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60 players participated in 46 preliminary round matches.
The following is pretty much what I have submitted to the BPA for inclusion in the Multi-player Titan Yearbook entry.
This year, David Finberg and Aaron Fuegi had a good chance to rack up a lot of team points for MIT SGS in the two Titan events. Finberg chose the two player Titan event as his team event and Fuegi chose multi-player Titan for his team event. They met in the finals for both of the Titan events. Unfortunately for their team, Finberg won the multi-player event and Fuegi won the two player event.
For next year, I want to make the clique system (used to split up friends who don't want to meet in the semifinals) a bit more flexible.
I also want to switch from a point based tie breaker to an adjudication committee to handle semifinals that hit the time limit. While this year the point system gave the same winner that adjudication would have, the players who had strong opinions felt that adjudication would produce the proper winner (or estimate used for a roll off) more of the time than a point system would.
A very short synopsis of the semis and finals follows.
In semifinals 1 Steve Owens was eliminated when he was forced to attack due to move compulsion. Rich Atwater got the points for eliminating Owens, but his titan stack was badly hurt. After being further hurt by a lack of 6s, Steve Koleszar finished him off in a tower with a stack containing 3 guardians. Jason Ley was the last player eliminated when he needed to risk his titan in a strip attack when he already had lost one of his two dragons and he felt couldn't afford a time loss which would have cost him getting and archangel in the stack immediately.
In semifinals 2 Clifford Smith was eliminated first by Brian Sutton when his titan stack was caught in a swamp without any natives. Sutton then caught and eliminated Tom Johnston. Finally Sutton survived a titan on titan attack from Art Wines with several serpents attacking him in the swamp to win.
In semifinals 3 Chuck Kaplan eliminated Brian Bouton. Then Kaplan attacked a hydra stack as a gamble to try to get titan teleport, but didn't win by enough to survive a followup attack by Bill Dufton. Dufton and Finberg then played on to the time limit while fighting a lot of battles. Finberg was awarded the victory using a point based formula. Finberg was in a very good position and would most likely still have won if they had had time to play the game out.
In semifinals 4 Kevin Hillock was eliminated by Aaron Fuegi in a tower battle. The battle itself was a mutual which denied Fuegi some of the points for the titan stack and resulted in a rules question about concessions after your titan has been slain. Fuegi then eliminated Dan Strock by teleporting in on him in a mountains. Then Fuegi and Andrew Gross were maneuvering on the masterboard and Gross took a shot at attacking Fuegi and his hydras in the desert rather than wait for Fuegi to teleport on him with an angel to call. Gross got his titan on Fuegi's, but was unable to get a mutual which would have given him a roll off to win. Fuegi had the following quote about the game: "Amazingly good and well played game."
In the finals Steve Koleszar accidentally split out his titan with just a gargoyle and was eventually eliminated by David Finberg. Aaron Fuegi was eliminated when he attacked a tough behemoth stack in the jungle belonging to Brian Sutton with his titan and was unable to win. In the final battle it was titan on titan in the woods with each stack having several hydras. Finberg's tougher stack and first range strike as the attacker was enough to defeat Sutton's stack.
David desJardins recorded the final.
Fin Sem Pre Opp Opp Opp Opp Opp Game
Name Ran Ran Ran 1st 2nd 3rd Kil 1st 2nd 3rd Kil Gam Gam Numbers
Finberg, David 1 1 7 2 1 1 9 15 19 14 57 56 5 6 26 30 36 43
Sutton, Brian 2 3 12 2 0 1 7 11 16 14 50 53 4 12 21 32 42
Fuegi, Aaron 3 4 14 2 0 1 5 13 14 11 55 53 4 8 13 26 31
Koleszar, Steve 4 2 8 2 1 0 8 7 11 7 31 39 3 9 15 34
Gross, Andrew 5 5 1 4 0 0 13 10 14 13 45 47 4 2 11 30 43
Wines, Art 6 6 4 3 0 0 11 12 21 15 55 63 5 18 23 28 35 41
Ley, Jason 7 7 9 2 0 2 8 19 21 16 76 71 6 3 6 9 13 31 44
Dufton, Bill 8 8 16 1 4 1 5 17 18 18 77 74 6 4 6 15 20 25 36 42
Strock, Dan 9 9 2 3 0 3 10 10 27 12 53 73 6 1 14 20 25 31 37 44
Kaplan, Chuck 10 10 5 2 4 0 7 21 15 23 93 79 6 2 10 16 23 38 41
Atwater, Rich 11 11 6 2 1 2 9 18 6 18 66 55 6 1 7 12 29 32 45
Johnston, Tom 12 12 10 2 0 2 8 14 23 12 58 63 5 19 22 27 38 41
Hillock, Kevin 13 13 3 3 0 1 10 8 12 12 39 55 4 5 21 32 46
Owens, Steve 14 14 11 2 0 1 7 13 19 19 60 65 5 7 9 16 24 33
Bouton, Brian 15 15 13 2 0 1 7 10 10 9 38 42 3 8 22 45
Smith, Clifford 16 16 15 2 0 0 9 13 12 11 49 39 4 2 4 19 28
Ticola, Peter 17 17 17 1 3 1 3 17 19 18 74 77 6 5 10 11 17 33 43
Cornett, Jeff 18 18 18 1 2 0 5 10 2 9 38 33 3 9 14 40
Gathmann, Pete 19 19 19 1 1 0 4 12 8 14 51 50 4 13 35 39 46
Platnick, David 20 20 20 1 1 0 3 15 8 13 59 48 4 8 22 34 45
Gubbay, David 21 21 21 1 1 0 3 10 13 16 45 51 4 18 24 37 40
desJardins, David 22 22 22 1 0 3 5 24 20 12 96 79 6 7 24 35 39 41 45
Beyma, Richard 23 23 23 1 0 0 3 6 9 7 27 24 2 29 38
Lingle, Larry 24 24 24 1 0 0 3 3 4 2 14 11 1 4
Boyland, Dan 25 25 25 0 4 0 2 20 18 19 76 78 6 8 10 17 26 27 35 44
Salvato, Mike 26 26 26 0 3 2 2 21 19 13 83 71 5 6 18 24 38 42
Chavis, James 27 27 27 0 3 0 2 19 23 23 76 77 5 16 20 25 37 42
Sharp III, John 28 28 28 0 2 1 2 22 27 16 83 82 6 5 11 15 17 20 21 27 46
Harrison, Joe 29 29 29 0 2 1 0 12 9 9 50 39 3 15 19 22
Shambeda, Jon 30 30 30 0 2 0 2 19 9 18 71 59 4 23 31 39 44
Rothenheber, Ed 31 31 31 0 1 2 0 12 7 9 48 38 3 12 19 37
Levy, Keith 32 32 32 0 1 1 0 11 6 6 42 29 2 26 32
Long, Dale 33 33 33 0 1 1 0 6 4 5 24 23 2 3 18
Henning, Inger 34 34 34 0 1 0 1 5 1 5 19 13 1 1
Lemoine, Winton 35 35 35 0 1 0 0 5 1 6 21 17 1 7
Delaney, Joe 36 36 36 0 1 0 0 5 0 1 20 10 1 28
Rodges, Gordon 37 37 37 0 1 0 0 3 1 3 13 9 1 29
Chung, John 38 38 38 0 0 3 2 15 22 2 57 48 3 2 10 16
Ladd, Jeff 39 39 39 0 0 3 1 15 13 4 55 43 3 23 33 43
Hogen, Victor F 40 40 40 0 0 1 1 18 19 11 70 63 5 5 21 25 34 40
Nielsen, Tim 41 41 41 0 0 1 1 4 3 2 16 14 1 46
Paraudu, Tom 42 42 42 0 0 1 1 4 2 3 15 11 1 14
Wojke, Mike 43 43 43 0 0 1 1 3 2 2 12 9 1 29
Kilroy, Robert 44 44 44 0 0 1 0 6 1 1 22 10 1 30
White, Jason 45 45 45 0 0 1 0 5 5 2 18 16 1 11
Scott, Bill 46 46 46 0 0 1 0 5 1 3 17 14 1 13
Lientz, Gerald 47 47 47 0 0 1 0 5 1 0 20 10 1 28
Tyne, James 48 48 48 0 0 1 0 4 4 1 17 11 1 4
Shambeda, Jed 49 49 49 0 0 1 0 3 10 5 15 27 2 3 17
Thatcher, Greg 50 50 50 0 0 1 0 3 5 2 14 12 1 36
Kramer Jr, James 51 51 51 0 0 1 0 2 6 3 12 17 1 27
Cannon, Michael 52 52 52 0 0 1 0 2 3 3 11 14 1 39
Shambeda, Steve 53 53 53 0 0 1 0 2 3 1 9 12 1 40
Paraudu, Elliot 54 54 54 0 0 0 0 7 5 9 27 24 2 14 33
Wolff III, Bruno 55 55 55 0 0 0 0 6 1 2 22 10 1 30
Melton, Craig 56 56 56 0 0 0 0 5 2 5 20 13 1 1
Ackman, Cliff 57 57 57 0 0 0 0 4 2 5 16 13 1 12
Ramano, Greg 58 58 58 0 0 0 0 3 5 3 14 12 1 36
Wojke, Thomas 59 59 59 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 12 12 1 34
Byrd, Chris 60 60 60 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 8 10 1 3
I don't have any other information about what happened in it this year.