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Updated 11/17/2011

2011 WBC Report     

 2012 Status: pending 2012 GM commitment

Andrew Arconti, MD

2011 Champion

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Event History
1999    Brad Johnson       94
2000    David Platnick     175
2001    Craig O'Brien       93
2002    David Buchholz     102
2003    Charlie Faella     131
2004    Aran Warszawski     110
2005    Rob Effinger     100
2006    Roy Gibson     102
2007    Tom Stokes     132
2008    Matt Tolman     113
2009    Rick Dutton     113
2010    Robert Kircher     112
2011    Andrew Arconti     138

Euro Quest Event History
2003    Brian Reynolds     29
2004    William Duke     30
2005     Legend Dan Hoffman     37
2006    Donna Dearborn     54
2007    Brian Reynolds     45
2008    Tom Dunning     56
2009     Brian Reynolds     55
2010    Rebecca Hebner     43
2011    Brian Reynolds     55
 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Rick Dutton        MD    09    114
  2.  Brian Reynolds     MD    11    113
  3.  Charlie Faella     RI    09     96
  4.  Rob Kircher        RI    11     96
  5.  Tom Dunning        NY    09     87
  6.  Matt Tolman        UT    09     84
  7.  Andrew Arconti     MD    11     66
  8.  Roy Gibson         MD    06     66
  9.  Tom Stokes         NJ    07     60
 10.  Rob Effinger       on    05     60
 11.  Aran Warszawski    is    04     60
 12.  David Buchholz     MI    02     60
 13.  Craig O'Brien      VA    01     60
 14.  David Platnick     VA    00     60
 15.  Christian Moffa    NJ    03     54
 16.  Kathy Stroh        PA    01     54
 17.  Joe Jaskiewicz     MD    06     51
 18.  John Min           NJ    11     48
 19.  Tom Saal           MI    10     42
 20.  Rodney Davidson    AZ    04     42
 21.  Cheryl Mallon      MD    07     37
 22.  Ron Secunda        MD    10     36
 23.  Ken Nied           KS    06     36
 24.  Jim Fishkin        FL    05     36
 25.  Michelle Hymowitz  MD    04     36
 26.  William Duke       MD    04     36
 27.  George Brace       MA    03     36
 28.  Brian Conlon       OK    00     36
 29.  Rebecca Hebner     DC    11     36
 30.  Josh Githens       SC    07     30
 31.  Donna Dearborn     MD    06     30
 32.  Brad Johnson       IL    99     30
 33.  Chad Martin        PA    11     24
 34.  Jeremy Osteen      MD    10     24
 35.  Harald Henning     CT    08     24
 36.  Jon Izer           MD    07     24
 37.  Virginia Colin     VA    06     24
 38.  Jeff Bowers        UT    05     24
 39.  Alan Sudy          VA    02     24
 40.  Kim Foster         TX    00     24
 41.  Legend Dan Hoffman MD    05     20
 42.  Helen Powell       MD    11     18
 43.  Allyson Field      SC    11     18
 44.  Randy Buehler      WA    10     18
 45.  Bill Zurn          CA    10     18
 46.  Daniel Ottey       PA    09     18
 47.  Shivendra Chopra   MD    09     18
 48.  William Lawhorn    VA    09     18
 49.  Bob Wicks, Jr      CT    08     18
 50.  Mikkel Christensen dk    08     18
 51.  Pierre LeBoeuf     MD    07     18
 52.  Jed Shambeda       PA    06     18
 53.  Haim Hochboim      is    04     18
 54.  Mike Musko         FL    03     18
 55.  Marvin Pinkert     MD    02     18
 56.  Chuck Krueger      MA    01     18
 57.  Ike Porter         MD    99     18
 58.  Leigh Eirich       MD    10     12
 59.  Doug Galullo       MD    10     12
 60.  Peter Eirich       MD    10     12
 61.  Andrew Roosen      MD    09     12
 62.  Mike Brazinski     MD    08     12
 63.  Sue Lanham         MD    08     12
 64.  Bob Runnicles      FL    06     12
 65.  Mike Richey        VA    05     12
 66.  Thomas Browne      PA    04     12
 67.  David Burkey       PA    04     12
 68.  Charlie Hickok     PA    03     12
 69.  Scott Buckwalter   MD    03     12
 70.  Jon Shambeda       PA    02     12
 71.  Jenn Thomas        NY    02     12
 72.  Kevin Wojtasczcyk  NY    01     12
 73.  Chuck Smith        PA    99     12
 74.  Bill Murdock       NY    08      9
 75.  Tom McCorry        VA    03      9
 76.  Carl Damcke        IL    99      9
 77.  Eric Freeman       PA    07      8
 78.  Jeff Adams         NJ    11      6
 79.  Tom Strock         PA    10      6
 80.  John Weber         MD    09      6
 81.  Nick Henning       CT    08      6
 82.  Jonathan Yonce     VA    07      6
 83.  Michael Shea       CT    07      6
 84.  Phil Rennert       MD    06      6
 85.  Marty Hoff         TX    04      6
 86.  Katherine McCorry  VA    03      6
 87.  Larry Loiacano     PA    07      4
 88.  Andrew Gerb        MD    05      4
 89.  Donna Davis        PA    11      3
 90.  Steve Shambeda     PA    09      3
 91.  Sandy Scanlon      MD    08      3
 92.  Joshua Cooper      MD    03      3
 93.  Jamie Tang         MD    99      3
 94.  Laurel Stokes      NJ    05      2

2011 Laurelists                                               Repeating Laurelists:

John Min, NJ
2nd

Chad Martin, PA
3rd

Allyson Field, SC
4th

Rob Kircher, RI
5th

Rebecca Hebner, DC
6th

Past Winners

Brad Johnson, IL
1999

David Platnick, VA
2000

Craig O'Brien, VA
2001

David Buchholz, MI
2002

Charlie Faella, RI
2003

Aram Warszawski, Israel
2004

Rob Effinger, ON
2005

Roy Gibson, MD
2006

Tom Stokes, NJ
2007

Matt Tolman, UT
2008

Rick Dutton, MD
2009

Robert Kircher, RI
2010

Andrew Arconti, MD
2011
   

GM Joseph Maiz gets a chance to playagainst Ben Scholl who scored big at Euro Quest three months later.

Terri Wicks, Cheryl Mallon and Yoel Weiss trade for a shot at advancement in the biggest true swiss WBC tournament.

Spiel das Jahre 1995 ...

The 2011 tournament was the largest and smoothest event that I have run to date and enjoyed the largest attendance in 11 years. As a continuous round event, it was second only to the late night quick-playing events in drawing a crowd and far surpassed all of those in total hours. The format is a three-round Swiss to qualify 16 for single elimination play. All games were consecutive, including the playoffs, so it made for a full day (8 am to 6 pm for me). Players scored points based on finishing position and bonus points based on the strength of victories. Seating was random and players earned five points for first, three for second, two for third and one for fourth. Despite the multitude of entrants, several 2010 semi-finalists managed a return trip to the play-offs, including defending champ Robert Kircher, but none made it to the final round.

With the format change back to a settlement-road; settlement-road; road, the average game time was 85-90 minutes, with the shortest at half that and the longest nearing two hours. Most games were close, with the runner-up earning 8-9 victory points on average so we will continue this format for the foreseeable future. One key note to add for everyone: there were a few game score recording errors that could have been significant but were caught, so it is vital to ensure that everyone verify your own score before handing in the score sheet.

The swiss rounds were started at 9 am and continued till 2:30 pm. The lowest score to make the playoffs was a 12, which required two wins and a third place. The tie breaker system saw service down to the fourth tier, but did ultimately determine the Sweet 16. Chad Martin (besting Janet Ottey, Keith Richardson and Rob Kircher), Allyson Field (over Mike Shea, Yoel Weiss and David Hood), John Min (defeating Bob Wicks, Forrest Speck and Rich Miller) and Andrew Arconti (downing Rebecca Hebnar, Carolyn Strock and Chris Czyryca) all prevailed by a single point to advance to the Final.

The early game consisted of six rolls of the 6/8 combo for the first four rounds. Production was high. The robber appeared on Turn 14. Trading and building was fairly even throughout. Most players went for either the 3:1 port or one of the 2:1 ports that favored them. Trading usually was a 1:1 proposition, but every trade was made to benefit the participant's position somehow. In general, the game was not as serious and more carefree than some of the other Finals I witnessed that weekend. A total of 15 rounds were played. The dice delivered their verdict in the following proportions: one 2, four 3's, four 4's, seven 5's, eight 6's, nine 7's, ten 8's, six 9's, four 10's, two 11's and two 12's. Game strategies seemed to favor one of two classic routes in Settlers: Development cards and massive building/longest road. Andrew, the winner, took the middle ground and split his strategy by doing a little of both and it worked - he seemed to try to build something every turn that would increase his ability to get rolls with different numbers, and the position he had on the map seemed to give him more numbers for production. Chad went the city building route to increase his production, but was unable to expand fast enough to give him more positions that would increase his ability to build. John was doing the Development card route, but could not find the elusive 3-army combo in time. Allyson went all out for the longest road but was stuck on the edge of the map, with less common numbers for better production. The Final scores were Andrew (went third) 10, John (went second) 8, Chad (went first) 7 and Allyson (went last) 5.

Andrew will be deployed overseas this year and might not make it back for the 2012 WBC. We wish him the best and a healthy return to his family, his country, and of course, WBC. I hope to see everyone and more back next year to trade sheep for bricks!

Jason Long and Joseph Marriott

Carolyn Strock and Damian DiGuilio

 Settlers Junior

In the Juniors event 20 pint-sized settlers engaged in empire building on a smaller scale under the watchful eye of GM Tim Mossman. The best proved to be Adina Weiss, followed by Nicholas Metzger for the second year in a row in the runner-up position. Abby Omer took third, and last year's champ Andrew Doughan was fourth.. Maia Parauda and Mandy Mossman finished fifth and sixth

Catan has an emple supply of little settlers on the way.

Adina Weiss gets her plaque from GM Tim Mossman.

2011 Euro Quest Laurelists

Brian Reynolds, MD
1st

Helen Powell, MD
2nd

John Min, NJ
3rd

Robert Kircher, RI
4th

Jeff Adams, NJ
5th

 GM      Joseph Maiz  [3rd Year]   NA
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