Ken Nied vs Charles Coats	Ted Lange from Germany plays Dave Gubbay of Australia at WBC.
Bruce Rae vs David Finberg	Michael Rogozinski vs Alex Lange

The creme came to the op this year. Round 3 of this single elimination tournament fielded the most powerful set of players to ever participate at this late stage. Each of the surviving six had an Area rating residing in the top seven positions of the list. Not so coincidentally, that statement holds true for the upper echelons of our Laurel List as well. Five of the six were former champions of the two-player event. In a related happenstance, in each of the three Round 3 contests, the higher rated player also won the round.

Two of the games finished before either player added a pip to his titan strength. Aaron Fuegi beat Brian Sutton in the third battle of the game, when Aaron attacked with a titan, three rangers, two warbears and a gargoyle against Brian's titan, warlock, ranger, three lions and a cyclops. Aaron had better firepower at the start, and the angel call made it decisive. David desJardins beat David Finberg in a slower contest. At one point Finberg had an opportunity to attack seven on six on Turn 4, but elected to continue to recruit. When the decisive battle did come, he placed an angel between a griffin and a ranger to pin the creatures, but they rolled six hits on nine dice to kill the angel in a blow. This freed the griffin to fly next to the titan and it was enough to decide the battle. The last game of the round between Jason Ley and Dan Strock took more than four hours. The game was suspended so both players could attend other events. There appeared to be no early advantage as both players built their titans to eight pips, but Dan was eventually caught by a stack that outpointed his titan stack and lost the battle.

The single semi-final pit desJardins vs Ley as the defending champ received the high rent bye. While being chased, Jason was forced to attack a double cyclops, double gargoyle stack in the brush with his titan. Jason won but was left with only an angel and a lion with his titan, and he didn't recruit rapidly, needing to avoid David's nearby large stacks. Jason eventually built back to seven then got caught in the marsh and barely escaped the battle, with his titan one point from death. Later, when he fled through the mountains, he was attacked by five rangers and a gorgon. He should have won the battle but when he tried to pin all the pieces with his angel and titan, with three hits on his eight pip titan, the titan struck down two wounded rangers but they each rolled three hits out of four in retaliation to kill the titan.

Aaron and David met in the championship match. Each has won both WBC Titan tournaments multiple times. This match would decide which of the two would become the first 4-time winner of the 2-player version. Their matches tend to be either very brief or very long. This was one of the brief ones. Only one conflict took place early, with a two stack fleeing, so both titans were six pips. Aaron had two stacks chasing David's titan. One had a griffon, a guardian, two rangers and three lions, the other had an angel, five rangers and a guardian. David's titan was weaker, with three trolls and a warlock, when it went into the tundra to recruit a warbear, taking a risk in the attempt to become better. Aaron's angel stack was able to catch the titan and the battle was over swiftly.

Peg Meacham vs Nick Klercker	The usual suspects meet in the Final.