Ticket to Ride

ticket to ride

Updated 11/30/2009
2009 WBC Report
2010 Status: pending 2010 GM commitment

Kyle Greenwood, HI

2009 Champion

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Event History
2004	Alan Kaiser	151
2005	Blair Morgen	160
2006	Eric Monte	157
2007	Brittany Bernard	191
2008	John Faella	201
2009	Kyle Greenwood	220

Euro Quest Event History
2004	Daniel Karp	45
2005	Tom Dunning	39
2006	Virginia Colin	49
2007	Virginia Colin	51
2008	Donna Davis	48
2009	Josh Githens	68

Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Virginia Colin     VA    08     64
  2.  Kyle Greenwood     HI    09     60
  3.  John Faella        RI    08     60
  4.  Daniel Karp        MD    04     48
  5.  Tom Dunning        NY    09     44
  6.  Steve Shambeda     PA    09     42
  7.  Brittany Bernard   PA    07     40
  8.  Eric Monte         NY    06     40
  9.  Blair Morgen       NJ    05     40
 10.  Jay Fox            NJ    09     36
 11.  Donna Davis        PA    08     36
 12.  Nico Parauda       NJ    08     36
 13.  Robert Cranshaw    RI    05     36
 14.  Larry Loicano      PA    07     32
 15.  Josh Githens       SC    09     30
 16.  Alan Kaiser        OH    04     30
 17.  Jamie Tang         MD    08     24
 18.  Andrew Metrick     PA    06     24
 19.  Philip Shea        VA    09     20
 20.  Michael Richey     VA    06     20
 21.  Kathy Kilroy       PA    09     18
 22.  Jonathan Izer      MD    08     18
 23.  Tom McCorry        VA    04     18
 24.  Arthur Wines       PA    07     16
 25.  Mike Backstrom     MN    06     16
 26.  Jim Fishkin        FL    05     16
 27.  Tom Stokes         NJ    08     12
 28.  Anne Norton        NJ    08     12
 29.  Eyal Mozes         NY    08     12
 30.  Curt Collins II    PA    07     12
 31.  Jeff Meyer         MA    06     12
 32.  Jean Francis Gagne qc    05     12
 33.  Arthur Field       SC    04     12
 34.  Tamara Houde       VA    04     12
 35.  James Freeman      VA    09      9
 36.  Bill Zurn          CA    08      9
 37.  Tom DeMarco        NJ    04      9
 38.  Cathy Kratz        ID    04      9
 39.  Amy Rule           MD    07      8
 40.  Gordon Rodgers     PA    06      8
 41.  Bob Heinzmann      FL    05      8
 42.  Alan Elkner        NJ    09      6
 43.  Shivendra Chopra   MD    09      6
 44.  Chris Goff         MD    08      6
 45.  Eric Haas          MD    04      6
 46.  Kathleen McCorry   NJ    04      6
 47.  Lee Mewshaw        MD    07      4
 48.  Winton LeMoine     CA    07      4
 49.  Amy O'Neal         VA    06      4
 50.  Bill Duke          MD    06      4
 51.  Barb Flaxington    NJ    05      4
 52.  Marsha Hamel       NJ    05      4
 53.  Sam Atabaki        CA    09      3
 54.  Philip Taylor      NJ    08      3
 55.  Mark Guttag        VA    04      3
 56.  Davyd Field        SC    04      3
 57.  Michael Thompson   PA    07      2
 58.  Bill Salvatore     MD    06      2
 59.  Chris Entwistle    MD    05      2

2009 Laurelists Repeating Laurelists: 0

Jay Fox, NJ
2nd

Steve Shambeda, PA
3rd

Kathy Kilroy, PA
4th

Philip Shea, PA
5th

Alan Elkner, NJ
6th

Past Winners

Alan Kaiser, OH
2004

Blair Morgen, NJ
2005

Eric Monte, NY
2006

Brittany Bernard, PA
2007

John Faella, RI
2008


Anyone want to play Ticket to Ride? 220 players filled the ballroom.	So Josh winning the Euro Quest qualifier was no accident, eh?

Qualifying for bigger and better ...

Ticket to Ride was the second largest tournament at WBC, after Dominion, with 220 gamers. It took a total of 103 games to decide the victor. We added a Quarter-Final so more people could be in the playoffs. All the gamers who won at least one game got to play and many others who were "on the bubble".

Scores fluctuated wildly from the teens to a whopping 205 in a 1910 game. Henry Dove had the 205, making eight of nine tickets, getting most tickets bonus and longest train.

Our four finalists were Kathy Kilroy, Kyle Greenwood, Jay Fox, and Steve Shambeda. Kyle was originally "on the bubble" at number 100. But he showed for the Quarter-finals, won that and his semi to get into the Final. Going forward, the Quarter Finals will be limited strictly to winners of Preliminary games with only enough alternates to fill out a complete table once all winners have been seated.

In the Final, the Northeast was locked up very quickly blocking Kathy from making any of her tickets and giving her a frustrating fourth. Steve made four of six tickets and was third with 74. Jay came in second with 112 making three of four tickets and getting longest route. Kyle Greenwood is our champion with a score of 154 and made all of his five tickets and getting the most tickets bonus. Kyle and runner-up Jay Fox hit paydirt after the fact when Days of Wonder extended them a qualifying invitation to the American championships which, if successful, will earn them a trip to Paris to play in their World Championship.

I need to give special appreciation to a friend from Boston. Brian Hanechek, was a huge help the first day of the tournament. I had made the semi-final of Empire Builder, which started at the same time as my demo and then my first heat. Brian did my demo for me and got the first heat started. I made a fatal error in my Empire Builder game and so had to forfeit. When I got to Ballroom B fifteen minutes after Heat 1 was supposed to start, Brian had all the people seated and playing already! He had started checking people in at 10:30 AM. This was his first WBC and he had a great time. Brian, you're my hero!