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1997-2008 Tournament Results

Award
1997 Winners
1998 Winners
1999 Winners
2000 Winners
2001 Winners
2002 Winners
2003 Winners
2004 Winners
2005 Winners
2006 Winners
2007 Winners
2008 Winners
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
4th Place
5th Place
6th Place
7th Place
8th Place
9th Place
10th Place
11th Place
12th Place
13th Place
14th Place
15th Place
16th Place
Jason Wagner
Michael Anchors
Christopher Bodkin
John Pack
Louis Gehring
Ray Stakenas
John Kilbride
Stephanie Mayes
Gordon Rodgers
Jim Matt
Scott Sirianna
Jack Jeager
Dee Ann Gehring
Douglas Broud
Mike Metcalf
Phillip Thomas
Stephanie Mayes
Pitt Crandlemire
Phillip Thomas
Daniel Schulman
Kevin LeRow
Dee Ann Gehring
Dan Lawall
John Ellsworth
Louis Gehring
John Pack
Kaarin Engelmann
Charles Ryder
Jack Jaeger
Mark E. Hunter
Johnny Hasay
Mike Ellsworth
Pitt Crandlemire
Stephanie Mayes
Rob Kilroy
Jim Rochford
Kaarin Engelmann
Dan Schulman
John Kilbride
Mark Boone
Peter Martin
Jeremy Henrichon
Bob Hamel
Louis Gehring
Forrest Speck
John Pack
Michael Anchors
Jason Wagner
Pitt Crandlemire
Roger Taylor
Nick Smith
Al Wong
Bob Hamel
Gary Presser
Jim Rochford
Louis Gehring
Rob Kilroy
Anthony Daw
Frank Sinigaglio
Paul Saunders
John Pack
Kaarin Engelmann
Jeff Finkeldey
Charles Stucker
Mark Love
Nick Smith
Pitt Crandlemire
Paul Bolduc
Kevin Brownell
Kaarin Engelmann
Mike Backstrom
John Poniske
John Pack
Kevin Wojtaszczyk
Christopher Hensley
Matthew Hamel
Mike Anchors
Charles Stucker
Alfred Wong
Sean Finnerty
John Pack
Kevin Wojtaszczyk
Nick Smith
Bob Hamel
Kaarin Engelmann
Jeff Ribeiro
Paul Bolduc
Christopher Hensley
Rolinda Collinson
Andy Joy
Peter Martin
Marshall Applestine
Jim Mason
Wendy DeMarco
Steve Greenwood
Mark Love
Pitt Crandlemire
Alex Price
Michael Wojke
Andy Gardner
Peter Martin
Bob Hamel
Kaarin Engelmann
Paul Bolduc
Angela Collinson
Nick Smith
Blair Morgen
Christopher Hensley
Jeffrey Hacker
Ken Rothstein
Mark Love
Ashley Collinson
Nick Henning
Jim Castonguay
Robert Buccheri
Kevin Brownell
Victor Hogen
Andy Joy
Michael Musko
Angela Collinson
Tim Evinger
Forrest Speck
Rolinda Collinson
Mark Love
Kaarin Engelmann
Karl Henning
John Pack
Wendy DeMarco
Nick Henning
Jim Castonguay
Nick Smith
Robert Buccheri
Gordon Rodgers
Andy Joy
Victor Hogen
Kaarin Engelmann
Paul Bolduc
John Pack
Michael Wojke
Doug Galullo
Mark Love
Ashley Collinson
Joel Tamburo
Scott Bowling
Thomas Richardson
Nick Henning
John Pack
Steve Cameron
Ashley Collinson
Pat Richardson
John Elliott
Mark Love
Jason Wagner
Scott Sirianna
Michael Buccheri
Andy Joy
Robert Buccheri
Angela Farrington
Marie Pack
Kevin Hacker
Jeffrey Hacker
Victor Hogen
John Pack
Pat Richardson
Nick Henning
John Kilbride
Rolinda Collinson
Kevin Wojtaszczyk
Bob Hamel
Jason Wagner
Tom McCorry
Gordon Rodgers
Marshall Daw
Nick Smith
Tony Musella
Paul Bolduc
Bob Hamel
Nick Henning
Nick Smith
John Elliott
Tom Richardson
John Pack
Rolinda Collinson
Jeffrey Hacker
Craig Reece
Michael Wojke
Andy Gardner
Chuck Halberstadt
David Pack
Paul Bolduc
Tony Musella
David Fritsch
Junior
Godfather
Douglas Broud
Pitt Crandlemire
Rob Kilroy
Roger Taylor
Christopher Hensley
Jeff Ribeiro
Andy Gardner
Nick Henning
Scott Bowling
Pat Richardson
Marshall Daw
Craig Reece
Cement
Overshoes
N/A
Stephanie Mayes
Jim Rochford
Fred Gosnell
Kaarin Engelmann
Kaarin Engelmann
Chaka Benson
Tim Evinger
Charles Stucker
Steve Quade
Andy Gardner
Jordan Halberstadt
"I think she
likes me!" Award
N/A
Mark E. Hunter
N/A
Kevin LeRow
Mike Anchors
Tim Evinger
Tim Evinger
Kevin Brownell
Ashley Collinson
Tim Evinger
John Pack
Sharee Pack
Roadkill
Award
N/A
N/A
Dee Ann Gehring
Tim Evinger
Tim Evinger
Nick Smith
Rob Kilroy
Stephen Quirke
John Poniske
Angela Collinson
Andy Joy
Ashley Collinson
Barney Fife
Memorial Award
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Paul Bolduc
Jeffrey Hacker
N/A - Not Awarded that year

Honorable Mention

1997 -- The Gehring/Mayes Family: Louis and Dee Ann Gehring and their daughter Stephanie Mayes all qualified for the semi-finals and shared six wins between them. Any way you look at it, they're quite a mob! (In fact, they all qualified for the semi-finals again in '98 while Stephanie went on to win it all.)

1998 -- Kevin LeRow: The only player to beat Stephanie Mayes during Avaloncon '98!

1999 -- Rob "Moneybags" Kilroy: For scoring payouts of $3,900 and then $5,700 in back-to-back moves to end his semi-final in four turns!

2000 -- Nick Smith: For just missing out on the Junior Godfather award by 2% of the percentage completion tie-breaker! This is the first year that two new players have qualified for the finals!

2001 -- Matthew Hamel, the lowest AREA-rated player: For finishing better than his father, Bob Hamel -- who has the highest AREA rating -- in his first tournament appearance! They are also the first father/son pair to play in the tournament.

2002 -- Bob Hamel: The only player to ever complete a Brown monopoly (in fact, the only monopoly ever not using Red or Blue).  More surprisingly, only two players completed a monopoly of any sort during this tournament!  Bob took advantage of the five-player tournament game that allows Gray buildings to be treated as if they were Brown!

2003 -- Kaarin Engelmann, Rob Kilroy, Steve Zeinski, and Ashley Collinson: For an unusual game that saw a 4 Thug eliminate a level 3 joint (a 7% chance), the most hits in a single game (20), the annihilation of Kilroy's entire gang (though he still ended with $8,600), a near purple monopoly (with the Racketeer in the final joint when the game ended), and Cop #10 mowing down the thugs of two different gangs four times.

2004 -- Steve Cameron, Stephen Quirke, Robert Buccheri, and John Poniske: For the most impressive combined carnage of the tournament.  Twenty-six dead mobsters and another eleven falling to seduction – leaving a paltry 16 gangsters between the four players at the game’s end!  Players even paid $500 to help others figure out how to launch attacks.  The biggest gang at the end of the game?  3/1/1.  The smallest?  0/1/0.  Ouch!  Robert Buccheri didn’t win this bloodfest, but he went on to be the only player this year to play in all six possible games!

2005 -- Ashley Collinson: For being the first player to ever complete a Purple monopoly.  And for being stubborn enough to try it over and over again -- coming up just short, with four of the five purple joints, in two other games in 2005 (including her semi-final) as well as the 2003 honorable mention game!  The Purple monopoly is so difficult to achieve that Mark Love's excellent How to Win at Gangsters recommends ignoring players who try for it!

2006 -- Angela Collinson: For her two unusual near misses.  One heat saw her finish with 10 joints but lose out to Ladykiller, who collected another $3,200 to add to his secret stash of $9,900 while she was trying to complete her gang.  In another game she purchased a total of 18 joints but ended up with only 9!  I'm guessing that winning the Roadkill Award had something to do with why she came up short!  Most games don't last the minimum 16 turns necessary to buy that many joints, and most Racketeers don't move into enough different joints to buy that many even in games that do last that long.  For that matter, most sets of opponents wouldn't be able to take down nine joints (or even five for that matter).  Kudos to Red Rose's opponents for pulling that off!

2007 -- Paul Bolduc: For his unusual experiences with the cops during the "Year of the Cop."  In a single game, Da Spider drew the Untouchables bribe marker twice in just three tries.  In the same game, Paul rolled boxcars (two sixes) with Barney Fife (Cop #2) while wearing the Robocop polo shirt he'd won in an earlier heat.  Barney was doing his best imitation of Robocop!  To win the polo shirt, Da Spider, whose name tag had Robocop on it, had to draw the matching bribe to bend Robocop to his will.

2008 -- David Pack, Jeffrey Hacker, and Peter Staab: For their three-way tie at the buzzer.  Each had seven joints.  The second tie-breaker determined that David would qualify for the semi-final with the most assets ($12,400 vs. $7,550 and $6,300 respectively).  Keith Galbraith wasn't far behind the 70% tie -- he had $6,700 in cash.  More than that, this game set some serious carnage records -- with 22 gangsters dying in shoot-outs and another 21 changing hands due to seduction.  Carnage and vampage!  Peter "Numbers" Staab wrote, "This was a very bloody and 'loving' game."

Cement Overshoes

Each year's winner is nominated for the World Boardgaming Championships' Sportsmanship award -- the most prestigious award at the convention. However, far more importantly, these players are the ones who make you glad you came to the tournament, who make the convention more fun for everyone, and who remind us why we play games to begin with! The following have all been nominated at one time or another (many of them several times) -- please give them a big "thank you!" the next time you see any of them!

Josh Adelson, Michael Anchors, Chaka Benson, Mark Boone, Kevin Brownell, Jim Castonguay, Rolinda Collinson, Pitt Crandlemire, Anthony Daw, John Elliott, Kaarin Engelmann*, Matt Evinger, Tim Evinger, Doug Galullo, Andy Gardner, DeeAnn Gehring, Fred Gosnell, Jordan Halberstadt, Bob Hamel, Matthew Hamel, Mark Love, Peter Martin, Stephanie Mayes, Tony Musella, Steve Quade, Jim Rochford, Gordon Rodgers, Ken Rothstein, Scott Sirianna, Nick Smith, John Speck, Peter Staab, Charles Stucker, Joel Tamburo, Jason Wagner

* Won World Boardgaming Championships 2002 Sportsman of the Year

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