Bpamail Mailing List: BPA October 2024 #2 Newsletter

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October 2024 BPA Newsletter #2

 

ACE OF ACES GRANTED LEGACY STATUS:  The Board approved ADDING Ace of Aces to
the Legacy Event List, taking the current Legacy Event count to 16. For a
listing of all Century Group (Century and Legacy) events for WBC 2025,
please visit http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_preparation_pelorphans.html.

 

WBC 2025 TRIAL BALLOT EVENT SUBMISSIONS: Event Submission Form for Trial
Events is now available at  <http://boardgamers.org/forms/event-form.html>
http://boardgamers.org/forms/event-form.html. Please do not use the 2024
form, it will not be accepted due to changes made to the form. 

 

Trial Ballot Event Submissions for WBC 2025 will be accepted between
November 1, 2024, and November 25, 2024. To submit an event for the trial
ballot, complete the Trial Ballot Event Submission Form (link above) and an
Event Preview (preferably in word document) and submit both via email to
<mailto:conventiondirector [at] boardgamers.org>
conventiondirector [at] boardgamers.org.

 

The Event Description webpage at
<https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc-eventdescription.html>
https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc-eventdescription.html and the GM Guidelines
webpage at  <https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_gmeventform.html>
https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_gmeventform.html have been updated to
incorporate the changes to the WBC 2025 event forms.

 

Event Submissions for Century, Legacy, Sponsor, Vendor, Exhibitor at WBC
2025 will be accepted between December 4, 2024, and February 15, 2025. Their
Event Submission Forms will be available on December 1, 2024.

 

WBC NEW LOGO CONTEST STARTS NOVEMBER 1: The BPA has selected a vendor for
the redesign of the website and work has begun. With the evolution of the
BPA and WBC to a more balanced set of game genres, the Board has decided to
look at a potential change from our traditional logo used on the website.
Since we know we have members in the graphic designs field, we have decided
to hold a design contest for a potential new logo. The process will be as
follows:

 

1.      Submissions of potential new logos must be submitted to the
Convention Director between November 1 through November 15, 2024 
2.      Parameters for logo are:

a.      Must include the words "World Boardgaming Championships"
b.      Should incorporate the following:

                                                              i.      BPA
Logo (as shown on current Website Logo)

                                                             ii.      A
Roman Iconology part (keeping with Laurel & Awards theme)

                                                           iii.      Diverse
Genre of Gaming (i.e., War, Euro, Strategy, Late Night, Sports, Racing, Open
Gaming)

c.      File should be sent as a Vector file (allows flexibility of scaling
for multiple media)

2.      Board will review potential logos received by members and our
Graphics Assistant Convention Director) at their November Board Meeting

a.      The Directors will select multiple Logos they believe would be best
for the BPA

3.      In the following newsletter announcing the start of the BPA 2025
Membership Drive, a page will be created of the potential logos still under
consideration by the Board.
4.      Members will vote on the designs from December 1 through December 15
for the logo they prefer.
5.      At the December Board meeting, the Board will make a final decision
on a new logo with the winning logo of the member voting having the weight
of one additional Director of the Board.
6.      The designer of the logo that is chosen will receive a free
membership for both 2025 and 2026.

 

AUCTION/AUCTION STORE 2025 CHANGE: As mentioned at the BPA Annual Meeting in
Seven Springs, the Board was considering changes to the WBC Auction/Auction
Store. The Board has decided to continue the WBC Auction/auction Store but
in a reduced timeframe. 

 

The times will be reduced to finish the event by 1pm Tuesday so that
tournaments may begin again at 2pm on Tuesday Afternoon. Event Submissions
may request times starting at 2pm or later on Tuesday.

 

More details will be provided as we get closer to the opening of the
Auction/Auction Store submissions.

 

WBC EVENT REPORTS UPDATE: 

The 100 WBC 2024 event reports have been posted in the order in which they
were received. They can be found at
http://www.boardgamers.org/yearbook24/index.html. Reports for 152 of the 166
events at WBC 2024 have been received. The rest of the reports should be
completed by next week.

 

PBeM NEWS:

 

Completed Tournaments:

 

HERNDON WINS THIRD CONSECUTIVE ADVANCED CIVILIZATION: The Advanced
Civilization PBeM started in 2023 has concluded with Alex Herndon capturing
his third consecutive title. 30 players participated in the tournament. The
remaining laurelists were, in order, Kevin Breza, Kevin Youells, DJ Borton,
Dan Leader, and Ian Bergman. More details can be found at
https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-acv.html.

 

 

Starting Tournaments:

 

BREAKOUT NORMANDY PBEM TO START IN NOVEMBER: Kevin Wojtaszczyk is accepting
registration for the next Breakout Normandy PBeM. With the 2023's BKN online
tournament winding down, the start of the 2024 BKN online tournament is
quickly approaching. The start of the 2024 tournament will be mid-November
and you can start signing up for it on the website. To register, visit the
tournament page at https://bknpbem.wixsite.com/home. 

 

MEMOIR '44 TOURNAMENT TO START IN DECEMBER: Dan Winnowski will be the GM for
the second Memoir '44 PBeM tournament scheduled to start in December.
Details on the tournament, including how to sign up can be found on the
tournament website at https://sites.google.com/view/memoir44wbc/2025

 

NAVEGADOR TOURNAMENT TO START IN DECEMBER: Navegador has been a tournament
at WBC since 2011 and has been a solid game with its rondel mechanics and
market manipulation, while players explore routes to the Far East. The
tournament will be played on the Yucata online game portal and all entrants
will play 4 simultaneous games for a chance to advance to further rounds.
Visit https://epworthian.wordpress.com/navegador/tournament-format/ to view
the tournament format, and email Rob Flowers at epworthian1 [at] gmail.com
<mailto:epworthian1 [at] gmail.com>  by December 1 to sign up.

 

FIRST ROOT PBEM TO START IN OCTOBER:  Luke McKinnes will be GM for the first
BPA Root PBeM tournament. To register, email Luke McKinnes at
ljazz07 [at] gmail.com <mailto:ljazz07 [at] gmail.com>  by October 12, 2024.
Information about the tournament can be found on the tournament page at
https://bpatournament.wordpress.com/root/.

 

SAINT PETERSBURG TOURNAMENT TO START IN DECEMBER: Chris Wildes will be the
GM for the next Saint Petersburg PBeM tournament scheduled to start in
December. Details on the tournament, including how to sign up can be found
on the tournament website at
https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/saint-petersburg/.

 

SPLENDOR TOURNAMNET TO START IN NOVEMBER:  Chris Wildes will be the GM for
the next Splendor PBeM tournament scheduled to start in December. Details on
the tournament, including how to sign up can be found on the tournament
website at https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/splendor/.

 

TICKET TO RIDE PBEM TO START IN NOVEMBER: Jeff Wu is accepting registration
for a Ticket to Ride PBeM tournament starting in November. To register send
your name, email address, and BGA login name to jeffcswu [at] gmail.com
<mailto:jeffcswu [at] gmail.com> . More information on the tournament can be
found at https://bpatournament.wordpress.com/ticket-to-ride-2024/.

 

TWILIGHT STRUGGLE TO START IN JANUARY: Ron Jacobsen will once again be
running a Twilight Struggle tournament starting in January. The format will
be the same as previous year's Triple elimination using Playdeck app. Email
Ron at twlightstrugglegm [at] gmail.com <mailto:twlightstrugglegm [at] 
gmail.com>  to
sign up. More details on the format can be found on the Twilight Struggle
PBeM page at
https://twstourney.wordpress.com/2024-bpa-twilight-struggle-tournament/. An
updated 2025 page will be posted soon. 

 

 

Continuing Tournaments:

 

TWILIGHT STRUGGLE DOWN TO 8 PLAYERS: The 2024 BPA Twilight Struggle PBEM
Tournament began with 62 players. After 8 rounds of this triple-elimination
event, we are down to 8 and the fight for laurels begins. Chris Byrd is
undefeated and Wayne Bonnet has just one loss. These two have climbed to 1st
and 2nd in the AREA rankings over the course of this tournament. Two other
WBC champions and recent holders of the top AREA spot, Tony Russo and David
Amidon, are also in the hunt. Check out the exciting final two-months and
past tournaments at https://twstourney.wordpress.com/ .

 

 

 

 

BPA PBeM Remember: ... all of the above PBeM fun is free to current BPA
members. 

Others may qualify with a $10 Email membership in the year the event starts.


 

BPA members who would like to see an email tournament for their favorite
game are encouraged to step forward as the GM of such an event. BPA does not
run tournaments. Rather, we are an organization of gamers lending support to
one another so such events can happen. No one cares as much about your hobby
as you do. Get involved. See the requirements to host a BPA email tournament
at http://www.boardgamers.org/pbem.html on the BPA website at
http://www.boardgamers.org .

 

SOCIAL NETWORKING: Keep up with WBC electronically by joining the World
Boardgaming Championships (WBC) Facebook group and the BPA_WBC Twitter Page.


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