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Last Updated: October 12th, 2022
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Congratulations, John Pack!
September 4th, 2022 - October 7th, 2022
Seven games to get to the Final -- now it comes down to one winner-take-all game. John Pack gets off to a quick-start by exhibiting on the first turn to take a two-space lead while Dan Leader provides security. Dominic Blais picks up the D-1616 (best card in the game) while Thomas Browne finds the $24,000 check lying somewhere where no one would miss it. The main theme of the game appears on the second turn -- lots of thieves and no one to catch them! Dan moves forward by exhibiting but loses a card to Dominic. Thomas spends his "findings" while thieves rip the check in two. Then Dominic rotates into the exhibitor role while John provides security. Meanwhile, Dan's check is five-finger discounted by Allan Jiang. Allan patiently builds a huge set but is thwarted when his detective strategy fails to find thieves during the mid-game, such that his arrival on the final edge comes only during the final exhibit. Dominic and John advance slowly but surely together to the mid-point; however, Dominic takes the worst from thieves. That lets John soldier onward while Dominic pauses. Dominic almost catches up once John reaches the final 5/3 acceleration zone in the endgame, but comes up one exhibit or one thief from other players short of a last-second comeback. The jail ends full -- but does not parole a single bandit during the game. That means no one ever lacked the option to steal. And steal they do -- six items change hands on the penultimate turn and four more the turn before that. It wasn't for trying. John's next-to-last exhibit (two turns before the last turn) sees four detectives on patrol -- catching nary a cutpurse. It's a matter of timing. Like phases of the moon, when the thieves were in phase, the detectives were nowhere to be seen and vice versa. Bandits are selected 21 times; Detectives just 14 times (only five of which catch anything). The robbers net 17 pieces of art and 5 checks. Dan falls victim to that timing -- exhibiting in thieves-phase and trying to catch the shadows in the night during the detectives-phase. His set is completely obliterated while he howls at the wrong moon, and he ekes out a few final spaces with a detective. Thomas has a lot of cards but just can't steal the right ones to connect both halves. The Auction House is not his friend either. In the end, John pushes across just barely ahead of the surging Allan and resurgent Dominic.
The top six places and laurels go to:
John Pack
Dominic Blais
Allan Jiang
Dan Leader
Thomas Browne
Steve Cameron
Player |
SpielByWeb |
Color |
Place |
Spaces |
Set |
Oldest |
Game: ADV22-F |
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Dan Leader | danleader | Black | 4 | 0 | 0 of 2 | 2022 |
Allan Jiang | a440 | Blue | 3 | 0 | 9 of 9 | 1748 |
John Pack | johnrpack | Red | 1 | 2 | 5 of 5 | 1819 |
Dominic Blais | Fortiche | Green | 2 | 0 | 8 of 8 | 1616 |
Thomas Browne | Auron | Yellow | 5 | 0 | 5 of 8 | 1468 |
Player |
SpielByWeb |
Color |
Place |
Spaces |
Set |
Oldest |
June 16th, 2022 - August 9th, 2022
Three finalists advance by winning one of their semi-finals -- Thomas Browne, John Pack, and Dan Leader. Dominic Blais advances with a 5-space second place, and Allan Jiang moves forward with a second place in each of his semi-finals. Congratulations to each!
Dan Leader wins the first semi-final by sprinting across the line by a single space with only a set of 3 left to his name -- but nearly a full edge ahead of Allan Jiang in second. John Pack prevails in the second semi-final by cobbling together a last-second set that prevailed in the final normal move against a bandit and then survived the onslaught of the big sets. Thomas Browne had no set, killing his sprint, but managed to cross the line with detectives for second. In the third semi-final, Dominic Blais won the final regular turn (with an exhibit with three detectives) but couldn't hold out against the titanic 10-card set of Thomas Browne who caught him at the fifth table space and won on the tie-break. In the fourth semi-final, Dan Leader set a furious pace, sprinting to the second corner before running into set troubles. He ultimately came up two spaces short of the finish line for fourth. John Pack tried to keep up with Dan but petered out just past the second corner for last place. Allan Jiang carefully maneuvered into position with well-timed exhibits and detectives -- and then sprinted after the second corner. He ended with 7 cards but second place as the big set players took advantage of John's thieves to reach the second corner with detectives. Derek pulled out his 10 card exhibit on the last move to beat Allan for the 5 spaces -- and take the 8 advancement at the finish line. Steve played it safe with a detective on the final move (worth 4) plus another 4 at the finish but ended up one space shy of the dinner table. Unfortunately, Derek's delay-of-game penalty costs him four places as the game finishes Sept. 4th. That allows Allan to advance with his two-space second-place finish.
Player |
SpielByWeb |
Color |
Place |
Spaces |
Set |
Oldest |
Game: ADV22-S1 |
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Oliver Searles | Olback | Yellow | 3 | 0 | 6 of 6 | 1832 |
Dan Leader | danleader | Green | 1 | 1 | 3 of 4 | 1775 |
Derek Landel | dlandel | Red | 5 | 0 | 3 of 4 | 1616 |
Allan Jiang | a440 | Blue | 2 | 0 | 7 of 7 | 1650 |
Dominic Blais | Fortiche | Black | 4 | 0 | 6 of 8 | 1660 |
Game: ADV22-S2 |
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Sean McCulloch | stmccull | Black | 4 | 0 | 7 of 7 | 1819 |
Doug Galullo | gyric2 | Green | 5 | 0 | 7 of 7 | 1860 |
Thomas Browne | Auron | Yellow | 2 | 1 | 0 of 3 | 2022 |
John Pack | johnrpack | Blue | 1 | 4 | 3 of 5 | 1902 |
Steve Cameron | stevegamer | Red | 3 | 0 | 10 of 10 | 1616 |
Game: ADV22-S3 |
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Oliver Searles | Olback | Black | 4 | 0 | 5 of 7 | 1831 |
Sean McCulloch | stmccull | Green | 5 | 0 | 0 of 4 | 2022 |
Doug Galullo | gyric2 | Red | 3 | 1 | 9 of 9 | 1819 |
Thomas Browne | Auron | Blue | 1 | 5 | 10 of 10 | 1616 |
Dominic Blais | Fortiche | Yellow | 2 | 5 | 6 of 6 | 1468 |
Game: ADV22-S4 |
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Dan Leader | danleader | Yellow | 4 | 0 | 3 of 4 | 1819 |
Derek Landel | dlandel | Blue | 5 | 4 | 9 of 9 | 1616 |
Allan Jiang | a440 | Red | 2 | 2 | 7 of 7 | 1852 |
John Pack | johnrpack | Black | 5 | 0 | 6 of 6 | 1830 |
Steve Cameron | stevegamer | Green | 3 | 0 | 8 of 8 | 1468 |
Player |
SpielByWeb |
Color |
Place |
Spaces |
Set |
Oldest |
Player |
SpielByWeb |
First |
Second |
Second Place |
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Spaces |
Set |
Oldest |
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Thomas Browne | Auron | 2 | 1 | |||
John Pack | johnrpack | 1 | 5 | |||
Dan Leader | danleader | 1 | 4 | |||
Dominic Blais | Fortiche | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 of 6 | 1468 |
Allan Jiang | a440 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 of 7 | 1852 |
Steve Cameron | stevegamer | 3 | 3 | |||
Oliver Searles | Olback | 3 | 4 | |||
Doug Galullo | gyric2 | 5 | 3 | |||
Sean McCulloch | stmccull | 4 | 5 | |||
Derek Landel | dlandel | 5 | 5 | |||
Player |
SpielByWeb |
First |
Second |
Spaces |
Set |
Oldest |
* * Preliminaries * *
April 21st, 2022 - June 15th, 2022
It took just 15 points and 3 spaces to qualify for the
semi-finals this year -- but 9 players had the usual 17 and above. Allan
Jiang topped the field with 21 points. John Pack, Dan Leader, Sean
McCulloch, Steve Cameron, Doug Galullo, Derek Landel, Thomas Browne, Dominic
Blais, and Oliver Searles rounded out the field.
A few highlights include Kevin Wojtaszczyk winning with 10
spaces and a set of 11 -- in a game that saw four players cross the banquet
line! Thomas Browne also won with a set of 11 in a game with three players
across the line -- but barely edged Tom DeMarco who also crossed to the fourth
space. In those two games, Haakon Monsen, Cary Morris, and Rob Flowers didn't
cross but finished on the very last space! Rob made up for that shortfall
by winning another game and reaching the very end of the table (13 spaces) as
did Oliver Searles in a separate game! Oliver also won the tie-breaker to
qualify as the last semi-finalist -- beating out Sharee Pack 18 spaces to 2. Rob Flowers
was our Extremist -- winning two games and coming in last place in the other three.
Chris Trimmer was The Collector with the most cards, 47, the most cards in sets,
45 of those 47, and games with 11 and 10 twice. Steve Cameron was the Most
Bulletproof -- with all 42 of his 42 cards in his final sets. Martin
Burgdorf was the Most Broken -- with only 13 of his 26 cards connected.
Haakon Monsen was the Oldy Schmoldy player -- not bothering with any card older
than 1775 in the tournament. 20 different players had the oldest (1468) or
second oldest card (1616) at the end of at least one game.
Player | SpielByWeb | One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Total | |||||||||
Game | Points | Game | Points | Game | Points | Game | Points | Game | Points | Points | Spaces | Sets | Cards | Oldest | ||
Allan Jiang | a440 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 21 | 11 | 33 | 33 | 1468 |
John Pack | johnrpack | 16 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 19 | 3 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 6 | 24 | 29 | 1468 |
Dan Leader | danleader | 12 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 20 | 4 | 24 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 30 | 38 | 1468 |
Sean McCulloch | stmccull | 11 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 19 | 5 | 23 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 28 | 32 | 1616 |
Steve Cameron | stevegamer | 18 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 42 | 42 | 1616 |
Doug Galullo | gyric2 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 19 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 40 | 40 | 1468 |
Derek Landel | dlandel | 8 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 17 | 12 | 35 | 39 | 1468 |
Thomas Browne | Auron | 22 | 4 | 23 | 5 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 41 | 45 | 1468 |
Dominic Blais | Fortiche | 24 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 17 | 4 | 26 | 34 | 1468 |
Oliver Searles | Olback | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 30 | 37 | 1468 |
Sharee Pack | shareerpack | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 1468 |
Christopher Yaure | actuaryesquire | 10 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 24 | 30 | 1650 |
Chris Trimmer | TrimChris | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 45 | 47 | 1468 |
Haakon R. Monsen | MonsoonX | 20 | 3 | 21 | 5 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 32 | 37 | 1775 |
Martin Burgdorf | Martin | 14 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 26 | 1760 |
Michael McKibbin | hgman | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 37 | 42 | 1650 |
Rob Flowers | Epworthian1 | 21 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 18 | 30 | 37 | 1616 |
Tom DeMarco | Tom DeMarco | 23 | 4 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 37 | 39 | 1616 |
Cary Morris | DagKees | 15 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 38 | 38 | 1468 |
Kevin Wojtaszczyk | kwojtasz | 19 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 35 | 42 | 1468 |
Wendy McCallion | IC3McCallion | 13 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 21 | 2 | 25 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 19 | 26 | 1468 |
Bob Hamel | bhamel | 9 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 21 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 32 | 35 | 1616 |
Keith Layton | keithl4170xxx | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 21 | 30 | 1660 |
Ken Gutermuth | kgutermuth | 17 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 20 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 31 | 1616 |
Tim Mossman | IronMoss | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 30 | 36 | 1468 |
Please contact the GM, John Pack, with any comments or questions regarding the format, game engine, rules, or play as the games progress.
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