38 submariners submerged for this year's tournament as the Sunday morning getaway Legacy event held course. Four of them emerged unbeaten from the swiss rounds—young Eric Rodgers-Vargo, Andy Lewis and a pair of former champions: Dan Hoffman and John Emery. Tiebreakers were used to select Jim Fleckenstein, David Buchholz and previous champs Jim Doughan and Steve Caler from the 2-1 ranks.

As Caler and Emery sat down to begin their quarterfinal game, John very graciously allowed Steve to choose whatever scenario and side he wanted. Overhearing this, Andy Lewis remarked, “That's just John's way of saying that he's going to beat you regardless!” Chuckles out of the way, Steve chose scenario E and the Renegade. Instead of playing conservatively and trying to evade, Steve chose to play more aggressively with the Renegade and launched several low-value attacks, trying to eliminate John's helicopter equipped ship. He paid the price as each time John was ready with a passive sonar to quickly gain maximum contact. Steve's opening attacks missed while John fired and hit—but only doing one damage to the huge Renegade. Steve went into system shutdown to repair. Meanwhile, John brought on reinforcements and scored the winning kill.

Elsewhere in a match of unbeatens, Lewis would give Fleckenstein all he could handle. Andy played the Russians against Jim's British in Scenario A Sub Duel (this scenario is modified by tournament rules). Andy sank Jim's Swiftsure and got in two good attack solutions on Valiant, but missed both. Jim then sank the Skvortsov with a fire 1 and his Ivan Rogov with a fire 2 attack.

In the other quarterfinal matches, Doughan and Hoffman played Scenario E. Jim's Renegade managed to survive into deck 2, but was sunk by Dan's forces before it could escape. Buchholz (Russians) and Rodgers-Vargo (British) played Scenario A with each losing a sub before Eric won.

Both semifinal matches reprised Scenario E. Rodgers-Vargo took the Renegade against Hoffman's surface force. Dan had difficulty getting his reinforcement and suffered a sonar malfunction. Eric continued his run of good luck by getting to the second deck and drawing a 0 on his first escape attempt for the win! Emery did not fare as well against Fleckenstein's surface fleet. Jim was hampered by bad weather, which grounded his helicopters. John got off the first shot, a contact 4/attack 5, but missed! Jim’s riposte also missed despite a strong attack, drawing a 2 when he needed a 3 or more. A second attack hit the Renegade, but it absorbed an attack hit and two sensor hits. John survived a second hit before being sunk by a third and guaranteeing a new champion.

Eric, flush with five straight wins, won the draw to begin the Final. Jim, who last scored ATS laurels in 2009, is given the choice of scenario, so he will have choice of side. Jim selects Scenario A Sub Duel. Eric takes the British. This would be a game of cat and mouse. Each side would gain contact on the other, only to see them slip away quietly. A few low strength shots were exchanged with no effect. Jim scored the first blood with his Ivan Rogov sinking Swiftsure. Soon after, Valiant tries to avenge that loss with a contact4/attack 5 on Ivan Rogov. The resulting hit only scores one sensor and an attack hit. Rogov is still alive! Skvortsov tries to protect Rogov by attacking Valiant, but misses. Valiant finishes off the badly damaged Rogov to even the odds at one sub each. They exchange low value attacks with no effect. Jim plays aggressively - as all good Russians do! - and uses active sonar and close range cards to raise his contact level on the Valiant. Eric manages to negate one close range attempt, but Jim presses in. Eric fails a contact reduction attempt allowing Jim to administer the final blow with a 4 strength attack.

A two-deck battle royal grants Jim his sixth WBC title and first Attack Sub championship after many years of trying.

Sunday morning presents one last chance for card-driven glory.	Emily Wu (Albert) tries her hand at sea.