liberty [Updated October 2005]

	2005 WBC Report     2006 Status: pending 2006 GM commitment
Bruce Reiff, OH 2004-05 Champion Offsite links: AREA Ratings	Event History 2003    Evan Seary     18 2004    Bruce Reiff     43 2005    Bruce Reiff     25 Block Party Event History 2004    Ric Manns     19 2005    Bruce Reiff     18	Laurels Rank Name From Last Total 1. Bruce Reiff OH 05 112 2. Barry Smith NY 05 41 3. Ric Manns IN 05 39 4. Evan Seary NY 04 28 5. Nick Benedict CA 04 24 6. Mark Miklos GA 05 22 7. Rob Taylor MI 05 21 8. David Metzger NY 05 16 9. Ted Drozd IL 04 12 10. Jack Morrell NY 03 12 11. Bill O'Neal NY 05 12 12. Terry Hollern OH 05 9 13. Pete Stein OH 05 9 14. John Coussis IL 04 9 15. Damian Mastrangelo PA 03 8 16. Mike Sims IN 04 6 17. Patrick Duffy VA 03 6
2005 Laurelists Barry Smith, NY 2nd David Metzger, NY 3rd Ric Manns, IN 4th Mark Miklos, GA 5th Rob Taylor, MI 6th Past Winners Evan Seary, NY 2003 Bruce Reiff, OH 2004 Liberty blocks ... The 2005 version of Liberty saw a pronounced drop in attendance to 25 players as the novelty of the new release wore off. This remains a good turnout for a wargame on the American Revolution, though it is a large drop from the 43 in its second year. We played 30 games in a Swiss-elimination style tourney that would qualify four for single elimination play. Three players qualified with a 3-0 record and one player advanced with a 2-1 record on a tiebreaker with five others. We bid Victory Points to play the Americans. 18 games had a bid with six players bidding 2 to play the US. Of the six games that had a bid of 2, the US won only one. The Americans won 16 of the 30 games with 11 wins featuring an early French entry in the first two years. The Americans were able to win one game with a late French entry. The Americans won 53% of the games, which was lower than their winning percentage at the BPA Block Party. The British won five games even with a first year French entry and one second year French entry. Seven of the British victories did not allow a French entry at all. Five of the British wins took place after 1780. The high score of the tourney was an amazing 37 by Bill Beswick. Players were asked to track the control of the West Indies at the end of the game. The American player needed the West Indies less than the British to win the game. The US only controlled the West Indies in four games that they won, in contrast with the British who controlled the islands in seven of their 14 wins. Bruce Reiff, David Metzger, Barry Smith and Ric Manns advanced to the Single Elimination rounds where the British won two of three. Bruce swept this portion as the British against Metzger and Smith. Barry advanced to the Final by besting Ric Manns as the US. Bruce concluded the successful defense of his chamipionship in 1776 as he dominated the Mid-Atlantic region by invading and destroying Washington's army in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Bruce has won the last three tourneys of Liberty; two WBC's and the last BPA Block Party.
GM      Ric Manns  [2nd Year]   241 Greenway Dr., Scottsburg, IN 47170    ricmanns@c3bb.com   NA