 11
Richard Irving, CA • 11
Greg Crowe, MD • 10
Kieth Wixson, NJ •10
Mark Herman, MD • 10
Eric Brosius, MA • 10
Steve Scott, CA • 10
Ron Secunda • 10
WAM X
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fter ten years, the annual get togethA
er of the “Card Sharks” is still going
strong. WAM X was held in Timonium,
Md., on Jan. 26-29 with a small but enthusiastic group of 36 CDG players.
The three events were dominated
by James Pei (titles in HRC and WWR),
Chris Byrd (a title in TWS and a 3rd
place finish in WWR), Keith Wixson
(runner-up in HRC and TWS), and Marvin Birnbaum (runner-up in WWR and
3rd place in TWS).
Players were asked to enter each
tournament prior to the start of Round
1 and at the start of each successive
round attendance was called off of that
list. Each evening a detailed schedule
of the next day’s events was displayed.
We continued the concept of Open First
Rounds on Thursday (because it is a
travel day) and Round 5s (if required)
being scheduled on Sunday morning.
TWS and WWR both required a Round
5 this year.
Outside of the tournaments there was
much open gaming with Paths of Glory,
Stalin’s War, Labyrinth, A Few Acres of
Snow, Atlantic Storm and 1812 all seeing
table time. Games ran pretty much nonstop from 0900 in the morning to as late
as 0200 at night.
Hannibal
Balance was even, with the Romans
winning 12 of 23 games. Round 2 generated seven games and yielded four unbeatens; Keith Wixson, James Pei, Stuart
Tucker and Michael Mitchell.
Tucker met the Master in Round 3
and Pei’s Romans were
able to deny Tucker’s
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patented island strategy until the last turn.
 James Pei, VA
O Marvin Birnbaum, NY
Unable to establish a
O Chris Byrd, CT
foothold in the islands,
Terry Coleman, CA
O Hannibal rushed across
O Paul Gaberson, PA
the Alps in a final do-orO Rob Doane, MD
die bid to gain a ninth
province. In a close
battle, Consul Paulus
successfully foiled the
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Carthaginians to deny
 Chris Byrd, CT
Tucker again. MeanO Keith Wixson, NJ
while Wixson bested
Mitchell for his chance
O Larry Fryer, MD
at the Master.
O Marvin Birnbaum, NY
O Kevin Earle, VA
Lady Luck smiled
upon Pei’s Romans once
again. Hannibal crossed
the Alps on Turn 1 but
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rolled a 6 on attrition
 James Pei, VA
and was further weakO Keith Wixson, NJ
ened by another 6 roll
O Stuart Tucker, MD
on Turn 2 when Pei
played Epidemic. On a
O Randall MacInnis, NJ
Campaign move Consul
O Tim Miller, GA
Fabius attacked Han-
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nibal in an even battle, 15 cards to 14.
At one point Hannibal failed his counter
roll six straight times! On the 13th battle
card, unable to match a Probe, Wixson
played his last strategy card of Allies
Desert to take one of Pei’s two remaining battle cards. In a screaming outburst, he failed to pick the lone remaining Probe and Hannibal was trapped.
Consul Nero, who had marched up
from Sicily on two Force March cards,
then followed up and finished off the
now depleted Hannibal before he could
flee Italy. The Master prevailed again.
Twilight Struggle
Twilight Struggle has easily been the
most played event at WAM since its release. We played 2nd edition rules with
two changes: 2 influence were added
to Canada regardless of whether players opted to use optional cards from the
Deluxe set; in an effort to avoid draws
(we had three last year) the holder of
the China Card at the end of the game
was only awarded 1/2 point. The latter had a significant effect in one of the
very first games played, where Michael
Mitchell thus won by a half-point over
Bruce Monnin. Michael went on to take
third at 4-1, while Bruce finished out of
the running.
The US held a 22-20 edge overall.
Half of the games were played using
the optional cards, and those results
were split equally between US and Soviet wins. Only a few games opted to
use the Chinese Civil War rules, something we will keep in mind for next
year. If we gave an award for most
improved player, it would go to Larry
Fryer, who despite never before having
managed a winning record at WAM,
went 4-1 and took 4th place. With the
absence of Stefan Mecay—winner at the
last two WAMs—this year’s Cold War
struggle came down to Keith Wixson,
the 2007 champ, and Chris Byrd, who
WAM X
is becoming a true WAM Renaissance
man, winning titles in Hannibal, Paths
of Glory, 1960, Combat Commander, and
now Twilight Struggle. Byrd won as the
US on Turn 9 by playing Wargames after
building up a big lead.
Washington’s War
The Americans went 9-2 in Round
1 to win 23 of 38 games overall. Sides
were random with the exception that
each player was required to play both
sides an even number of times when
possible.
James Pei added to his laurels by
besting a highly competitive field to
win the five-round event with a perfect score. He defeated current WBC
Champ Michael Mitchell (as the Americans), Bill Edwards (as the Brits), Marvin Birnbaum (as the Americans), Terry
Coleman (as the Americans) and Chris
Byrd (as the Brits). However, he did not
breeze through without a few scares
along the way and enjoyed more than a
little luck. In the Edwards match, on a
game ending turn in which Bill held a
Major Campaign, Pei’s Cornwallis won
an even odds battle against Greene in
Boston. If Greene had intercepted, or
won the do-or-die battle, then the Major
Campaign would have sealed Pei’s fate.
It was ironic as it was a Major Campaign
by Keith Wixson last year on the final
card that knocked Pei out.
In the Birnbaum match, Marvin had
him on the ropes, but Pei drew a Major and two Minor Campaigns on the
same hand to plug all the holes. You can
imagine Marvin’s reaction. In the Final
against Nest of Spies teammate Chris
Byrd, the pair sparred toe-to-toe until
the game ending turn in which Byrd
played a Minor Campaign as the last
card. Lincoln with 1 CU attacked Boston
defended by 1 British CU, on a 2 vs 4 die
roll. It was a close affair, but again Pei’s
luck held.
Caesar Award
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I
t only took Randy Buehler two years ning, threatening to overtake the reto climb to the top of the BPA rank- cords of their illustrious fathers.
Again this year, only eight of the
ings by unseating two-time defending
preceding year’s Top 25 players
Caesar Stefan Mecay by 47 laurels
managed to retain that high
to become the BPA’s top comranking, led by Buehler who
petitor in 2011. True to form,
improved from 16th in his
Stefan had again run up a
inaugural campaign to
big lead before WBC betop the list in his second.
gan in email tournaments
Other top scorers to reand by winning his Twitain their Top 25 standlight Struggle specialty at
ing were Mecay, Pei,
WAM, but Randy reduced
Beyma, Henning, Robthat lead by scoring in five
ert Kircher, Jason Levin
Euro Quest tournaments
and Eric Freeman. Absent
before overtaking Stefan alfrom
the Leader Board for
together with a dominating
R
the
first
time in four years
r
WBC that included a second
an
dy Buehle were Alex Bove and Chris
in the Through the Ages pre-con
Byrd—thus ending the longest
as well as three outright wins in Dominion, Egizia, and Princes of Florence. streaks in the high rent district. No one
Randy’s win knotted the score at the top has maintained their status in the Top
with four wargamer Caesars offset by 25 for four straight years.
four predominantly Euro-playing top
dogs. Two Caesars (Mullet and BenePast Caesars
dict) have defied classification with
1999 Marvin Birnbaum, NY 135
more varied tastes.
2000 Ewan McNay, CT
120
2001 Nick Benedict, CA
138
Rounding out
2002 Marvin Birnbaum, NY 146
the top six BPA
2003 Nick Benedict, CA
113
competitors for
2004 James Pei, VA
293
2011 were 2004
2005 Arthur Field, SC
224
Caesar James Pei,
2006 Jeff Mullet, OH
166
2007 Raphael Lehrer, MD 170
Jason Ley, and a
2008 Alex Bove, PA
159
pair of next gen2009 Stefan Mecay, TX
295
eration upstarts;
2010 Stefan Mecay, TX
182
Richard Beyma
2011 Randy Buehler
241
and Nick HenStefan Mecay, TX
194
James Pei, VA
159
Richard Beyma, VA
150
Jason Ley, WA
141
- The 2011 Caesar Line of Succession -
Nick Henning, DC
135
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W
GM of the Year
e are pleased to award the 2011 GM of her enthusiasm doesn’t end with organizathe Year honor to Claire Brosius for her tion either. Each of her preliminary winners
outstanding work running Ticket to Ride—one received a gold train key chain memento she
of WBC’s largest events—annually drawing provides. In only three years, Claire has bein excess of 200 players. In winning the
come the gold standard for WBC GMs—
award, Claire breaks the glass ceilshowing the rest of us how it is done.
ing for her gender, being the first
Overall, scores ranged from
woman to win the award.
Clair’s record 89 to a low of 27.
Claire came to us late in
Claire’s support was across the
WBC’s gestation, finally tagBoard with two firsts, five secging along with husband Eric
onds and a third—the highest
on his annual trip to WBC
score ever achieved in our
four years ago and was inannual GM vote. It bested
stantly hooked when she finthe previous record of Ivan
ished sixth in Lost Cities for
Lawson for Lost Cities by two
her first laurels. Even on that
points. Clair’s score topped
first trip, she was anxious to
runner-up Sean McCulloch
pitch in and help in the registrawho made his first appeartion room between events. Since
ance in the Top Six by a whopthen she has become a regular
ping 15 points. The seen but not
C
s heard Sean has been the un-voice
lair
in the auction crew and wherever
e Brosiu of Slapshot for six years and is hard at
else she can lend a hand. So, naturally
she takes over the administration of WBC’s
work late into the wee hours dropping the
largest event the following year and what a job final puck and recording the results long afshe has done—hitting the ground running as ter the celebrities have hit the sheets. But Sean
a supremely organized huprobably owes much of
man dynamo who broke
his support to his double
Past Winners
into our Top Six ratings in
duty as the record setting
only her second year on
replacement GM for Facts
1991 – Russ Gifford, NE – ASL
the job and won the whole
in Five which doubled its
1992 – Jim Burnett, TN – WPS
shebang in her junior year.
attendance in 2011.
1993 – Glenn Petroski, WI – VIP
For winning the GM of
Finishing third for his
1994 – John Ellmann, MD – MMS
the Year, Claire will be our
fourth appearance in the
1995 – Ken Lee, PA – GCA
guest at WBC 2012, and
Top Six with 68 points
1996 – David Terry, MD – B-17
provided he behaves, she
was John Weber who
1997 – Will Wible, VA – ROR
can bring Eric along too.
completed a ten-year stint
1998 – Bruce Monnin, OH – WAS
Claire’s event fills the
as the guiding hand of
1999 – Bruno Wolff, WI – TTN
Distelfink ballroom but
Puerto Rico while amass2000 – Vince Meconi, DE – WAS
nonetheless runs more
ing the most first place
2001 – David Terry, MD – B17
smoothly than most events
votes (3) from the Board.
2002 – John Jacoby, VA – CMS
a fraction of that size. She
Rounding out the Top Six
2003 – Chuck Foster, TX – EPB
can be seen standing on a
was Pierre LeBoeuf (59
2004 – John Coussis, IL – ACS
chair in her station master’s
points; second appear2005 – John Sharp, FL – VIP
hat, blowing her whistle,
ance) whose movement
2006 – Don Chappell, TX – WTP
while she and her approof 8XX to the pre-con has
2007 – Ivan Lawson, MD – LST
priately accessorized “conreturned it to numbers it
2008 – Tom McCorry, VA – CAR
ductor” assistants direct
has not seen in 17 years,
2009 – Jim Jordan, MD – BRI
players to random tables
Ed Beach (55 points)
2010 – Stuart Tucker, MD – HRC
using train jargon and jugmaking his fifth straight
gling player preferences as
Top Six showing for his
to which version of the game they prefer dur- work with Here I Stand, and Terry Coleman
ing a difficult registration procedure which she (50 points) whose eighth year at the helm of
handles with ease. One could almost believe March Madness was rewarded with a new atthey’ve entered a queue for a Disney ride. And tendance record and his first Top Six rating.
Sportsmanship
T
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he Sportsmanship Award is our top and behold, it was none other than Cap’n
honor since it is something we can all Larry who had put aside his pirate gear
aspire to and is within our reach regard- long enough to don his jedi knight duds
less of our skills. It reminds us that there while defending his Star Wars; Queen’s
Gambit title. The three-time chamis no fun to be had with these games
pion had his semi-final game
without affable opposition proall but won by merely playing
viding obstacles to overcome.
out his hand normally, but
Our Sportsman of the Year
he didn’t want to win by
always prizes camaraderie
time limit, so he passed on
and fair play over victory
his own moves, allowing
and therein offers a shinhis opponent to beat the
ing example of sportsmanclock and win the game
ship that we should all do
as Anakin brought down
our best to emulate.
the death star—ending
Our winner was selectLarry Lingle’s quest for his
ed from among many nomfourth title.
inees put forth by GMs and
Larry’s main competiother commentators whose
tion for free lodging this
recommendations were conLa
sidered and reduced to a field
rry Lingle summer was Eric Monte whose
rectifying of an incorrect Ticket to
of 17 worthies
Ride score garnered more than 12%
included
on
Past Winners
voter support. Following Monte was
our
annual
Thomas Drueding at 9%, a pair of
Membership
Chuck Stapp, NJ – 1992
Greenville Mafia lads (John Emery
Drive
ballot
Tiger Von Pagel, FL – 1993
and Tim Rogers) at 8%, and grogfor selection by
Rob Kilroy, PA – 1994
Ian Lange, AE – 1995
nard Kevin McCarthy at 6%. Given
the
memberJim Matt, MI – 1996
all the swag Cap’n Larry hands out
ship at large.
Ed Connery, NJ – 1997
in his Pirate’s Cove event, it is truly
The members’
Frank Sinigaglio, NJ – 1999
fitting that he be our guest in 2012.
choice is reRobert Sacks, NY – 2000
warded
with
Bret Hildebran, OH – 2001
a free room at
Kaarin Engelmann, VA – 2002
the following
James Jordan, MD – 2003
WBC.
Steve Okonski, MD – 2004
After 2010’s
Bruno Sinigaglio, AK – 2005
Phil Barcafer, PA – 2006
razor thin marRebecca Hebner, CO – 2007
gin of one vote
Kaarin Engelmann, VA – 2008
separating
Mark Yoshikawa, CA – 2009
the top three
John Emery, SC – 2010
contenders,
this year provided more clarity as our winner more
than doubled the vote percentage of
last year’s recipient by garnering more
than 20% of the 251 votes cast. Grognard
Bruno Sinigaglio rarely nominates anyone for sportsmanship honors since he
has high expectations of everyone that
comes under his watch. So you know
he is impressed when he finally gives in
and places someone in the spotlight. Lo
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T
welve nominees are put forward each
year by the Conference Director for
the Board of Directors’ consideration. Although service as a GM is the most common qualifier, it is not the only factor
with consideration given to other behindthe-scenes volunteer tasks and this year’s
honoree is living proof of that. The Board
votes by secret ballot, weighing their votes
according to their own particular values
as to what constitutes the greatest contribution, by ranking each nominee from 12
(strongest) to 1 (weakest). The result is usually a good cross section
with
few receiving more
than two first or
last place votes.
We repeat the
process each
year dropping
the
bottom
third of the
nominees to
make
room
for more.
In 2011, the
vote was unprecedented. UnSc
derstanding that
ott Pfeiff er
a typical Board vote
would probably favor
the sun setting in the
west by only a 7-2 margin, it was surely a sign
of the coming apocalypse, when they—by
secret ballot no less—
unanimously
selected
Scott Pfeiffer as the 2011
recipient of the BPA’s
Hobby Service Award.
This individual has
never been a WBC GM.
However, he has been
active in creating and
supporting one of the
hobby’s strongest clubs
in his hometown of
Greenville, SC, and was instrumental to the
birth of WBC. While I often get the credit (or
the blame) for transforming Avaloncon into
Hobby Service
WBC, it really
was the creation
of this man who
2005
convinced me to
Stuart Tucker
take the leap back
Kathy Stroh
in 1998 when
Steve Okonski
Avalon Hill went
Vince Meconi
down the tubes.
Mark McLaughlin
Ken Whitesell
And while many
may claim to say
2006
the right things
Keith Wixson
to support their
2007
hobby, few have
Bruno Sinigaglio
actually backed
2008
that up with acDebbie Gutermuth
tion. It was Scott
2009
Pfeiffer who actuAlan Applebaum
ally took the bull
2010
by the horns and
David Dockter
incorporated BPA
pro bono with his
law practice, writing our by bylaws, and
performing the myriad tasks required to
keep us on a solid legal footing.
Past Winners
While so many of us escape the annoyances of the real world to enjoy ourselves each August
extending our Peter
Pan syndrome of
never growing up
with these addictive
games, it is Scott
who invariably pays
the price behind the
scenes in an adult
world when I need
to pull him from a
game to deal with
the legal issues of
maintaining
order when someone
needs their priorities rearranged.
Rest assured that
while you’ve been
rolling dice, Scott
has been protecting
your ability to do
just that during this prized annual celebration of our hobby. This token thank
you is long overdue.
Boardmasters
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Gr
ea
tC
am
pa
ig
ns
Most Championships in One Event
James Pei, VA - 10
Chris Withers, CA - 10
Mike Sincavage, VA - 9
Bruce Reiff, OH - 9
Bruce Beard, MD - 7
Harry Flawd, PA - 7
Brad Johnson, MI - 7
Doug James, NC - 6
John Emery, SC - 6
Rob Beyma, MD - 6
William Rohrbeck, NH - 6
Paul Risner, FL - 5
Steve Likevich, OH - 5
Tom Gregorio, PA - 5
Ewan McNay, NY - 5
Jason Levine, NY - 5
Vince Meconi, DE - 5
Bruce Reiff, OH - 5
Devin Flawd, PA - 5
Rob Beyma, MD - 5
Mark Miklos, GA - 5
Stefan Mecay, TX - 5
Ray Pfeifer, MD - 4
Vince Meconi, DE - 4
Tom Oleson, WA - 4
Bruce Reiff, OH - 4
Bruno Sinigaglio, AK - 4
Phil Evans, fr - 4
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Boardmasters
Bruce Reiff, OH - 4
James Doughan, PA - 4
Nels Thompson, NY - 4
Kevin McCarthy, OH - 4
Ed Menzel, CA - 4
George Seary, NY - 4
Dave Metzger, NY - 4
Terry Coleman, CA - 4
Nicholas Henning - 4
Alex Bove, PA - 4
Peter Pollard, TN - 4
Harry Flawd, PA - 4
David Finberg, MA - 4
James, Pei, VA - 4
Bruce Reiff, OH - 4
John Pack, CO - 3
Doug Galullo, FL - 3
Kevin Youells, PA - 3
Ewan McNay, NY - 3
Pierre Paquet, qu - 3
Martin Sasseville, qu - 3
Bill Edwards, VA - 3
Scott Pfeiffer, SC - 3
Mike Stanley, OH - 3
Dan Dolan, Sr, NJ - 3
Dave Meyaard, CT - 3
Dennis Culhane, PA - 3
Nicholas Henning, CT - 3
Boardmasters
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Alex Bove, PA - 3
Lyman Moquin - 3
Steve Cuccaro, MD - 3
Pete Stein, OH - 3
Marvin Birnbaum, NY - 3
Stefan Mecay, TX - 3
Jim Castonguay, PA - 3
Robert Renaud, NY - 3
Heikki Thoen, qc - 3
Gary Dickson, CA - 3
Tom Gregorio, PA - 3
Andrew Cummings, uk - 3
Larry Lingle, PA - 3
Richard Moyer, MN - 3
Andy Latto, MD - 3
Bryan Eshleman, NC - 3
Aaron Fuegi, MA - 3
Brian Sutton, MD - 3
Bruce Young, SC - 3
Andy Gardner, VA - 3
Dan Henry, IL - 3
Ray Freeman, CA - 3
Bruce Monnin, OH - 3
Richard Beyma - 3
Marvin Birnbaum, NY - 3
Brian Mountford, NY - 3
Paul Gaberson, PA - 3
John Welage, OH - 3
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Patrons
BPA 2011 Patrons
BPA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the following Sponsor,
Charter, and Tribune members. 2011 Patrons will be listed next year.
Sponsors ($500 contribution in 2011): Alliance Games, Nicholas Benedict, David
desJardins, James Doughan, Ken Gutermuth, Rick Northey, Queen Games, Rio
Grande Games, Jerald R. Tracy, and Valley Games.
Charter Tribunes (maintained Charter status since 1999 and purchased a $100 membership in 2011):
Alan Applebaum, Alan Arvold, Matthew Bacho, Mark Booth, Daniel Broh-Kahn, David Brooks,
Rod Coffey, Terry Coleman, Gregory Courter, John Coussis, Bill Crenshaw, Tom DeMarco,
Roger Eastep, William Edwards, Jim Eliason, Kaarin Engelmann, Eric Eshleman, Matt Evinger,
Tim Evinger, Matt Fagan, Daniel Farrow IV, Paul Fletcher, Ray Freeman, Paul Gaberson, Mark
Geary, Fred Gosnell, Herbert Gratz, Don Greenwood, Tom Gregorio, Johnny Hasay, Mark
Herman, Charles Hickok, Marc Houde, John Jacoby, Robert Jamelli, James Jordan, Allen
Kaplan, Michael Kaye, Kevin Keller, Pierre LeBoeuf, Roderick Lee, Jason Levine, Keith Levy,
Jonathan Lockwood, Mark Love, Michael Mahady, James Marousek, Thomas McCorry, Vince
Meconi, David Metzger, Tim Miller, Bruce Monnin, Brian Mountford, Michael A. Mullins,
Martin Musella, Kenneth Nied, Steve Okonski, John Pack, Tom Pavy, James Pei, Peter Perla,
Peter Pollard, Joseph Powell, Bruce Reiff, Paul Risner, Chris Roginsky, Robert Ryan, Shantanu
Saha, Gregory Schmittgens, Robert Seulowitz, John Sharp, Bruno Sinigaglio, Peter Staab, Ray
Stakenas, Mike Stanley, Peter Stein, Kathy Stroh, Joel Tamburo, Roger Taylor, Bill Thomson,
Stuart Tucker, Sean Vessey, Jim Vroom, Ken Whitesell, Bruno Wolff, and George Young.
Charter Members (purchased $100 Charter membership in 1999 and maintained at least a Sustaining
Membership since): Cliff Ackman, Barry Barnes, Ed Beach, Paul Bean, Rob Beyma, Jeremy
Billones, Steve Cameron, David Cross, Pat Duffy, Bill Dyer, Harry Flawd III, Mark Guttag,
Randy Heller, Tim Hitchings, Brad Johnson, Edward Kendrick, Ben Knight, Sean Larsen,
Andy Lewis, Carrie Lewis, Larry Lingle, Andrew Maly, Ric Manns, Kevin McCarthy, Michael
Mitchell, Theodore Mullally, Bill O’ Neal, Forrest Pafenberg, Bruno Passacantando, Jeff Paull,
Scott Pfeiffer, John Poniske Sr., Jerry Smolens, Robert Sohn, David Terry, Justin Thompson,
James Tyne, Paul Weintraub, Bruce Young, and David Zimmerman.
Tribunes ($100 BPA membership in 2011): Joseph Abrams, Josh Adelson, Gary Akavickas,
Geoff Allbutt, Jon Anderson, David L. Anderson, Deb L. Anderson, Steve Andriakos,
Joseph Angiolillo Jr, Marco Asteriti, Sam Atabaki, Dvd Avins, Rodney Bacigalupo, Mike
Backstrom, Lee Baker, Bill Banks, Phillip Barcafer, Daniel Barnes, Jonathan Barnes, Chris
Bauch, Fred Bauer, Scott Beall, Marc Beauregard, Barrington Beavis, Bill Beckman, Jack
Beckman, Samanth Berk, Richard Beyma, Marvin Birnbaum, David Bleau, Bruce Blumentritt,
Daniel Blumentritt, Ted Bohaczuk, Dave Bohnenberger, Jesse Boomer, Alex Bove, Nicola
Bradford, Evan Brooks, Claire Brosius, Eric Brosius, Sam Brosius, Thomas Browne, J. Sean
Bryan, Michael Buccheri, Randy Buehler, Jeff Burdett, Matthew Burkins, Jim Burnett, Chris
Byrd, Ben Campagna, Tom Cannon, Peter Card, David Casciano, Charles Catania, Basem
Chabaklo, Don Chappell, Ray Clark, John Clarke, Ben Collinson, Jr, Daniel Collinson, Joe
Collinson, Carl Copeland, John Corrado, Roger Covington, Greg Crowe, Steve Cuccaro,
Andrew Cummins, Sceadeau D’Tela, Robert Davidson, Rod Davidson, Evan Davis, John
Davis, Anthony Daw, James Day, Tom DeMarco, Bill Dickerson, Gary Dickson, Rob Doane,
David Dockter, Henry Dove, Charles Drozd, Robert Drozd, Ted Drozd, Dominic Duchesne,
Scott Duncan, Chris Easter, Sam Edelston, Peter Eldridge, Matthew Ellis, Andrew Emerick,
John Emery, Kevin Emery, Eric Engelmann, Scott Fenn, Rich Fetzer, Jeff Finkeldey, Rob
Flowers, Nick Frydas, Doug Galullo, Andrew Gardner, Ben Gardner, Pete Gathman, Dan
Gavrilovic, Michael Gibbs, Roy Gibson, Mark Giddings, Kris Giesing, Josh Githens, Mark
Patrons
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Globus, James Goss, Chris Greenfield, Alex Gregorio, David Gubbay, Peter Gurneau, Mark
Gutfreund, Jeffrey Hacker, Kevin Hacker, Tim Hall, Robert Hamel, Kevin Hammond, Chris
Hancock, Ty Hansen, Kathryn Harley, Russell Harley, Victor Harpley, Joe Harrison, Alan
Hayes, Bronwen Heap, Jacob Hebner, Jim Heenehan, Jeff Heidman, Bob Heinzmann, Harald
Henning, Inger Henning, Nicholas Henning, David Hitchcock, Bruce Hodgins, Dan Hoffman,
Gregory Hultgren, Micah Hultgren, Keith Hunsinger, Al Hurda, Richard Irving, Jack Jaeger,
Michael Johnson, Brian L. Jones, Will Kenyon, Jeffrey King, Robert Kirchner, Nick Kiswanto,
Nick Klercker, Mark Kolenski, Stephen Koleszar, James Kramer, Jr, Kelly Krieble, J. Carl
Krosnick, Antero Kuusi, Gadoon Kyrollos, Grant LaDue, Michael Lam, Derek Landel, Andy
Latto, Debra Lawrence-Yaure, Daniel Leader, Raphael Lehrer, William Lentz, Chuck Leonard,
Jason Ley, Kathleen Lockwood, Larry Loiacono, Steve Lollis, Larry Luongo, Perrianne Lurie,
Randall Mac Innis, Cheryl Mallon, Patrick Maloney, Joseph Marriott, Jeromey Martin, Jeff
Mathis, Trevor Martin, Bradford McCandless, Mark McCandless, Jim McCarthy, Robert
McCracken, Robert McFadden, Glenn McMaster, Ewan McNay, Amanda Mecay, Stefan
Mecay, Adam Meldrom, Bob Menzel, Ed Menzel, Doug Mercer, Brad Merrill, Richard Meyer,
Mark Miklos, Derek Miller, James Miller, Jeff Miller, Pat Mirk, Craig Moffit, Mark Moore,
Lyman Moquin, Matthew Morgal, Justin Morgan, Cary Morris, Wayne Morrison, Bill Morse,
Richard Moyer, Michael Mularski, Jeff Mullet, Stephen Munchak, Anthony Musella, Lane
Newbury, Tim Nielson, Jacob Nixon, Richard Northey, John Ohlin, Thomas Oleson, Adam
Oliner, Robert Olsson, Jeremy Oppenheim, Sam Packwood, Steve Packwood, Chris Palermo,
Aaron Panagotopulos, John Panagotopulos, Michael Panzer, Jeff Pattison, Linda Pattison,
Glen Pearce, Bill Peeck, Nicholas Pei, Fabio Pellegrino, Carmen Petruzzelli, Elaine Petruzzelli,
Roy Pettis, Randy Pippus, Doug Porterfield, Derek Pulhamus, Bill Pulkoski, Peter Putnam,
Craig Reece, Pete Reese, Nicole Reiff, Lucas Rhodes, Henry Richardson, Patrick Richardson,
Lance Roberts, Michael Rogozinski, David Rohde, William Rohrbeck, Paul Rubin, Kurt Runco,
Henry Russell, John Ryan, Martin Sample, Paul Sampson, Ken Samuel, Roberto Sanchez, Philip
Sauer, Bert Schoose, John Schoose, William Scott, John Selders, Chris Senhouse, Lexi Shea,
Michael Shea, Jordan Shea, Lynda Shea, Philip Shea, Stephen Shedden, Zhiming Shi, Barry
Shutt, Adam Sigal, Buddy Sinigaglio, Frank Sinigaglio, Vincent Sinigaglio, Gregory Smith,
Gregory M. Smith, Mark Smith, Nick Smith, Steve Smith, Jack Stalica, Chuck Stapp, Gordon
Stewart, David Stiffler, Brian Stone, Greg Strpes, John Stryker, Alan Sudy, Kevin Sudy, John
Sutcliffe, Carl Sykes, Akihisa Tabei, Don Tatum, James Terry, Zack Terry, Stephen Thatcher,
Jennifer Thomas, Nels Thompson, Tom Thornsen, John Tighe, Sr, James R. Tracy II, Todd
Treadway, Rejean Tremblay, Chris Trimmer, Michael Ussery, Steve Vance, Lauren Vessey,
Jason Wagner, Andy Waller, Bill Watkins, Donald Webster, Stephanie Welch, Bruce Wigdor,
Gareth Williams, Jim Winslow, Keith Wixson, Kevin Wojtaszczyk, David Wong, Chris Yaure,
Joe Yaure, Philip Yaure, Mark Yoshikawa, George Young, and William Zurn.
Vendors: GMT Games, Rio Grande Games, Lost Battalion Games, Multi-Man Publishing,
Decision Games, Against The Odds, Columbia Games, Z-Man Games, Mayfair Games, Flying
Buffalo, Worthington Games, L2 Design Group, Lock’n Load Publishing, Our Game Table,
Valley Games, Harmony House Hobbies, Academy Games, Clash of Arms, Collins Epic
Wargames, Canton Games, Warparty, GAMeBIT.
Terms and Conditions of Membership: Membership in the BPA secures voting rights. Also,
different levels of membership provide the specified number of votes. Membership is required for
participation in Play-By-e-Mail (PBeM) tournaments. Certain levels of membership provide
admission to the World Boardgaming Championships and a listing in the annual BPA Yearbook.
Multi-day General Admission to WBC grants Associate Membership in the BPA. Those who attend
via Guest Pass are not BPA members.
For complete membership details refer to: http://www.boardgamers.org/bpaterms.htm
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Board of Directors
A
ll Boardgame Players Association (BPA)
members of record as of June 1, 2012, are
hereby notified of their right to vote for up
to three members to serve on the BPA Board
of Directors. Any BPA member may run for
election as a Director. These individuals give
their time without recompense to ensure that
WBC continues on an even keel, representing
all interests fairly. Candidates for the Board
in 2012 include Andy Lewis, Don Greenwood,
Ken Whitesell and Jon Lockwood.
All members have a vested interest in
the operation of BPA which can be exercised
through their vote for members to serve on
the Board in rotating three-year terms. When
contemplating their vote, members are urged
to consider that the BPA conducts most of its
business by email and needs Board members
who are able and willing to offer their time
and skills to the organization in a timely manner. Board members should be considered
more for their ability to contribute to the running of a successful company than for their
interest in any particular game or group.
You may vote for up to three candidates,
but only once per candidate. No votes will
be taken during the convention. This election
will be completed by mail and e-mail by July
15, so that the newly-elected Board may con2010 – 2012
Andy Lewis, DE
2010 – 2012
D. Greenwood, MD
2011 – 2013
Bruce Reiff, OH
vene to conduct business during WBC. The
three candidates receiving the most votes will
be elected. All members are urged to vote.
Failure to generate sufficient votes will invalidate the election and force the organization to
hold another with consequent expenses which
will be borne by the membership.
Note that all paying attendees of WBC—
other than one-day guests—are BPA members
with voting rights. Ballots will be available
only on the BPA website. The ballot includes a
brief statement by each nominee. Alternately,
members may e-mail their vote(s) to election@
boardgamers.org from an e-mail address
on file with BPA as their official e-mail
address. An electronic ballot is available at
boardgamers.org/forms/boardballot.shtml.
All members are invited to attend the
Annual Meeting of the BPA at 3 PM on
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012, in Lampeter Hall of
the Lancaster Host Resort in Lancaster, PA.
NOTE: This meeting will take place during
a break in the auction. At that meeting,
members will meet the new Board and may
make inquiries and suggestions regarding
the activities of the association. This is your
chance to influence the decision-making
process that drives WBC.
2010 – 2012
Ken Whitesell, PA
2011 – 2013
Tom McCorry, VA
2012 – 2014
2012 – 2014
Bruce Monnin, OH Ken Gutermuth, NC
2011 – 2013
Joshua Githens, SC
2012 – 2014
K. Engelmann, VA

World Boardgaming Championships!

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