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Updated Nov. 12, 2014

 

2014 WBC Report  

 2015 Status: pending 2015 GM commitment

Jeff Mullet, OH

2014 Champion

  

Event History
2004    Jeff Mullet    123
2005    Bill Salvatore     48
2006    Bruce Reiff     43
2007    Peter Stein     42
2008    Tom Browne     44
2009     Tom Browne     74
2010    Raphael Lehrer    102
2011    Greg Thatcher     99
2012    Jason Levine     97
2013    Bruce Reiff     98
2014    Jeff Mullet    106

 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Jeff Mullet        OH    14    112
  2.  Bruce Reiff        OH    13    104
  3.  Rob Kircher        RI    13     69
  4.  Tom Browne         PA    12     69
  5.  Raphael Lehrer     MD    10     46
  6.  Jason Levine       NY    12     38
  7.  Andy Latto         MA    14     30
  8.  Greg Thatcher      CA    11     30
  9.  Bill Salvatore     MD    05     30
 10.  Eric Brosius       MA    13     27
 11.  Nick Page          on    10     24
 12.  Rich Meyer         MA    14     20
 13.  Pete Stein         OH    07     20
 14.  Bill Murdock       NY    05     18
 15.  Tom McCorry        VA    04     18
 16.  Bill Edwards       VA    13     16
 17.  Lexi Shea          CT    10     16
 18.  Mark Kennel        DE    14     15
 19.  Nick Ferris        MD    12     12
 20.  Jeremy Billones    VA    11     12
 21.  Eric Freeman       PA    08     12
 22.  Nate Hoam          OH    04     12
 23.  Kate Fractal       MA    14     10
 24.  Eric Lenhart       PA    05      9
 25.  Alan Kaiser        OH    04      9
 26.  Curt Collins II    PA    13      8
 27.  David Platnick     NY    07      8
 28.  Arthur Field       SC    06      8
 29.  Adam Fetzer        NY    12      6
 30.  Ken Schlosser      PA    11      6
 31.  Debbie Gutermuth   NC    08      6
 32.  Trevor Bender      WA    05      6
 33.  Mark Giddings      NY    14      5
 34.  Bob Wicks Jr       CT    10      4
 35.  Peggy Pfeiffer     FL    09      4
 36.  Richard Irving     CA    09      4
 37.  Ken Richards       SC    06      4
 38.  Sean McCulloch     OH    12      3
 39.  Jennifer Gorman    PA    05      3
 40.  Chris Kamm         NY    04      3
 41.  Suzanne Tuch       NY    06      2

2014 Laurelists
Repeating Laurelists:

Andy Latto, MA
2nd

Rich Meyer, MA
3rd

Mark Kennel, DE
4th

Kate Fractal, MA
5th

Mark Giddings, NY
6th

Past Winners

Jeff Mullet, OH
2004, 2014


Bill Salvatore, MD
2005


Bruce Reiff, OH
2006, 2013

Pete Stein, OH
2007

Tom Browne, PA
2008-09


Raphael Lehrer, CA
2010


Greg Thatcher, CA
2011


Jason Levine, NY
2012
   

The Early Bird ...

In 2014, San Juan topped triple digit participation for only the third time in it's 11 year run. There was some concern that moving the start time from 10 a.m. to 9 a.m. would hurt attendance because Monday morning arrivals might not make it on time. That didn't appear to be the case. It seems more and more people are arriving Sunday night or earlier.

With the earlier start time, the demo was moved to Sunday night. It was lightly attended and may be dropped altogether in the future.

There were four rounds of 2-player games. 32 players met the three-win criteria for advancement, providing a perfect bracket with no byes needed. After three rounds, Andy Latto defeated Mark Kennel with the purple building strategy in the semifinals. Andy had a very good engine going and racked up easy points. Mark went for the production strategy, but couldn't get a smithy or a Guild Hall built. Not a recipe for victory.

In the other bracket, Jeff Mullet and Rich Meyer both went for the production strategy. Oddly enough, neither had a Guild Hall for much of the game. They both continually spent all of their cards building production buildings, so they both knew the other was in trouble if they drew the Guild Hall. Jeff eventually drew and built the Guild Hall, Rich didn't and that was all she wrote.

In the Final, Jeff couldn't find any good cards and Andy jumped out to a two-building lead while going with the purple building strategy. That's never a good thing for the player who is two builds behind. But eventually, Jeff was able to build a library and a smithy. Andy used all of his cards to build the big point Hero, but Jeff was now able to build high point production buildings very cheaply. Andy was not able to keep up with Jeff's cheap builds and Jeff ended the game with a Guild Hall and lots of production buildings for his second SJN title - displacing you know who at the head of the laurel rankings. For that, I won't even jibe him for pulling a Coussis ... well, not much anyway.

 GM     Jeff Mullet  [9th Year]  NA
   jamullet@frontier.com  NA 

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