Remember when this linebacker was a Junior? Don't yell fumble! Dave Gubbay is dwarved by Daniel Long.	Devon Miller and Aurora Pack fight for/agin the Queen. No dolls for these gals.

In the ninth year of Queen's Gambit play, the field remained stable with 43 entrants despite the game being long out of print. As usual, players who can't handle the time-pressure of Doncon fell by the wayside as they crapped out with the Naboo and whimpered about the unfair nature of the format and how "it sucks to be the Naboo!" This year's overall outcome was again close to a 50-50 split.

In the preliminary heats the Naboo won 20 games to Darth Maul's 16. There is no time limit in the preliminary games and this slants the game some towards the Naboo. In the time-limited playoffs, however, the Trade Federation wins if it is still standing after two hours - this reflects the time-limited aspect of the battle in the theatre. In 2010, the Trade Federation won eight of the 15 playoff games, so the total tally for the preliminaries and the single-elim playoffs was Naboo 27, Darth Maul 26.

Special thanks are in order for Bill "Battle Droid" Morse. Bill is invaluable as an Assistant Game Master for his organizational and clerical skills.

As occurred last year in the preliminary and single elimination rounds, there were no game shortages. This is attributed to three reasons: "Jabba the Hutt" Gubbay, Brian "Bossk" Sutton and Frank "IG88" Sinigaglio - each brought multiple copies of the game and deserve honorable mention for the Sportsmanship Award. However, there was no nomination for sportsmanship this year, because a player must do a great deal to earn a sportsmanship nomination in my event, which has shown itself to be a very cut-throat game. In fact, there has been only one Queen's Gambit player ever nominated for the Sportsmanship Award, David "The Hutt" Gubbay

16 players advanced to the playoffs, including past champs Karl "Sith Witch" Henning, William "Wampa" Sparks, Nick "Padawan" Page and two-time champs Brian "Bossk" Sutton and Lawrence "Red Queen" Lingle. The three onetime champs fell by the wayside as the single elimination rounds progressed, but the two veteran, two-time winners displayed their pedigree on their way to the Final. Alas, Larry "Red Queen" Lingle defeated Brian "Bossk" Sutton and won his third Queens Gambit title. The implacable, child-killing Larry Lingle - aka Captain Larry to his pirate crews - thus becomes the one and only three-time champion of Star Wars - The Queens Gambit.

David Rennert and Carol Strock, once Juniors opponents, meet again.	Sean has his hands full with an Ewok rebellion apparently.