titan [Updated October 2003]  

 2003 WBC Report  

 2004 Status: pending 2004 GM commitment

David Finberg, MA

2003 Champion

2nd: Brian Sutton, MD

3rd: Aaron Fuegi, MA

4th: Steve Koleszar, VA

5th: Andrew Gross, WA

6th: Arthur Wines, NJ

Event History
1991    Steve Rareshide      43
1992    Kevin Quirk      48
1993    Brian Sutton      58
1994    Chuck Kaplan      67
1995    Steve Koleszar      65
1996    Ben Foy      66
1997    Dave Finberg      72
1998    Jung Yueh      78
1999    Dave des Jardins     51
2000    Rich Atwater     60
2001    Steve Koleszar     55
2002    Ed Rothenheber     51
2003    David Finberg     60


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 Laurels
Rank Name

From

Last
Total
 1. Rich Atwater

WA

02
92
 2. Dave Finberg

MA

03
84
 3. Steve Koleszar

VA

03
78
 4. Aaron Fuegi

MA

03
73
 5. Brian Sutton

MD

03
71
 6. Ed Rothenheber

MD

99
65
 7. David des Jardins

CA

99
50
 8. Dan Strock

PA

00
48
 9. Chuck Nail

GA

01
36
10. Andrew Gross

WA

03
30
11. Jason Ley

GA

02
27
12. Kevin Quirk

FL

00
20
13. Michael Pustilnik

NY

99
20
14. Kevin Hillock

VA

02
18
15. Justin Childs

FL

99
10
16. Arthur Wines

NJ

03
  6

Past Winners

1991: Steve Rareshide - VA
1992: Kevin Quirk - PA

Brian Sutton - MD
1993

Chuck Kaplan - IL
1994

Steve Koleszar - VA
1995, 2001

Ben Foy - VA
1996

Dave Finberg - MA
1997

Jung Yeah - MA
1998

David des Jardins - CA
1999


Rich Atwater - WA
2000

 
Ed Rothenheber - MD
2002
     
 


Always a Titanic Struggle ...

This year, David Finberg and Aaron Fuegi had a good chance to rack up a lot of team points for MIT SGS in the two Titan events. Finberg chose the two-player Titan event as his team event and Fuegi chose multi-player Titan for his team event. They met in the finals for both of the Titan events. Naturally, Finberg won the multi-player and Fuegi won the two-player event.

For next year, I want to make the clique system (used to split up friends who don't want to meet in the semi-finals) a bit more flexible. I also want to switch from a point-based tie breaker to an adjudication committee to handle semi-finals that hit the time limit. While this year the point system gave the same winner that adjudication would have, the players who had strong opinions felt that adjudication would produce the proper winner (or estimate used for a roll off) more often than a point system would.

A very short synopsis of the last two rounds follows.

In semi-finals 1 Steve Owens was eliminated when he was forced to attack due to move compulsion. Rich Atwater got the points for eliminating Owens, but his titan stack was badly hurt. After being further hurt by a lack of 6s, Steve Koleszar finished him off in a tower with a stack containing three guardians. Jason Ley was the last player eliminated when he needed to risk his titan in a strip attack when he already had lost one of his two dragons and he felt he couldn't afford a time loss which would have cost him getting an archangel in the stack immediately.

In semi-finals 2 Clifford Smith was eliminated first by Brian Sutton when his titan stack was caught in a swamp without any natives. Sutton then caught and eliminated Tom Johnston. Finally Sutton survived a titan on titan attack from Art Wines with several serpents attacking him in the swamp to win.

In semi-finals 3 Chuck Kaplan eliminated Brian Bouton. Then Kaplan attacked a hydra stack as a gamble to try to get titan teleport, but didn't win by enough to survive a followup attack by Bill Dufton. Dufton and Finberg then played on till the time limit while fighting a lot of battles. Finberg was awarded the victory using a point-based formula. Finberg was in a very good position and would most likely still have won if we had had time to play the game to conclusion.

In semifinals 4 Kevin Hillock was eliminated by Aaron Fuegi in a tower battle. The battle itself was a mutual which denied Fuegi some of the points for the titan stack and resulted in a rules question about concessions after your titan has been slain. Fuegi then eliminated Dan Strock by teleporting in on him in a mountains. Then Fuegi and Andrew Gross were maneuvering on the masterboard and Gross took a shot at attacking Fuegi and his hydras in the desert rather than wait for Fuegi to teleport on him with an angel to call. Gross got his titan on Fuegi's, but was unable to get a mutual which would have given him a roll off to win. Fuegi had the following quote about the game: "Amazingly good and well played game."

In the finals Steve Koleszar accidentally split out his titan with just a gargoyle and was eventually eliminated by David Finberg. Aaron Fuegi was eliminated when he attacked a tough behemoth stack in the jungle belonging to Brian Sutton with his titan and was unable to win. In the final battle it was titan on titan in the woods with each stack having several titans. Finberg's tougher stack and first range strike as the attacker was enough to win his second championship.

 GM     Bruno Wolff III  (9th year)   NA 
   bruno@wolff.to   NA

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