Memoir '44 [Updated October 2005]

	2005 WBC Report     2006 Status: pending 2006 GM commitment
Joe Harrison, KY 2005 Champion Offsite links: AREA Ratings	Event History 2004    Steve Lollis     91 2005    Joe Harrison     93	Laurels Rank Name From Last Total 1. Robert Eastman NV 05 60 2. Joe Harrison KY 05 50 3. Steve Lollis MD 04 50 4. Benoit Groulx QC 05 20 5. Scott Sirianna NY 04 20 6. Frank Hastings MD 05 15 7. Bob Heinzmann FL 04 15 8. Harrison Anderson PA 05 10 9. Scott Edwards SC 04 10 10. Matthew O'Conner NJ 05 5 11. Paul Bean MA 04 5
2005 Laurelists Robert Eastman, NV 2nd Benoit Groulx, QC 3rd Frank Hastings, MD 4th Harrison Anderson, PA 5th Matthew O'Connor 6th Past Winners Steve Lollis, MD 2004 Second Again Each entrant was given two professionally printed hand-outs generously provided by Days of Wonder. One of the hand-outs included the six tournament scenarios previously provided on the Days of Wonder Memoir '44 web-site and the other hand-out provided the seventh scenario used for the championship match. In each round, players played a two-game match of the scenario for that round, with players switching sides between games. If a player won both games, he won the match. If they split the match, the winner was determined by: 1. Total Medals, 2. Fewest Losses, and 3. Highest Tie Breaker Number. Five players advanced undefeated to Round 5: Frank Hastings, Robert Eastman, Benoit Groulx, Harrison Anderson, and Joe Harrison. Robert played Frank and split their two games with Robert advancing due to having fewer losses. Benoit beat Harrison twice in their match to advance. Joe Harrison also won his match by winning twice over Eric Hautemont, playing as an eliminator. The three winners in Round 5 were scheduled to play in a 3-game round-robin in Round 6 with the best two players advancing to the finals. Robert as the Allies beat Benoit 6-3 in the first semifinal game and Joe as the Axis beat Benoit 6-3 as the Axis in the 2nd Semifinal game. Because neither Robert nor Joe could finish worse than 1-1, both of them advanced immediately to the Final. In the first game, Joe played the Allies. Robert led early 2-4, but Joe eventually tied the game and went ahead 5-4 by eliminating the next three units. Robert then pulled out the game 5-6 by eliminating two tanks in one turn. In the second and deciding game, tank kills were much harder to come by with Robert's Allies killing only two tanks and Joe just one. The closely fought game was tied 1-1, 2-2, 3-3 and 4-4, before Joe's Axis eventually won the game 4-6. With the Axis sweep and the players splitting the games, Joe won the championship match with 11 total medals to Robert's 10. Robert therefore finished second in Memoir '44 for the second straight year, a remarkable accomplishment. Even more remarkable, Robert also won the preceding Battle Cry tournament giving Robert an amazing streak in games based on Richard Borg's Command & Colors system.
GM      Mark Guttag  [1st Year]   NA    mguttag@erols.com   NA