axis & allies [Updated October 07]  

2007 WBC Report     

 2008 Status: pending 2008 GM commitment

Ty Hansen, DC

2007 Champion

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Event History
1999    Kevin Keller     43
2000    Tim Rothenhoefer     43
2001    Patrick Mirk     41
2002    Phil Rennert     50
2003    Philip Shea     34
2004     Philip Shea     31
2005    Charles Michalek     19
2006    Joe Powell     28
2007     Ty Hansen     22

 Laurels

Rank  Name              From  Last  Total
  1.  Philip Shea        VA    07    188
  2.  Joe Powell         VA    07    150
  3.  Kevin Keller       MD    07    132
  4.  Phil Rennert       MD    04     96
  5.  Pat Mirk           FL    05     90
  6.  Tim Rothenhoefer   MD    07     68
  7.  Brian Fitzpatrick  VA    03     54
  8.  Ty Hansen          DC    07     40
  9.  Charles Michalek   NV    05     40
 10.  Andrew Murphy      PA    07     36
 11.  Jeff King          ME    02     36
 12.  Alfred Wong        IL    01     30
 13.  Greg Berry         VA    04     24
 14.  Don Tatum          MD    02     24
 15.  Phil Rollins       ME    00     24
 16.  John Sharp III     FL    00     18
 17.  Mike Terrana       GA    99     18
 18.  James D. Long      PA    06     12
 19.  Eric Lind          CA    03     12
 20.  Joe Collinson      MD    01     12
 21.  Barry Shoults      MI    99     12
 22.  Richard Beyma      MD    99      9
 23.  James H. Long      PA    05      8
 24.  David Rynkowski    NY    04      6
 25.  Russell Vane       VA    03      6
 26.  David Huss         NY    01      6
 27.  John Koski         MD    00      6
 28.  Rich Curtin        NY    99      6
 29.  Matt Tolman        UT    06      4
 30.  Kevin McCarthy     OH    99      3

2007 Laurelists

Philip Shea, VA
2nd

Joseph Powell, VA
3rd

Andrew Murphy, PA
4th

Tim Rothenhoeffer, MD
5th

Kevin Keller, MD
6th


Past Winners

Kevin Keller, MD
1999

Tim Rothenhoefer, MD
2000

Patrick Mirk, FL
2001

Phil Rennert, MD
2002

Philip Shea, VA
2003-04

Charles Michaleks, NV
2005

Joe Powell, VA
2006

Ty Hansen, DC
2007
   

Defending champ Joe Powell (left) finished third this time.

1999 champ Kevin Keller had to settle for 6th place laurels this time.

Newcomer to the fore ...

A few observations about this year's event:
-This year saw 22 entrants battle through 29 games over the course of the two-day event.
-The crop of new players nicely complemented the returning "hardcore" A&A players.
 
-Compared to 2006, this year there were fewer conceded games (12 vs 9), but more games were played without a bid (11 vs17).
-When a bid was actually used, all but one game had the bid going to the Allies (Axis- 1, Allies- 11).
-The Victory Territory (VT) scoring system in use at WBC seems to warrant an Allied bid.
-In the "Quality Games" statistics, the approximate 1 round difference in the length of the average Axis win versus the average Allied win was more a product of individual game circumstances than any concerted effort by Axis players at "stalling". Many of the pertinent games (Axis wins) had players that hadn't played any kind of A&A tournament game before or hadn't played the A&A Revised Edition in a tournament setting. 
 
-While three of the four SE participants were returnees from last year, it was the relative newcomer that took the title.
-My use of random pairings in all three preliminary rounds brought about the unexpected (but possible) occurrence of having undefeated players that wouldn't advance into the SE rounds. The matching of like records (as much as is possible) in the second and third rounds would have taken care of the situation and this change will be implemented next year.
 
Raffle prizes were given out to tournament participants during each round of the first day.
Round #1- Philip Shea- Axis & Allies: Battle of the Bulge (BotB)
   Rob Larkins- Table Tactics Axis & Allies New Edition Colors (NEC) expansion pack
Round #2- Kyle Casiglio- A&A: BotB
              Ty Hansen- Table Tactics A&A NEC expansion pack
Round #3- Joe Powell- A&A: BotB
 
The following chart is the player rankings based on the games from the first day's preliminary rounds.

#  Player Name       W-L   TVTs   IPC%
 1 Philip Shea       3-0    57    128.57
 2 Ty Hansen         3-0    48     79.38
 3 Joseph Powell     3-0    46     51.85
 4 Andrew Murphy     3-0    46     28.18
 5 Tim Tothenhoefer  3-0    44     11.43
 6 Kevin Keller      2-1    44     43.30
 7 Andrew Long       2-1    44     28.57
 8 Ron Draker        2-1    43     42.86
 9 Art Linse         1-2    40     36.46
10 Peter Ticola      1-2    34      0
11 Tommy Miklos      1-2    33    -25.86
12 Rob Larkins       0-3    21    -80.00
13 Kyle Casiglio     0-3    18    -90.42
14 Al Hurda          1-1    19    -21.25
15 John Miklos       0-2    15    -45.54
16 Edward Taborek    0-2    14    -11.25
17 Alex Gregorio     0-2    10    -74.11
18 Craig Yope        1-0    19     42.86
19 Joe Collinson     0-1    10    - 5.21
20 Art Whitaker      0-1     9    - 7.29
21 Michael Corrigan  0-1     5    -31.25
22 Colum McCurdy     0-1     5    -42.86

The top four players (based on the rankings above) moved onto the Single-Elimination rounds of the second day.
 

Semi-final #1-

(1) Philip Shea [Axis] d. (4) Andrew Murphy [Allies] by a score of 13 VTs (81 IPCs) to 11VTs (85 IPCs) in 5 rds with the Allies receiving a bid of 9 IPCs
 

Semi-final #2-

(2) Ty Hansen [Axis] d. (3) Joseph Powell [Allies] by a score of 13 VTs (70 IPCs) to11 VTs (96 IPCs) in 6 rds with the Allies receiving a bid of 5 IPCs
 

Final-

(2) Ty Hansen [Allies] d. (1) Philip Shea [Axis] by a score of 14 VTs (96 IPCs) to 10 VTs (70 IPCs) in 5 rds with the Allies receiving a bid of 7 IPCs 
 

Tournament Stats-                                                         

                      Axis Wins-       Allied Wins-  

Round #1-             7 (2)                3 (1)                 
 
Round #2-             4 (2)                 4 (1)
 
Round #3-             7 (3)                 1 (0)
 
Semifinals-            2 (0)                 0 (0)
 
Finals-                  0 (0)                 1 (0)
                           --------               -------
Totals-                 20 (7)                9 (2)
 
(*) - The number in parentheses is the number of concession wins that occurred in each instance.
 

                                                Axis                Allies

Average VTs in a Win-               16.55              15.89

Average IPCs in a Win-              87.2              116.44
 
Average Rounds in a Win-            4.95                6.44
 

Bidding-

                      Axis Wins-           Allied Wins-   
No Bid-                12                        5
 
Axis Bid-                1                        0
 
Allied Bid-              7                         4
 
Average Axis Bid- 3 IPCs 
Average Allies Bid- 4.55 IPCs
 

Quality Games-

In what I term "Quality Games" (games that don't end in a concession), these are the applicable stats:
 
                      Axis Wins-               Allied Wins- 

Round #1-             5                                2
 
Round #2-             2                                3
 
Round #3-             4                                1
 
Semifinals-            2                                0
 
Finals-                  0                                1
                          -----                             -----
Totals-                 13                               7
 

                                             Axis                Allies

Average VTs in a Win-             15.08                15

 Average IPCs in a Win-           80.31              113.71
 
Average Rounds in a Win-           5.31                6.43
 

Bidding-

                      Axis Wins-             Allied Wins-   
No Bid-                 8                           3
 
Axis Bid-                1                           0
 
Allied Bid-              4                           4
 
Average Axis Bid- 3 IPCs 
Average Allies Bid- 5 IPCs
 
 
I would like to thank all that participated in the event this year and a special thanks goes out to Kevin Keller and Joseph Powell for enthusiastically supporting the event by being Assistant GMs.
 
If you have any comment, questions, and/or complaints about the event, please take the time to contact me at the email address below.

 GM      Craig Yope  [3rd Year]   1313 Mayer Rd, Saint Clair, MI 48079  
    CraigYope@yahoo.com   810-367-3020

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