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Updated 11/17/2011

2011 WBC Report   

 2012 Status: pending 2012 GM commitment

Brad Johnson, IL

2011 Champion

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Event History
1999     Daniel Lawall      40
2000     Bradley Johnson      41
2001     Jeff Ribeiro      44
2002     Jeff Cornett      42
2003     Brad Johnson      71
2004     Brad Johnson      61
2005     Bill Dyer      65
2006     Brad Johnson      56
2007     Scott Buckwalter      66
2008     Brad Johnson      68
2009     Brad Johnson      65
2010     Alexandra Henning      63
2011     Brad Johnson      72
 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Brad Johnson       IL    11    288
  2.  Bill Navolis       MD    11     61
  3.  Alex Henning       CT    10     56
  4.  Jason Levine       NY    10     50
  5.  Jeff Finkeldey     OH    11     40
  6.  Scott Buckwalter   MD    07     40
  7.  Bill Dyer          IL    05     40
  8.  Jeff Cornett       FL    02     40
  9.  Jeff Ribeiro       NH    01     40
 10.  Dan Lawall         VA    00     39
 11.  James Kendrick     uk    08     36
 12.  Tamara Houde       VA    04     30
 13.  Tom McCorry        VA    11     28
 14.  Rich Shipley       MD    07     28
 15.  Cliff Ackman       PA    06     28
 16.  Charles Squibb     PA    11     24
 17.  Brian Schott       MD    07     24
 18.  Lance Ribeiro      NH    05     24
 19.  George Seary       NY    01     24
 20.  Steve Cuccaro      MD    06     21
 21.  Ralph Gleaton      SC    08     20
 22.  Ken Samuel         VA    06     20
 23.  Jeff Power         MI    05     19
 24.  David des Jardins  CA    03     18
 25.  Dan Mathias        MD    10     16
 26.  Brad Davis         VA    08     16
 27.  Jonathan Tivel     VA    04     16
 28.  Dan McGowan        ME    01     16
 29.  Curt Collins II    PA    09     12
 30.  Clyde Kruskal      MD    03     12
 31.  Rodd Polsky        PA    02     12
 32.  Vic Hutcherson     MD    00     12
 33.  David Davis        OH    99     12
 34.  Josh Githens       SC    09     10
 35.  David Kyle         PA    99      9
 36.  Ewan McNay         NY    10      8
 37.  Scott Chupak       IL    09      8
 38.  Reiko Brooks       TN    08      8
 39.  Carl Sykes         SC    07      8
 40.  Mark Neale         RI    05      8
 41.  Nick Henning       CT    03      6
 42.  Kevin LeRow        MA    99      6
 43.  Chris Gnech        PA    11      4
 44.  Winton LeMoine     CA    10      4
 45.  Craig Trader       VA    08      4
 46.  Pat Mitchell       DE    03      3

2011 Laurelists                                                 Repeating Laurelists:

Charles Squibb, PA
2nd

Tom McCorry, VA
3rd

Jeff Finkeldey, OH
4th

Bill Navolis, DE
5th

Chris Gnech, PA
6th

Past Winners

Daniel Lawall, VA
1999

Brad Johnson, IL
00, 03, 04, 06, 08-09, 11

Jeff Ribeiro, NH
2001

Jeff Cornett, FL
2002

Bill Dyer, IL
2005

Scott Buckwalter, MD
2007

Alexandra Henning, CT
2010
     

Antero Kuusi Meghan Friedmann, Lawrence Drew and Arland Kane

Tim Packwood, Ryan Friedmann, Roderick Lee and Lissa Rennert

Brad gets Orange ...

This was a banner year for Roborally as we introduced the all new Kaarin Englemann Memorial Crash & Burn award. This award is presented to the player who is eliminated first in each round of the tournament by having all of their robots destroyed. The award comes complete with a player aid based on a design by Kaarin where the palms of the hands have a large L and R on them. As it is important to have these letters on the correct hand, the player aid allows the player to place their hand upon the award and shows them whether it is the left or the right.

The very first ever winner of this prestigious award was the WBC's own legal counsel, Scott Pfiefer, and everyone knows how good lawyers are with spatial relationships. I suspect the player aid to be useful to Scott in other aspects of his life as well, like driving, and waving.

Our Round 2 recipient Evan Cogwin, sat at the GM's table, and acquired this distinct honor through the ingenious use of patented random method of card play. The committee is reviewing the future validity of this method of play as a means to obtain this distinguished award, though they will probably hold off on making a decision until more data is obtained.

Only nine of the 14 players who qualified for the semi-finals appeared to battle for a place in the 6-player Final. Ryan Friedmann managed to be the first and only player eliminated completely. Though both Henry Pfiefer (like father like son, maybe Henry can borrow Dad's award), and Mark McCandless managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of a third place finish.

Sadly, one of our finalists then misread the schedule, and failed to arrive on time for the last round early Sunday morning. Personally, I could have used that extra hour of sleep myself, but for me it was not to be. With only five players, and four plaques to hand out it was questionable whether anyone would have the temerity to earn the final Crash & Burn award, but veteran player Bill Navolis did not let us down, losing his last robot on the final leg of a tight race for third place, thus ensuring that all of the finalists received something to take home.

Our luckiest win of the tournament was achieved by Josh Githens (who qualifies and doesn't attend the semi-finals nearly every year) during the first round when he was pushed onto the last flag by another robot, just before another player would have won the game. Some people just live under a lucky star. Oh, and Brad Johnson won his seventh Robo Rally title to move up to orange on the Masters board.

Brad Johnson pursues his orange belt 7th title with Bill Navolis and Jeff Finkeldey in hot pursuit.

Finalists Bill Navolis, Jeff Finkeldey, Brad Johnson, Chris Gnech, Charles Squibb and Tom McCorry.
 GM      Marc F. Houde  [13th Year]  113 Lee St., Front Royal, VA 22630 
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