Ra! [Updated Nov. 21, 2006]  

2006 WBC Report  

 2007 Status: pending 2007 GM commitment

Chris Terrell, VA

2006 Champion

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Event History
2000    John Reiners       95
2001    Michelle Hymowitz       88
2002    Tom Dunning     140
2003    Tom Dunning     109
2004    Steve Scott     116
2005     Alex Bove     121
2006     Chris Terrell     125

Euro Quest Event History
2003     Tom Dunning     22
2004     Ilan Tadmore     23
2005      Joe Jaskiewiez     20
2006      Arthur Field     34

 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Tom Dunning        NY    05    128
  2.  Alex Bove          PA    06     76
  3.  Joe Jaskiewicz     MD    05     48
  4.  Steve Scott        CA    04     43
  5.  Chris Terrell      VA    06     40
  6.  David Rohde        MI    06     40
  7.  Winton LeMoine     CA    06     40
  8.  Michelle Hymowitz  MD    03     38
  9.  John Reiners       NY    00     30
 10.  Tom Browne         PA    06     24
 11.  Arthur Field       SC    06     24
 12.  Gordon Elgart      CA    02     24
 13.  Ilan Tadmor        NY    04     20
 14.  Tom Stokes         NJ    05     18
 15.  Jamie Tang         MD    01     18
 16.  James Parauda      NJ    05     16
 17.  Pat Mitchell       DE    03     16
 18.  Doug Galullo       FL    02     16
 19.  Chris Burke        MD    06     12
 20.  Jeff Meyer         MA    06     12
 21.  Blair Morgen       NJ    05     12
 22.  Lyman Moquin       DC    04     12
 23.  Jim Fry            MD    02     12
 24.  Steve Brooks       FL    01     12
 25.  Frank Arndt        MD    01      9
 26.  Mike Kaltman       PA    05      8
 27.  Paul Haynes        MD    04      8
 28.  Evan Tannheimer    MA    04      8
 29.  John Adams         MD    03      8
 30.  Eric Freeman       PA    02      8
 31.  Michael Fox        IL    06      6
 32.  Robert Cranshaw    RI    05      6
 33.  Kathy Stroh        MD    04      6
 34.  Rich Shipley       MD    03      6
 35.  Brian reynolds     MD    06      4
 36.  Steve Shambeda     PA    05      4
 37.  Kevin Coomes       GA    04      4
 38.  Dave Bohnenberger  PA    03      4
 39.  Keith Levy         MD    03      3
 40.  Dudley Anderson    PA    01      3
 41.  Greg Knoll               06      2
 42.  Holliday Jones     MD    04      2
 43.  Phil Taylor        NJ    03      2
 44.  Bill Crenshaw      VA    05      2

2006 Laurelists

Tom Browne, PA
2nd

Dave Rohde, NC
3rd

Jeff Meyer, MA
4th

Winton Lemoine, CA
5th

Arthur Field, SC
6th


Past Winners

John Reiners, NY 2000

Michelle Goldstein, NY 2001

Tom Dunning, NY 2002-2003

Steve Scott, CA 2004

Alex Bove, PA 2005

 Ra is typical of many multi-player games that use multiple heats to generate many games and game winners who fail to pursue advancement opportunities.

 By using tie-breakers and advancing only the optimal number of players for the next round, event lengths are trimmed and players are free to experience other events sooner.

 Advancing all winners leaves an event's schedule up in the air until players appear at the next round. This would play havoc with both player and facility schedules.

100 + Again

Ra attendance increased for the third consecutive year as 125 would-be Pharoahs vied for the coveted sceptor of power. There were 9, 12, 9 and 13 tables respectively for the four heats or a total of 43 winners. From these 43 games, there were 26 first heat winners. So if all 26 appeared for the semi's one of them would be turned away. Three of the first heat winners, ex-champ Michelle Hymowitz, Jeff Meyer and Mark-Andre Imbeault also won their second heat making them the top seeds for the next round.

Defending champion Alex Bove also won two heats, but since he won in his third and fourth tries, he came in as the 27th seed. For those of you keeping track, that leaves 13 other winners for a total of 39. So the magical question is how long a list of qualifiers do I make realizing that in all probability some of the top 25 won't show for the semi's. To make this list I had to go by all the tiebreakers and that would take some time. But I wanted to be prepared so that alternates who would not be needed could rush to another event. I stopped working on the list at 1:30AM after seeding the top 65. As it turned out I only needed half that many, but who was to know? Two years ago I was seeded 48th and ended up winning the entire event. Lucky for me that 23 qualifiers seeded ahead of me didn't show for the semi's. You just never know.

Arthur Field accumulated the tournament high game score of 71 pts in his qualifying heat.- besting the second highest winning score by 13 pts.

The semi's consist of five tables of five qualifiers each. What table you are assigned is completely random. What are the odds that the defending champion, the only two-timne champion and 2004's runner-up would be at the same semi-final table? That's exactly what happened to Alex Bove, Tom Dunning and Winton Lemoine. Winton prevailed by 10 pts. Jeff Meyer continued his streak from the qualifying heats as he took out 2004 champion Steve Scott for his third win. Dave Rohde edged Arthur Field by turning over the higher sun after a regulation tie. That tie earned Arthur 6th place laurels for the closest semi loss. Tom Browne nudged by Martin Sasserville 39-37. And Chris Terrell rounded out the Final 5 having no problem at all in his semi-final winning by 25 pts.

Chris's 25-point semi victory proved to be no fluke as he became the 2006 champion by besting Tom Browne in the last round by four points.


2006 Euro Quest Laurelists

Arthur Field, SC
1st

Chris Burke, MD
2nd

Alex Bove, PA
3rd

Michael Fox, IL
4th

Brian Reynolds, MD
5th

 GM      Steve Scott  [4th Year]   NA 
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