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2004 WBC Report  

  2005 Status: pending December Membership Century Vote

Arthur Field, SC

2004 Champion

2nd: Sean McCulloch, OH

3rd: Jason Levine, NY

4th: Richard Irving, CA

5th: Stuart Tucker, MD

6th: Laurie Wojtaszcyk, NY

Event History
2001    Peter Staab     54
2002    Kevin Youells     36
2003    Ken Gutermuth     44
2004     Arthur Field     44


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 Laurels
Rank Name

From

Last
Total
 1. Ken Gutermuth

TX

03
30
 2. Aaron Fuegi

MA

03
30
 3. Kevin Youells

FL

02
30
 4. Peter Staab

PA

01
30
 5. Arthur Field

SC

04
20
 6. Sean McCulloch

OH

04
18
 7. Barrington Beavis

UK

03
18
 8. Jonathan Miller

DC

02
18
 9. John Leggat

CA

01
18
10. Bruce Reiff

OH

03
15
11. Andrew Cummins

UK

01
12
12. Cliff Ackman

PA

01
  9
13. Jason Levine

NY

04
  8
14. Richard Irving

CA

04
  6
15. Carol Caler

PA

03
  6
16. Kaarin Engelmann

VA

01
  6
17. Stuart Tucker

MD

04
  4
18. Lance Fogel

PA

03
  3
19. Gordon Elgert

CA

01
  3
20. Laurie Wojtaszcyk

NY

04
  2

Past Winners

Peter Staab - PA
2001

Kevin Youells - FL
2002

Ken Gutermuth - TX
2003
 


A Cabbie Win .... kinda

44 wannabe commanders appeared on Friday night in Salon A. The GM and his Cabbie crew were a little concerned when they showed up 30 minutes before the start and found almost every table filled with Vanishing Planet games. Fortunately most of the games 'vanished' in time (although some groups had to find other space) and they left behind no 'cooperative' residue.

The players were broken up into 11 groups with the winner of each group advancing. The groups were numbered by the order in which they finished. This didn't get the players anything, but it's interesting to note who were the fast players and who wasn't.

Group 1 included Bruce Reiff and two-time bridesmaid Aaron Fugei. Both Bruce and Aaron were 2-0 going into their game together. It looked through most of the game as if Aaron was going to survive and advance, but Bruce saved himself from a breakthrough with good timing of a tactics card and turned the tide to come out on top of a 5-4 game.

Group 2 Had Arthur Field go 3-0 to advance (who says Arthur is a slow player). Recent Board candidate Laurie Wojtaszczyk went 3-0 in Group 3 to make the single elimination portion of the event.

Over in Group 4, Richard Irving needed a tiebreaker to advance over Barrington Beavis who was also 2-1. Bert Schoose smashed through Group 5 with a perfect record of 3-0, all via breakthroughs. CABS member, and all around good guy, Sean McCulloch went 2-1 in Group 6 but took the tiebreaker over 0-for the convention Ken Gutermuth. Stuart K. Tucker (of the memorial pucked award) crushed Group 7 with three breakthroughs.

In Group 8 Jason Levine went 3-0 to win the group over new CABS member Carol Caler who was 2-0 until he met Jason. 1st time attendee Mike 'Zinfandel Whine' Zehnal, a CABS member representing the slow playing faction of CABS shockingly went 3-0 with three breakthroughs in Group 9. In Group 10 Charles Stucker went 2-1 and won in a tiebreaker over Rhonda Reiff who had been in heavy training for this year's WBC with her husband. Rhonda managed to win her two games via breakthrough, but lost the head-to-head tiebreaker. And your illustrious GM was in Group 11 along with Andrew Fedin and Matt Calkins who all went 2-1. This was the only table to have to use the flags captured tiebreaker sending Andrew to the final. Matt Calkins was also in last years last group, coincidence?

Since no past champions made the single elim round, five random byes were handed out to 3-0 winners: Laurie W, Bert S, Arthur F, Stuart T, and Jason L. The first round games had Sean McCulloch taking out Charles Stucker, Richard Irving pounding Mike Zehnal, and Andrew Fedin whooping the snot out of Bruce Reiff sending the vaunted Cabbies down to their last chance.

In Round 2 Sean beat up on candidate Laurie to keep the Cabbies alive while Richard Irving stopped the previously unstoppable Burt Schoose. Arthur Field beat Stuart Tucker in a titanic battle to advance while Jason Levine beat giant Killer Andrew Fedin.

This set up semi-finals of Sean vs Richard and Jason vs Arthur. Jason and Arthur seem to attract each other at the WBC like a fly to.. well you get the idea. Sean quickly pounded Richard into submission while Arthur inevitably beat Jason.

This set up the final of Sean vs Arthur who agreed to play after Liar's Dice. The WBC and CABS members everywhere were cheering for Sean. Sean for himself wanted to prove that his nickname was indeed "The Hammer". Alas, it was not to be as Sean "Puffy" McCulloch was routed by Arthur. However, Arthur is a CABS member! So the CABS win also. This was to be Arthur's only wood of the convention so EVERYONE was disappointed with Puffy who missed a golden opportunity to shut out Arthur. Instead, he collected his 11th wood while leaving five new laurelists in his wake. Oh well, there's always next year. See you in Lancaster!

 GM      Jeff Mullet  [2nd Year]  NA
    mullet1695@frognet.net   740-474-7635 

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