Ra! [Updated October 2003]  

2003 WBC Report  

 2004 Status: pending 2004 GM commitment

Tom Dunning, NY

2002-2003 Champion

2nd: David Rohde, MI

3rd: Pat Mitchell, DE

4th: Alex Bovo, PA

5th: Michelle Goldstein, MD

6th: Keith Levy, MD

Event History
2000    John Reiners       95
2001    Michelle Goldstein       88
2002    Tom Dunning     140
2003    Tom Dunning     109

Euro Quest Event History
2003    Tom Dunning       22


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 Laurels
Rank Name

From

Last
Total
 1. Tom Dunning

NY

03
100
 2. Michelle Hymowitz

MD

03
  38
 3. John Reiners

NY

00
  30
 4. David Rohde

MI

03
  24
 5. Gordon Elgart

CA

02
  24
 6. Jamie Tang

MD

01
  18
 7. Pat Mitchell

DE

03
  16
 8. Doug Galullo

FL

02
  16
 9. Alex Bovo

PA

03
  12
10.  Joe Jaskiewicz

MD

03
  12
11. Jim Fry

MD

02
  12
12. Steve Brooks

FL

01
  12
13. Frank Arndt

MD

01
    9
14. John Adams

MD

03
    8
15. Eric Freeman

PA

02
    8
16. Rich Shipley

MD

03
    6
17. Tom Stokes

NJ

01
    6
18. Dave Bohnenberger

PA

03
    4
19. Keith Levy

MD

03
    3
20. Steve Scott

AZ

02
    3
21. Dudley Anderson

PA

01
    3
22. Phil Taylor

NJ

03
    2

Past Winners

John Reiners - NY
2000

Michelle Goldstein - MD
2001

Tom Dunning - NY
2002
 


Ra, Ra, Ra, Sis Boom Ba

I'm happy to report that RA broke the century mark in attendance again this year with 109 would-be pharoahs participating. The biggest surprise was the first heat on Tuesday night with 57 players participating in 12 games. The rest of the heats leveled off with 7-7-8 games respectively for a total of 31 different winners (three won twice).

With only 25 advancing to the semi-finals it would be necessary to use the tiebreakers - NOT. Only 21 showed up for the semi-finals so all my work on the tiebreakers wasn't necessary. Speaking of tiebreakers, the biggest complaint at this years tournament was the format. The complaint was they wanted to play as many heats as possible but if they won their first heat they wouldn't play in any more heats because they felt like that would hurt their chances of advancing. I'm working on a better format for next year that playing in multiple heats won't hurt your chances of advancing and will reveal it later. In the meantime feel free to e-mail me with your ideas. [SIMPLE: Just consider a win won in the first heat played as beating a win won in the second heat played, and so on - that way there is no penalty whatsoever for continuing to play in additional heats - you can only improve your chances - not lessen them - by continuing to play - but it is is still possible to qualify to advance by playing in only one heat].

After all the discussion on the format, after all the heats, a semi-final and a final the result was the same with defending champion Tom Dunning successfully defending his titlw.

This was the year of close games. Four had to be settled by tiebreaker (highest sun) and seven more were decided by a single point. 50% (20 out of 40 games including the semi's and final) were decided by five points or less. One of the semi-final games came down to the tiebreaker. Our champion almost didn't make it to the finals as he was tied with Keith Levy at 36 points, but revealed the highest sun to move on to the finals. Keith earned 6th place in the tournament but the difference between winning the tournament and placing 6th may have been the highest sun. In that same game Paul Skrabut had 34 points to miss the finals by two points.

This year's Pharoah of the Year for Sportsmanship goes to Andres Dunn. He played in all four heats with the highest regards to good sportsmanship.

Fun, but Possibly Useless Statistical Facts for Future Reference:
 Stats 5-Player Game 4-Player Game
 Total Game Score Average 152.1 141.6
 Player Score Average 30.4 35.4
 Average Score Gain Per Round 6.8 8.5
 Winner's Score Average 43.7 46.3
 Average Score Gain per Round for Winners 11.2 12.1
 GM      Steve Scott  [1st Year]   NA 
    sscott2753@aol.com   NA

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