circus
maximus [Updated October 2006]
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2006 WBC Report
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2007 Status: pending 2007
GM commitment |
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Karl Henning, CT |
2006 Champion |
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Event History |
1991 |
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Tim Flanigan |
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54 |
1992 |
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Jeff Barnum |
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67 |
1993 |
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Barry Smith |
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35 |
1994 |
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Mike Stanley |
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47 |
1995 |
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Mike Pantaleano |
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72 |
1996 |
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Bruce Monnin |
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64 |
1997 |
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John Jacoby |
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72 |
1998 |
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Mike Stanley |
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84 |
1999 |
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Frank Sinigaglio |
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74 |
2000 |
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Mike Stanley |
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85 |
2001 |
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Steve Katz |
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76 |
2002 |
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Steve Katz |
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71 |
2003 |
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Tom Saal |
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103 |
2004 |
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Scott Sirianna |
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87 |
2005 |
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John Tighe |
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87 |
2006 |
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Karl Henning |
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75 |
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Rank Name From Last Total
1. Steve Katz VA 02 144
2. Tom Saal MI 04 120
3. Josh Githens SC 06 105
4. Anthony Musella VA 05 102
5. Scott Sirianna NY 06 80
6. John Tighe NJ 05 72
7. Bill Beckman SC 03 72
8. Frank Sinigaglio NJ 04 68
9. Mike Stanley OH 00 60
10. Karl Henning CT 06 50
11. Charles Goodwin OH 00 42
12. Carl Walling PA 02 38
13. Bill Edwards VA 03 34
14. Joseph Burch MD 06 30
15. Tim Dolan NJ 02 24
16. Kevin Hacker PA 05 18
17. Alfred Wong IL 01 18
18. Mike Hazel SC 04 18
19. Mark Love MD 99 15
20. Stephen Quirke WI 05 12
21. Matthew Beach MD 04 12
22. Brett Mingo MD 03 12
23. Chris Robbins UT 06 10
24. Angela Collinson MD 05 6
25. David Weinstein NY 03 6
26. Francis Spencer MD 02 6
27. Carl Sykes SC 01 6
28. Jim Munson UT 06 5
29. Mike Fisher PA 99 5
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2006 Laurelists |
Joseph Burch, MD
2nd
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Scott Sirianna, NY
3rd
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Josh Githens, SC
4th
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Chris Robbins, UT
5th
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Jim Munson, UT
6th
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Past Winners |
'91: Tim Flanigan, IA
'92: Jeff Barnum, MI
'95: Mike Pantaleano, DE |
Barry Smith, NY
1993
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Mike Stanley, OH
1994, 1998, 2000
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Bruce Monnin, OH
1996
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John Jacoby, VA
1997
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Frank Sinigaglio, NJ
1999
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Steve Katz, VA
2001-2002
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Tom Saal, MI
2003
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Scott Siriana, NY
2004
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John Tighe, NJ
2005
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Next year's Colosseum will move
to a bigger room to reduce the crowding when the ponies run. |
To spice things up, Jacoby substitutes
teams of elephants, tigers and even dinosaurs for horses in the
Final. |
GM Jacoby (lower left) watches
a race. One of his homemade sets sold
for $250 in the auction. Chocolates not included. |
blood amongst the kisses
A sweet aspect of John Jacoby's Circus Maximus event is
that he rewards the first driver into each turn with a Hershey's
Kiss. The candies replace the dolphins which were upturned in
the Roman Colosseum to record the number of laps run.
In Circus Maximus everyone knows that only one thing can occupy
a space at any one time. Yeah, right. The players were really
inventive this year. A dragged driver with ten hits was entering
the last turn when a chariot successfully trampled him (for two
driver hits). The attacking charioteer used his last movement
point for the attack and stopped with his horses above the dragged
driver. The attacker lamented that he only did two points of
damage and was now protecting the driver from further attacks.
The dragged driver's relief was short lived when the next chariot
drawn successfully attacked the chariot of the "protecting"
overhead horses. Of course, the wheel collapsed and the chariot
flipped. It went one space forward onto its own horses and the
dragged driver. The horses could not evade and one was killed.
The dragged driver was still alive until his chit was drawn and
his team dragged him over the wreck, killing him instantly. But
until then, the miniatures were stacked three high in that space.
The Final was a nip and tuck affair that was not decided until
the last turn. I was generally agreed that karl henning deserved
to win since he had displayed the proper attitude in the race
by running down a running driver - who just happened to be his
sister, Alex. He explained to his mother that he had to do it
- "she was running right at my dinosaurs and might have
hurt them".
Colosseum master Jacoby has requested a transfer for his equine
butchery races to a room with better ventilation. We'll try to
accomodate him. With each heat averaging 50 players, five boards
to a heat generated faster races and the proper number of winners
for his Sunday grand finale. Expect the three-heat format to
continue in 2007, but the second heat will move to Friday morning
and the third to Saturday evening.
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GM |
John M. Jacoby [8th year] |
102 Deerwood Rd., Charlottesville,
VA 22911 |
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434-973-3065 |
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