history
of the world
[Updated
October 2007]
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2007 WBC Report
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2008 Status: pending 2008
GM commitment |
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Gregory Kulp, NJ |
2007 Champion |
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Event History |
1993 |
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Ben Grimes |
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53 |
1994 |
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Gordon Bliss |
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102 |
1995 |
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Tim Johnson |
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105 |
1996 |
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Keith Levy |
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102 |
1997 |
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Bruce Monnin |
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108 |
1998 |
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Greg Crowe |
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72 |
1999 |
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Jonas Borra |
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68 |
2000 |
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Robert Destro |
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70 |
2001 |
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Harald Henning |
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56 |
2002 |
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Rolinda Collinson |
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52 |
2003 |
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Mike Backstrom |
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49 |
2004 |
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Haim Hochboim |
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55 |
2005 |
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Mark Pitcavage |
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42 |
2006 |
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Craig Yope |
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44 |
2007 |
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Gregory Kulp |
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39 |
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Rank Name From Last Total
1. Harald Henning CT 03 126
2. Rolinda Collinson MD 05 90
3. Jonas Borra NY 02 84
4. Mike Backstrom MN 03 68
5. Haim Hochboim Israel 04 60
6. Robert Destro NJ 00 60
7. Mark Pitcavage OH 05 50
8. Allen Kaplan NJ 01 48
9. Kevin Youells FL 06 42
10. Gregory Kulp NJ 07 40
11. Craig Yope MI 06 40
12. Joe Collinson MD 07 38
13. Jamie Tang MD 06 36
14. Peter Busch OH 04 36
15. Tony Cadden MD 00 36
16. Bob Aarhus NC 99 36
17. Jeff King OH 07 24
16. Christina Hancock NH 04 24
19. Malinda Barnes NY 01 24
20. Graeme Dandy Australia 00 24
21. Joe Burch MD 99 24
22. Terry Coleman BC 04 23
23. Bill Boynton ME 05 20
24. Paul Bean MA 00 18
25. Chris Hancock NH 99 18
26. Michael Mullins MD 07 16
27. Duane Wagner NJ 06 14
28. James D. Long PA 07 12
29. TJ Halberstadt IN 06 12
30. Rachel Power MI 04 12
31. Andrew Kutzy NY 02 12
32. Greg Crowe VA 01 12
33. Michael Pacheco CA 99 12
34. Evan Davis IN 05 10
35. Chris Trimmer TX 06 8
36. Keith Altizer FL 04 6
37. Richard Fox IL 02 6
38. Ivan Lawson MD 01 6
39. Paul McCarthy NY 00 6
40. John Rinko VA 99 6
41. Scott Bowling IN 05 5
42. Rachel Harley VA 07 4
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2007 Laurelists |
Jeff King, OH
2nd
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Michael Mullins, MD
3rd
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James Long, PA
4th
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Joe Collinson, MD
5th
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Rachel Harley, VA
6th
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Past Winners |
1993: Ben Grimes, SC
1995: Tim Johnson, MD
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Gordon Bliss, MA
1994
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Keith Levy, MD
1996
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Bruce Monnin, OH
1997
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Greg Crowe, MD
1998
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Jonas Borra, NY
1999
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Robert Destro, NJ
2000
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Harald Henning, CT
2001
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Rolinda Collinson, MD
2002
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Mike Backstrom, MN
2003
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Haim Hochboim, Israel
2004
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Mark Pitcavage, OH
2005
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Craig Yope, MI
2006
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The sands of time haven't exactly
squared things between Petter Pollard and young Michael Corrigan. |
The finalists settle down to business
with five new faces contemplating their share of the laurels. |
The Tides of History ...
For the want of a Pre-eminence marker...
History of the World was marked by change.
No defending laurelists won their first round games, and defending
champion Craig Yope, wearing his special "bullseye shirt"
clearly had a death wish and was obliged with a fourth place
in his game. Five first time finalists qualified this year,
with only Joe Collinson as the lone prior laurelist to return
to the Final.
Joe had a dominating performance in
his first game, getting the highest scores in the tournament
for both game (225) and a single epoch (65 with France).
Rachel Harley won her way into the Final with the largest margin
of victory, defeating her closest competition by 31 points in
the semi-final round.
Jeff King had the longest-lived unit
of the event, as his Epoch I Indus empire had a unit survive
the entire game. A first round game featured a set of cursed
leaders, where Dave Bohnenberger's Ottoman Turks and Pete Pollard's
Manchu Dynasty both lost leaders to triple-one rolls early on.
In fact, Pete's second roll of the turn resulted in the death
of his leader--and probably cost him the victory. Bad dice
abounded as Jamie Tang lost four of six possible units to the
Black Death. Such low quality die-rolling was later calculated
as a 1 in 1866 chance! By the way, there is no truth
to the rumor that we will be letting players bring their own
dice next year.
The Final was a well fought affair,
and any of the top four could easily have won the game which
was decided by the pre-eminence markers. Michael Mullins
and James Long ended up being tied for first place after Epoch
II, so neither one got the bonus points. There was another
first place tie at the end of Epoch VII, which denied two players
the points, and crowned our champion.
Jeff King had the disadvantage of being
forced into China the entire game by his fellow players.
Eventual winner Greg Kulp later stated that it was a conscious
strategy to try to contain Jeff in one area because he felt that
Jeff was a threat and began passing him the China-based empires
for a few epochs and others later did the same. Still,
he played a very strong game and was in a first place tie at
176 points with James Long at the end of Epoch VII. Greg
was two points behind at 174 while Joe and Michael were at 172
and 171 respectively. The pre-eminence markers were then
scored, and due to the Epoch II and VII ties, Greg had enough
points to take over first place with a two-point win over Jeff.
I would like to thank everyone for their
excellent sportsmanship and help in running a very smooth
event. I'd like to ask everyone to bring their game next
year, or at least not eliminate all of the people who did bring
theirs, as we almost had a shortage of copies of the game during
the semi-final. The only planned changes for next year
are to begin the rounds an hour earlier, starting at 6 pm and
establishing a six hour time limit instead of the current five.
See you in 2008!
Finally, our GMing team found a France
Empire Card following Round 1. If yours is missing, please
email me and we will make sure that it gets returned to you.
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