die macher [Updated October 2006]  

	2006 WBC Report       2007 Status: pending 2007 GM commitment
Ted Simmons, NJ 2006 Champion Offsite links:	Event History 2003    Lyman Moquin     14 2004     Steve Simmons     12 2005    Roger Whitney     10 2006    Ted Simmons     18	Laurels Rank Name From Last Total 1. Ted Simmons NJ 06 30 2. Lyman Moquin DC 06 25 3. Thomas Browne PA 06 19 4. Peter Staab PA 06 18 5. Paul Skrabut FL 05 16 6. Steve Simmons NJ 04 13 7. Roger Whitney FL 05 10 8. Peter Pollard TN 06 6 9. Tom DeMarco NJ 04 6 10. Mike Ryan NY 05 4 11. Patrick Havert CA 06 3 12. Doug Smith PA 05 2 13. Geof Engelstein NJ 04 2 14. Al Mink VA 04 1
2006 Laurelists Tom Bowne, PA 2nd Peter Staab, PA 3rd Lyman Moquin, DC 4th Peter Pollard, TN 5th Patrick Havert, CA 6th Past Winners Lyman Moquin, DC 2003 Steve Simmons, NJ 2004 Roger Whitney, FL 2005 Finalists Tom Browne, Lyman Moquin, Peter Pollard, Ted Simmons, and Peter Staab battle it out at the edn of the Sampler Showcase Pre-Con. A Pre-Con Safe Harbor The 2006 tournament was held on Tuesday, 1 August 2006, in the hopes that holding this tournament "pre-con" would allow greater participation.  The first round consisted of two 5-player and two 4-player games.  As predicted, these 18 players which included all three former champions were more than any previous WBC Die Macher tournament.  This protected position allowed the event to qualify for the Century for the first time. The four first round winners were: Patrick Havert, Lyman Moquin, Ted Simmons and Peter Staab.  Patrick chose not to play in the 5-player Final, allowing Tom Browne and Peter Pollard, the two best runner-ups (based upon percentage of total board score), to join the three remaining winners. Moquin was the lone survivor from among the former champs to advance. In the Final, of the seven regions, three were won by single parties and four were won by coalitions.  No victories were "by a short head".  Staab and Browne each won thrice, Simmons and Moquin won twice, and Pollard once. Pollard won the first region but had little luck drawing the desired party platform cards and was unable to usefully change his platform until Round 5. The key region proved to be Region 6 as it was both the 80 Mandate (Victory Point) region (the most in the game) and the penultimate region to be decided. This region was won by a coalition of Moquin/Simmons over a competing coalition of the other three.  Tom/Peter bid 129 to take the final opinion poll for Region 6, but were much disappointed when the poll moved both Tom/Peter DOWN and both Moquin/Simmons UP forcing them to keep the poll unpublished.  The winners naturally moved to the National Board the issues that benefited them the most, allowing Simmins to wrap up the victory over his nearest opponent, Browne.  Staab won Region 7 moving him into third, but the Region 6 victory was the key to victory.  Simmons (with 442 points) scored a narrow victory over Browne (426 points).  Staab (362) was third, Moquin (348) fourth and Pollard (344) fifth. Ted's 442 points consisted of:         Mandate                255 (1st)         Medien                  27 (3rd Tie)         Partiebasis             80 (1st)         Ubereinstimmung   60 (3rd but 1st was 67 and 2nd was 62)         Bonus                   10 (1st Tie) In short, Simmons was first or close to first in everything except Medien, which reflected his decision to emphasize winning the later regions, especially the crucial, size 80, Region 6.
GM      Steve Simmons [1st Year]   NA    steve.g.simmons@lmco.com   NA