Antero Kuusi Meghan Friedmann, Lawrence Drew and Arland Kane	Tim Packwood, Ryan Friedmann, Roderick Lee and Lissa Rennert

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.