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| Updated Nov. 16, 2015 |
2015 WBC Report
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2016 Status: pending 2016
GM commitment |
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Steven Spisak, on |
| 2015 Champion |
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Euro Quest
BPA History |
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Arthur Field |
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Rank Name From Last Total
1. Greg Thatcher CA 15 133
2. Eric Freeman PA 16 109
3. Alex Bove PA 15 104
4. Arthur Field SC 09 91
5. Haim Hochboim il 15 73
6. Kevin Wojtaszczyk NY 14 73
7. Raphael Lehrer MD 11 64
8. Nick Anner NY 07 51
9. Aram Warszawski il 13 48
10. Curt Collins II PA 10 43
11. Evan Tannheimer MA 05 42
12. Mike Kaltman PA 14 33
13. Andrew Emerick CT 13 33
14. Steven Spisak on 15 30
15. David Platnick VA 14 30
16. Rob Kircher RI 13 30
17. Michael Shea CT 12 30
18. Andrew Gerb MA 10 30
19. Rich Meyer MA 08 30
20. Sam Atabaki CA 07 30
21. Bill Zurn CA 11 26
22. Doug Smith PA 11 24
23. Chris Trimmer TX 10 24
24. Owen Kyrollos NJ 13 18
25. Davyd Field SC 05 18
26. Ilan Woll CT 08 15
27. Rob Flowers MD 12 12
28. Brian Kowal WI 07 12
29. Brian Jones NC 05 12
30. John Kerr VA 03 12
31. Ron Clement on 15 9
32. Andy Latto MA 14 9
33. Cary Morris NC 12 9
34. Bryan Berkenstock NJ 10 9
35. Jonathan Tivel VA 04 9
36. Luke Koleszar VA 03 9
37. Tom Browne PA 08 8
38. Ken Dozier NC 03 8
39. Greg Crowe VA 07 6
40. Joshua Cooper MD 06 6
41. Shannon Beets CA 05 6
42. Tyler Sheaffer CA 04 6
43. David Fogel MD 03 6
44. Matt Calkins VA 11 4
45. Grant LaDue NY 10 4
46. Tom Dunning NY 08 4
47. Rob Taylor MI 03 4
48. Dominic Blais qc 12 3
49. John Pack CO 05 3
50. Tom McCorry PA 03 2
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| 2015 Laurelists |
Returning Laurelists: 2 |
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Greg Thatcher, CA
2nd
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Alex Bove, PA
3rd
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Ron Clement, on
4th
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Haim Hochboim, il
5th
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Eric Freeman, PA
6th
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| Past Winners |
Arthur Field,
SC
2003, 2006
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Evan Tannheimer,
MA
2004
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Nick Anner,
NY
2005
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Sam Atabaki,
CA
2007
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Greg Thatcher,
CA
2008
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Eric Freeman,
PA
2009
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Alex Bove,
PA
2010
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Raphael Lehrer,
CA
2011
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Michael Shea,
CT
2012
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Rob Kircher,
RI
2013
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David Platnick,
VA
2014
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Steven Spisak,
on
2015
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Annie Foasberg and Matt Beach
ponder
Nile real estate. |
Chaka Benson, Melody Loder,
and Alex
Bove negotiate. |
All Tied Up ...
Amun-Re drew 67 highly qualified participants to its tables this year. 18 Preliminary winners, including six who posted double wins made for a broad group of potential semifinalists. We wanted to have an all-winners semifinal, but 20 participants makes for a better group of 5-player games, so we set the list to accommodate a few alternates. However, only 16 winners were available at the appointed time so we made do with four 4-player games
Greg Thatcher had the highest score in the semifinals (45) over Dominic Blais (36) and Wade Campbell (35), with Perrianne Lurie (27) not able to get things going. Alex Bove also had a comfortable win over Aran Warszawski, Antony Saccenti and Warren Whitsitt (44, 36, 34, 29). The two other semifinal games saw Eric Freeman and Haim Hochboim barely lose their matches to Steve Spisak and Ron Clement, respectively. Eric’s two-point loss gained sixth-place laurels, while Haim’s one-point defeat earned fifth.
With Abydos, Amarna and Buto out of play, the Final proved interesting. The first round saw a very rare set and most on both sides of the Nile and several power cards being scored led to Ron and Steve sharing the lead at 18 points each. Greg made two power cards and a set giving him 12 points, while Alex rounded out the group with nine. Greg had a good money position heading into the second round, but Alex’s decision to push the sacrifice up to 2 (increasing points for Ron who was the only person to have temples and money for Steve who had the most farmers) gave Steve almost the same amount, so the second round became a chess match of province selection.
Ron continued to covet the temple spaces while Steve and Greg used their money advantages to take the larger pyramid spaces. Greg did take the Edu province that had a temple and two pyramids giving him a boost at the end and an off-set to Ron’s two temples in Damanhur. However in the end, the money and points Steve managed in the first round were enough to deny Greg…barely. The leaders were tied with 42 points, but Steve held the first tie-breaker (nine pyramids to eight). Ron and Alex also tied for third with 36 points. Alex needed two tie-breakers (nine farmers and temples to Ron’s seven) to take the bronze.
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The pyramid specialist finalists pose for the
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 Greg Thatcher [1st Year] |
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