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Jimmy Fleckenstein, VA

2007 Champion

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Event History
2000    Jason Levine     36
2001    John Charbonneau     32
2002    Bob Heinzmann     34
2003    Mark Neale     29
2004    Jimmy Fleckenstein     36
2005    Joe Pabis     38
2006     Paul McCarthy     37
2007     Jimmy Fleckenstein     35

 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Jimmy Fleckenstein VA    07     60
  2.  Joe Pabis          VA    07     57
  3.  Brandon Bernard    PA    07     45
  4.  John Charbonneau   NH    01     40
  5.  Paul McCarthy      NY    07     39
  6.  Bruce Bernard      PA    06     39
  7.  Jason Levine       NY    03     36
  8.  Mark Neale         RI    03     30
  9.  Bob Heinzmann      FL    02     30
 10.  Brian Carr         VA    05     27
 11.  Keith Layton       NJ    01     24
 12.  Mark Pitcavage     OH    05     21
 13.  Alan Kaiser        OH    05     18
 14.  Henry Rice         NM    01     16
 15.  Fred Schachter     NC    07     12
 16.  Joe Collinson      MD    06     12
 17.  Jim Castonguay     PA    04     12
 18.  Gary Carr          VA    03     12
 19.  Sean Vessey        PA    02     12
 20.  Frank Cunliffe     PA    01     12
 21.  Chris McDermott    NY    00     12
 22.  Benoit Groulx      QC    06      9
 23.  Gordon Elgart      CA    02      9
 24.  Daniel Karp        MD    00      9
 25.  Paul Skrabut       FL    01      8
 26.  Kaarin Engelmann   VA    06      6
 27.  Ben Foy            MD    05      6
 28.  Roderick Lee       CA    04      6
 29.  Paul Murphy        UT    02      6
 30.  Roy Gibson         MD    00      6
 31.  Frank Schmitt      NJ    01      4
 32.  Liz DiSandro       PA    07      3
 33.  Ashley Collinson   MD    06      3
 34.  Jason Robar        WA    03      3
 35.  Jim Reasoner       OH    02      3
 36.  Robert Hooper      NJ    00      3

2007 Laurelists

Brandon Bernard, OH
2nd

Fred Schachter, NC
3rd

Paul McCarthy, NY
4th

Joe Pabis, VA
5th

Liz DiSandro, PA
6th


Past Winners

Jason Levine, NY
2000

John Charbonneau, NH
2001

Bob Heinzmann, FL
2002

Mark Neale, RI
2003

Jimmy Fleckenstein, VA
2004

Joe Pabis, VA
2005

 

Paul McCarthy, NY
2006
     

All of the preliminary winners showed for the semis - a rare occurance.

The Finalists battle for wood.

Renaissance in half the time

I was very happy with the ratio of tournament entrants to semi-finalistsa to finalists. Roughly 1/3 of each group advanced to the next round, very symmetric.

The semi-finalists included all nine of the preliminary winners: Lauren Vessey, Joe Pabis ('05 Champion), Brian Farrelly, Jimmy Fleckenstein ('04 Champion), Bruce Bernard ('05 & '06 Finalist), Fred Schachter, Peter Perla, Sean Vessey, Liz DiSandro and three runner-ups: Paul McCarthy ('06 Champion), Ed Kendrick ('06 Semi-Finalist) and Brandon Bernard. I prefer to advance a number of runner-ups from each round to encourage competitive play until the end of the game. If players have a hope of advancing with a close second place then they will try to maximize their scores at the end.

Having three semi-final games definitely made for a more exciting second round finish than heretofore. Previously I would have two 5-player games with the top two players from each game advancing. This year I had three 4-player games with the winner from each game and the closest runner-up advancing. This year my players put my tie-breaking skills to the test as each semi-final ended with a 4-point spread between first and second. I had to resort to my next tie-breaking
measure of reverse turn order. Next year I think I'll add yet another step to my tie-breaker table based on points ahead of third place..

The Final included the three semi-final winners Paul McCarthy, Brandon Bernard and Fred Schachter along with the "closest" runner-up Jimmy Fleckenstein. Joe Pabis and Liz DiSandro were the other hard luck runner-ups eliminated by the tie-breakers who had to settle for 5th and 6th place laurels.

The Final ended with Jimmy cashing in on his second chance in first with 123, a point ahead of Brandon (122) to become our first double champion. Fred took third laurels with 108 and Paul fourth with 106.

The only change I envision is the added tie-breaker step.

 GM      Mark Neale [3rd Year]   NA  
    mark_neale@acm.org   NA

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