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The late night party on Tuesday started at 11 PM with 122 monsters seeking to dominate Tokyo, either through achieving more fame than their peers or through destroying said peers. With three lines to enter into 5- or 6-player tables and more than enough games to go around, players started rolling dice and taking names.

Competitors ranged in age from the very young to the very—well, let’s just say, experienced—and all came with the goal of ending the night as the last monster standing.

Round 1: Any Which Way You Can

As fame began to rise for some monsters and other monsters began to fall, there was no consistent road to victory. Claws and stars provided the same road to victory for an equal number of competitors. Some managed to have tighter contests than most. Ron Fisher, for example, scooted by Keith Boone’s 19 points in his round to score 20 for the win. Brad Raszewski had only one life left when his monster was the last one standing. Others, like Anna Kiefte and Pierre-Luc Ramier, took a firm hand with the dice in Round 1. Their monsters both had eight life points when all of the other monsters had gone to their reward. And then there was Wes Lewis, who hit 23 fame points to win the game while his competitors were still in single digits.

Each table winner received a pack of 15 cards donated by Iello. Iello also donated monster stickers that our assistant GMs, Mike Buccheri and Larry Lingle, distributed to younger competitors, or players who looked like they were having a tough round.

Round 2: Rule by the Claw

With 21 starting tables, it looked like the second round might be a little uneven, but when one player decided to get a head start on his beauty sleep (we do start at 11:00 p.m., after all) the remaining winners were assigned randomly to four 5-player tables to determine the lucky four to advance. Round 2 saw no victories by players seeking fame. The claws controlled who would advance.

While Round 1 was a cacophany of cheering and rolling dice, Round 2 was eerily quiet in contrast with each player looking for ways to dominate the second table as they had done with the first.

Pierre-Luc Ramier continued his claw dominance, with Timothy Hing and Hochboim Haim achieving a respectable 11 fame points before falling. At the second table. Larry Luongo also struck quickly, although David Buchholz managed to accumulate 12 fame points before expiring.

For Tony Musella at the third table, RJ Gleaton provided steep competition and was at 16 victory points to Tony’s 9. Brad Raszewski had 14 fame and both could have sealed the deal on their next roll, but Tony had the claws to keep the competition down and advance to the third round.

Jeff Coyle played both options at his table, scoring 16 victory points before closing the tightest claw competition in the second round with only one life remaining when the other monsters had fallen.

Round 3: Keep Your Options Open

Round 3 would host only four survivors, but in the end, there can be only one. The Final game also started quietly, but once the claws started flying, the noise level increased.

Larry Luongo as Cyberbunny was the first to fall as everyone at the table lost three life to a play of High Altitude Attack. Other players had more life, but after a little while in Tokyo, three was all the life that Cyberbunny had available. Jeff Coyle’s Meka Dragon was the next to fall as Pierre-Luc Ramier’s Gigazaur dropped four points of damage on Tokyo while Meka Dragon was defending it.

Hearts and claws were rolled as the last two monsters traded possession of Tokyo for a chance to heal or to gain more victory points. Tony was at 16 victory points to Pierre-Luc’s nine when the final blow came. With one point of life and Pierre-Luc’s Gigazaur in Tokyo, Tony decided to go for the claws and take down his opponent rather than heal. The contest was close, but in the end, it was Tony’s year as the soon-to-be crowned champ of the WBC circus ended his WBC drought with not one, but two, titles.

To the victor ...	More than one junior applied his lessons in the adult event as well.

King of Tokyo Junior

There's something about monsters that brings the little rug rats to the surface. That's why 44 of the little critters flocked to the Juniors Room on Tuesday evening to challenge Eric Freeman and his legion of assistants' sanity. When the last skyscraper had fallen, Armelle Worrell emerged from the rubble as the new King of Tokyo.

The top six were:

~ 1st: Armelle Worrel, age 10

~ 2nd: Shenandoah Worrell, age 12

~ 3rd: David Spencer, age 9

~ 4th: Ethan Shipley-Tang, age 10

~ 5th: Bailey Burdett, age 10

~ 6th: AJ Falk, age 7