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Updated Nov. 23, 2013

2013 WBC Report  

  2014 Status: pending December 2013 Membership Trial Vote

Kevin Sudy, VA

2013 Champion

Event History
2005    Harald Henning     46
2006     AJ Sudy     46
2007     Bill Crenshaw     46 
2008    Harald Henning     39
2009     Jeff Mullet     31
2010    Arthur Field     23
2011    Bill Crenshaw     14
2012    AJ Sudy     27
2013    Kevin Sudy     13

Enlightenment History
2006    Bill Crenshaw     19
2008    Ewan McNay     28
2009     Bill Crenshaw     25 
2010    Kevin Sudy     14

PBeM History
2007    Tom Taaffe     36
2008    Bill Edwards     35
2010    Stefan Mecay     36
2011    Bill Crenshaw     29
2012    Stefan Mecay     25

 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Bill Crenshaw      VA    13    284
  2.  Arthur Field       SC    11    122
  3.  Harald Henning     CT    10    119
  4.  Stefan Mecay       TX    12    101
  5.  Jeff Mullet        OH    13     98
  6.  Kevin Sudy         VA    13     95
  7.  AJ Sudy            VA    12     84
  8.  Ewan McNay         CT    13     59
  9.  Peter Pollard      TN    13     53
 10.  Peter Staab        PA    11     51
 11.  Tom Taaffe         VA    08     46
 12.  Bill Edwards       VA    10     36
 13.  Carl Damcke        IL    12     35
 14.  Kathy Stroh        DE    08     30
 15.  John Coussis       IL    08     28
 16.  Tom Browne         PA    09     25
 17.  David Hood         NC    07     24
 18.  Ted Simmons        NJ    05     24
 19.  Greg Stripes       VA    12     21
 20.  Robb Effinger      WA    10     18
 21.  Derek Landel       NJ    10     18
 22.  Bob Heinzmann      FL    07     16
 23.  Brett Mingo        MD    05     16
 24.  Eric Wrobel        VA    11     15
 25.  Steve Smith        NE    10     12
 26.  Tedd Mullally      NJ    09     12
 27.  Kate Taillon       SC    07     12
 28.  Ed Kendrick        uk    12      9
 29.  Ken Gutermuth      NC    10      9
 30.  Ed Rothenheber     MD    06      9
 31.  Scott Burns        uk    07      8
 32.  David Nicholson    on    05      8
 33.  Doug Galullo       MD    12      6
 34.  Pat Mirk           FL    10      6
 35.  Rob Kircher        RI    11      6
 36.  Shawn Fox          TX    08      5
 37.  Bob Woodson        NV    11      4
 38.  Dave Long          NC    05      4
 39.  Mark Neale         RI    10      3
 40.  Mike Horn          FL    13      2
 41.  Eric Monte         NY    11      1

2013 Laurelists                                           Repeating Laurelists:

Pete Pollard, TN
2nd

Bill Crenshaw, VA
3rd

Jeff Mullet, OH
4th

Mike Horn, SC
5th

Ewan McNay, NY
6th

Past Winners

Harald Henning, CT
2005, 2008

Alan Sudy, VA
2006, 2012

Bill Crenshaw, VA
2007, 2011

Jeff Mullet, OH
2009

Arthur Field, SC
2010

Bill Crenshaw, John Coussis, Kevin Sudy and Mike Horn

GM Bll Crenshaw and his fellow finalists.

From Son to Father ...

The 2013 tournament had the closest Final ever as three players tied with 29 points. Kevin Sudy (Louisiana) won the cash tiebreaker with $105 to Pete Pollard's (Mexico) $75 and Bill Crenshaw's (Quebec) $50. Jeff Mullet (Virginia) finished fourth with 27 points. Overall, Louisiana won three of the five games, with Mexico and Pennsylvania each winning once.

Kevin, playing Louisiana, advanced to the Final with a solid win over Bill, Mike Horn and John Coussis in Heat 1. Jeff won the other early preliminary game, beating Eric Monte, Pete Pollard, AJ Sudy and Pat Mirk. In Heat 2, Bill cruised to an 8 VP win over Robb Effinger, David Stoy and Pat Mirk and Ewan McNay bested Pete, Mike and Eric Wrobel. Ewan bowed out with a schedule conflict, allowing Pete to advance.

In the Final, Louisiana and Mexico got off to fast starts as they divided the west and Mexico got its $70 gold payout from the California Gold Rush, but fell behind in the breakthrough race as they failed to get a Level 1 breakthrough. Virginia cashed Native Sovereignty early and completed Mechanization but struggled with board position as it quibbled with its northern neighbor. Pennsylvania got Storytelling but was hemmed in early. It had to use Oregon Trail to get to the west rather than cashing the Ore which helped with territories but hurt cash flow. Quebec got off to a solid start cashing Revolutionary War as Fur for $60, but Pennsylvania ended up discarding Hudson Bay Company. Quebec missed its early research rolls but went last when Era 2 breakthroughs opened and was able to get the jump on Think Tank, finished it and then circled back for Turnpike as Mexico and Louisiana collaborated on Electricity and Pennsylvania grabbed Motion Pictures.

At the end of Era 2, Quebec, going last, decided to hold Civil War rather than playing it on Louisiana in exchange for immunity from Immigrants (Mexico being protected by Lincoln). Quebec made a good run that turn and cashed some commodity cards but was abruptly brought back to earth by Virginia's World War (which Quebec had decided to play in Era 1 rather than keep) costing Quebec $60. Quebec was able to get Rock 'n Roll early, which helped on his last turn attacks. Virginia finished e-Commerce while Louisiana and Mexico collaborated on Urban Renaissance.

Louisiana and Mexico carved up the Oil as players competed for other valuable commodities. On the last expansion turn, Quebec made a decent run, getting good positions in Gold and Technology and secondary positions in Tourists and Ore. Quebec went first in final card play and cashed Prohibition and played Riots for the event to take most cities. It looked like Quebec was making his traditional late run, but Louisiana was sitting on a fistful of cash and cards, including IRS which he used to thwart Quebec's run and President which he used to fend off Virginia's Spy. When the dust had settled the MFD plaque in the Sudy household got some company as dad took over for son with WBC bragging rights.

 GM      Bill Crenshaw [9th year]   NA
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