Ticket to Ride

ticket to ride

Updated 11/26/2010
2010 WBC Report
2011 Status: pending 2011 GM commitment

Anni Foasberg, NJ

2010 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
2010	Anni Foasberg	206

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
2010	Eric Monte	66

Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Jay Fox            NJ    10     72
  2.  Eric Monte         NY    10     70
  3.  Virginia Colin     VA    08     64
  4.  Anni Foasberg      NJ    10     60
  5.  Kyle Greenwood     HI    09     60
  6.  John Faella        RI    08     60
  7.  Steve Shambeda     PA    19     54
  8.  Daniel Karp        MD    04     48
  9.  Tom Dunning        NY    09     44
 10.  Brittany Bernard   PA    07     40
 11.  Blair Morgen       NJ    05     40
 12.  Donna Davis        PA    08     36
 13.  Nico Parauda       NJ    08     36
 14.  Robert Cranshaw    RI    05     36
 15.  Larry Loicano      PA    07     32
 16.  Josh Githens       SC    09     30
 17.  Alan Kaiser        OH    04     30
 18.  Grant LaDue        NY    10     24
 19.  Jamie Tang         MD    08     24
 20.  Andrew Metrick     PA    06     24
 21.  Philip Shea        VA    09     20
 22.  Michael Richey     VA    06     20
 23.  Lori Miskoff       NJ    10     18
 24.  Peter Eirich       MD    10     18
 25.  Tom DeMarco        NJ    10     18
 26.  Kathy Kilroy       PA    09     18
 27.  Jonathan Izer      MD    08     18
 28.  Tom McCorry        VA    04     18
 29.  Arthur Wines       PA    07     16
 30.  Mike Backstrom     MN    06     16
 31.  Jim Fishkin        FL    05     16
 32.  Mark McCandless    LA    10     12
 33.  Tom Stokes         NJ    08     12
 34.  Anne Norton        NJ    08     12
 35.  Eyal Mozes         NY    08     12
 36.  Curt Collins II    PA    07     12
 37.  Jeff Meyer         MA    06     12
 38.  Jean Francis Gagne qc    05     12
 39.  Arthur Field       SC    04     12
 40.  Tamara Houde       VA    04     12
 41.  James Freeman      VA    09      9
 42.  Bill Zurn          CA    08      9
 43.  Cathy Kratz        ID    04      9
 44.  Amy Rule           MD    07      8
 45.  Gordon Rodgers     PA    06      8
 46.  Bob Heinzmann      FL    05      8
 47.  Raphael Lehrer     CA    10      6
 48.  Randy Buehler      WA    10      6
 49.  Alan Elkner        NJ    09      6
 50.  Shivendra Chopra   MD    09      6
 51.  Chris Goff         MD    08      6
 52.  Eric Haas          MD    04      6
 53.  Kathleen McCorry   NJ    04      6
 54.  Lee Mewshaw        MD    07      4
 55.  Winton LeMoine     CA    07      4
 56.  Amy O'Neal         VA    06      4
 57.  Bill Duke          MD    06      4
 58.  Barb Flaxington    NJ    05      4
 59.  Marsha Hamel       NJ    05      4
 60.  Norman Rule        MD    10      3
 61.  Sam Atabaki        CA    09      3
 62.  Philip Taylor      NJ    08      3
 63.  Mark Guttag        VA    04      3
 64.  Davyd Field        SC    04      3
 65.  Michael Thompson   PA    07      2
 66.  Bill Salvatore     MD    06      2
 67.  Chris Entwistle    MD    05      2

2010 Laurelists Repeating Laurelists: 0

Jay Fox, NJ
2nd

Grandt LaDue, NY
3rd

Lori Miskoff, NJ
4th

Mark McCandless, LA
5th

Raphael Lehrer, CA
6th

Past Winners

Alan Kaiser, OH
2004

Blair Morgen, NJ
2005

Eric Monte, NY
2006

Brittany Bernard, PA
2007

John Faella, RI
2008

Kyle Greenwood, HI
2009

Anni Foasberg, NJ
2010


Ballroom B is emptied and the tables marked in preparation for a TTR heat which will soon fill the room in record time.	Although Jay Fox has never won a TTR title his ability to make his way to the Finals in a 200-player event year after year is unsurpassed.

Still a bridesmaid ...

Ticket to Ride is a big favorite and is one of the largest tournaments at WBC with over 200 players each of the last three years. The first heat had 124 people happily playing on 31 tables, with an even 100 in each of the other two heats. Despite the monumental challenges this posed, a revised seating system had everyone checked in and playing within 20 minutes.

After the Preliminaries had done their thing, we had ten double winners. Scores fluctuated wildly from the teens to a high score in the 170s for a 1910 game. For the second year in a row, Henry Dove had the best single game score with 179, making eight out of eight tickets and collecting the Most Tickets bonus.

Due to numbers we had to play four 3-player games in the semi-final. Three of the 2009 finalists played each other; Jay Fox - back from his Paris excursion in the recent DoW world championships, Steve Shambeda and defending champ Kyle Greenwood with Jay coming out the victor this time. Fifth and sixth place wood went to Mark McCandless and Raphael Lehrer based on the strongest runner-up finishes in their respective semi-finals. Raphael's edge over Lisa Sutherland who finished 7th was just .2 points; 107.78 to 101.58.

Our four finalists were Anni Foasberg, Grant LaDue, Jay Fox, and Lori Miskoff. Jay played with his set of silver trains from the world championships to add some cool "bling" to the board.

In the Final, the west coast got built up so fast there was much jockeying for routes before any branching out got started. It was a really fast game, taking only 45 minutes. Anni Foasberg won with 129 and tied with Lori for most tickets made. Jay again finished second for the second straight year - no mean feat in an event with over 200 entrants - with 118. Grant was third with 100 and the longest route and Lori brought up the rear with 93.

This year I had two ladies help with check-in and sign on to be my "Conductors" for next year. Sarah Beach and Nikki Bradford did a great job sorting the players as they came in and we got the crowds seated and playing in record time. Well done, ladies! Thanks all, every heat and playoff game went great. Lots of kids and adults alike had a great time with Ticket to Ride.


Grant LaDue is another wargamer dabbling in the "dark arts" of euro games ... only to be denied by Anni Foasburg.	GM Claire Brosius is down to the easy part now - having reduced a field of 206 players to these four finalists.