Kevin Emery tosses in his hand as Mark Yoshikawa swims to the surface.	In Dan's world the sonar always works. For Buck - not so much apparently.
Carol Caler and Steve Scott do the torpedo sidestep.	Taylor Rish and Frank Cinliffe search for each other.

In spite of the high temperature in Lampeter, 38 submariners appeared for the grueling endurance test as the finalists would spend over four hours in the sweltering conditions. All that was missing was the overhead explosions as the crews sweated out the depth charge attacks of a bygone era.

Three players emerged unbeaten from the three swiss rounds - defending champion James Doughan, two-time champion Bruce Young, and Andy Lewis. Tiebreakers were used to add Keith Hunsinger, Chris Storzillo, James Kramer, Kevin Wojtaszcyk and Alexander Lange to the playoff rounds.

Doughan's streak ended quickly as his British subs were no match for Storzillo's Soviets in a Sub Duel. Young's surface fleet was defeated by Kramer's Soviet subs (fresh from their training cruise at the demo on Saturday night!). Lange's Soviets defeated Hunsinger's British in Sub Duel. The most hotly contested Round 4 match was Lewis' NATO surface force against Wojtaszcyk's Soviets. Andy scored a quick kill on Molniya, but couldn't finish off Skvortsov. Twice he got firing solutions but was frustrated by malfunctioning attack systems. Another attack actually hit the Skvortsov, but it survived with only sensor & attack damage. In the meantime, Skvortsov sank Virginia. It still was looking good for Andy as he had the Simpson with its helicopter against the damaged sub. But Skvortsov managed to get off the first shot! This was especially frustrating to Andy since he had a damage control card in his hand which he could have used to repair the Simpson had it not been sunk outright! Fate is slow to forgive and quick to strike in Attack Sub.

In the semifinals Chris' British hunted Alex's Soviets in Sub Duel. It took some time for contact to be established because both sides' sonars repeatedly malfunctioned. Finally, Chris launched the first attack, hitting the Ivan Rogav but failing to sink it. Alex quickly repaired the Rogav. Valiant's sonar continued to malfunction and Alex managed to hit the Valiant, but it didn't sink either. He then sank Swiftsure, forcing Chris to face two Soviet subs with the damaged Valiant. It was soon over as Skvortsov struck the final blow.

The other match pitted Kevin's British against James' Soviets in another Sub Duel. Kevin drew first blood, sinking Ivan Rogav. James was frustrated by sensor malfunctions on his remaining sub, but still managed to get off some attacks against Swiftsure which evaded both attacks. Finally Kevin's Swiftsure uses Passive Sonar, Battle Stations and an attack to sink Skvortsov for the win.

Simple and quick, Scenario A, Sub Duel, was the most popular scenario in the sweltering heat, so it was no surprise when it was chosen by Kevin (British) and Alex (Soviets) for the Final. Kevin drew first blood as his Valiant sank Skvortsov before it could launch an attack. Alex tried to open the range and reduce the contact on his remaining sub, but was thwarted twice. Kevin got a weapons lock on Rogav, but the Russian evaded the torpedoes! Rogav kept up the pressure by using passive sonar to gain good contact levels on both British subs. It gets off an attack which sinks the Valiant. It's now 1 vs 1, but the Swiftsure has malfunctioning sonar. That edge is soon lost as Rogav malfunctions while using active sonar. As the third deck begins, each side has one sub with malfunctioning sonar. Rogav is first to repair. Meanwhile, Swiftsure malfunctions again! Alex goes in for the kill, playing active sonar, battle stations and weapons lock. The Swiftsure takes evasive action. Alex needs a 4 or better for the win, but draws a 3! Rogav keeps the pressure on. Each time Swiftsure manages to reduce the contact level, Rogav gets it back to 2. Then Rogav aggressively closes the range, taking the contact level to 3 and attacks with Swiftsure taking evasive action, and again Rogav misses by one! Again, Rogav's sonar malfunctions, but that skilled technician comes to the rescue again. Alex decides closing range is a better option than relying on his fickle sonar. Swiftsure is unable to counter. With a contact level 3, Rogav launches torpedoes. This time Swiftsure goes to the bottom.

Thus, Alexander Lange won his first WBC title as he commanded the Soviet subs to four straight wins.

Kevin releases Andy Lewis from the Lampeter depths by eliminating his Nato force in the quarterfinals to hand him his first loss.	Kevin Wojtaszczyk and Alexander Lange are in good spirts after six rounds of "heated" play as Carol observes the Final in progress.