18xx updated August 2000

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  14-20 [1856]      9-17 [1870]
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Barrington Beavis, UK

1999-2000 Champion

2nd: Robin Barbehem, MD

3rd: Harald Henning, CT

4th: Mark Frueh, IL

5th: Paul Hakken, NJ

6th: Gerald Dudley, WI
Event History
1991    Mark Giddings      34
1992    Dave Harshbarger      46
1993    Robin Barbehenn      84
1994    Todd Vander Pluym      84
1995    Mark Giddings      51
1996    Christian Goetz      45
1997    Dan Vice      50
1998    Jon Kwiatkowski      45
1999    Barrington Beavis     32
2000    Barrington Beavis    28
AREA Ratings
 1    Bobby LaBoon      1632
 2    Kevin Kozlowski      1535
 3    Howard Newby      1465
 4    Karen Sanders      1362
 5    None      -
 6    None      -
 7    None      -
 8    None      -
 9    None      -
10    None      -

British Rail Mogul Repeats as Champ of Yank Railroads

A total of 28 participants played three different railroad games over three days. The tourney featured the same three games as last year, 1830, 1856, and 1870. The format was changed, however, with all the preliminary round winners, and enough second place finishers advancing to form a sixteen-player semi-final.

The first preliminary heat featured a five-player 1856 and three four-player 1830s. Player bankruptcies ended three of the games, but one ran out of time and had to be stopped early. The second day featured two 1830 and three 1870 games, all of them with four players, save one 1870 game with five. Again, several of these games ended early with player bankruptcies engineered by the winners. Among the many interesting strategies employed in some of the preliminary round games was the passing of the Canadian Pacific railroad (in 1830) back and forth between two players, and the passing of the KATY railroad (of 1870) among four of the five players in another game. The table below gives the results of the preliminary heats.

Thursday - 1830

 1st Place & Score

 2nd Place & Score

 3rd Place & Score

 4th Place & Score

 Robin Barbehem -- $3639

Johnny Hasay -- $2001

John Chung -- $1777

John Wetherell -- $??

Paul Hakken -- $2875

Paul Koenig -- $2505

Barrington Beavis -- $2117

Mark Smith -- $236

Jeff Simmons -- $9336

Nicholas Anner -- $8112

Pierre LeBoeuf -- $7806

Anthony Daw -- $5376
Thursday - 1856

  1st Place & Score
  2nd Place & Score   3rd Place & Score   4th Place & Score   5th Place & Score
 D. Matheny -- $1892

E. Segal -- $1314
 R. Santagato -- $1229

D. Fritsh -- $1116

 B. Besler -- $280

Friday - 1830

   1st Place & Score
    2nd Place & Score     3rd Place & Score     4th Place & Score

 Gerald Dudley -- $11753

Anthony Daw -- $8939

Chris Hancock -- $8838

Johnny Hasay -- $8207

Barrington Beavis -- $7924

Ron Dietz -- $7919

Robert Sacks -- $5887

David Streamo -- $5480
Friday - 1870
    1st Place & Score

  2nd Place & Score

3rd Place & Score
  4th Place & Score

5th Place & Score

 H. Henning -- $4558

 P. LeBoeuf -- $3590

P. Hakken -- $3574

N. Anner -- $3361

R. Zelano -- $2522

R. Barbehem -- $8993

R. Santago -- $7163

J. Chung -- $6592

R. Atwater -- $5682

B. Besler -- $4630

M. Frueh -- $5131

D. Fritsch -- $4789

D. Hooten -- $2361

J. Weber -- $1851

The players were seeded into the semi-finals based on the results of preliminary round play. As a two-time winner, Robin Barbehem advanced as the number 1 seed. The other seven winners also advanced, and were ranked according to the percentage of the runnerup's score to their own in their preliminary round. The nine runnerups (there were no repeaters or second place finishers who won their other preliminary round game) were also ranked by the percentage of their score with the winning score. All others were ranked in the same way, with all third place finishers ranked next, followed by players who finished no better than fourth in the preliminary round. This produced the following table, with players listed by ranking with their score, and their seeding in the semi-finals. If a ranked player did not show up for the semifinals, this is shown with dashes in the seeding column. Unfortunately, there were so many no-shows, the alternate list was exhausted, leaving only fourteen players to play in four semifinal games. Because of this, the semis had two four-player and two three-player games. The seedings for the semifinals are given below.

 Ranking, Player

 Preliminaries Score

 Semi-Final Seeding
 1. Robin Barbehem

Two Wins

1
 2. David Methany

One Win, 130%

2
 3. Gerald Dudley

123%

3
 4. Harald Henning

121%

4
 5. Jeff Simmons

113%

-
 6. Paul Haaken

113%

5
 7. Mark Frueh

107%

6
 8. Barrington Beavis

100%

7
 9. Ron Dietz

2nd, 100%

-
10. David Fritsh

93%

8
11. Paul Koenig

87%

-
12. Nicholas Anner

87%

9
13. Roger Santagato

80%

10
14. Pierre LeBoeuf

79%

11
15. Anthony Daw

76%

12
16. Elliott Segal

70%

-
17. Johnny Hasay

55%

13
18. Chris Hancock

3rd, 75%

-
19. Robert Sacks

74%

14
20. John Chung

73%

-
21. John Wetherell

49%

-
22. David Hooten

46%

-
23. David Streamo

4th, 69%

-
24. Rich Atwater

63%

-
25. John Weber

36%

-
26. Mark Smith

8%

-
27. Richard Zelano

5th, 55%

-
28. Brent Besler

52%

-

Placement in the semifinal round used the formula 1st ­ 8th ­ 9th ­ 16th seeds in game 1, 2nd ­ 7th ­ 10th ­ 15th in game 2, 3rd ­ 6th ­ 11th ­ 14th in game 3, and 4th ­ 5th ­ 12th ­ 13th in game 4. Since only 14 players were present, games 1 and 2 had only three players. Results from the semifinal round are given in the table below.

 1st Place & Score

2nd Place & Score

 3rd Place & Score

4th Place & Score

 Robin Barbehem -- $1673

Nicholas Anner -- $1319

David Fritsh -- $209
 

Barrington Beavis -- $1644

David Methany -- $962

Roger Santagato -- $485
 

Mark Frueh -- $8762

Gerald Dudley -- $7244

Robert Sacks -- $6977

Pierre LeBoeuf -- $6109

Harald Henning -- $8605

Paul Hakken -- $8092

Johnny Hasay -- $7631

Anthony Daw -- $7614

The 8xx final consisted of the winners of the four 1830 semi-final games meeting in a four-player 1830 game. Each of these finalists had also won a preliminary heat, with assistant GM Robin Barbehem riding a three-game win streak going into the final. Three public railroads (popular as starting railroads in 1830) were initially purchased, with Barrington Beavis starting the New York New Haven, Harald Henning taking the Baltimore and Ohio, and Mark Frueh climbing aboard the Pennsylvania railroad. With his large private company investment (the Delaware and Hudson and the Camden and Amboy), Robin was an interested minority B & O investor. Unfortunately for him, the minority position became a majority one when Harald dumped his B & O stock on him (after buying four "2" trains), to start the Boston and Maine. Amazingly, the "2" trains lived for two turns, enabling Robin to earn enough money to get another railroad and keep up with the train technology. In other stock manipulations, Harald took over Mark's opening of the New York Central, but when Harald sold an NYC share to get the Canadian Pacific started, Barry snatched the share up and took over the NYC for himself.

Each of the four players acquired two railroads (each with one permanent train), and all survived the train transitions through to the purchase of the diesels. Finally, at 2:30 AM, the bank was exhausted, and it was Barrington repeating last year's win, successfully defending his title. Robin came in second, with 92% of the winning total. Harold (81%) and Mark (65%) finished third and fourth.

A survey asking about alternate starting times and optional rules for next year was circulated among the participants. Feedback from the seven respondents was inconclusive or negative to most of the suggested changes. For next year, I would like to keep the rules as they were, except reversing the optional 6 train option in 1830 we had this year (no optional 6 train unless all in the game want it). As to starting times, I would like to add another preliminary round (earlier than Thursday afternoon), if the overall tourney schedule permits it.

 GM      Pierre LeBoeuf  [1st Year]   3043 Telegraph Rd, Elkton, MD 21921-2333
    lebo1108@eclipsetel.com   (410) 392-3094

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