Bpamail Mailing List: BPA January 2025 Newsletter

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January 2025 BPA Newsletter

 

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE FOR 2025 IS OPEN:  The BPA annual membership drive has
begun. From now until January 31, 2025, get the lowest membership rates of
the year. Complete the membership application found at
http://boardgamers.org/forms/MemberForm.shtml to take advantage of these
rates. To be eligible to vote for the 25 Trial Events to be held at WBC 2025
as well as the Sportsman of the year, you must join by January 31, 2025.

 

Online membership will remain open until June 15, 2024. Price Increases will
occur on February 1, April 1, and June 15, 2024. To receive a price before
it increases, you must submit the online membership application which is
available on the BPA website and send payment by the date listed (Paypal
payment sent or check postmarked by the dates listed).

 

For details on the different levels of membership, visit the BPA Membership
Terms and Conditions Page at http://boardgamers.org/about_terms.html .

 

TRIAL EVENT & SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD VOTING ENDS JANUARY 31: The voting for the
2024 Sportsman of the Year and the 2025 Trial Events ends with the
membership price increase on February 1. This is the last chance to
influence events to be held at WBC 2025. Sportsmanship nominees can be found
at https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc24/sportsmannominees24.html and the trial
listing can be found at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_preparation_pelorphans.html 

 

WBC EVENT SUBMISSIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED:  Event Forms for all WBC 2025
Events are now available on the event form page at
http://www.boardgamers.org/forms/event-form.html. To submit a form to GM an
event, you must become a BPA member for 2025, complete, and email the Event
Form along with your Event Description (Word format preferred) for the
Preview Page to the Convention Director at
conventiondirector [at] boardgamers.org
<mailto:conventiondirector [at] boardgamers.org>   by the February 15, 2025
submission deadline.  Exhibitor, Sponsor, and  Vendor Submissions will have
a deadline of February 28, 2025.

 

Reminder: Any Game submitted (expansion's use included) on an event form
must be published and available to the public by February 28, 2025.

 

A list of the 39 events that have been submitted with the GM's names can be
found on the orphans' page at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_preparation_pelorphans.html. Prize Level for
WBC 2025 has been added to the Century Group listing.

 

There are 4 weeks left to submit GM forms for WBC 2025 Century/Legacy
events. There are currently 77 events waiting for a GM. 

 

SEVEN SPRINGS RESERVATIONS FOR WBC 2025:  Reservations for Hotel rooms opens
tomorrow, January 15, 2025, at 9:00 am for stays of 5 nights or more. To
make a reservation, call Vail Resorts Reservations with the WBC Group Code
provided in your membership confirmation email. Rooms and reservations are
subject to hotel availability. A minimum of a 5-night stay is required at
this time. Guests may only reserve up to two (2) rooms under the same name
and/or credit card number.

 

Room reservations will be available starting at 9:00 am on the following
dates:

*       Stays of 5 nights or more - Wednesday, January 15, 2025
*       Stays of 4 nights or more - Wednesday, February 19, 2025
*       Stays of 3 nights or more - Wednesday, March 19, 2025
*       Stays of 2 nights or more - Wednesday, April 16, 2025

 

For more information, please visit our lodging page at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbclodging_7S.html .

 

FIRST WBC 2025 PREVIEWS POSTED:  The Previews for the 41 Century Group
Events received so far have been posted. Previews for WBC 2025 can be found
at https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc25/previews-2025.html.

 

2025 BPA MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION:  The Preregistration for 2025 has been
changed to only include the pre-registrant numbers by Membership Level. 496
members are currently registered with another 31 applications received
without payments, and another 6 where payment has been received but no
application has been sent yet. Both the application and the payment must be
received before membership is accepted. For the latest list of memberships
by level, visit http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_preparation_prereg.html.

 

 

PBeM NEWS:

 

Completed Tournaments:

 

JIANG CAPTURES AGRICOLA PBEM TITLE: Allan Jiang proves to be best farmer in
a field of 28 to capture Agricola title. Remaining Laurelists, in order,
were Christopher Ho, Steven LeWinter, Ricky Boyes, Carl Chauvin, and Sam
Wolff. More details will be posted in the PBeM event report pages in the
next couple weeks.

 

HAMMOND WINS BREAKOUT NORMANDY PBEM: Kevin Hammond defeats Jim Eliason to
earn the Breakout Normandy PBeM Title, Remaining Laurelists, in order, were
Rodney Robinson, Henry Jones, Robert Malcomson, and Bob Hamel. More details
will be posted in the PBeM event report pages in the next couple weeks. 

 

MASTER PEI CAPTURES ANOTHER FOR THE PEOPLE TITLE: James Pei defeated Dan
Squindo to continue his dominance in For the People tournaments. Remaining
Laurelists, in order, were Dominico Licheri, Jukka Hintikka, Mustafa
Corapci, and Stephane Chevallier. More details will be posted in the PBeM
event report pages in the next couple weeks. 

 

ELKINS WINS GREAT WESTERN TRAIL: Dan Elkins captured the title in Great
Western Trail in a field of 31 players. Remaining Laurelists, in order, were
Patrick Maguire, Ryan Feathers, Carl Chauvin, Mike Turian, and Randy
Buehler. More details will be posted in the PBeM event report pages in the
next couple weeks. 

 

 

Starting Tournaments:

 

FIRST HEAT PBEM TOURNAMENT TO START IN MARCH: Chris Wildes will be the GM
for the 1st BPA Heat PBeM tournament. The tournament is planning to start in
March. For more details on the tournament and how to sign-up, please visit
the tournament site at https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/heat/.

 


Ongoing Tournaments:

 

WASHINGTON'S WAR QUARTERFINALS UNDERWAY:  The final preliminary round of the
Washington's War PBA PBEM Tournament 2023 has been completed. 33 players
contested 68 preliminary games, with 37 of them being British wins, 31
American wins. The top 8 players will start the quarterfinals. The top 8
are, in order: Philip Burgin-Young 4-0, George Young 4-0, Roderick Lee 3-1,
William Bentley 3-1, Dan Leader 3-1, Mike Pacheco 3-1, Bruno Passacantando
3-1, and Chris Trimmer 3-1. Top 8 were determined by most wins then strength
of schedule. Two other players had 3 wins but a lesser strength of schedule.

 

During the preliminary rounds there have been 11 games where Washington was
captured by the British. Usually that event a sign of disaster for the
Americans, however in 3 of the games the Americans hung on to the end and
won.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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Related/ Conventions/WBC and Consimworld under Conventions.

 

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