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Titan 2-Player (TT2) WBC 2022 Event Report
Updated December 16, 2023
18 Players David desJardins Event History
  2022 Champion & Laurels
 

desJardins Captures Fifth Title!

Two changes to this year's format were well received. A two-heat Multiple Entry Single Elimination format which allowed the winners of each Heat advancing to the Final. If a player wins both heats, they win the tournament without a Final.

Six players entered both heats; 12 entered only one heat or the other. A modified mulligan rule for the two-player game reduced the incidence of very short one-sided games, with no complaints. I intend to keep both of these changes, perhaps with slight modifications, for next year.

As befits a tournament with nearly a 30-year history, there were six past winners in the event: Aaron Fuegi (8), David desJardins (4), Sean McCullough, Mike Pustilnik, Ed Rothenheber, and Bruno Wolff.

In Heat 1, David desJardins won a long positional struggle over Art Wines, in a game that ran until 2 am after many unexpected battle results and reversals. Ed Rothenheber exited early, while Bruno Wolff advanced to the Final. In the Final of Heat 1, David had an early recruiting lead, but Bruno focused most of his energy on trapping the enemy Titan rather than recruiting. David sacrificed his strongest legion (with an angel and giant) and narrowly escaped the trap, despite rolling two 1's to put him in a perilous position. Later in the game, David was at risk of being trapped again -- his Titan was still very weak -- but Bruno's unsuccessful attack on a giant-unicorn legion that was guarding David’s Titan ended his chances. David ended the game with unicorns in at least four distinct legions.

Eight-time champion Aaron Fuegi entered only Heat 2, and after defeating his teammate David Finberg, was eliminated by Sean McCullough who rolled very hot in three consecutive battles. Sean had earlier defeated Mike Pustilnik as well. In the other half of the draw, Art Wines won a rematch with David desJardins, in a game where both sides misplayed a 7-on-4 attack into a tower. In the Final of Heat 2, the first big battle after many small surrenders saw Art attacking Sean's hydra legion with behemoths in the jungle and losing. Sean had a stronger position but was eventually forced to attack an angel and 3 hydras with his titan and 3 hydras. Winning that battle as well gave him the dominant position.

In the tournament Final, Sean misrecruited an illegal unit (warbear when he meant to take a guardian), which he had to give up when it was later discovered. On the other side of the board, Sean attacked with 3 Cyclops, 2 Gargoyles versus a Gorgon, 3 Cyclops in the brush, unsuccessfully. The recruiting error may well have changed the outcome of the game, as David eventually was forced to attack that legion with Titan 7, Behemoth 2, Gorgon, Cyclops vs Guardian 2, Warbear, Ranger 3, Centaur in the plains. He won a narrow victory after Sean's guardian rolled 1 for 24 at the key moment, but an additional guardian for the defender could have been decisive. Sean's Titan was now in danger. He moved 6 spaces away, but David rolled a 6 to attack with 5 Gorgons, 2 Cyclops vs Titan 8, Behemoth 3, Cyclops 2 Gorgon in the marsh. This went badly for Sean and David won his 5th Titan 2-Player title.

 
2022 Laurelists Repeating Laurelists: 2
Sean McCulloch Bruno Wolff Arthur Wines Aaron Fuegi Charles Krueger
2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
 
GM David desJardins on way to Final. Aaron Fuegi working on Laurels.
Sean McCulloch on way to Final. Finalists Sean McCulloch and GM David desJardins.
 
GM  David desJardins [2nd year]