war at sea [Updated October 2004]  

 2004 WBC Report  

 2005 Status: pending 2005 GM commitment

Bruce Monnin, OH

2004 Champion

2nd: Tim Hitchings, DE

3rd: Ray Freeman, CA

4th: Vince Meconi, DE

5th: Jonathan Lockwood, VA

6th: Glenn McMaster, ONT


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Event History
1991    Bruce Monnin      20
1992    Tom Scarborough      23
1993    Bruce Monnin      28
1994    Phil Rennert      18
1995    Ray Freeman      33
1996    Steve Packwood      27
1997    Tim Hitchings      33
1998    Mike Kaye      32
1999    Ray Freeman     45
2000    Pat Richardson     42
2001    David Finberg     43
2002    Andy Gardner     51
2003    Ray Freeman     47
2004    Bruce Monnin     51

PBeM Event History
1999    Vince Meconi      22
2000    Ed Menzel      39
2001    Jonathan Lockwood      43
2004    Don Greenwood      44

 Laurels
Rank Name

From

Last
Total
 1. Ray Freeman

CA

04
133
 2. Pat Richardson

VA

01
  80
 3.  Ed Menzel

CA

04
  62
 4. Bruce Monnin

OH

04
  61
 5. Bruce Reiff

OH

03
  59
 6. Don Greenwood

MD

04
  50
 7. Andy Gardner

VA

02
  50
 8. David Finberg

MA

01
  50
 9. Vince Meconi

DE

04
  41
10. Jonathan Lockwood

VA

04
  39
11. Rob Flowers

NC

02
  36
12. Tim Hitchings

DE

04
  30
13. Bill Thomson

TX

03
  30
14. Steve Packwood

MN

00
  30
15. Michael Kaye

CA

99
  24
16. Darren Kilfara

UK

04
  20
17. Phil Rennert

MD

99
  16
18. Tim Tow

TX

04
  15
19. Glenn McMaster

ONT

04
  15
20. Joe Collinson

MD

03
  15
21. Michael Ussery

MD

01
  15
22. Ron Dietz

OH

00
  15
23. John Pack

CO

99
  12
24. John Strand

CO

03
  10
25. Michael Knautz

WI

00
  10
26. Greg Berry

VA

99
    8
27. Kevin Shewfelt

CA

04
    5
28. Dave Streams

OH

00
    5
29. Bryan Eshleman

NC

01
    4
30. Alan Applebaum

MA

00
    4
31. Bob Hamel

CT

99
    4
32. Dan Henry

IL

01
    3
33. Nick Markevich

CA

99
    3
34. James Pei

TX

99
    2
35. Sean McKenzie

AK

99
    1

Past Winners

Bruce Monnin - OH
1991, 1993

Tom Scarborough - MO
1992

Phil Rennert - MD
1994

Ray Freeman - CA
1995, 1999, 2003

Steve Packwood - MN
1996

Tim Hitchings - DE
1997

Mike Kaye - CA
1998

Pat Richardson - VA
2000


David Finberg - MA
2001


Andy Gardner - VA
2002
     
 


Dice At Sea

Bruce Monnin won the 2004 championship with a 6-1 record, becoming the second player to win three crowns. He previously took the top prize in 1991 and 1993. Bruce defeated Tim Hitchings (5-2), himself a former champion, in the finals. Third place went to defending champ Ray Freeman (5-1), who was the only player to win all five preliminary games. The GM lucked into 4th place with a 4-1 mark. To reach the semi-finals, Bruce, Tim, and the GM won a tiebreaker over AREA leader Jonathan Lockwood (also 4-1). All had 40 victory points at the completion of the Swiss rounds. Jonathan, however, had the lowest schedule strength and settled for the 5th place plaque.

Both semi-finals were wild affairs. Tim Hitchings, Allies, bidding 1.5, came from behind to defeat Ray Freeman,' Axis in a game in which both players ran into clock difficulty. Ray finished with just nine seconds on his clock and Tim had but a minute and a half. In the other semi-final, Bruce Monnin's Axis also came from behind, making up three POC on Turn 8. His last die roll disabled Vince Meconi's last Allied convoy in the Barents to pull out a 0.5-POC triumph. Vince had bid 1.5 for the Allies. In the finals, Bruce Monnin bid 1.0 for the Allies, then erected the blockade on Turn 1 and never gave it up, forcing Tim's Axis concession after Turn 7.

Rounding out the top 10 were Glenn McMaster, 4-1, (6th), Frank Cunliffe, 3-2, (7th), Joe Collinson, 3-2 (8th), Dennis Nicholson, 3-2, (9th), and John Elliott, 3-1, (10th). Darren Kilfara was our Rookie of the Year. For the fourth time, Ray Freeman garnered Best Allied Player laurels with a 4-0 log (this after he won Best Axis Player honors last year). Champ Bruce Monnin copped Best Axis Player at 4-1.

Our 51 entrants tied the highest total ever. Bidding was more prevalent and more one-sided than ever before. 63 games featured bids for the Allies and just three for the Axis. There was no bid in 20 contests. Despite all the bidding for the Allies, they still came out on top 53 times vs. only 31 wins for the Axis. That was the highest percentage of games ever won by the Allies at a WBC or Avaloncon. There were two ties.

The official War At Sea FAQ and Errata in effect for this event can be found at: http://www.markevich.com/was/rules99.html.


PBeM Tournament 2004 Results

Don Greenwood earned his first WAS laurels, besting a field of 44 in the fourth BPA War At Sea PBeM Championship. The sole player to go 5-0 in five swiss rounds, he went on to defeat Tim Tow in the semi-finals and Ed Menzel for a second time in the final. Having never advanced past the first round in the previous tournaments, Don rode a rare hot streak to seven straight 10-point wins. Also collecting laurels were:

2nd - Ed Menzel
3rd - Darren Kilfara
4th - Tim Tow
5th - Vince Meconi
6th - Kevin Shewfelt

 GM      Vincent Meconi  [6th Year]   105 Churchill Ln, Wilmington, DE 19808-4355 
    vmeconi@aol.com   NA

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