GM
OF THE YEAR: Floridian John Sharp was named the
for his hosting of our initial The Rising
Sun mini-con of Victory in the
Pacific at this summer’s WBC Pre-Con.
John narrowly
defeated John Weber,
the GM of WBC’s largest event (Puerto
Rico) by a scant
four votes in the
Board of Director’s new voting system
for the award. Mr.
Sharp will receive free accomodations
at the 2006 WBC in addition
to the honor of
claiming the second leg of our
vaulted triple crown of
meta-honors. Full
details are available at
http://www.boardgamers.org/topgm.htm.
WATERLOO III RESULTS: The South
rose again at the
third Waterloo mini-con
but this time the Greenville
Mafia went home empty
handed as a different
pair of “southerners” took home the wood. Top
honors went to Mark
Hodgkinson of Australia who won
the five-player
tournament with three
wins in four rounds to take the
wood “down under”. Meanwhile,
a transplanted Texan garnered the
two-player honors as
Ken Gutermuth went
undefeated in three tries as
the Coalition to edge
Scott Moll on a
tie-breaker as both finished
3-1. Scott took come
consolation in his Best
Imperial wood with a 3-0 record
as the French. Full
details are on line
at http://www.boardgamers.org/specific/wat05.htm.
NEXT CONFERENCE: The
next chance for gaming laurels
will be the twin
mini-cons of Euro Quest and D-Day
at Days Hotel in
Timonium, MD, on Nov.
17-20. D-Day starts at 6 pm Friday
and is the 8th running of a dedicated,
five round swiss
tournament for fans of Breakout
Normandy hosted by the
designer. Euro
Quest features tournaments in
Carcassonne, Puerto
Rico, Ra, Settlers of
Catan, Goa, Medici, Ticket To
Ride, Saint Petersburg,
Princes of Florence,
Power Grid and Louis XIV plus
a popular Wild Card
event covering such
games as Attika, Euphrat & Tigris, Lost Cities,
San Juan, Tikal, Taj Mahal, Transamerica
and others. One admission fee
covers both conventions
and all events. See http://euroquest.gamesclubofmd.org/EQ_Schedule.aspx
for more details.
EUROQUEST SELLS OUT HOTEL: The
Days Hotel is currently sold
out of rooms on
Friday and Saturday evening.
Continue to check with
the Days hotel as
there will be some room cancellations.
Alternate
hotels within 2 miles in
Cockeysville include:
The
Red Roof Inn
111 West
Timonium Rd
410-666-0380 ($71)
Ramada
Limited (formerly Econo
Lodge)
10100
York
Rd
410-667-4900 ($70)
Hotels
in nearby Hunt Valley
include the Hampton Inn and Hunt
Valley Inn.
LAST CALL
FOR NEW EVENTS: There
are only two weeks
left for prospective
GMs to add an event to the
ballot for next year’s WBC.
If you want to add a new event
to the mix, submit your Event Form
at http://www.boardgamers.org/forms/eventfor.htm this
month.
NEW WEBMASTER/ACD: BPA
is pleased to announce the
hiring of Kaarin
Engelmann as the new BPA webmaster.
Kaarin replaces
the retiring Steve
Okonski in the webmaster role.
Steve provided years of
voluntary service
and yeoman work for BPA in
its formative years and
will be sorely missed.
Kaarin will also serve as our
PR person and new
Assistant Convention
Director.
2005 PATRONS: The
BPA 2005 Patrons list is on line at http://www.boardgamers.org/patrons05.htm.
Please
report any errors of
omission before March.
Otherwise, this will be the
list featured in the
2006 program.
CLUB LINKS: If
your gaming club would like to trade
links with the BPA
website, please forward details
to Kaarin Englemann at webmaster@boardgamers.org. If
your gaming club needs items to run in
its newsletters, let us know. We can supply
a variety of content. We can even let them
know when you win a plaque (so you won't have
to toot your own horn). Send the club name,
web site and e-mail address for the editor,
and your name to clubnews@boardgamers.org.
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PBeM NEWS
FOR THE PEOPLE: Another
rendition of “Can Anyone Beat
Pei?” or the third
BPA BPeM tournament of Mark Herman’s
Civil War card-driven wargame
will commence under his direction
on December 1st. The
format will be Campaign
game, v2.6 of the rules,
random determination of side,
use of ACTS system
for all card and dice interactions.
First three rounds
are in Swiss
format. Winner of divisions
go to a single elimination
format. Check it
out at http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/gmtom/FTPtournament.htm.
EMPIRE OF THE SUN: Beginning
December 7th, Mark Herman
will be hosting the newest BPA PBeM
tournament for his new card-driven
WW II game Empire of the Sun using
the 1942 Campaign Game and v1.3 of
the rules plus optional Progress
of the war rule (available on http://members.tripod.com/~MarkHerman/index.html),
campaign bidding rules to determine
side, use of ACTS system for all
card and dice interactions.
Double elimination tournament
(play until you have two
losses). Check out
the details at http://members.tripod.com/~MarkHerman/EoTSTournament.html
WILDERNESS WAR: Round
4 of this six-round tournament
has just ended. There are
three unbeaten players
remaining: WBC Champ Ron Fedin,
Tom Drueding and Keith Wixson.
In Round 5 Drueding and
Wixson are paired
while the top seed Fedin
plays James Pei, the top
rated player with one
loss. The British and French
split 20 4th round games
with the higher rated player
victorious 13 times. This
was the bid breakdown:
6 games with no bid; 7 games
with a bid of 1 VP to play
the Brits; 2 games with
a bid of 2 VPs to play the
Brits; 1 game with a bid
of 3 VPs to play the
Brits; and 4 games with
a bid of 1 VP to play the
French. The 10 Brit
players who bid for the
honor had a record of 4-6.
The French players who bid
for France had a record of
2-2. Check out the website
at http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4bc94/.
BREAKOUT
NORMANDY: Round
5 of the 4th BPA Breakout Normandy PBeM
tournament is underway with three unbeaten survivors
vying for the top
rung. Bryan Eshleman, Steve Andriakos and Don
Greenwood are all that
remain of the 47 who started single elimination play.
Top-rated AREA
player Tom Dworschak rejoins the event as an
Eliminator to prevent a bye
with the hope of making this the final round. Details
are at
http://www.boardgamers.org/specific/bknpbem.htm.
WE
THE PEOPLE: Keith
Wixson will be starting
a new PBeM tournament on
January 2nd for this
card driven classic played via
the ACTS site. See
the details at
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4bc94/wethepeople/.
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All
BPA PBeM tournaments require
current BPA membership when the event
starts. All multi-day paid attendees
to WBC are
current BPA members for
the balance of that calendar
year. Associate Calendar
year memberships
enabling play in all PBeM events
starting in that year
cost only $10 and
earn discounts for admission
to all BPA gaming
conferences. You need not
keep your membership current
in order to finish a PBeM
event. Players may join the BPA throughout the year.
Members are reminded
they can upgrade
their current memberships at
any time by remitting the
additional funds. See http://www.boardgamers.org/bpaterms.htm for
details.
BPA members who would like to
see an email tournament
for their favorite
game are encouraged to step forward
as the GM of such
an event. BPA does
not run tournaments. Rather,
we are an organization of
gamers lending support to one
another so such events can happen.
No one cares as much
about your hobby as you do. Get
involved. See the
requirements to host a
BPA email tournament at http://www.abovethefields.com/top_pbem/
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Don Greenwood
