Allan Jiang began the final by wishing everyone good luck.  Allan's good luck followed him across the finish line -- where he won by a single space over both the second and third places, Hochboim Haim and Sharee Pack.  Sharee sprinted to the second corner before anyone else reached the first.  However, her set was broken thereafter to slow her movement to crawl.  She finished one space short and with a barely functional 3-card set.  Hochboim collected an enormous set and used detectives to make up the distance with a few key exhibits at the end to bring him within one space.  He finished with a tournament-high 13 cards -- but only 7 were displayable.  Steve Cameron started out fast, got robbed even faster, and sputtered at an unprofitable auction spree to finish in fifth.  Jacob Griffith collected cards but was unable to parley detectives into enough spaces to join the fray.  He finished with the best set (8 cards and the oldest card in the game, 1748) but still came in fourth.  John Pack rounded out the top six as the top semi-finalist who didn't advance.  Congratulations to Allan!  Allan squeaked into the final with a high second place finish but was the top qualifier in the preliminaries.  Good luck to all in the next tournament!

In the end, it took 17 points and 14 spaces to qualify for the semi-finals. Congratulations to the 10 who accomplished this feat or better! Allan Jiang was the top dog with 23 points! Sharee Pack earned 19 points while finishing with a set in just one game -- and that set had only 3 cards. On the other hand, Chris Trimmer collected 53 cards in his final sets while Jacob Griffith amassed an extraordinary 21 spaces passed the line.

Slow players were warned a record 26 times. Two players were asked not to return next year. An extra "thank you" goes to all the speedy players!

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