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TEAM
TOURNAMENT ENTRIES: The Happy Handicapper has
struck again and
posted the opening odds for this year's Team
tournament at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/teamtour.htm.
Less
than two weeks
remain to enter your team. Submit your team
entries on
our pre-reg form
or simply email doncon99@toad.net with your
team name
and list of four
teammates with corresponding game choice.
All team
members must be
pre-registered. 
No on-site registration or
substitutions are allowed.
WBC
SOUVENIR T's: Only nine more days (till July 20th)
to order your
WBC 2006 T's for free delivery and show availability.
This year's
convention shirts offer more choices than
ever. You
can opt for Kurt
Miller's WBC 2006 cover artwork or the popular
one-,
two- or three-
game art combinations with accompanying WBC
shield
crests and your own
motto up to 28 characters. You can also include
the
commemorative 2005
Centurion list and Award winners for the
back or not
as you please for
no additional charge. Child sizes and women's
V neck
styles are also
available upon request. Support the BPA,
show your
gaming colors and
order a set of Team shirts for your squad
from
https://www.lostbattalion.com/wbc-42-wbc2006.aspx.
ONLY FOUR DAYS LEFT TO VOTE: We need your vote to
validate our
elections. Help keep costs down by voting.
The
E-Ballot for the 2006
Board of Director's election is available
at
http://www.boardgamers.org/election.htm.
Please take a
moment to cast
your vote before the July 15 deadline.
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| Don
Greenwood, MD |
Andy
Lewis,
DE |
Joel
Tamburo,
IL |
Ken
Whitesell,
PA |
AUCTION PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSED: Pre-registration
of lots for the
annual WBC game auction in Lancaster, PA,
on August 1
is over.
Procrastinators may rejoice in the knowledge
that the
Auction Store
will still accept your items sans pre-registration
provided they bear a
sales price of under $30. Items must be delivered
in
person on Monday
night, July 31 or the following Tuesday
morning
before noon by
registered members. Check out the list of
pre-registered Auction lots
at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/auctionregisteredlots.htm.
AUCTION STORE ADDED: A "flea market" type
store for the sale of
additional lower priced items is available
during the
WBC auction.
Located to the right of the Showroom with
the Auction,
buyers will be
able to peruse items with a set price within
view and
earshot of said
Auction. The Auction Store allows us to increase
the
number of items
handled in less time while offering sellers
a more
efficient way to
offer lower priced items at a reduced commission.
Items in the Auction
Store have a top price of $30 and cannot
be
pre-registered. See http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/auctionstore.htm for
details.
PRE-REGISTRATION/RIDE/CARPOOL/ROOMMATE/TEAMMATE
SERVICE: If you
want to check your pre-registration status
or look for
a ride,
carpooling from an airport, someone to share
a room
with, a particular
Open Gaming itch you want to setup or just
another
member for your
team, check out the WBC Prep page now on
line at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/prereg.htm.
It is
updated weekly as
information is received. If you'd like help
with any
of the above, just
email your requests to doncon99@toad.net
to be listed
on the page. All
we ask is that you notify us to remove your
listing
once your need is
fulfilled. And if you misplaced your pre-reg
form,
you can download an
abridged pdf version at the same page by
clicking on
the pre-register
link. You will need FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader
in order
to see the form.
Download the software at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
SAMPLER SHOWCASE SCHEDULE: The ten
games to be featured in the
Monday-Tuesday Open Gaming Pre-Con have been
determined and are listed
at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/samplergames.htm with
corresponding times for each demonstration.
Participation in the
Sampler Showcase
which includes chances to win the various
games being
demonstrated in a
participant raffle requires either Tribune
level
membership or separate
Pre-Con admission.
SEMINARS: WBC
has long eschewed seminars in favor of tournaments
but times are a changin' with the added facilities
at
Lancaster Host.
If you'd like to host a seminar in the future,
we'd
like to hear from
you. Among the new attractions this year
are a pair of
GM meetings at 3
and 4 PM Tuesday before tournaments begin
led by
recent GMs of the Year
John Coussis and Vince Meconi. If you are
running an
event or have ever
thought about doing so, drop in for the discussion.
Also new is a game
show with prizes for teams that will be run
three
nights. Get all the
details at http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/seminars.htm ...
And if you're bringing your kids be sure
to make room on your
schedule for the
new parent/junior team competition in Crokinole
on
Saturday afternoon.
No prior experience necessary—it's just
finger
flickin' fun a la
shuffleboard.
| GM
101 Seminar Leaders |
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John
Coussis |
Vince
Meconi |
SCHEDULING AIDS: Steve
Okonski has once again worked his magic and
presented a host of convenient programming
tools to
help you plan your
WBC week. Choose from among the Custom Scheduler,
an
All-in-One
schedule, or several downloadable pdf pocket
schedules
which can be
handy if you misplace your program.
You can also download and print an extra
copy or two of the chronological schedule
from the program. All this can be reached
from: http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/schedule.htm.
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PBeM
NEWS
BUSE WINS WILDERNESS WAR: The
2nd Email tournament has concluded after
two years and a total of 124 games played with 50
players
participating. Congratulations to the champ, John
Buse, who made his
Wilderness War tournament debut and beat out several
veteran players to
take first. Buse twice defeated 2004 WBC Champ James
Pei, who is
arguably the top overall CDG player in the world, to
secure the crown.
Very few people have a lifetime winning record against "The Master"!
Entering
the final round of the pure swiss format tournament, the
leader was GM Keith Wixson, the third seed and lone
undefeated player.
Wixson had to defeat top seed and reigning WBC Champ
Ron Fedin in order
to claim the crown. Wixson's Brits survived an early
appearance by
Montcalm and the French capture of Albany in 1756 to
claw his way back.
Relying on the appearance of Wolfe in 1757 and great
support by the
Colonial Assemblies, Wixson took back Albany and was
eventually able to
besiege Montreal and threaten Ohio Forks by late 1759.
He ran
out of men and time, however, as the support of the Crown was
very weak. Fedin
was able to bleed Wixson white, relieve Montreal and
earn the win. The
tournament ended in a six way tie for first place and
came down to the
tiebreaker—the average AREA rating of defeated
opponents. Buse's two
wins over the highly rated Pei was the difference.
Other laurelists in
order were: Ron Fedin, Keith Wixson, Tom Drueding,
Gary Phillips and
Bill Peeck who took 2nd thru 6th respectively.
BURKHALTER WINS HAMMER OF THE SCOTS: The
first BPA PBeM tourney of
Hammer of the Scots is in the books. 31 players vied
for dominance of
the Scottish Nobles over the course of 52 games. This
was a five-round
swiss tourney using the 2.0 rules. Players bid to
play the English by
bidding the number of years to play without Edward I.
Games were
played on a website that handled the cards and the
random draws of the
blocks. The English won 28 with three draws for a
winning percentage
of 57%. Hank Burkhalter was able to beat Rick Young
in the final
battle of the unbeatens to remain undefeated. Other
laurelists
included:Chris Byrd, Jeff Mullet, Suzanne Tuch and
George Seary who
claimed 3rd thru 6th respectively.
HAMMER OF THE SCOTS: A new Four-Round Swiss
Tournament
is planned with
a starting date of September 1 to be played at the
Above the Fields
Website or F2F Gaming which will give free membership
for the tourney.
Players that cannot agree on which site to use must
use Above the
Fields as the default medium. Each player may play all
of the rounds or
drop out after any round. Check out the details at http://www.geocities.com/firstbse19/hospbem.html.
GETTYSBURG: The
2nd BPA PBeM Championship for Gettysburg ‘88 will kick
off on August 15. To enter, simply e-mail GM Vince
Meconi at vmeconi@verizon.net. Webmaster Ric Manns maintains
the tourney website
at http://www.geocities.com/firstbse19/gbgpbem.html.
A few of the format highlights are:
- single elimination
- seeded
pairings based on AREA ratings
- 4 months per
round (about 3 days per move if the
game goes all 24
turns)
- bidding for sides, and
- the default scenario will be 6F,
Scenario 5, the
3-day Battle of
Gettysburg, using all optional rules
except 10D, Extra
Union Generals.
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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.
Anyone interested in running an email tournament is
invited to inquire.
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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