san juan [Updated October 2006]  

	2006 WBC Report      2007 Status: pending December Membership Vote
Bruce Reiff, OH 2006 Champion Offsite links:	Event History 2004    Jeff Mullet     123 2005    Bill Salvatore       48 2006    Bruce Reiff       43	Laurels Rank Name From Last Total 1. Jeff Mullet OH 06 36 2. Bill Salvatore MD 05 30 3. Bruce Reiff OH 06 20 4. Rob Kircher RI 06 18 5. Bill Murdock NY 05 18 6. Tom McCorry VA 04 18 7. Eric Brosius MA 05 12 8. Nate Hoam OH 04 12 9. Eric Lenhart PA 05 9 10. Alan Kaiser OH 04 9 11. Arthur Field SC 06 8 12. Trevor Bender WA 05 6 13. Ken Richards SC 06 4 14. Jennifer Scancella PA 05 3 15. Chris Kamm NY 04 3 16. Suzanne Tuch NY 06 2
2006 Laurelists Rob Kircher, RI 2nd Arthur Field, SC 3rd Jeff Mullet, OH 4th Ken Richards, SC 5th Suzanne Tuch, NY 6th Past Winners Jeff Mullet, OH 2004 Bill Salvatore, MD 2005 2-Player Slims the Field Again This year's San Juan Tournament used a new 2-player format.  Four players were assigned to a pod and each played one another with the best record advancing to the Final.  While we had fewer total attendance, comments from those who did participate were very favorable towards the new format. The elite eight were Rob Kircher, Arthur Field, Bruce Reiff, Suzanne Tuch, Ken Richards, Jeff Mullet, Lance Fogel and Eric Wrobel.  The final four produced excellent matches with Arthur vs. Bruce and Rob vs. Jeff.  Bruce managed to get an early Smithy and Library out at which point Arthur jokingly conceded.  Arthur fought hard and continued to use the Councilor to search for cards to counter the Library but its early play was too strong to overcome and Bruce advanced to the Final.  In the other match Rob got off to a strong start against Jeff with a Gold Mine that yielded a Quarry on the first use and a busy Chapel while Jeff looked at some bleak cards.  Jeff's first build was a Market Hall and while he was able to match Rob build for build he could not overcome the weak early cards against such a strong player. The Final between Bruce and Rob was a mirror matchup as both played like strategies and drew similar cards.  Both had Guild Halls down with numerous production buildings.  At 11 buildings each Bruce was able to correctly predict that the match would end in the same number of victory points for each player if he built but that with a small production build he would end with more cards in hand and win the match and his fourth wood of the week on the first tie breaker. As a side note, neither Arthur nor Jeff wanted Bruce's outcome to determine their third and fourth place finish, so they played a consolation match with Arthur securing third.
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