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Updated Nov. 23, 2012

2012 WBC Report
2013 Status: pending 2013 GM commitment

Henry Allen, FL

2012 Champion

Event History

2004    Alan Kaiser     151

2005    Blair Morgen     160

2006    Eric Monte     157

2007    Brittany Bernard     191

2008    John Faella     201

2009    Kyle Greenwood     220

2010    Anni Foasberg     206

2011    Patrick Monte     207

2012    Henry Allen     203

Euro Quest Event History

2004    Daniel Karp     45

2005    Tom Dunning     39

2006    Virginia Colin     49

2007    Virginia Colin     51

2008    Donna Davis     48

2009    Josh Githens     68

2010    Eric Monte     66

2011    Sceadeau D'Tela     78

2012    Liz Anderson     57

Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Jay Fox            NJ    10     72
  2.  Virginia Colin     VA    11     70
  3.  Eric Monte         NY    10     70
  4.  Steve Shambeda     PA    12     69
  5.  Anni Foasberg      NJ    10     60
  6.  Kyle Greenwood     HI    09     60
  7.  John Faella        RI    08     60
  8.  Henry Allen        FL    12     50
  9.  Patrick Monte      NY    11     50
 10.  Lori Miskoff       NJ    11     48
 11.  Daniel Karp        MD    04     48
 12.  Tom Dunning        NY    09     44
 13.  Brittany Bernard   PA    07     40
 14.  Blair Morgen       NJ    05     40
 15.  Donna Davis        PA    08     36
 16.  Nico Parauda       NJ    08     36
 17.  Robert Cranshaw    RI    05     36
 18.  Larry Loicano      PA    07     32
 19.  Liz Anderson       NY    12     30
 20.  Rich Meyer         MA    12     30
 21.  Sceadeau D'Tela    NC    11     30
 22.  Josh Githens       SC    09     30
 23.  Alan Kaiser        OH    04     30
 24.  Vien Bounma        NJ    12     29
 25.  Curt Collins II    PA    11     27
 26.  Grant LaDue        NY    10     24
 27.  Jamie Tang         MD    08     24
 28.  Andrew Metrick     PA    06     24
 29.  Norman Rule        MD    11     21
 30.  Thomas Idzikowski  MI    11     20
 31.  Philip Shea        VA    09     20
 32.  Michael Richey     VA    06     20
 33.  Eugene Yee         MD    12     18
 34.  Peter Eirich       MD    10     18
 35.  Tom DeMarco        NJ    10     18
 36.  Kathy Kilroy       PA    09     18
 37.  Jonathan Izer      MD    08     18
 38.  Tom McCorry        VA    04     18
 39.  Lee Mewshaw        MD    11     16
 40.  Arthur Wines       PA    07     16
 41.  Mike Backstrom     MN    06     16
 42.  Jim Fishkin        FL    05     16
 43.  Henry Dove         MD    12     12
 44.  Mark McCandless    LA    10     12
 45.  Tom Stokes         NJ    08     12
 46.  Anne Norton        NJ    08     12
 47.  Eyal Mozes         NY    08     12
 48.  Jeff Meyer         MA    06     12
 49.  Jean Francis Gagne qc    05     12
 50.  Arthur Field       SC    04     12
 51.  Tamara Houde       VA    04     12
 52.  Sarah Beach        MD    12     10
 53.  Mark Geary         OH    11     10
 54.  Haim Hochboim      is    11      9
 55.  James Freeman      VA    09      9
 56.  Bill Zurn          CA    08      9
 57.  Cathy Kratz        ID    04      9
 58.  Amy Rule           MD    07      8
 59.  Gordon Rodgers     PA    06      8
 60.  Bob Heinzmann      FL    05      8
 61.  Andrew Emerick     CT    12      6
 62.  Raphael Lehrer     CA    10      6
 63.  Randy Buehler      WA    10      6
 64.  Alan Elkner        NJ    09      6
 65.  Shivendra Chopra   MD    09      6
 66.  Chris Goff         MD    08      6
 67.  Eric Haas          MD    04      6
 68.  Kathleen McCorry   NJ    04      6
 69.  Bryan Berkenstock  NJ    12      5
 70.  Max DuBoff         NJ    11      5
 71.  Winton LeMoine     CA    07      4
 72.  Amy O'Neal         VA    06      4
 73.  Bill Duke          MD    06      4
 74.  Barb Flaxington    NJ    05      4
 75.  Marsha Hamel       NJ    05      4
 76.  Todd Raethka       NY    12      3
 77.  Rodney Davidson    AZ    11      3
 78.  Sam Atabaki        CA    09      3
 79.  Philip Taylor      NJ    08      3
 80.  Mark Guttag        VA    04      3
 81.  Davyd Field        SC    04      3
 82.  Michael Thompson   PA    07      2
 83.  Bill Salvatore     MD    06      2
 84.  Chris Entwistle    MD    05      2

2012 Laurelists Repeating Laurelists: 0

Rich Meyer, MA
2nd

Vien Bounma, NJ
3rd

Steve Shambeda, PA
4th

Sarah Beach, MD
5th

Bryan Berkenstock, NJ
6th

Past Winners

Alan Kaiser, OH
2004

Blair Morgen, NJ
2005

Eric Monte, NY
2006

Brittany Bernard, PA
2007

John Faella, RI
2008

Kyle Greenwood, HI
2009

Anni Foasberg, NJ
2010

Patrick Monte, NY
2011

Hnery Allen, FL
2012


Jenn Heron, Yoni Weiss, Henry Allen and Eric Raymond	Perrianne Lurie, Jamie Tang and Kyle Greenwood

Riding the Rails ...

So many tickets, so little time!

Ticket to Ride carried over 200 passengers for the fifth straight year, with a whopping 128 in the first heat. The crowds dropped to 103 for the second heat and a mere 76 passengers rode the smaller train in the Heritage room for the third heat.
The amazing Bryan Berkenstock was our only triple winner. Bryan has had multiple wins for a number of years and is a "regular passenger" on the WBC Ticket to Ride train. Six double winners also enjoyed the preliminaries. The highest single game score was Jennifer Horan's massive 190. She made nine tickets and got the most tickets bonus in 1910. Her whole table got high scores: Judy Wobbeking - 135, Cliff Ackman -130, and 127 for Jim Fry.

Entering more than 100 people for a heat has always been an organizational challenge. We want to give people the choice to play various versions and still get as many tables as possible quickly seated and playing. After the first heat I discussed the process with my husband, Eric, and we decided on a way to group the players based on the version they preferred to play, simplifying the seat assignment process and eliminating confusion. One of my two regular assistant conductors, Nikki Bradford, was unable to attend due to a family emergency, but Sarah Beach was a rock steady Conductor. We also had a lot of help from regular players, Curt Collins, Jennifer Horan, Deb Yaure and others.

During the semifinals we had two winners complete the most tickets the tournament has seen to date, Steve Shambeda with 13 and Vien Bounma with 11.

The four players in the Final were all new to this exciting situation. Rich Meyer, Vien Bounma, Steve Shambeda and Henry Allen all had different strategies. The northeast got built up amazingly fast, but the main standout was the fistful of cards that Henry took. At one point almost half the deck was in his hand. Henry made his three initial tickets and then promptly built four six-train sections to take the win at 144 points.

Even with the biggest heat ever, the Ticket to Ride train ran smoothly and on schedule. Get on board in 2013!