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Stefan Mecay, in only his fourth year of WBC competition, won laurels in eight tournaments to claim the Caesar title with a staggering 295 Laurels in the 2008 season - nearly doubling the score of runner-up and past Caesar, James Pei. He ran up a huge lead during the year before WBC began by winning two large email tournaments (Paths of Glory and Twilight Struggle) in the Card Driven games that are his specialty, padded that lead further with two wins at WAM and for good measure took a 4th at Enlightenment. In truth, it would have taken a record-setting WBC performance to overtake him even if he did not play at WBC. But he scored another 60 laurels by winning the Paths of Glory Pre-Con and then coasted to his fitting at the toga emporium. Despite his overwhelming total, Stefan can't lay claim to sole BPA leadership however since he finished well down the list in WBC statistics for Consul honors for laurels scored exclusively during WBC week.

Rounding out the top six BPA competitors for 2009 were James Pei, Ken Gutermuth John Emery, defending Caesar Alex Bove and Curt Collins II in that order. Only seven of last year's Top 25 players managed to retain that high ranking in 2009 led by ex-Caesar James Pei who rose from 13th in 2008 to 2nd this year. Ken Gutermuth, Alex Bove, 2007 Caesar Raphael Lehrer, Chris Byrd, Kevin Wojtaszczyk and Ewan McNay all managed to retain Top 25 status another year also while18 new names graced the leader board.

The Line of Succession for Caesar 2009

James Pei, VA 2nd - 157 Laurels	Ken Gutermuth, NC 3rd - 139 Laurels	John Emery, SC 4th - 135 Laurels	Alex Bove, PA 5th - 132 Laurels	Curt Collins II, PA 6th - 130 Laurels

 

Key: e = email (PBeM), E = Enlightenment mini-con, eq = Euro Quest mini-con, w = WAM mini-con, W = Waterloo mini-con, p = Pre-Con

2009 Consul - Hail Richard Moyer

With 14 multiple winners, the race for Consul was the closest ever. In fact, it was so close, we had to resort to the tie-breaker rules to decide between Curt Collins II and Richard Moyer who both hit the Century mark with exactly 100 laurels during WBC. Both our co-leaders won two events, but because Richard won the largest single event by laurel count he took the initial tie-breaker. Of course, both can be thankful that Pre-Con events don't count towards Consul totals or we would be hailing Kyle Greenwood whose 2nd in Hannibal during his very first WBC would have put him over the top at 116 laurels as our Consul. As it was Kyle finished in a four-way tie for sixth at 80 laurels with Steve Pleva, Richard Beyma and John Elliott. Pleva took sixth on the second tie-breaker—most wins. The other top Consul competitors were Jim Castonguay, Chris Withers and 2005 Caesar, Arthur Field.

The Line of Succession for Consul 2009

Curt Collins II, PA 2nd - 100 Laurels	Jim Castonguay, PA 3rd - 96 Laurels	Chris Withers, CA 4th - 92 Laurels	Arthur Field, SC 5th - 88 Laurels	Steve Pleva, CT 6th - 80 Laurels