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Updated Nov. 23, 2012

2012 WBC Report  

 2013 Status: pending 2013 GM commitment

Sam Schell, NC

2012 Champion

Event History
2011    Randy Buehler     49
2012    Sam Schell     59

Euro Quest Event History
2012    Andrew Emerick     35

 Laurels

 Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
   1.  Randy Buehler      WA    12     50
   2.  Sceadeau D'Tela    NC    12     36
   3.  Sam Schell         NC    12     30
   4.  Andrew Emerick     CT    12     26
   5.  Robert Kircher     RI    12     14
   6.  Alex Bove          PA    12     12
   7.  Elaine Pearson     NC    12      9
   8.  Redie Smith        NC    11      9
   9.  Steve LeWinter     NC    12      6
  10.  Kyle Smith         PA    11      6
  11.  Cary Morris        NC    12      4
  12.  Rebecca Hebner     DC    12      3
  13.  Lars Astrom        NC    11      3

2012 Laurelists                                            Repeating Laurelists: 

Sceadeau D'Tela, NC
2nd

Randy Buehler, WA
3rd

Elaine Pearson, NC
4th

Andrew Emerick, CT
5th

Rebecca Hebner, DC
6th

Past Winners

Randy Buehler, WA
2011

Sam Schell, NC
2012


Kyle Smith, Doug Mercer, Sam Schell and Janet Ottey try to qualify.

Tedd Mullally and the Caesar, Randy Buehler compete.

 Virginia Colin, Doug Galullo and Katie Breza on the Nile.

 Tom Horne, Daniel Eppolito and Eric Engleman in the first heat.

The Tarheel Answer to Quebec ...

Reigning Caesar Randy Buehler and Sceadeau d'Tela returned to the Final where Randy had edged Sceadeau on a tiebreaker in 2011. However, both were quite simply outplayed by Sam Shell, who came to WBC specifically to play Egizia and walked away with the title. Sam also had beaten Randy in a heat and was one of three double heat winners so the win was no fluke. Sceadeau and Pete Staab were the other double winners.

The Final almost qualified as a home game with three NC Greenspielers joined by "friend-of-Greenspielers" Buehler. However, once the game began, Sam put on a clinic on proper play. His first trip down the Nile raised the strength of his workers three times without acquiring any new farms specifically so he could pay six life for food and move backwards far enough on the Victory Point Track to ensure that he got to draft first in the next two ages. He also jumped down the river very aggressively to grab the card that allows inspection of two extra cards when you go to the Sphinx.

Sam continued to manipulate his "drafting" order in Round 2 by jumping downstream to grab the card allowing him to move upstream once per round. This allowed him to grab key cards more easily while never being forced to skip the Sphinx. He even picked up the double move "time walk" card, which he deployed to great effect in Round 5.

Sphinx cards were the key to his winning score. While he had to put all the cards back on one of his four Sphinx visits, he made up for it by hitting the "2 points per permanent" card on his Age 5 Sphinx activation, which was good for an easy eight points. When all the dust settled, Sam was tied with Sceadeau going into final scoring, but in addition to the eight points for permanents he also scored eight for most brown fields, nine for having five bricks in the obelisk (thanks largely to grabbing the three cheapest spots on his first build), and ten points for two bricks everywhere. This resulted in a five-point win over Sceadeau, 109-104.
Elaine and Randy were both hurt early by a very rock-light shuffle. Both of the unused cards from the Round 1/2 deck were Quarries and Sam and Sceadeau scooped up all the Quarries that appeared, forcing Randy and Elaine to fight over the scraps and the rock market. Elaine hung with the two leaders for most of the game, but she had only 14 points in Sphinx cards to Randy's 29, and that allowed him to close the gap and take third with 86 points to Elaine's 81.

With attendance up 20% this year, Egizia seems like it is primed for a long run as a Century event. It's a really fun game and the action drafting mechanic that requires you to always move downstream is a truly great mechanic. We look forward to seeing even more of you in the event next year.

Rebecca Hebner and Ted Bohaczuk explore mysterious Egypt.

The finalists gather for the championship game.

2012 Euro Quest Laurelists

Andrew Emerick, CT
1st

Alex Bove, PA
2nd

Randy Buehler, WA
3rd

Steven LeWinter, NC
4th

Cary Morris, NC
5th

 GM      Randy Buehler  [1st Year]   NA
   RandyBuehler@Comcast.net   425-765-1031

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