Bpamail Mailing List: BPA November 2024 Newsletter

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November 2024 BPA Newsletter

 

MARTIN WINS CONSUL AWARD:  Andrew Martin captures Consul Award amassing 170
laurels including wins in Agricola, Terraforming Mars and Wingspan.  For
more details and the top 10 finishers, visit
ehttp://www.boardgamers.org/history-consul-2024.html.

 

3 DAYS LEFT IN BPA/WBC NEW LOGO CONTEST        : 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.

 

WBC 2025 TRIAL BALLOT EVENT SUBMISSIONS DUE BY NOVEMBER 25: 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.

 

A list of the events submitted so far can be found at
https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_preparation_pelorphans.html.

 

WBC 2024 EVENT REPORTS COMPLETED: All 166 WBC 2024 event report pages have
been posted. They can be found at
http://www.boardgamers.org/yearbook24/index.html. Reports for 153 of the 166
events at WBC 2024 were received. The rest of the reports show the winner, #
of players, laurelists, and candids only.

 

PBeM NEWS:

 

Completed Tournaments:

 

 

Starting Tournaments:

 

NEXT FOR THE PEOPLE TO START IN DECEMBER: With the 2024 For the People
wrapping up, GM Stephane Chevallier will start the 2025 For the People PBeM
in January.  Tournament information and sign-up form can be found at
https://ftp-tournament.wixsite.com/forthepeople/copie-de-2024.

 

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.

 

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/.

 

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 twilightstrugglegm [at] gmail.com <mailto:twilightstrugglegm [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:

 

 

 

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.


You can also easily find us in the Boardgame Geek Forums under Gaming
Related/ Conventions/WBC and Consimworld under Conventions.

 

          . BGG: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/970241/boardgamegeek/wbc

 

          . Twitter: https://twitter.com/BPA_WBC 

 

          . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2381468400/

 

          . Consimworld: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX/?14@@.1dd15816

 

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