Derek Glenn Wins The Race For the Galaxy!

The Race for the Galaxy tournament was held in back-to-back Heats as a “getaway” event of the final weekend. Over the course of those 4 Heats, 19 players won at least one game.

Only Eric Brosius won more than two Heat games, pulling a 4 game sweep. The ranks of double winners included Ricky Boyes, Mark Geary, Tony Bosca, Rodney Bacigalupo, Sam Wolff, Alex Anderson, and Keith Dent.

Notable Heat games included Mark Geary with the biggest win of the tournament winning one of his heat games by 39 points. He got ALL of the goals to go along with 20 VPs from 6 Developments and 28 shipping points. The closest win of the tournament was Anthony Bosca over David John Pack winning by one card on the tiebreak. The closest game from top to bottom was Alex Anderson prevailing over Ernest Chambers on the card tiebreak with Philip Shea and Sam Wolff only 4 points behind.

Some accounts of the some Heats games can be found in geeklists on BoardGameGeek at:

• https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/302918/wbc-2022-i-accept-my-karma?itemid=9141655#9141655
• https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/302218/wbc-2022-ryan-feathers-year-3-experiences-pictures?itemid=9111537#9111537
• https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/302257/first-year-back-andrews-geeklist-wbc?itemid=9108919#9108919
• https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/302273/brosius-family-attends-2022-world-boardgaming-cham?itemid=9114065#9114065

15 winners showed up for the Semifinal, which allowed Sam Packwood with 4 second place finishes to also advance.

Jack Wolff prevailed in one Semifinal with 52 points with a starting world of Ancient Race and getting one of the Most Goals and two of the First goals. Second was Mark Geary running a military strategy with Imperium Warlord and getting all of his 46 points from tableau points and a 6 development. Luke Koleszar (37) and Alex Anderson (36) finished 3rd and 4th.

Derek Glenn won with 54 points behind a starting home world of Abandoned Mine Squatters. Of those points a whopping 42 came from SIX! 6 cost developments. Antony Saccenti (48), Eric Brosius (46), and David Sun (33) rounded out the table.

You can find Eric Brosius’ account of the game plus a picture of Derek’s tableau on BoardGameGeek. (Scroll down to get to the Semifinal account)

Sam Wolff joined his brother Jack in the final with Ancient World as his start world. He rode a shipping engine that generated 27 points plus snagging all three of the first goals to 53 points. Rodney Bacigalupo (47), Doug Galullo (43), and Sam Packwood (26) finished behind him.

Keith Dent (52) joined fellow Berea, KY resident Derek into the final with a military strategy behind his Imperium Warlord. He got 22 points from his tableau, 19 from two 6 developments, one most goal and two first goals. Steve Koleszar finished 2nd (44), Eric Freeman (34) 3rd, and Bradford McCandless (19) 4th.

The Race for the Galaxy final pitted the Wolffs and the Berea Kentuckians against one another.

The Most Goals for the game were Most Production Worlds and most Novelty and Rare Worlds.

The First Goals were 6 development, 3 Alien cards, discard a card at round end, and one power in each phase.

The participants chose between their two choices and revealed, Jack - Epsilon Eridani, Sam- Gateway station, Keith - Ancient Race, and Derek - Industrial Robots.

Final Highlights

Turn 4 - Both Sam and Jack get the discard card goal.

Turn 5 - Jack drops New Economy and Sam drops Galactic Exchange to get the 6 development goals.

Turn 6 - Keith get the one power in each phase goal. Sam gets the most Novelty and Rare Worlds goal.

Turn 7 - Derek drops Galactic Federation.

Turn 8 - Derek drops the Galactic Bankers, a terrific combo card with Galactic Federation.

Turn 9 - The final turn and Derek drops his third 6 development in three turns - Prospector Guild. Final Scoring:

• VPs from tableau - Jack (12), Sam (7), Keith (20), Derek (11)
• VP chips - Jack (1), Sam (8), Keith (1), Derek (4)
• Bonus VPs for 6 developments - Jack (8), Sam (6), Keith (12), Derek (23)
• Most Goal points - Jack (8), Sam (5)
• First goal points - Jack (6), Sam (6), Keith (3)

In the end, Derek’s late flurry of 6 developments were enough to prevail despite the lack of any goal points. It was tight from top to bottom, with Berea on top, Derek (38), Keith (36), Jack (35), and Sam (32).

In Derek’s final tableau in order was Industrial Robots, Terraforming Robots, Interstellar Prospectors, interstellar Bank, Space Marines, Former Penal Colony, Galactic Federation, Clandestine Uplift Lab, Galactic Bankers, Primitive Rebel World, and Prospector Guild.