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Updated 11/26/2008 |
2008 WBC Report
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2009 Status: pending 2009
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Ed Kendrick, UK |
2008 Champion |
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Event History |
1991 |
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Mark Cohen |
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1992 |
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Maria Hawthorne |
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1993 |
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Bruce Young |
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1994 |
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Bruce Young |
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53 |
1995 |
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Herbert Gratz |
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48 |
1996 |
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William Edwards |
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46 |
1997 |
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John Emery |
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42 |
1998 |
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John Emery |
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55 |
1999 |
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Larry Davidson |
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42 |
2000 |
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John Emery |
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34 |
2001 |
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Bruce Wigdor |
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39 |
2002 |
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John Emery |
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50 |
2003 |
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Ray Stakenas II |
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38 |
2004 |
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John Emery |
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30 |
2005 |
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Bruce Young |
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33 |
2006 |
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Paul Wright |
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30 |
2007 |
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Ray Stakenas II |
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27 |
2008 |
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Ed Kendrick |
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PBeM Event History |
2000 |
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Jeff Matthews |
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2003 |
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Jeff Matthews |
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Rank Name From Last Total
1. John Emery SC 08 158
2. Bruce Young SC 07 141
3. Ray Stakenas II MI 07 106
4. Bruce Wigdor NJ 07 68
5. Ray Stakenas Sr MI 08 46
6. Larry Davidson CA 02 46
7. Ed Kendrick UK 08 45
8. Paul Wright PA 06 40
9. Jeff Matthews CA 04 30
10. Bari Herman NJ 04 26
11. Bill Edwards VA 05 24
12. Stefan Hess NY 01 24
13. George Young VT 06 18
14. Ralph Gleaton SC 08 18
15. Herbert Gratz Austria 07 16
16. Wade Fowble MD 06 16
17. David Wong NJ 05 16
18. Lance Ribeiro NH 05 16
19. Ken Katano MD 01 16
20. Richard Irving CA 08 12
21. Mike Stachowski NY 03 12
22. Jeff Paull OH 00 12
23. Dale Martin MI 04 10
24. Michael Johnson MA 03 9
25. Nick Vlahos IL 00 9
26. Erick Young SC 01 8
27. Andrew Maly MD 08 6
28. Scott Russell MI 00 6
29. Alan Arvold IL 00 3
30. Don Greenwood MD 00 3
31. Frank Arndt MD 99 3
32. Brian Carr VA 04 2
33. Brian Devitt CA 00 2
34. Robert Mull CO 00 1
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2008 Laurelists
Repeating
Laurelists: |
Ralph Gleaton, SC
2nd
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Richard Irving, CA
3rd
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Ray Stakenas, WI
4th
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Andrew Maly, MD
5th
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John Emery, SC
6th
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Past Winners |
'91: Mark Cohen,
NJ
'92: Maria Hawthorne, VA
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Bruce Young, SC
1993-1994, 2005
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Herbert Gratz, AUS
1995
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Bill Edwards, VA
1996
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John Emery, SC
'97-'98, '00, '02, '04
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Larry Davidson, CA
1999
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Bruce Wigdor, NJ
2001
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Ray Stakenas Jr, MI
2003, 2007
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Paul Wright, PA
2006
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Ed Kendrick, UK
2008
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The Battle of the Youngs: Bruce and
George. |
GM Jim Burnett oversees his surprise
finalists. |
Eight Rounds of Glory ...
Work assignments kept several of the faithful away this year
and the field shrunk to 22 intrepid squad leaders. Even
the two previous winners were unable to defend their "wood"
this year. The field was tough; as it has gotten down to
the really serious players so there are few easy wins to be had
these days.
Five previous champions did manage to return to try to recapture
past glory. There was no repetition of the virtual sweep
by those past winners in last year's tournament, however.
All of them suffered at least one defeat in the opening five
Swiss rounds as Andrew Maly was the lone player to post a 5-0
score. Two previous winners, Bill Edwards and Bruce Young,
came in at 3-2 but were eliminated from the elimination portion
by the strength of schedule tie breaker.
Past champs John Emery, Herbert Gratz, and Bruce Wigdor did
manage to reach the elimination round. However, their royal lineage
did them no good. In a swift turn of the cards, they and Andrew
were eliminated in the quarter-finals to quickly ensure a new
champion would be admitted to the club in 2008. Ralph Gleaton,
Richard Irving, Ed Kendrick, and Ray Stakenas all had impressive
wins against obviously tough competition to continue. In
those semi-finals, the players in both games chose scenario "F",
"The Infantry's Iron Fist" to attempt to advance to
the Final. Both Ralph's defending and Ed's attacking Germans
were successful in defeating their Russian opponents. Richard
and Ray opted to let strength of schedule decide third place.
The players chose Scenario "L", "Outpost Line",
with Ed's Americans attacking Ralph's Germans. The game
started with some small exchange of fire to no apparent effect
and then in a couple of swift moves, Ed managed to establish
his M-20 in a flanking position against Ralph's main group.
Ralph suddenly ran out of both Fire cards to attempt a response
with his Mortar and Move cards to cancel the flank and with a
few swift shots, Ed reduced the flanked squad to cap a victory.
It only took a little over half a deck -- one of the fastest
finishes to a Final ever. Ralph later said that he just
made an error due to the pressure of playing all day and thought
that Ed's AFV had a gun (per the previous scenario he had played)
rather than the large MG. It did demonstrate the stamina
requirements that Up Front players have with eight matches
over the course of one day. Ed is a deserving champion
and will take the plaque across the pond to the UK with pride.
We look forward to next year and hope that all our winners
and the rest of our cadre will be joined by some new blood for
another session of Up Front.
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